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gillian

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My Interests

Music:

2 live crew
a tribe called quest
abba
aerosmith hah
alien ant farm
all saints
anoushka shankar
aqualung
arcade fire
arctic monkeys
arturo sandovel
ATB
atmosphere
B52's
bach
basement jaxx
beastie boys
beatles
beck
belle and sebastian
ben folds five
benny benasi & the biz
the beu sisters
billie holiday
binary star
black eyed peas
blackalicious
blink 182
blondie
bloc party
blu cantrell
blue man group
blue mitchel
bob marley
bond
the bravery
broken social scene
bruce adams quartet
BT
buddy guy
built to spill
cake
cannonball adderly
carlos santana
charlie parker
the chemical brothers
chet baker
chicago soundtrack
the chordettes
chromeo
ciara
the clash
claude debussy
the click five
clifford brown
coheed and cambria
coldplay
common
cory hart
the concretes
crown city rockers
d'angelo
daft punk
daniel bedingfield
danny elfman
david bowie
de la soul
dean martin
death cab for cutie
deep forest
del the funky homosapien
depeche mode
devo
digital underground
divinyls
dizzy gillespie
dj alligator project
dj heavygrinder
dj sammy
dj shadow
duke ellington
earth wind & fire
electric six
elefant
ella fitzgerald
elliot smith
elvis costello
elvis presley
eminem
erykah badu
ewan mcgregor
fall out boy
fischerspooner
the flaming lips
foo fighters
frank sinatra
franz ferdinand
freddie hubbard
freak nasty
the fugees
g. love & special sauce
garbage
gnarls barkley
gordan goodwin
gorillaz
gravy train!!!
green day
group X
guissepe verdi
gwen stefani
handsome boy modeling school
haydn
headband
the hives
holland tunnel project
hoobastank
hot hot heat
hummel
hurdst
incubus
interpol
iron & wine
jack johnson
james blunt
jamiroquai
jason mraz
jedi mind tricks
jeff buckley
jet
jimi hendrix
jimmy eat world
joe magnarelli
john coltrane
johnny cash and june carter
joshua redmond quartet
joy division
judy garland
jurassic 5
justin guarini
kc and the sunshine band
kaila yu (hah)
kaiser chiefs
kanye west
katatonia
keane
kelly clarkson
the killers
the kooks
kraftwerk
ladytron
lauryn hill
led zeppelin
lee morgan
lester bowie
lifehouse
living legends
lou reed
louie armstrong
louis XIV
lustra
madonna
marc broussard
maria mena
mark mothersbaugh
maroon 5
the mars volta
matisyahu
max romeo
maynard ferguson
MC chris
mf doom
michael jackson
mike parvizi
miles davis
modest mouse
mos def
mozart
murs
muse
my chemical romance
mylo
nada surf
natasha bedingfield
n.e.r.d.
nevermore
nicholas payton
nine inch nails
nirvana
no doubt
noah frank
oasis
of montreal
oingo boingo
ok go
opeth
peaches
phantom of the opera
the pharcyde
philip smith
pink floyd
plain white t's
the pogues
porcupine tree
postal service
prince
psychedelic furs
public image ltd.
queen
the raconteurs
radiohead
the ramones
ray charles
red hot chili peppers
relient K
R.E.M.
rimsky-korsakov
rob D
rocky horror soundtrack
rolling stones
the roots
ryan adams
sage francis
salt n pepa
sammy davis jr.
samuel bivins
saskia laroo
sergei nakariakov
seu jorge
shakira
silversun pickups
sir mix-a-lot
smash mouth
the smiths
snoop dogg
something corporate
the specials
stravinsky
the strokes
sublime
sufjan stevens
swollen members
T rex
talib kweli
tatu
the temptations
tenacious d
terence blanchard
thelonious monk
tower of power
tristan prettyman
tchaikovsky
U2
usher
utada hikaru
velvet underground
vengaboys
the verve
vitamin C
voxtrot
the walkmen
weird al yankovic
wes montgomery
the white stripes
the who
wynton marsalis
xavier rudd
yeah yeah yeahs
yes virginia
zap mama
zz top

and more

My Blog

confession number twelve

Following my own advice is about a kabillion times harder than giving it.
Posted by gillian on Sun, 10 Dec 2006 11:27:00 PST

PORCUPINE TREE

nothing like this felt in a kisscannot resist herfell for her charm lost in her armsI keep a photographgive me a glimpse let me come inbe there inside herhere it begins here is the sinsomething to lie...
Posted by gillian on Sun, 15 Oct 2006 04:07:00 PST

R.I.P. Bert Freed

may 9, 1991 ~ september 22, 2006Bert Freed was a good cat. A true Maine Coone in every way, except the hunting part. No, he was not the brightest animal, but he lived a nice, quiet life anyway.I named...
Posted by gillian on Sat, 23 Sep 2006 05:53:00 PST

a better world

"It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent. It is the one that is the most adaptible to change." - charles darwin, england."I believe that every right implies a re...
Posted by gillian on Fri, 08 Sep 2006 07:02:00 PST

art and beauty

"Beauty is no quality in things themselves. It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them." - david hume, scotland."Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see Beauty. Anyone who keeps th...
Posted by gillian on Thu, 07 Sep 2006 04:53:00 PST

emotions and reason

"One is not born a woman, one becomes one." - simone de beauvoir, france."It is not what happens to us that disturbs us, but what we think about what happens to us." - epictetus, greece."We live in fe...
Posted by gillian on Mon, 04 Sep 2006 09:38:00 PST

lighting the dark

"To overcome evil with good is good; to overcome evil with evil is evil." - muhammad"For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them." - hannah arendt, germany/usa."First...
Posted by gillian on Sun, 03 Sep 2006 09:47:00 PST

finding fulfilment

"Not one single moment of life can be regained in a million gold coins. Therefore, what greater loss is there than time spent fruitlessly?" - chanakya pandita, india."Life can only be understood backw...
Posted by gillian on Sun, 03 Sep 2006 08:03:00 PST

the maturing self

"At the heart of your being lies you answer. You know who you are and what you want." - laozi, china."After I am dead I would rather people wonder why I do not have a monument than why I do have one."...
Posted by gillian on Fri, 25 Aug 2006 07:51:00 PST

love and friendship

"The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them." - thomas merton...
Posted by gillian on Thu, 24 Aug 2006 01:32:00 PST