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Risa

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About Me

lover of chick peas

My Interests

live music, laughing at stuff, buddies, beach, dancing around, movies, travel, Canada and anything French, photos, everyday amusement, Jersey pride, (memories of) smoothies, cheesy songs, conversations with cabbies, reading, museums, learning, excitement, nonsense, NYC, Saget

I'd like to meet:

Capulets and Romulins

Music:

Foo Fighters, Ted Leo, Death Cab For Cutie, Jimmy Eat World, Tenacious D, Q And Not U, Arcade Fire, Ben Folds (Five), The Dismemberment Plan, Hey Mercedes, Hot Water Music, Cursive, Minus The Bear, Matt Pond PA, Blink 182, Texas Is The Reason, Incubus, old Alkaline Trio, old Weezer, Aloha, Bruce Springsteen, The Shins, Jena Berlin, The Decemberists, Oasis, the classy Elvis Costello, random 80s and oldies and TONS more.

Movies:

Wet Hot American Summer, Amelie, The Science of Sleep, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Sleepless In Seattle. Wes Anderson and Michel Gondry are brilliant.

Television:

How I Met Your Mother, Flight of the Conchords, Arrested Development, Entourage

Books:

Live From New York, High Fidelity, Middlesex

Heroes:

Dave Grohl. Hoppus. My sister. Funny dancers.

My Blog

Zoom zoom zoom

MorningSpotted something nice in spite of wet greynessNightHannah and the boys I’m cheesy and can’t go to bed just yet cause it’s the episode where Grace meets Leo...
Posted by Risa on Tue, 01 Apr 2008 09:56:00 PST

Everybody knows it

It’s the middle of the night. I’m up. It feels so good to be up so late, but then it feels so so bad in the morning. But a morning spent downtown and outside in this sweet place, coupled w...
Posted by Risa on Mon, 31 Mar 2008 11:40:00 PST

How I wish you could see the potential

Does anybody go on myspace anymore? No. Yet here we are.I got a job, the one I wanted. I said I wanted it before I lived back in this place and now I’m in this place, and working at that place. ...
Posted by Risa on Sun, 30 Mar 2008 02:37:00 PST

All this time

This weekend was filled with the company of so many great people on each dayIn person and even across the universeThe highlight right behind that was hearing Jack Kerouac's voice, reading AND singingI...
Posted by Risa on Mon, 10 Mar 2008 11:44:00 PST

Ne me quitte pas

Today I saw an episode of POP UP VIDEO dedicated to ROD STEWART! Celebration!Looking forward to SPRING AHEAD AND SUMMER CLOTHES!If New Kids On The Block goes on tour life will be extra completeLoved B...
Posted by Risa on Wed, 27 Feb 2008 09:45:00 PST

Colbert sings Neutral Milk Hotel

This is the cutest and I almost cried reading itStephen singsin other TV news, I hope you saw Les Savy Fav on Conan a week or so ago because it was one of the most entertaining performances I've seen ...
Posted by Risa on Fri, 08 Feb 2008 03:54:00 PST

Heal It

It was one of those rare moments - miraculous, in the context of a rock show - which make you grateful for the music you know, the music you have yet to hear, the books you have read and are going to ...
Posted by Risa on Mon, 04 Feb 2008 10:01:00 PST

Two-Fifty

What's this? I went to a record store and bought a CD? Opened it, smiled at it, examined it, held the booklet, and am listening to it straight through?Why is it such a big deal to actually have this h...
Posted by Risa on Thu, 31 Jan 2008 08:07:00 PST

All you need

Risa: "It had to be the last one"Mike Kiv: "Had to be"Hot Water Music closed down their reunion show in Jersey with "It's Hard To Know"...
Posted by Risa on Mon, 28 Jan 2008 07:27:00 PST

2nd Avenue

It took 1 month and 6 days to realize it, but I missed the Urth Caffe smoothie yesterday for the first time. It hurt like a dog biting me. What's the point of even having a smoothie on the east coast?...
Posted by Risa on Thu, 10 Jan 2008 09:47:00 PST