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so so sarah!

How many Romans?

About Me

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What came first; music or the misery? People worry about kids playing with guns or watching violent videos, as if some sort of culture of violence will take them over. Nobody worries about kids listening to thousands, literally thousands of songs about heartbreak, rejection, pain, misery and loss. Did I listen to pop music because I was miserable? Or was I miserable because I listened to pop music?
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My Interests

"I strive to help everyone find happiness in this world. I like to look for things no one else catches & I hate the way nobody ever looks at the road in old movies. I like to amuse myself with silly questions about the world, such as "How many people are having an orgasm right now?"...fifteen"

I like to write, sew, draw, paint, read, make music, make friends, art around..
I like people and things that are July-esque, which is to say: infused with wonder at the things of the world.

I'd like to meet:



Music:



PSYCHOTIC SOUNDS FOR FREAKS AND WEIRDOS!
Nirvana,
Bob Dylan,
The Velvet Underground,
Joy Division,
Bauhaus,
Daniel Johnston,
The Beatles,
The Unicorns,
Battles,
The Horrors,
Jimi Hendrix,
Iggy and the Stooges,
Pixies,
Devo,
Talking Heads,
Gang of Four,
Klaxons,
Handsome Furs,
The Books,
Golden Axe,
Desktop Icons,
Coolies,
The Clash,
Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros,
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah!,
Beirut,
Neutral Milk Hotel,
DFA1979,
MSTRKRFT,
Best Fwends,
Yeah Yeah Yeahs,
The Rapture,
Casiotone For The Painfully Alone,
Parts & Labor,
The Cure,
Michael Jackson,
Prince & the artist formerly known as Prince,
Liars,
Darcy Clay,
Mountain Goats,
Semifinalists,
The Plot to Blow Up The Eiffel Tower,
XBXRX,
Islands,
Malajube,
Utah Rangers,
The Shins,
Tokyo Police Club,
Bjork,
The Knife,
Knives,
Moving Units,
Patrick Wolf,
The Strokes,
Albert Hammond Jr.,
Adam Green,
B52s,
She Wants Revenge,
Interpol,
Arcade Fire,
Bright Eyes,
Radiohead,
Beck,
Ddddddeeeeerrrrrhhhhhooooooooooffff,
Deerhunter,
Menomena,
Devendra Banhart,
Vetiver,
Joanna Newsom,
New Order,
Sonic Youth,
Wolf Parade,
Frog Eyes,
Peaches,
The Presets,
Spank Rock,
Slayer,
The Kinks,
Guided By Voices,
Fiery Furnaces,
Architecture In Helsinki,
Modest Mouse,
Howlin' Wolf,
Alberta Hunter,
Blind Willie Johnson,
Lead Belly,
Whirlwind Heat,
Dead Kennedys,
Operation Ivy,
Rolling Stones,
The Libertines,
Baby Shambles,
Pulp,
Holly Golightly,
Regina Spektor,
Fiona Apple,
Jon Brion,
Tom Waits,
Beach Boys,
Gogol Bordello,
Justice,
Jay Z,
Aria C Jalali,
T.I.
Shout Out Out Out Out,
The Faint,
Death Cab For Cutie,
Basement Jaxx,
Soulwax,
Massive Attack,
Buena Vista Social Club,
Manu Chao,
Ernest Ranglin,
Bob Marley,
Pink Floyd,
REM,
Professor Murder,
Japanther,
Mewithoutyou,
Tiger Tones,
F in Math,
Disasteradio,
The Deadly Snakes,
Nine Inch Nails,
Lily Allen,
Teen Wolf,
The Brunettes,
The Flaming Lips,
Grandaddy,
Brian Jonestown Massacre,
Dandy Warhols,
The Vines,
Kyuss,
Queens of the Stoneage,
The Killers,
Red Hot Chili Peppers,
TV On The Radio,
Blur,
Franz Ferdinand,
Kings of Leon,
Belle and Sebastian,
Seu Jorge,
Phantom Planet,
Rooney,
David Bowie,
BS 2000,
Bakelite,
Polysics,
So So Modern,
Cut Off Your Hands,
Broken Social Scene,
The White Stripes,
Justin Timberlake,
Dresden Dolls,
Motion City Soundtrack,
Ryan Adams,
Superfun Yeah Yeah Rocketship,
Yann Tiersen,
M.I.A.,
Dizzee Rascal,
Yes,
Led Zeppelin,
The Mars Volta,
Massive Attack,
Aphex Twin,
Autechre,
Amon Tobin,
Mega Heroes!,
Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings,
Fela Kuti,
Femi Kuti,
Cansei de Ser Sexy (the moment the glass went in my foot, youchies!),
And sooooo many others that I don't have time to type out again for the millionth time but each one make every day betterer :)

Movies:

Citizen Kane,
Roman Holiday,
Breakfast at Tiffany's,
I Heart Fuckabees,
WES ANDERSON (The Royal Tenenbaums, Rushmore, etc),
WOODY ALLEN (Manhattan, Crimes and Misdemeanours, Anything Else...)
Dazed and Confused,
Mall Rats,
Empire Records,
Anchorman,
Garden State,
Me and You and Everyone We Know,
All Jim Jarmusch that I've seen! particularly Coffee and Cigarettes,
and Michel Gondry (Science of Sleep!),
The Goonies,
Home Alone 1 and 2,
Waynes World 1 and 2,
Breakfast Club,
Pretty in Pink,
Sixteen Candles,
Y Tu Mama Tambien,
Requiem for a Dream,
Donnie Darko!!!,
Pulp Fiction,
Taxi Driver,
Kill Bill,
Indiana Jones series,
Howl's Moving Castle,
My Neighbour Totoro,
New York Minute, ahaha
Spiderman 1 and 2,
numerous Batmans...
soooooo many moreeeeeeeasdfghjkl;'

Television:


Black Books, Will and Grace, Fawlty Towers, cartoons!! ^_^

Books:

'You Get So Alone At Times That It Just Makes Sense - Bukowski. I want to read everything he has written. Eternal faves are;
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close - Jonathan Safran Foer
Catcher in the Rye - J. D. Salinger
On The Road - Jack Kerouac
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S. Thompson
DIY zines and comics
Woody Allen is funny, too. ^_^
Everything Is Illuminated - Jonathan Safran Foer
Currently reading Crime and Punishment by Dostoyevsky, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce, & The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho. Want to read Ulysses & 1984 & Brave New World reeeal soon.
Those countless gender theory texts are no longer the bane of my existence. Though I'm still interested in them, It's just sort of intense/insane.
One day I'll bring myself to read my Father's book...& War and Peace.
I quite admire Marx, Engels, Fisk, and Baudrillard, among others.
"Actually, if limousines were extremely long, they wouldn't need drivers. You could just get in the back seat, walk through the limousine, and then get out of the front seat, which would be where you wanted to go.
Now that I'm thinking about it, they could make an incredibly long limousine that had its back seat at your mom's VJ and its front seat at your mausoleum, and it would be as long as your life."
-JSF.

Heroes:

People who never lose their childlike wonder at the world.
I think the Beatles said it right (they said a lot of things right) when they said "Life is very short there is no time for fussing and fighting my friends" :) That seems like a good thing to keep in mind. ALSO...

All my friends, Albert Markovski, Nietzsche, my parents, Kurt Cobain, Andy Warhol, Edward R. Murrow, Valerie Solanis, Rosa Parks, MLK, Beck, Nick and Alden, Larry David, Dylan.
Montreal, New York, LA, France, Spain, Seattle, Cuba, Mexico, Paris, Sweden, superfabulousawesome people!

My Blog

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I'm slow. I just found this is online. Ruley. Spreading the influence![This is for self-indulgent future reference, and the like]...
Posted by so so sarah! on Mon, 11 Jun 2007 08:26:00 PST

No Man Is An Island

...Except those deported to one!Remember this?Asylum seekers rejected by AustraliaAfter reading up about Will Hutton's New Right policy-bashing, I was somehow encouraged to look up the asylum seekers ...
Posted by so so sarah! on Mon, 04 Jun 2007 11:39:00 PST

Your books are arranged by the colour of their spines, how stupid.

[a note for me to remember how awesome bits of this book were, and a note for you to see how awesome it is too]From Jonathan Safran Foer's Everything Is Illuminated.~TRACHIMDAY, 1796A fly of particula...
Posted by so so sarah! on Wed, 23 May 2007 08:52:00 PST

I wanted to hold onto this thought longer than a week long bulletin would allow

My Bukowski book arrived from America today.I'm so happy.I think I relate to this guy maybe even more that JSF.Who knows what I'm talking about?Anyone?I read half of it on the bus home, alone.I have a...
Posted by so so sarah! on Mon, 21 May 2007 11:16:00 PST

"Real Cool Time"

Today after a real super arduous yet rewarding day of writing assignments and doing numeracy tutorials.... [BLEURGH!] I met up with Mel and we wandered round town doing fun stuff.First we got some din...
Posted by so so sarah! on Thu, 03 May 2007 03:50:00 PST

My Ethics Commentary was published!

So, an ethics commentary that I wrote recently about the media reporting of Anna Nicole Smith's death, was chosen for publication on the university website!Stoked!You can read it here if you're super-...
Posted by so so sarah! on Mon, 30 Apr 2007 02:00:00 PST

WE TOAST MCs LIKE POP TARTS

I JUST READ THIS ON GOGOL BORDELLO'S BLOG - THEY ARE A SUPER GREAT AMAZING WONDERFUL FUNTASTIC BAND, YOU SHOULD LISTEN TO THEM MAYBE YOU'LL AGREE :)ANYWAY JUST WANTED TO SHARE THIS FANTASTIC INSPIRING...
Posted by so so sarah! on Thu, 22 Mar 2007 03:35:00 PST

Brawlers, Bawlers but mainly BASTARDS

Boo! WTF! Ok, so after a surprising but excitement-building little myspace bulletin a couple of weeks ago, announcing their first ever NZ show, Phoenix have now suddenly decided to post another bullet...
Posted by so so sarah! on Tue, 20 Mar 2007 02:59:00 PST

SALAD AS A ROCK!

This cheered me up... now I can laugh in my sleep :] MARZIPAN! MARZIPAN! Better than "can't say jaereorreroob", and that was like my favouritest one ever!...
Posted by so so sarah! on Sun, 11 Mar 2007 04:59:00 PST

The lady who killed a bunny on tv said she wants to go to vet school

Fuckin' capitalist bastards.What is wrong with the world?!I just watched Roger & Me... I am a little traumatised... I don't recommend it for pre=bedtime viewing, but it sure is one heck of a documenta...
Posted by so so sarah! on Sun, 11 Mar 2007 04:18:00 PST