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Emmie Love

I am here for Friends

About Me

I do believe Oscar Wilde said it best...

"If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you."

"Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace."

"Selfishness is not living as one wants to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live."

"A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally."

"Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them."

"One can always be kind to people about whom one cares nothing."

"The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray, and the advantage of science is that it is not emotional."

And then Glen Phillips said...
"I want to be the toy in your cereal box."

My Interests

art, psychology, comic books, live bands, mix tapes, cuddling, pets, vintage clothing and shoes, photographs, owls, thrifting, green eyewinker glass, reading amazing works of fiction and fantastic bits of non-fiction, knitting, happiness

I'd like to meet:

Friendly people. Honest people. Someone else who has read "Man's Search for Meaning" and doesn't want to sit around all day complaining about what they don't have...no one really "needs" cable tv. People who enjoy being in their right state of mind more than an altered one.

People to play games with...

.. .. ..

And these guys...Mystik Spiral.

Music:


The Monkees, Old 97's, R.E.M., The Beatles, The Kinks, The Who, Hoots & Hellmouth, Neko Case, Ryan Adams, Bobby Darin, The Everly Brothers, The Ramones, Ben Kweller, Polyphonic Spree, Flaming Lips, Thrice, T. Rex, Mike Ness, Social Distortion, Rilo Kiley, Rhett Miller, Placebo, Our Lady Peace, Gin Blossoms, Toad the Wet Sprocket, The Replacements, The Refreshments, Slobberbone, Simon and Garfunkel, Soul Asylum, Ultimate Fakebook, Weezer, The Zombies, Acid House Kings, Jenny Lewis, some Beck (but let's not overdo that for now...), anything from the 60's that I can dance to.

Movies:

Velvet Goldmine, A Life Less Ordinary, Help!, Garden State, Splash!, The Fifth Element, Trainspotting, The Princess Bride, Empire Records, Batman: Mask of the Phantasm, Head, Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, The Wizard of Oz, Return to Oz, Shooting Fish, Batman Returns, Boondock Saints, Indiana Jones, Star Wars (everything except Ep. I), Rear Window

Television:

The Monkees, Batman: The Animated Series, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Entourage, Robot Chicken, Rock of Love 2, commercials...I am officially addicted to Scrubs and will most likely be hospitalized for a broken heart (...see Season 6...for anyone who got that reference, we may actually be soul mates...) when it ends.

Books:

Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, The Once and Future King, Everything is Illuminated, , Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Picture of Dorian Gray, Harry Potter, Series of Unfortunate Events, Harley Quinn comic book series (I think that counts...), It's Superman!, Willful Creatures, Man Without a Country, Mysteries of Pittsburgh, Not Quite What I Was Planning, The Yiddish Policeman's Union

Heroes:

Batman, Colleen Atwood, The Pre-Raphaelites, Natalie Portman, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Harley Quinn, Aimee Bender, Botticelli, Alexander Calder, Michael Stipe, Joss Whedon, Viktor Frankl

My Blog

That’s when I reach for my revolver...

Stolen from my Shelf Awareness newsletter...kind of funny...mostly just scary.   We knew books could be dangerous, but . . . Police are searching for a man who tried to send a noteworthy package...
Posted by Emmie Love on Fri, 08 Feb 2008 08:53:00 PST

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again...

...there is no use in reading it at all. ~ Oscar Wilde "About 20 years ago, I had an old guy come in here. He'd been living out here for many years and said he was looking for a book he'd had when he ...
Posted by Emmie Love on Wed, 31 Oct 2007 05:07:00 PST

Thou shalt not steal...

People don't believe me when I say The Bible is one of the most frequently stolen books from my bookstore...and I don't bother to make sure we have it in stock anymore because of it.  Special ord...
Posted by Emmie Love on Mon, 01 Oct 2007 06:55:00 PST

Hell is more bearable than nothingness.

A customer just told me (after I used part of my lunch break to clean up after her 3 year old brat aptly named "Hamilton") that maybe my "minimum wage job" was good enough for me, but it didn't m...
Posted by Emmie Love on Mon, 13 Aug 2007 12:25:00 PST

God bless the great indoors.

Rule 1:If you open this you GOTTA take it.Rule 2:You are NOT ALLOWED to explain ANYTHING unless someonemessages you and asks.Rule 3:Only answer True or FalseQ: Kissed someone on your top friends--> Tr...
Posted by Emmie Love on Sat, 11 Aug 2007 11:29:00 PST

So, tell me, Mrs. Rita...

THE ULTIMATE 90'S SURVEY! ONLY TAKE THIS IF YOU'RE 14 OR OVER! (I'm ever so much more than 14...) Did you listen to Hanson?I may have been a bit old for Hanson, really, but I can always appreciate a g...
Posted by Emmie Love on Fri, 20 Jul 2007 01:48:00 PST

Give me something...pure.

Bored at work this morning...decided to check my horoscope...: Your lack of certainty with respect to a current relationship may cause problems now. Defining boundaries that separate romance from frie...
Posted by Emmie Love on Mon, 25 Jun 2007 07:18:00 PST

If constancy is currency...

Indeed...I'm broke as shit. It's fine. I'm not really right this second...but, I'm looking forward to impending car and moving bills that haven't quite hit me yet. These last few...months...have been ...
Posted by Emmie Love on Fri, 22 Jun 2007 08:17:00 PST

That's funny...she doesn't look Druish.

Today I was asked if I was Jewish...which is by far not the first time this has happened to me.  Apparently, it was my "Jewish mannerisms" that tipped him off. A compliment and a curios...
Posted by Emmie Love on Sun, 25 Mar 2007 02:30:00 PST

Maybe I'm innocent...maybe I'm finished.

I was listening to Up by R.E.M. last night and this morning on my way to work...and I would just like to acknowledge how amazing it is.  Truly.  In a somewhat public way.  I can't get o...
Posted by Emmie Love on Thu, 08 Mar 2007 11:04:00 PST