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mockingbird girl

thence we came forth to see again the stars

About Me


Patience never wants Wonder to enter the house: because Wonder is a wretched guest. It uses all of you but is not careful with what is most fragile or irreplaceable. If it breaks you, it shrugs and moves on. Jonathan Carroll - White Apples Once upon a time there was a goth girlie...then she grew up.
And here I am.
If you *really* want to get to know more about me, I suggest that you gohere ...you'll find more than just somewhat pretty pictures and lists of what I listen to and read. Some posts public, increasing more "friends only" as certain juicy bits are put out for nibbling.

My Interests

this changes all the time...right now, I'm on a pretty intense poetry kick. [Re-]reading e.e. cummings, Pablo Neruda, Ranier Maria Rilke and discovering for the first time Juan Ramon Jimenez, Mirabai, Kabir....

I'd like to meet:

anyone who can surprise me.surprise me with their intelligence, their wit, their humour, their creativity, their ability to listen instead of talk. surprise me with their choice in what they name their cat, what book they read last, what movie they wish they had never seen.anyone who is truly themself. even if that "self" is someone they may not like very much. even if they don't know it yet.

Music:

Adam Ant, Air, Alien Sex Fiend, American Analog Set, Antony & The Johnsons, Arab Strap, Band of Horses, Bat For Lashes, Bauhaus, Belle and Sebastian, Blonde Redhead, British Sea Power, BRMC, Buzzcocks, Cabaret Voltaire, Cocteau Twins, Cooper Temple Clause, DAF, Danse Society, David Bowie, David Sylvian, Dead Can Dance, Depeche Mode, Desert Sessions, Die Warzau, Earlimart, Echo & the Bunnymen, Editors, Einstürzende Neubauten, Electrelane, Elliott Smith, The Evening Episode, Fiction Factory, Frontline Assembly, Gene Loves Jezebel, Goldfrapp, Granddaddy, Gus Gus, Holly Golightly, Hot Chip, Interpol, Isobel Campbell, Jesus and Mary Chain, Joy Division, Kasabian, LCD Soundsystem, Leonard Cohen, Love and Rockets, Luna, Marc Almond, Marc and the Mambas, Mash-Ups, Momus, Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, Nick Drake, PJ Harvey, Placebo, Propaganda, Pulp, Queens of the Stone Age, Rasputina, Recoil, Rogue Wave, Scott Weiland, Secession, Sex Gang Children, Siouxsie (and all her incarnations), Sisters of Mercy, The Smiths, Smog, Sneaker Pimps, Sparklehorse, Spoon, Specimen, Stars, Tegan and Sara, The Walkmen, Tindersticks, Tones on Tail, Trembling Blue Stars, VHS or Beta, Vicious Pink, Virgin Prunes

Movies:

You mean besides The Omega Man? Jezebel (I love Bette Davis), Until the End of the World, The Pillow Book, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Television:

Who the hell has time to watch T.V. anymore?

Books:

White Apples, Discovery of Heaven, The Persian Bride, Veronica, The Alchemist, The Sparrow, Sexing the Cherry, Children of God, Sleeping in Flame, American Gods, Veronica Decides to Die, The Magic Toyshop

Heroes:

truthpassion

My Blog

My Previous "About Me"

I felt I had to explain myself... Then I felt the need to explain the explanation. Now I just want to document the journey.    Patience never wants Wonder to enter the house: because ...
Posted by mockingbird girl on Wed, 14 Dec 2005 10:26:00 PST

baaaa

I feel a wee bit like a sheep...or a lemming (but I don't know what sound lemmings make) for finally getting a myspace space. I have a "blog" at lj already - so wtf? The only real difference I guess...
Posted by mockingbird girl on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST