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Pain is our mother; she makes us recognize each other.

About Me

"I have lived on the lip of insanity, wanting to know reasons, knocking on a door. It opens. I've been knocking from the inside!" ~Rumi

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My Interests

Books and people who read them, learning Korean, Kimchi (the food and my kitty!), running (on and off), and keeping in touch with my friends all over the world!

Music:

Currently addicted or re-addicted to: Counting Crows (This Desert Life); John Lennon (Lennon Legend); Patty Griffin (1000 Kisses); Radiohead (In Rainbows and The Bends); Red Hot Chili Peppers (All of it); Javier Navarette (Pan's Labyrinth Soundtrack); Elizabethtown Soundtrack; DMB (Everything, particularly rediscovering my high school angst in Crash and the Lillywhite Sessions thanks to Mel); Bob Dylan (all of him); Kanye West (Graduation); Neutral Milk Hotel (In the Aeroplane Over the Sea); Regina Spektor; The Traveling Wilburys (thank you Ben!); etc. Yes, many many addictions, and there's more where they came from!

Movies:

Love Letter (Japanese), Cinema Paradiso, Totoro, Old Boy (Korean), Stranger than Fiction, Josie, the Tiger, & the Fish (Japanese), The Producers, Boondock Saints, I am Sam (entire sountrack of Beatles covers, come on!), The Princess Bride, No Direction Home (Scorcese documentary on Bob Dylan. Incredible.), Emerald Forest, Garden State, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Benny and Joon,The Grinch (classic and Jim Carrey.) This is kind of ridiculous. I mean,does this really make me more likable, or am I limiting myself?

Television:

Guilty pleasure: Moonlight! I don't care if there are vampires! It's SO GOOD Not at all guilty addiction: Boston Legal Can relate almost any incident to: Friends. Best show of all time: The Office

Books:

The People of Paper by Salvador Plascencia; The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver; American Pastoral by Philip Roth; A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers; Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison; Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer; A People's History of the US by Howard Zinn; Wise Blood by Flannery O'Connor; Light in August by Faulkner; Everything by Kurt Vonnegut; Wit by Margaret Edson; The Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole; The Polysyllabic Spree by Nick Hornby; White Guilt by Shelby Steele (not a novel); A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving (genius); Read anything Rumi you can get your hands on. Read John Donne, Billy Collins, Anne Sexton, Laure-Ann Bosselaar Read anything Carmen Acevedo Butcher!

Heroes:

I am constantly astounded to find myself surrounded by amazing people who somehow put up with me for outstanding amounts of conversation and mandatory music-listening. They're all my heroes.

My Blog

Where You Can Get Your Fill

So, if you've been missing me, and I'm pretty sure I can feel your Missing Danielle vibes all the way from Korea, you should check out my blog. I'm doing most of my writing there. I'm posting a few pi...
Posted by db on Sun, 13 Apr 2008 07:51:00 PST

Grow up

I have been falsely accused today for the first time in my life, outside of being an older sister. I have been substitute teaching at LaVergne High School (I graduated from there in 2001) in the Speci...
Posted by db on Wed, 30 Jan 2008 07:59:00 PST

Seriously Time for an Update

So, I have news. Kind of big news. I had gotten this job offer from this school in Korea and I was seriously considering it, going so far as to fill out the employment contract. But lucky for me, I di...
Posted by db on Sun, 20 Jan 2008 10:41:00 PST

Dissertation Equation

At 11,202 words, I have finally found just the right combination of elements and perfected them. This perfection leads to the production of that daunting piece of writing called the dissertation. Thos...
Posted by db on Thu, 02 Aug 2007 04:55:00 PST

Reflections of and Pep Talks to Myself

It's strange. I used to write down what I wanted and hand it in or post it or mail it. Now, I hesitate to write at all, worrying about the best words and how to 'show not tell' my story. I have become...
Posted by db on Sat, 28 Apr 2007 02:24:00 PST

Dear Korean Army

Dear Korean Army,When I first heard that it was mandatory for all Korean men to give two of their finest years to the military, I was a bit indignant. The violence that is inherent in the military sys...
Posted by db on Thu, 26 Apr 2007 01:49:00 PST

The Myth of the Wonderful (a true story, sadly enough)

There lived a girl in a log house that her father built in the forest. She lived a good life and had everything she wanted. Her father loved her and her mother loved her and everyone who met the girl ...
Posted by db on Thu, 01 Mar 2007 07:28:00 PST

Best poem out of my portfolio, I think!

In Case of Warfor Keun HaThe moon didn't receive the memo about the national blackout.Its light paints squares across the floorwhere my parents lie on a bamboo mat eating plums.From the doorway I foun...
Posted by db on Thu, 01 Mar 2007 07:12:00 PST

BOOKS YOU SHOULD READ

So, I'm one of those people who is lucky enough to know really amazing, kind, intelligent, and cool professors, who are also AUTHORS. I know a REAL WRITER. And she is not only a REAL WRITER, but a REA...
Posted by db on Fri, 12 Jan 2007 06:57:00 PST

Poem

From a few weeks ago. Finally got it edited down into something I'm pretty happy with. This poem is in the form of a Cinquain, which is five lines, controlled by the number of syllables allowed in eac...
Posted by db on Fri, 17 Nov 2006 03:19:00 PST