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Emily

this was not a wild bunny as i originally thought; he just escaped from next door.

About Me

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some of my favorite links:

hereinstead

texas volvos

parabola

true majority

harper's

free will

oddly enough

the onion

democracy now

deviant art

common dreams

z portal

My Interests

creative differences and similarities

I'd like to meet:

long-lost relatives

Music:

herbie hancock, the doors, edith piaf, johnny cash, ray price, new order, portishead, sufjan stevens, iron and wine, the beatles, the velvet underground, bob marley, peter tosh, jimmy cliff, ella fitzgerald, thelonius monk, the mars volta, bjork, the smiths, catherine wheel, miles davis, coldplay, bowie, joy division, squarepusher, goldie, radiohead, ani difranco, maria callas, christa ludwig, jimi hendrix, baptist generals, burnt sienna, leonard cohen, jacob fred jazz odyssey, rage against the machine, aphex twin, jurrasic 5, the beta band, elliot smith, led zeppelin, the chemical brothers, the cure

Movies:

anything david lynch, bernardo bertolucci, martin scorsese, federico fellini, quentin tarantino, ingmar bergman, fritz lang, bela tarr, joel and ethan coen, abbas kiarostami, akira kurosawa, hayao miyazaki, all time favorites: the seven samurai, last tango in paris, natural born killers, la strada, sling blade, say anything

Television:

not so much

Books:

poets lisel mueller, yehuda amichai & w.b. yeats, short stories, newspapers, scripts, manuals and instructions, novels, magazines, journals, whatever gives me goosebumps; favorite books of all time: the unbearable lightness of being by milan kundera the world according to garp by john irving, atlas shrugged by ayn rand, anna karenina by leo tolstoy, the double flame by octavio paz

Heroes:

elizabeth 1

My Blog

it's been five years since we spoke

(sometimes at night i can see things most clearly...memories, hopes, dreams, wishes...and when it comes, it comes. sometimes you just know the right questions to ask. thank you, becca, a kindred...
Posted by Emily on Thu, 12 Apr 2007 03:13:00 PST

it's my party and i'll cry if i want to

i am running my own "event" this weekend!  a reception buffet and bar at some prof's house...but it's all mine!!! two years of waiting for this...figuratively and vocationally speaking......
Posted by Emily on Tue, 27 Mar 2007 01:44:00 PST

cassanova...the gynecologist

the only available time in my schedule for doctor's appointments is friday afternoons.  when scheduling my "annual" (boys bear with me here,) i specifically requested to see a practitioner who wo...
Posted by Emily on Wed, 14 Mar 2007 04:37:00 PST

rain wash over, wash over me

wake up from a dream with a rumble and soft clatter it's time to carry out your children from winter captivity with lowered head and open arms i kneel to prune away the dead while the green leaves...
Posted by Emily on Sun, 11 Mar 2007 09:04:00 PST

a good weekend to be out of town

my car looks as if it went off-roading in my absence. apparently i missed being underneath this:   also, my fiance told me during all this it snowed; my parents said it didn't. did anyone els...
Posted by Emily on Tue, 27 Feb 2007 02:18:00 PST

new age folk wisdom to be read aloud at high volume during extreme drought and famine

It's important not to worry too much.It's important to be rational. But you shouldn't worry too little either, because then you might wind up with even more to worry about than you originally bargaine...
Posted by Emily on Tue, 27 Feb 2007 05:37:00 PST

breathing with the birds

they tell me when it's time to get up though the trees outside are dying cut down piece by piece beneath a streaking sky   stealing minutes in bed listening to my breath in, out, in, out, in, cry...
Posted by Emily on Tue, 20 Feb 2007 06:30:00 PST

the great chippendale raid of '07

for those of you who live in lubbock, i ask....where were YOU friday night? to those who live elsewhere: if you enjoy all-male dancing, don't move here! you may not even want to visit. i believe that ...
Posted by Emily on Sun, 18 Feb 2007 07:10:00 PST

passing out on a surgical day

there is something stomach turning about making an incision, spraying water over and over to wash the blood away, carefully removing soft tissue chunk by chunk, positioning a small screw in the existi...
Posted by Emily on Fri, 16 Feb 2007 09:09:00 PST

crystalline sandy snow

it's falling harder now...on the road it swirled and danced as if it couldn't move fast enough, like white sand beneath the tires of my car. the world glows with light though i know it's still dark. ...
Posted by Emily on Wed, 14 Feb 2007 06:07:00 PST