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AWESOME

I am here for Friends and Networking

About Me

apparently, i fall down a lot.

My Interests

spring, eating avocados and drinking on the stoop again, reading outside until i'm sunburned, clear dark skies, adventure, movie montages, cultivating a "colorful" lexicon, sequins and subtle small things, loving and hating public radio, art, architecture, design, knowing the latin name, craft, esoteric knowledge, campfires, short skirts, my education, high contrast stitching, smocking, cinematic moments, taking polaroids, the Eames, sending mail via the postal service, graph paper and mechanical pencils, embroidery and stitchery, old wallpaper, nice packaging, the whitman, anything in miniature, making lists and sorting things, baking cakes, maps, medical facts, food writing read aloud, beautiful books, riding my bike

I'd like to meet:


a partner in crime

Music:

django reinhardt, getz/gliberto, buddy holly, magnetic fields, the beach boys, written by hal david/burt bacharach, kanda, the beatles, the kinks, the zombies, the monkees, bridgette bardot, serge gainsbourg, love, the supremes, the jackson 5, the unicorns, os mutantes, the clientele, sparks, jolie holland, bob dylan, neil diamond, neil young...etc...

Movies:

clash of the titans, superbad, better off dead, amelie, singin' in the rain, elf, the very long engagement, auntie mame, down with love, the eames films, kiki's delivery service, peau d'ane, the waitress, knocked up, pan's labyrinth, rushmore, royal tenenbaums, real genius etc ...

Television:

freaks and geeks, The Office

Books:

murakami, we tell ourselves stories in order to live, Don DeLillo, the brother's karamozov, make a world, Dubus short stories, the amazing adventures of kavalier and clay, middlesex, a hero with a thousand faces, spook and stiff (mary roach), the bell jar, the namesake, waiting, his dark materials (read it even if it seems TOTALLY lame), the hidden dimension, kon tiki (Thor Heyerdahl), difficult loves, anna karenina, Gravesend, of course Anne of Green Gables etc...

Heroes:

Edwin Land, charles and rae eames, buckminster fuller...

My Blog

word count is awesome.

i'm procrastinating...... i should be packing. everyone should try out word count. it's magical.my name is 4624th most used word in the english language......word countWordCount" is an artistic expe...
Posted by AWESOME on Sat, 14 Jun 2008 03:08:00 PST

goodbye jason or SKI-DOOOOOO!!!!!!! photo shoot

SKI DOOOOOOOOOO PHOTO ALBUM
Posted by AWESOME on Sat, 31 May 2008 04:12:00 PST

haruki murakami.

Jazz Messengerit's a times article on haruki murakami. he didn't write his first book until he was 29. there's still hope for all of us.from the article:....I often recall these words when I am writ...
Posted by AWESOME on Tue, 27 May 2008 05:38:00 PST

i love libraries

so good
Posted by AWESOME on Tue, 27 May 2008 05:33:00 PST

this summer.

Dark Sky, Bright Lights Over Pennsylvania....on a good night for stargazing at Cherry Springs State Park, in north central Pennsylvania, the Milky Way is a speckled wash across the sky. On a perfect n...
Posted by AWESOME on Fri, 16 May 2008 04:38:00 PST

it’s not you. it’s your books.

the article.i'm an asshole....
Posted by AWESOME on Fri, 16 May 2008 04:35:00 PST

etymology of dick.

i spent time on this. this was the best answer available:The name Richard is very old, although its origin is disputed. Old English had Richeard, from Ric (ruler) and heard (hard); French had Richart...
Posted by AWESOME on Mon, 25 Jun 2007 01:50:00 PST

i heart polaroids

because i wanted to know.....Edwin Herbert Land was an American inventor and industrialist born in Bridgeport, Conn. He became interested in POLARIZED LIGHT and invented a material to eliminate glare ...
Posted by AWESOME on Sun, 24 Jun 2007 03:16:00 PST

my pet pig. i had to put him somewhere

Katie and Rebecca made me a pig. ...
Posted by AWESOME on Thu, 21 Jun 2007 03:36:00 PST

i found out about the sheets.

i've been known to describe how drunk i am by talking about the number of sheets i am to the wind. then i realized i had no idea what the expression really means. i found out about the sheets.it's an...
Posted by AWESOME on Sun, 03 Jun 2007 03:47:00 PST