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LUSH

I am here for Friends

About Me

adapting to being in my 30s. enjoying the ride.

My Interests

music, traveling, hugs, biking to work, laughing, sunny autumn days, checking out live bands, dancing, guitars, making jewelry, crocheting, collecting books, late night diners, long drives, sharing mp3s, diet coke, dunkin donuts coffee, black and white photography, halloween, napping, shopping, geography, feeding wild animals (especially ducks), blonde jokes, renting films, blankets, tea at 3, my friends.

I'd like to meet:

music-lovers.

Music:


absentee, air, albert hammond jr, apples in stereo, arcade fire, arctic monkeys, art brut, assassins, athlete, babyshambles, band of horses, beatles, bees, berlin, be your own pet, biffy clyro, bjm, bloc party, blondie, blur, bowie, box-o-car (r.i.p.), boy kill boy, bright eyes, brmc, broadcast, camera obscura, cars, chalets, clap your hands say yeah, client, clinic, coldplay, the concretes, coral, the cribs, css, dead 60s, dears, death from above 1979, deerhunter, delays, dido, dirty pretty things, doves, editors, elastica, elbow, elephant, embrace, emily haines, engineers, the faint, feeder, feist, the film, franz ferdinand, fratellis, giant drag, gnarls barkley, goldfrapp, the good the bad and the queen, gossip, the go! team, happy mondays, hard-fi, hem, hives, hold steady, interpol, iron + wine, jarvis, jesus & mary chain, justice, kaiser chiefs, kasabian, keane, kills, kinks, klaxons, kooks, kt tunstall, ladies and gentlemen, lcd, le tigre, libertines, the like, living things, louis xiv, magic numbers, maximo park, mazzy star, mercury rev, metric, muse, mystery jets, national, new constitution (r.i.p.), new pornographers, new york dolls, nine black alps, oasis, of montreal, orson, the others, peaches, peter bjorn and john, phoenix, pigeon detectives, pipettes, pixies, pleasesuite, ponys, postal service, prairie cartel, pretenders, primal scream, pulp, raconteurs, radiohead, rakes, rapture, razorlight, redwalls, serge gainsbourg, shins, shout out louds, silver jews, silversun pickups, simian, snow patrol, spoon, stands, star spangles, starsailor, stereophonics, stooges, strokes, subways, suede, sufjan stevens, sundays, sunny day sets fire, sunshine underground, super furries, supergrass, stills, the stones, stone roses, streets, thom yorke, towers of london, travis, t-rex, tv on the radio, upper room, velvet underground, verve, vhs or beta, voxtrot, we are scientists, the who, wilco, willy mason, wolfmother, wolf parade, yeah yeah yeahs, young knives, zutons

Movies:

Brand Upon the Brain, Run Lola Run, Eastern Promises, Better Off Dead, Willy Wonka, Matchpoint, Amelie, the Professional, Big Night, When Harry Met Sally, Igby Goes Down, The Wedding Singer, Chocolat, Indiana Jones, Star Wars (III-VI), Grosse Point Blank, Jean de Florette, Party Girl, Napoleon Dynamite, Bourne Identity (or anything with Franka Potente)

Television:

i change the channels constantly and almost always end up choosing a PBS show or having the television muted while i read a book. i watch shows mostly at night while in bed as a means to rest my brain and fade to sleep. Simpsons, Conan O'Brien, and Will and Grace usually keep me company at night. i have a weakness for House. i don't have cable and i like it that way.

Books:

anything by Bukowski and Oscar Wilde and almost all literature from my high school and college days, Burroughs, Kerouac, DiPrima, anything in French

Heroes:

the inventor of extra crunchy peanut butter. tex avery.

My Blog

Cast

Listening to xfm just now and the band Cast is playing.  I haven’t heard Cast for years.  I used to play them all the time when I was a college dj.  I think I’m go...
Posted by LUSH on Thu, 27 Mar 2008 08:41:00 PST

londons astoria cant be saved - bbc6

this makes me incredibly sad.    "Astoria can’t be saved" London Mayor launches protection scheme 11 Mar 08 -  London’s Mayor Ken Livingstone today says the ...
Posted by LUSH on Wed, 12 Mar 2008 09:46:00 PST

dear senator obama

Dear Senator Obama: Please stop slinging mud and dragging dirty laundry out on the Clintons.  I want to vote for you but I hate when politicians talk trash about their opponents.  I don't ca...
Posted by LUSH on Fri, 25 Jan 2008 09:09:00 PST

no more gin and tonics

dear diary: went to liars with friends on saturday.  ordered a gin and tonic.  drank it.  danced.  ordered a second gin and tonic.  drank it. danced.  ordered a third gin...
Posted by LUSH on Mon, 07 Jan 2008 08:59:00 PST

im in love

i'm in love with music again.  for a while, i've been struggling.  i lost a connection between myself and music; myself and musicians.  i blame my ipod.  i put everything on shuffl...
Posted by LUSH on Sun, 11 Nov 2007 11:33:00 PST

shows

list of shows i'd like to attend.  hadn't updated this all summer.  fall is here, which means less running around outside and more cozying up to some good live music.  who's with me? ke...
Posted by LUSH on Mon, 24 Sep 2007 12:20:00 PST

why the hell not? (questionnaire)

50 ODD Things about you!1. Where's #1 on your top 8? it's my jewelry line.  it's all encompassing.2. What is your favorite possession?my cats.  followed closely by pictures of family/fr...
Posted by LUSH on Fri, 29 Jun 2007 08:53:00 PST

VERVE

Looks like I'm going to the UK in November. The Verve Reuniteby Torr Leonard | 06.26.2007Seminal British rock band The Verve have announced that they've reunited. The original 4-piece line-u...
Posted by LUSH on Tue, 26 Jun 2007 09:13:00 PST

want

http://www.vat19.com/dvds/dcuk-wooden-duck.cfm
Posted by LUSH on Thu, 24 May 2007 09:39:00 PST

sick.

i'm sick.
Posted by LUSH on Mon, 23 Apr 2007 01:49:00 PST