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sarah[:minerva:]

it's too hot to wear black

About Me

Ouch, this profile is waaaay outdated. I'm not really this bitchy. Eh, but the last sentence is probably true. Anyway.., I'll update this soon and tell all about my improving golf swing, my new found love for Blizzard yarn, and the slow and intractable swaths of indifference I seem to be leaving on this planet.
I miss my friends.
I get mad about music, it's really the only singular thing I get violently stimulated by, provoked, infused with, involved in, remorseful over, reduced by, lost in, animated by, and all the etcs. Strains of song seem to relentlessly pulse through my veins day and night, and if form precedes function, that's the only use I'd wish for them.
I read. I drink wine & beer & lots of sushi when I can afford it. I'm always singing or humming something, and should have thrown myself into the fragile world of rock-princess. Instead I code a lot and geek out in my kitchen baking party favors. I would probably rather stay home and do pushups than hang out with you.
Here's lyrics from the grand-master of music, and one of my all-time favorites, Leonard Cohen, which counters most of my more banal impulses:Baby, I've been waiting, I've been waiting Night and day I didn't see the time, I waited half my life away There were lots of invitations And I know you sent me some, But I was waiting For the miracle, For the miracle to comeI know you really loved me but, you see, my hands were tied I know it must have hurt you, it must have hurt your pride to have to stand beneath my window with your bugle and your drum, and me I'm up there waiting for the miracle, for the miracle to comeAh I don't believe you'd like it, You wouldn't like it here There ain't no entertainment and the judgements are severe The Maestro says it's Mozart but it sounds like bubble gum when you're waiting for the miracle, for the miracle to comeWaiting for the miracle There's nothing left to do I haven't been this happy since the end of World War IINothing left to do when you know that you've been taken Nothing left to do when you're begging for a crumb Nothing left to do when you've got to go on waiting waiting for the miracle to comeI dreamed about you, baby It was just the other night Most of you was naked Ah but some of you was light The sands of time were falling from your fingers and your thumb, and you were waiting for the miracle, for the miracle to comeAh baby, let's get married, We've been alone too long Let's be alone together Let's see if we're that strong Yeah let's do something crazy, Something absolutely wrong While we're waiting For the miracle, for the miracle to comeNothing left to do ...When you've fallen on the highway and you're lying in the rain, and they ask you how you're doing of course you'll say you can't complain -- If you're squeezed for information, that's when you've got to play it dumb: You just say you're out there waiting for the miracle, for the miracle to come ...
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My Interests

Lots of reading and cooking and reading and cooking and reading and... Currently I'm procrastinating for my GREs and studying with Anne Rice. Love beer, gotta have the stuff, and more books. Fun goth nights where my friends & I drink and forget our boring existence. Geeking out on the computer. Arlington Robbins Library. knitting & singing/not at the same time however. Theater with biscuitbox, taking pictures of my feet and other people. Bemoaning the fate of my head, yet not doing a damn thing about it. Reading Poe in bed to other people. All-U-can-eat-Sushi; Big, flavorful Zinfindels.

I'd like to meet:

The literate, the dark, the strange and the wonderful. Maybe people who can go one on one with me in the kitchen. More dark, non-fake people, who are into metal, goth, and industrial and having lots of fun. Also those who aren't anal as fuck.

Music:

Opeth, Diary of Dreams, Siouxse & The Banshees, Tori, Black Tape for a Blue Girl, Katatonia, Love Spirals Downwards, Bjork, Switchblade Symphony, Cockteau Twins, Dimmu Borgir, Joy Division, Portishead, APC, Lacuna Coil, Nevermore, Radiohead, Butchies, Liz Phair, Nina Simone, NIN, Metallica, Morphine, Leonard Cohen, Massive Attack, Tricky, Covenant, Depeche Mode, Qntal, My Bloody Valentine, Stevie Wonder, Faith & the Muse, Delerium, PJ Harvey, Diamanda Galas, Morphine again.

Movies:

The Dark Crystal, Ginger Snaps Trilogy, My Own Private Idaho, Rushmore, Heathers, Alien Series, Blue Velvet, Wild At Heart, Six Degrees of Separation, Bikini Bandits, Draclua, the Dark Prince, Brahm Stoker's Dracula, Edward Scissorhands, What's Eating Gilbert Grape, Johnny Depp, Catherine Keener, Parker Posey.

Television:

Food network, x files, most sci. fi. & black comedy.

Books:

The Witches of Eastwick [John Updike], The Dictionary, Sexual Politics of Meat[Carol Adams], Fountainhead[Ayn Rand], Crime and Punishment[Dostoevsky], Germinal[Zola], The End of the Affair [Grahm Greene], Lasher [Anne Rice], Sexing the Cherry[Winterson], Four Past Midnight [Stephen King], Shampoo Planet [Douglas Copeland], To the Lighthouse [Virginia Woolf]

Heroes:

Dad & Mom, even though they're insane.

My Blog

it’s so wrong

It just feels wrong. Absent. Removed. Gouged. It's nothing but wrong without him.
Posted by sarah[:minerva:] on Fri, 10 Aug 2007 09:51:00 PST

someone take me to the opera

and i can fill up my silver glasses with the tears of regret and sweet sadness of all that music of which i will not be in the center. I cry everytime I hear Si, Mi Chiamano Mimi.
Posted by sarah[:minerva:] on Fri, 27 Jul 2007 10:23:00 PST

new hair

see my only album. it's all a lighter, less-shampoo world for me now.
Posted by sarah[:minerva:] on Tue, 10 Jul 2007 12:20:00 PST

woe is the one who works the 4th

I'm such a silly bitch. I opted to work today in order to take Friday for the long weekend and I COULDN'T BE MORE REGRETFUL!It's beautiful outside and Mike Gio's telling me how he has no one to go to ...
Posted by sarah[:minerva:] on Wed, 04 Jul 2007 09:17:00 PST

a poetic retelling of an unfortunate seduction

I'm not usually a fan of Connor O., but this describes a bit of how i've felt of late.. It's sick, sad and more than a little pathetic. -the language in the dimmer rooms seems to represent its light s...
Posted by sarah[:minerva:] on Fri, 27 Apr 2007 11:45:00 PST

the demands of others

it's like 'pay me attention!'. it's like a big hand which pulls you by the scruff of your neck, hurts your neck, like a kitten. Pay me due attention!I sometimes liken it to PJ Harvey's compelling: 'Co...
Posted by sarah[:minerva:] on Mon, 23 Apr 2007 11:24:00 PST

influenza sucks

I'm so fucking sick right now. I think it was between the feverish cold sweats and the puking that I remembered how good it feels just to feel normal. God I want to feel normal.
Posted by sarah[:minerva:] on Sat, 14 Apr 2007 08:31:00 PST

ambien investigation

Ambien.A deep sinking swell of a sigh moves your entire perceptoin round into focus. In and only under the swell can we remain in its deepness, so that we can all slide naked and be there when it chan...
Posted by sarah[:minerva:] on Tue, 16 Jan 2007 08:34:00 PST

happiness == monogamy

For those of you who think only one partner at a time is for pussies, you're so wrong! It's .. well, excellent. And amazing, and molto, molto satisfying. I love my guy. I hope everyone who is cool enu...
Posted by sarah[:minerva:] on Thu, 04 Jan 2007 02:21:00 PST

My car is fixed!

..a cool $650 later, oh but at least it runs without any squeals/jolts/bumps/pops/etc. And the Saturn dealership even washed the inside & out. Let's see if I can drive it for another 150,000mi! I'm ...
Posted by sarah[:minerva:] on Thu, 07 Dec 2006 10:07:00 PST