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Suite Caroline

charter member of the lost marbles society

About Me

The girl of 100 lists.....

My Interests

reading, writing, reciprocity, hopping/skipping and or jumping/moving, driving but not while sleeping, dreaming/editing but not while making up words, waking up, getting dressed and going back to sleep, dancing until my feet hurt and your basic everyday show-ponying around.

I'd like to meet:

the ghosts of dare wright and hedy lamarr joan didion kazuo ishiguro bobbie gentry dreamy creatures

Music:

bobbie gentry, depeche mode, the carpenters, the breeders, sonic youth, blondie, the beach boys, the mamas and the papas, the beatles, rolling stones, the raveonettes, spindrift, the black pine, kind hearts and coronets, sky parade, brian jonestown massacre, stereolab, the warlocks, mission of burma, spacemen 3, spiritualized, lone pigeon, the raincoats, the pastels, the shaggs, acid house kings, beat happening, the beta band, big star, belle and sebastian, alfie, bob dylan, the dandy warhols, nick drake, mark kozelek, pavement, built to spill, buzzcocks, vu, holy shit, indian jewelry, the black angels, the shocking blue, the blood group, silver jews, slow reader, yo la tengo, langhorne slim, graham nash, the decemberists, dolly parton, donovan, the doves, echo and the bunnymen, the free design, the go-gos, goldrush, great lake swimmers, the jam, james brown, jens lekman, jesus and mary chain, the kinks, the lemonheads, the make up, mark gardener, ride, mott the hoople, lavendar diamond, young people, neil young, new order, the pogues, the rays, the red krayola, roxy music, siouxsie and the banshees, the stone roses, the vaselines, on and on and on and on....

Movies:

the red balloon, heavenly creatures, suspiria, in the realms of the unreal, the goonies, 24 hour party people, funny face, amelie, west side story, the royal tenenbaums, christiane f.

Television:

shows about animals, public outlaws and serial killers, national geographic, court tv, biography, history channel.

Books:

to the lighthouse, the white album, slouching towards bethlehem, the rum diaries, the informers (anything by j.didion ,b.e.ellis, or h.s. thompson), a moveable feast, prince of the west end avenue, where the wild things are, jesus saves, anything by miles horton or having to do with highlander school educational reform, a peoples history of the united states-- zinn, julio cortazar, my house--giovanni, jack kerouac, diane di prima, jeffrey eugenides, much too many to ever name.

Heroes:

my family and close friends...they're pretty much the same.

My Blog

dear day, good night.

30 some odd dead. i can't wrap my brain around this one.
Posted by Sweet Caroline on Tue, 17 Apr 2007 10:48:00 PST

"the only proof he needed for the existence of god was music"

never have i ever come up close and personal with a writer who has changed my perspective so immediately. i read him first when i was 13 and i shook his hand once when i was 19. vonnegut has made such...
Posted by Sweet Caroline on Thu, 12 Apr 2007 01:09:00 PST

i have seceded.

now in the sweetest little neighborhood in the prettiest little house. don't count on me for being out and about too much these days. i'll be working and working and then coming home and vacationing i...
Posted by Sweet Caroline on Fri, 02 Feb 2007 02:10:00 PST

I forgot how much I loved this...

Fun Dip....It's fun, you can dip it.I love fun, I love dips. In about five minutes I'm going to be as wired as an 8 year old at a birthday party.
Posted by Sweet Caroline on Tue, 25 Apr 2006 05:13:00 PST

ohio

this place is cold and damn grey. i miss my la misfits. off to work again.
Posted by Sweet Caroline on Thu, 20 Oct 2005 08:08:00 PST

Denver makes me dizzy.

Literally. I'm finally acclimated to this mile-high business but seriously people nix the tie-dye and the birkenstocks. working with great people jerry's record shop wax trax getting to see ...
Posted by Sweet Caroline on Thu, 29 Sep 2005 05:53:00 PST

whole lotta magic

TELL ME ABOUT YOURSELF - The Survey Name: Birthday: Birthplace: Where have you lived: Eye Color: Hair Color: Height: Right Handed or Left Handed: Your Heritage: The Shoe...
Posted by Sweet Caroline on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

a swarm of wild bees down robertson, take left on alden

it really happened...after a garbage truck hit a pothole on saturday, april 23, but i backspaced something the wrong way and lost the entire entry. made you look. i'll be back east may 21-june ...
Posted by Sweet Caroline on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

the raining is the hardest part

who are visiting-- at the cat and fiddle on sunset. we order our wine, food, etc. and my mother asks, "so have you seen any famous people lately?" so i said "no, not really" and then i turn and loo...
Posted by Sweet Caroline on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST