baskets that match my case, owls, good books,writing, writing in lowercase, really good music, really really sad songs, profound words, worthwhile films (as well as the unworthwhile...), sitting in my car, sitting in cars belonging to other people, waiting for the funk soul brother, giving out my last crust of bread, losing my keys, forgetting where i put every vital and/or expensive object, noir, cats who do not headbutt me, attempting to paint, attempting various musical instruments never to be mastered, listening to the same song over and over and....
Music
No one ranks higher than The Beatles. Otherwise...
Simon & Garfunkel, Led Zeppelin, The Kinks, The Weakerthans, Queen, Everclear, The Decemberists, Bright Eyes, Rufus Wainwright, Nico (& the Velvet Underground), America, The Beach Boys, The White Stripes, Aerosmith, The Ramones, Damien Rice, Stars, Tom Waits, Eric Clapton, Jimi Hendrix, ELO, DeVotchka, The Who, The Rolling Stones, The Hush Sound, Bob Dylan, Elton John, Journey, Yes, The Doors, The Spice Girls, James Taylor, Donovan, The Smiths, Frank Sinatra, Cat Stevens, Huey Lewis & The News, Flyleaf, U2, Iron & Wine, Tom Petty, Ben Folds, CSN&Y, JLC, David Bowie, Supertramp, Heart, Garbage, The Black Keys, The Eagles, Sufjan Stevens, Blackbox Recorder, A Fine Frenzy, Jeff Buckley, Sean Lennon, The Eels(!), The Weepies, Birds of Wales, Great Lake Swimmers, The National, Nick Cave, RDJ, Travis, Weepies, Arcade Fire, Bishop Allen, Peter Allen (bahaha)......
I like old music best, but I'm open.
Movies
The Royal Tenenbaums, Rain Man, The Matrix, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Zoolander, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Emperor's New Groove, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, My Best Friend's Wedding, Better Off Dead, Fight Club, Ghost World, Double Indemnity, Singin' in the Rain, Kill Bill Vol. 1 & 2, The Apartment, Harold and Maude, Alice In Wonderland, Brick, Elephant Man, The Princess and the Warrior, Metropolis, Indiana Jones I & III, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, A Knight's Tale, Crash, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Tombstone, My Man Godfrey, The Great Race, Chinatown, The Virgin Suicides, Dr. Strangelove, Fievel Goes West, Tommy, Across The Universe, The Darjeeling Limited, There Will Be Blood...
many more that i can't possibly list.
Television
FRIENDS, Gilmore Girls, House MD, The Wonder Years, The Avengers, Jeeves & Wooster, Fawlty Towers, Monty Python's Flying Circus, Arrested Development, Blackadder, Black Books (I plan to find either Hugh Laurie or Dylan Moran and force them to consider me their wife. "in a very real, and legally binding sense...")
Books
FRANNY AND ZOOEY, A Tree Grows In Brooklyn, About A Boy, Catcher in the Rye, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, Neverwhere, Angelina Ballerina, Everything Is Illuminated, Mystic River, The Hobbit, Red Harvest, The Cat Who Went to Paris, The Scarlet Pimpernel, I Capture The Castle, The Chronicles of Narnia, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Alice In Wonderland, The Screwtape Letters, Brave New World, Pride & Prejudice, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Brideshead Revisited, The Fountainhead, James and the Giant Peach, Sleepy Hollow, To Kill A Mockingbird, Sex Drugs and Cocoa Puffs, The Burglar, Raise High the Roofbeams Carpenters, Double Indemnity, In Cold Blood, Sometimes I Think I Hear My Name, Jesus' Son, 9 Stories, Anne of Green Gables, Prozac Nation,
I like Neil Gaiman, C.S. Lewis, Nicolas Hornby, Chuck Klosterman, The Bronte sisters, PG Wodehouse, Ayn Rand, JD Salinger, David Goodis, Dashiell Hammet. I like biographies about George Sanders and Clara Bow. The Lost Generation fascinates me, as do the Beat writers. I like reading about the roaring twenties, and also crazy people. Actually, I just like reading.
Heroes
i update my profile at 4AM, ok? someone could have told me, y'know.
I'm not going to bed after all. Somebody around here hath murdered sleep. Good for him.
J.D.Salinger
Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past...I, even I, am
He who blots out your transgressions, for my own sake, and
remembers your sins no more.
Isaiah 43:18, 43:25 (NIV)
"I love the relationship that anyone has with music: because there’s something in us that is beyond the reach of words, something that eludes and defies our best attempts to spit it out. It’s the best part of us, probably, the richest and strangest part...." -Nick Hornby, Songbook
haha, in the edit profile section there's a button that reads "edit interests and personality". i scoff. if only, myspace, if only.
Who I'd like to meet: Robert Downey Jr. in a pink bunny suit.
But mostly God. Not just because he's creator and all that, but also because... well, making new friends is exhausting.
yes, you need to! i am counting down the days until christmas and to getting some time to just do nothing, or at least just work and no school. and thanks, i love you, and your writing as well! i miss not talking to you as much as we used to.
a memory card full of pictures of my nephews and if i don't find it i'm going to cry. SERIOUSLY! and i'm glad you spaced me. it's not often that somebody will make an impression on me to the point that something out of my day reminds me to go message them about it. it's a good thing! wow. that was three!
and josh radin,(or however you spell his name). both are bringing me to either side of the emotional spectrum...and for somebody that's creatively stumped: THAT'S A GREAT THING. oh! the book. i bought it. i read the first section-franny-and then i've had a whirwind of things going on and do you ever start a book then have to put it down for a few days and then when you go back to it realize to get the momentum you might possibly have to start all over? that's me right now... i never had to...maybe it's because i'm old, but chances are it's just because i can't focus. lately my adventures come from within, if that makes any sense. one day i feel like i'm freefalling and the next day i feel like racing on a very controlled racetrack...equally fast...just different highs. random: i think that job might be killing my spirit. people are mean. i notice the sexism from the world when i have to come in contact with so many people. i see the judgement the lies the fake. is ignorance bliss? it is if you work in customer service. and for that reason i am VERY excited for you. my mom is a big dylan fan. i bought her that documentary AND the soundtrack. slowly slowly slowly...i'm recognizing what my limits are and what gives me life and the only thing stopping me...as much of a contradiction as it sounds...is my freedom, is nonexistent. AND that's not a negative thing. it's just that my freedom exists in me, and i'm not pushing hard enough for it. oh. and the person that came into the store? "the jailbird/the poet" he doesn't even live in ventura. and he had nothing to say to me. he actually ran away from me. :::scratches head::: wow. i guess i did something wrong!!! lol. be on the lookout for some new photos in the weeks to come...and btw...that guy joel...he was the guy that bred the dog bubblegum on pushing daisies. so send me you're mailing address!!! do you like deerhoof? ok. i'm off. i've lost
You know what's weird? is the past couple of days i was like "oh i should write kat..." but then i was like well she said she's not on much and then i figured you were busy...but i needed to get your mailing address for like...regular mail. yes you should have a check if you didn't pick it up before you left but i'll double check. it sounds like you're doing absorbing all there is to offer so far. and that my dear is very cool. could you turn me on to some places to send poetry and short stories...small places? i figure if i have somewhere to send things i might actually put a little effort in writing. as of right now i'm at a standstill but you never know. well things didn't end well with "the friend" nor did they with, well i can't remember if he was "the jailbird" or "the poet" but either way, both were a waste of time. one much more than the other because "the friend" still has my heart. AND THAT HURTS ON TOP OF THE HURT. i love this speaking in code. no? tiffany should be back home tomorrow which i'm way stoked on and my friend from VA is coming to visit in a couple of weeks. that means i'll be traveling throughout SOCAL because here there's nothing but drinking but OUT THERE there's atmosphere AND drinking!!!naw seriously i've been cutting back on my tasty beverages and trying to only go out when somebody accompanies me. another strange thing...STRANGE THING NUMBER TWO:i was going to myspace you a suggestion to watch the fall. TRIPPING OUT YET? i guess next time i'll just message you when i think about it. then again you'd have two pages of comments. hhhmmm the possibilities.yeah brandon came back and i will try to relay the message but i don't see him too often. the former employee? oh she was our FAVORITE! don't you remember? (i hope this type extends the immense saturation of my sarcasm.) i have two cds in heavy rotation...the new bleeding th
it's ok. one day i'll break down and facebook it up. for some reason i have to do it when it's out of style...just like using myspace so much...after billions of people started to get one. i say "friends" are overrated. it's hard to find a true one...and a true one is considered family. and your writing is outstanding so i'd say your energy is better put there anyways.i've given up on the opposite sex in this town.i'm too strange and too particular for any of them to ever understand..."shhh just stand there...don't talk..." well one former employee got all crazy with a few of us in a situation which none of us had any control over. i took care of it on my day off...but she insisted on calling and making matters more uncomfortable than they already were, but it's neither here nor there...cause while those situations make for interesting water cooler discussions...when you like on your death bed before the rattle...i highly doubt the incident would ever make the top ten thousand memories that make up your life. i'm sure once she figures this out she'll have an identity crisis. alas. i'm listening to non stop grey's anatomy soundtracks if that says anything at all. i'm going to the bookstore tomorrow on my day off. i'll make sure to pick it up. sobriety is beginning to take over the better half of my brain...but there's still a lil drunk devil that beats the crap out of it when it can. don't forget about your myspace bud roxy over here...
new is always a great thing and sometimes i salivate at the thought. lack thereof? pft. i create drama in my sleep. the friend was never a friend to begin with and told me i had no class. i drink cheap beer pee in parking lots and wear very low cut tops...so this was apparantly news! the other...well there was reason to worry and i don't know if i ever told you before you left that i wasn't stood up...he was in genuine despair. trip out. other than that work is work and ventura...well darn...it's still here. tho...this shock of pain has caused a great creative bolt in my head...but nobody said it would come out coherently. as overworked as the phrase is...it's very true that what doesn't kill us makes us stronger. and i look foward to the next battle. p.s...i've left the drama section just as you saw it to perserve the fine art of bad stacking and so when you've written your memoirs...people will visit your ole store and say you once walked that drama section...and then i'll charge them five bucks a piece because my job will be obsolete. type at me soon!
what a sweet thing to find on my desk after a horrid weekend! sorry i missed you stopping in...but you know getting away is a rare thing and i felt like a bandit exiting that door on friday. you will have to message me exciting things because so far...i've found there is no life after blockbuster.
Sorry we couldn't hang out, we actually came down here Early Saturday morning and left at 10:00PM after going through the locations - looks like we won't be filming in Oxnard after all.
Hmmm. Maybe I just need to have another listen.... my boombox died so I have to listen to them downstairs which isn't nearly as fun because I can't dance... ah well, life is troublesome...
I am now certain that "pretty far out man" song wasn't put on a cd you gave me... I haven't heard it. Hmph. Of course, my cd player is broken now so we'll see yet....
Hey. I told you today about Dover, you know, the mute that couldn't speak? haha... anyway. It's a blog on me page.
okay, and you can hate me now. 3rd comment deep. i've also been listening to the thumbsucker soundtrack with polyphonic spree and elliot smith. i didn't enjoy the movie all that much, i mean i liked it, but the soundtrack was what i really enjoyed. oi! sorry!
so, i didn't realize it would cut off my comment if it was too long ... but the remainder of the last one was ... and i've been listening to what can only be considered an insane amount of modest mouse. and tori amos, mostly the boys for pele record, since it's james' favorite. oh! and i'm going to listen to the new coldplay cd online today, because what i've been hearing of it, i've really enjoyed. i love coldplay! and speaking of death cab, james and i are going to a death cab concert on tuesday! we are close to the front and i am so excited! i might feel sweat. =] sorry for these super long comments, haha and i noticed my last one got cut off as well.
i'm not working on anything cause i'm not in town, and i keep stupidly leaving my poetry and stories i need to work on at my home in sanger. i need to fix a poem i wrote a while back, and finish and fix a short story i wrote a while back as well. and the novel was about fear, how it manages to control every bit of everyone's life no matter how little we think it effects us. my problem is i have so much i want to put in it, and i lose patience and just want to throw everything in, or get to the end quickly. perhaps i'm more of a short story writer. not that i don't like details, i'm not a minimalist in really any sense, i just want to get everything across i guess way too quickly. again, i really just need someone around me 24/7 who slaps me in the face, because i never get anything done. i've been schooling, i'm about to start working in a week, and i'm sort of addicted to a little computer game called WOW. haha laugh at me if you wish. and yes, i had a talk with james about that last night. i need to eat better, drink more water, and get more exercise, and find some kind of release for my anxiety, which i continually feel is growing worse and worse. and it's funny because the majority of my friends think i'm laidback, when in fact just speaking sometimes can be hard. i overthink and worry about everything, maybe i'm just good at hiding it. i enjoy okkervil river, the rest i haven't heard of. i feel as though i already told you this, but i'm not sure ... i'm just continually dissapointed by the music people rec to me, although my friend recently reccomended a local band which is pretty good, grassfight, out of denton. i haven't like been listening to them nonstop but i do like it. it just seems like the majority of stuff i get recommended doesn't pop out, or mean anything to me, like the music i listen to now does. i've been listening to a lot of placebo, radiohead [as always],
this sentence belongs in a book, or one of those plays of yours: today is not so good. but tomorrow is usually better so i'm not going to worry about that so much.
i have seen that movie, but it's been so long i don't remember the scene you are talking about.
and thanks! i'm really excited about it too! i have been too busy with school and things i have to do to really start researching it, but i have plenty of time to do it today, so i'm planning on it. i mean, i just know it would make me feel like really accomplished to have something published at my age, even though there are those that have done it younger. i just know it will set me on the path i want to be taking for the rest of my life. and i do need to write more, but i've been so unmotivated and lazy of late. i'm just a lazy person by nature, and i find that tends to get in the way of life, success, and all that. i've been doing good for the most part, i mean i was havin
