Sugar & Spice & Everything Not So Nice: December 2008

Sunday, December 21, 2008

On The Matter of Christmas

A tree stands in the window

Fluffing out its branches

Like the jiggly cellulite arms

Of an over perfumed female relative.

Underneath, presents as colourful

As little girl's clothes

In a Goodwill.

Hanging close by, stockings

More pregnant

Than any vice president hopeful's daughter.

Wednesday, December 17, 2008

On Having Food Poisoning

Shivers run up and down my spine

Like people in a marathon

While shot puts

Get heaved across my stomach.

Javelins fly through my intestines

Like birds-

Determined to go south for the winter.

And you stand in my door way-

Apology smeared on your face-

Like that chicken had been smeared in disease.

Quotes

"I don't see why it matters what is written. Not when it's about people. It can always be crossed out." ~Neil Gaiman
"In the first place, you had to be in love with a woman to have a basis of friendship." ~Ernest Hemingway
"I have a theory that it is the women who propose to us, not we who propose to the women." ~Oscar Wilde
"The person you love and the person who loves you will never ever be the same person." ~Chuck Palanuik
"There's enough religon in this world to make everyone hate eachother, but not enough to make everyone love eachother." ~Depeche Mode
"Someone had to build the walls and ceiling of the Sistine Chapel before Michaelanglo painted them." ~John Ratzenburger
"You are what you repeatedly do." ~Aristotle
"You caint own what you caint end." ~Mark Z. Danielewski
"I'm the mountain the world climbs and I laugh because it tickles." ~Mark Z. Danielewski

Interests

early 1900 film, 80's movies, acting, alternative music, abstract art, fauvism, transcendentalism, existentialism, romantic poets, counter culture, theatre of the 1800s and 1900s, batman, being a hopeless romantic, blonde jokes, books, bright blue nail polish, California, cavemen, cheese, china, chinchillas, chocolat, chocolate strawberries, clay, clouds, coffee, color blue, Colorado, communist baseball, concerts, gypsy clothing, cool clothes, current movies, Dali, dancing, dancing in the rain, dickens, diet coke, dogs, down with love, dreams, dressing up, duct tape, DVDs, dying hair, England, English class, Europe, falling in love, fantasy novels, mystery novels, Neil Gaiman, Chuck Palahniuk, poetry readings, Jack Kerouac, Mark Vonnegut, film, finger painting, Florida, Flagler College, friends, George Bernard Shaw, Georgia o Keefe, Gilmore Girls, God, religion, spirituality, Catholicism, Greece, guitar music, guitars, gum, guys, hills, history, horses, jazz, jeans, jewelry, Jim carry movies, Johnny Depp, life, lip gloss, literature, little kids, London, love, Asia, Japan, China, South America, Costa Rica, Italy, painting my nails, hats, sunshine, getting freckles on my shoulders, English projects, Da Vinci, Moulin Rogue, Circus counterculture, gypsies, hippies, reeling, being dizzy, having my stomach drop, being a nerd, long hair, cello music, piano music, flocks of birds, carpe diem, writing poetry on napkins and walls, cloud or star watching, wave wishing, beach walking, being barefoot, working with kids, the smell of infants, curly hair, curling/straightening my hair, getting pretty, wearing heels (I contradict myself), rain dancing, writing letters, receiving letters, opening Christmas presents, giving gifts, deciding what to wear, loving life, fiddling with things (nervous habits).
looking at old photographs, movie tickets, spinning and getting dizzy, warm blankets, thin socks, hats, the smell of books, words, puffy paint, getting letters, black and white photography, candles, singing in the shower, coffee cups, email
Pb and Js, toe rings, crumpling paper, sleeping in, cleaning out my purse, drying roses,

Movies

Batman- any, Spiderman- any, Big Fish, Edward Scissorhands, The Illusionist, Pan's Labrynth, Mirror Mask, You've Got Mail, Godfathers, Corpse Bride, Nightmare before Christmas, Chocolat, Under the Tuscan Sun, Moulin Rouge (BIG FAVORITE!), Phantom of the Opera, Dead Poet's Society, Finding Neverland, My Fair Lady, A Knight's Tale, Pride and Prejudice, LOTR- any, Star Wars 4,5, 6, and 3, The Truman Show, Liar Liar, Bruce Almighty, Pirates of the Carribean, Treasure Planet (gulity pleasure, I know, I know), Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Waking Life, Beauty and the Beast, Memoirs of a Geisha, Gladiator, West Side Story, Lion King, The Holiday, Strictly Ballroom, Down with Love, Harold and Maude, V for Vendetta,The Fountain, SuperSize Me, homemade movies on youutube

Books

Adverbs, No Exit
Madame Bovary, Red Badge of Courage, Little Women, Stranger in a Strange Land, Of Mice and Men, Frankenstein, Tale of Two Cities, Uncle Tom's Cabin, Trial and Death of Socrates, For whom the Bell Tolls, Pride and Prejudice, The Glass Castle
The Count of Monte Cristo, Wuthering Heights, Jane Eyre, Peter Pan, Alice in Wonderland, Through the Looking Glass: or what she found there, Secret Life of Bees, Invisible Monsters, American Gods, Neverwhere, Stardust, Choke, Lullaby, Haunted, Survivor, Life of Pi, The Inferno, The Purgatorio, The Sun Also Rises, Chronicles of Narnia, The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, The Hunting of the Snark, Screwtape Letters, Slaughterhause Five, Picture of Dorien Grey, Pride and Prejudice, Catcher in the Rye, Scarlet Letter,Wuthering Heights,Gone with the Wind, One Flew Over the Cukoo's Nest, Lord of the Flies, Farenheit 451, Brave New World, 1984, A Handmaid's Tale, Grendel, The Shining, Beauty, The Broker, California Suite (which is really more of a play...), Hotel Paradise, Belle Ruin, Anna Karenina, Death of a Salesman, Good Omens, Diary, The Eden Express, On the Road, Atlas Shrugged

Music

The Cure, Depeche Mode, Acceptance, Frou Frou/Imogene Heap, *some* Pink Floyd, Nightwish, Dream Theatre, Death Cab for Cutie, Postal Service, The Beatles, Jack Johnson, Metric, Thrice, The Juliana Theory, Foo Fighters, Five for Fighting, Fernando Ortega, Nevertheless, Summerbirds in the Summer, (some) Tilly and the Wall, Shiny Toys Guns, Snow Patrol, YoyoMa, Hello Goodbye, foeign music, anything with a good sound, great lyrics, and a twist. I like every genre *except country. I've tried, but I can't*, but within that genre I'm very, very picky