06.02.2002 /21:54
a chronology of me...
- 1970's I am born.
- listening: the Sesame Street Album, the Beatles, Peter Paul and Mary.
- reading: the Mr Men books, Dr Suess, Winnie the Pooh, the Moomin books, the Wizard of Oz.
- watching: Sesame Street, the Electric Company, Star Blazers.
- wearing: salt water sandals, grranimals [sp?], osh-kosh, underoos.
- doing: going to Disneyland, dressing up as Luke Skywalker for Halloween, riding a bike, climbing trees, eating Swedish Fish, Marathon Bars, and Lik-M-Ade, getting called "Pippi Longstocking" for my red braids and freckles, learning to swim.
- 1980's real school (as opposed to homeschool) and all that angsty stuff.
- listening: Culture Club, Duran Duran, Prince, Madonna, the Eurythmics, David Bowie, the Velvet Underground, the Stooges, the Damned, the Dead Kennedys, Elvis Costello, the Pogues, the Clash, Tom Waits, REM, the Smiths, the Specials... blah blah blah...
- seeing: ET, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Return of the Jedi, A Nightmare on Elm Street (the beginning of my Johnny Depp infatuation), 16 Candles, the Breakfast Club, Weird Science, Valley Girl, Aliens, the Terminator, She's Gotta Have It, Blue Velvet, Dune, Evil Dead II, and so on and so on...
- reading: the Narnia books, the Lord of the Rings, Judy Blume, VC Andrews, Stephen King, Go Ask Alice, Lolita, Pale Fire, Byron, Keats, Shelley, Sylvia Plath, Thomas Hardy, Moby Dick, Phillip K. Dick, Vonnegut, Catch 22, 1984, Less Than Zero, etc. etc. etc...
- watching: The V miniseries, Miami Vice, Magnum PI, St Elsewhere, Moonlighting, Star Trek: The Next Generation, 21 Jump Street...
- wearing: Jelly shoes, turquoise and pink, flashdance sweatshirts, black and white, asymmetrical earrings, leg warmers, jeans with zippers on the ankles, pinstriped jeans, Aquanet, Esprit, all black, pale makeup, black nail polish, converse, Gap...
- doing: Riding around in my friend/secret crush Alec's car listening to tunes, reading "Spy" magazine and feeling oh-so-witty, dying my hair, being depressed and angsty all the time...
- 1990's college, no-college, college, no-college. Can't she make up her mind?
- listening: Nirvana, Pixies, Sonic Youth, Beastie Boys, Jane's Addiction, Redd Kross, Mudhoney, Fall-Outs, Built to Spill, Radiohead, Soul Asylum, Man or Astroman?, the Magnetic Fields, Sleater-Kinney....
- seeing: Miller's Crossing, Slacker, Heavenly Creatures, Strictly Ballroom, Edward Scissorhands, Proof (the beginning of my Russell Crowe infatuation), Romper Stomper, Shallow Grave (the beginning of my Ewan McGregor infatuation), Trainspotting, Tie Me Up, Tie Me Down (the beginning of a brief infatuation with Antonio Banderas, which ended when he married skanky-ho Melanie Griffith), Pulp Fiction, the Sixth Sense, Seven, the Phantom Menace, and many many more...
- reading: Animal Liberation, Diet for a New America (animal rights/vegan classics...), Martin Amis, Iain (M) Banks, James Ellroy, Cold Mountain, Neal Stephenson, The Sparrow, Paradise Lost, Dante, Dostoevsky, Borges, Pynchon, Queneau, Joyce, more and more and more...
- watching: Homicide, X-Files, Melrose Place, BH 90210, DS9, Xena, Twin Peaks, My so called life, lots more I can't think of right now...
- wearing: Cutoff shorts with longjohns underneath, doc martens, flannel, tight purple minidress with torn tights and docs, supershort hair, old white t-shirts with black bras underneath, jeans and t-shirts, jeans and t-shirts, jeans and t-shirts...
- doing: Getting tattoos, getting more holes in my ears, cutting my own hair, dying my hair many colors that do not appear in nature, being in love for a period of time, being stalked by former love for a period of time, being slutty for a period of time, engaging in serial monogamy for a period of time, slacking off, playing pinball at the bar down the street, going dancing on disco nights, dancing with strangers, driving around town with friends, finding out I probably can't ever get pregnant, going a little nuts, deciding to buckle down and finish school...
- 2000's enough with the college already--on to the grad school!
- listening: A lot of the same stuff from the 90s! Does that mean I'm in a rut? Tell me some new stuff to listen to!!
- seeing: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Fight Club, Memento, Moulin Rouge, O Brother Where Art Thou?, SW Ep. II, many more and many more to come...
- reading: More Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Gogol, Pushkin, Chekhov, The Master and Margarita, Harry Potter (I know--such a latecomer!), Flannery O'Connor, tons of dry stuff that's only interesting to other people in my program...
- watching: Buffy, Angel, Alias, Law & Order: CI (mm... Vincent D'Onofrio...), CSI...
- wearing: Jeans and t-shirts... clamdiggers, long skirts, chunky sandals, zip-up sweatshirts...
- doing: school school and more school. grad school is a heck of a lot of work. Going out with friends, watching movies, sitting on my balcony with a beer, more and more school, worrying about all the loans I've taken out...
seeing: Star Wars, Pete's Dragon, Escape from Witch Mountain, Empire Strikes Back.
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