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Birthday: 5/31/1985
Interests: Mad tea parties, the dichotomy of Apollo and Dionysus in art, shiny distractions, martial arts (particularly awful kung fu movies), rhapsodizing melodramatically over just about anything, school and slacking (yes, they coexist), English Literature, writing weird stories, Philosophy, and Ancient Greek.
Expertise: Pretending I can write and acting like a clueless wannabe would-be intellectual. Being a part-time assassin and future member of the Black Pearl.
Occupation: Student
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AIM:  AethyrPhoenix
Member Since:
4/15/2003
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| I am drowning in an ecstasy of reading assignments that never seem to end. All of my classes are very reading heavy this year, and I'm glad for it. I find school keeps me from endless listlessness. It's intimidating, because this is the real year to test my mettle at teaching and reading and being insightful, and I need to figure out if I'm any good at this writing thing. I have to catapult myself into this, there's no backing down or settling involved.
But I still just kind of want to walk the sands of Morocco. I haven't really lived yet. I love school with all my heart. I really do. I think I just want the kind of life worth telling stories about, too. It's a strange kind of dichotomy. | | |
| OKAY GUYS. A certain event is coming up, a certain movie is coming out, and I'm making a pirate/rovers of the sea/craziness/dorkiness mix. Included are:
- "A Pirate's Life For Me" (duh)
- Muppet Treasure Island - "Professional Pirate" (Tim Curry, you are teh awesome.)
- Reliant K - "Pirates Who Don't Do Anything"
- Curse of Monkey Island 2 - "A Pirate I Was Meant To Be"
- The Pogues - "Turkish Song of the Damned"
- Flogging Molly - "Queen Anne's Revenge"
- The Decemberists - "The Mariner's Revenge Song"
- The Arrogant Worms - "The Last Saskatchewan Pirate"
- Pirates of the Carribbean - "He's a Pirate"
- Pirates of Penzance - "I Am A Pirate King"
- "What Shall We Do With a Drunken Sailor?"
Suggestions (especially for a Captain Hook song) appreciated and MAY be rewarded with rum cake. Or just rum. Ahhh rum... | | |
| class of 2006Congrats, guys. Have enormous amounts of fun. Do amazing things. Meet amazing people. Live epically. Live vibrantly. Enjoy your beautiful, strong young body and stare at the sun at every opportunity. (PS: Walt Whitman helps with this! Read poetry!!) | | |
| One day, I want to be this:
O Captain! My Captain!
I wish I had a Dead Poets Society. I want everyone to have that same glorious, soul-nourished, contented feeling I get after I read really, really good poetry, that (ironically) indescribable bliss, even if it's depressing poetry...I think if someone looked at my atoms, they'd see words written on them, and say, "oh, wow, it turned out she was made of books, after all."
ah, the melodrama. can't help it though. I keep re-discovering what literature means to me. Having just watched Robin Williams call Walt Whitman "Uncle Walt," and having just been awarded the two English scholarships at my school, and having just realized that one of my favorite poems has new layers of meaning even now, after I've read it for years - I think I'm a bit justified. | | |
| Interesting Facts!
1) "Ignore it and hope it goes away" never ever ever works, especially in regards to people's crushes apparently, and dealing with people's expectations for you can embitter you in ways you never imagined;
2) I really don't think United States is the best country in the world, at all, and that's an incredibly stupid notion anyway, and at any rate I'd hope that the best country in the world did not give American Idol those ratings since I have a bit more faith in humanity;
3) College is not being a grown-up, and you only realize this when you start dealing with things like rent and furniture and groceries, but that's okay because it's awesome;
4) My twenties are significantly more awesome than being a teenager, but I still am not a bohemian and this makes me pout;
5) Transitory things are not worse than long-term things: sometimes, they're even terribly meaningful because they are transitory;
6) It's your damn job to pick up the pieces of your life and create something beautiful out of it, so get to creating, girls and boys, and make something worth paying attention to. | | |
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