Art, Books, Science Fiction, Fantasy, Psychology, Philosophy, Photography, Love, Life, Hope, Beauty (in the broadest sense)
"It seemed to me at an early age that all human communication--whether it's TV, movies, or books--begins with somebody wanting to tell a story. That need to tell, to plug into a universal socket, is probably one of out grandest desires. And the need to hear stories, to live lives other than our own for even the briefest moment, is the key to the magic that was born in our bones." ~Boy's Life by Rober McCammon (pg. 33)
Strong Chemistry(David Wilcox)
I got a weakness for strong chemistry
One touch - all my resolutions change
I can say this is no good for me
But I'm back for more of the same
High on the ecstasy -medication against the pain
Our bodies fit desperately together
Like a needle against a vein
A poppy flower is so beautiful
Gentle as a lover's touch
A touch is just a touch of strong medicine
And it's possible to take to much
We take it for comfort
To take away the pain for us
A poppy flower is beautiful and
A thousand poppies is dangerous
Oh no, I can't go back again this time
Oh but every time I see her that magic
Seems to change my mind
I got a weakness for strong chemistry
One touch - all my resolutions change
I can say this is no good for me
But I'm back for more of the same
High on the ecstasy -medication against the pain
Our bodies fit desperately together
Like a needle against a vein
Polly(Nirvana)~
Polly wants a cracker,
Think I should get off her first
Maybe she wants some water,
To put out the blow torch
Isn't me
Have some seed
Let me clip
Dirty wings
Let me take a ride
Cut yourself
Want some help
To please myself
Got some rope
Haven't told
Promise you
Have been true
Let me take a ride
Cut yourself
Want some help
To please myself
Polly wants a cracker,
Maybe she would like some food
She asked me to untie her,
A chase would be nice for a few
Isn't me
Have some seed
Let me clip
Dirty wings
Let me take a ride
Cut yourself
Want some help
To please myself
Got some rope
Haven't told
Promise you
Have been true
Let me take a ride
Cut yourself
Want some help
To please myself
Polly says her back hurts,
She's just as bored as me
She caught me off my guard,
Amazes me, the will of instinct
Isn't me
Haven't seen
Let me clip
Dirty wings
Let me take a ride
Cut yourself
Want some help
Please myself
Got some rope
Haven't told
Promise you
Have been true
Let me take a ride
Cut yourself
Want some help
Please myself
Music
Very generally speaking I like electronica, alternative, rock, folk, house, industrial, techno, et cetera.
Some musical artists I like are:
Carbon Based Life Forms, Trentemoller, St. Vincent, MC Frontalot, M.I.A, Gogol Bordello, Death Cab for Cutie, The Postal Service, Portishead, Poe, Kidney Thieves, Mindless Self Indulgence, Delerium, I am the World Trade Center, Air, Groovelily, The Arrogant Worms, Christine Lavine, Dar Williams, Depeche Mode, Lacuna Coil, The New Pornographers, Nine Inch Nails, Deathklok, Ok Go, PJ Harvey, Placebo, Nirvana, Radiohead, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Richard Shindell, Rob Zombie, Sarah McLachlan, Sneaker Pimps, Marilyn Manson, Louis XIV, Electric Six, Astaire, Owls, Cake, The Cranberries, Dido, Iron and Wine, Oasis, Garbage, Gerling, Beth Orton, Tori Amos, Cruxshadows, Jefferson Airplane, Jimi Hendrix, Wally Pleasant, Ladytron, Ally Kerr, et cetera.
Movies
I <3 Huckabees, Juno, The Fountain, The Fifth Element, White Oleander, Wall•E, Crank, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Better Off Dead, Mirror Mask, Starship Troopers, Lilo & Stitch, Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind, Life as a House, In and Out, A Fish Called Wanda, Real Genius, Ghost Busters, Serenity, Pleasantville, My Neighbor Totoro, Princess Mononoke, Pan's Labyrinth, The Fall, Eddie Izzard (pretty much any of his stand up stuff, most notably Glorious and Dressed To Kill)
Television
Six Feet Under, Arrested Developement, Home Movies, Lucy Daughter of the Devil, Firefly, Veronica Mars, Princess TuTu, Teen Titans, Trigun, Hellsing OVA, FLCL, Dead Like Me, Gilmore Girls, That 70's Show, Family Guy, Mushishi, Azumanga Daioh, Nip Tuck, Metalocalypse
Books
His Dark Materials (The Golden Compass, The Subtle Knife, The Amber Spyglass); Good Omens; Stardust; Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter novels; Ender's Game (and the following series); Harry Potter series; the Griffin series (by mercedes lacky and someone else, Larry Dixon I think); The Lioness Quartet, The Immortals Quartet, and the Protector of The Small series (by tamora pierce); Dangerous Angels and Echo by Francesca Lia Block, Integral Vision by Ken Wilbur and The Ethical Slut by Dossie Easton and Catherine A. Liszt, and many more.
Heroes
My oldest and most notable heros are really from the books I read as a child. People like Alana (from Tamora Pierce's series The Lioness Quartette) or Cimorene (from Patricia Wrede's Dealing With Dragons), and countless other brave, kind, and fiery individuals. People who really stand up for love life and goodness because they believe in it and practice it in their everyday life to the best of their abilities. Actually, I probably owe a lot of my better qualities to the books I read when I was young (well, and I suppose my parents deserve some credit as well :P)
and Eddie Izzard.
East Lansing High School
East Lansing,Michigan
Graduated: 2005
Student status: Alumni
Degree: High School Diploma
Major: N/A
Clubs: Anime Club, Art Club
2001 to 2005
Софія is a Sofiapillar is interested in dollhouse. Posted at 3:53 AM Nov 4 view more
About me: "full of good dreams and bad weather ~(I am a cloud, I am a cloud, I am a cloud)~"
~me
"And here I am poised above with my arms spread flying and there are halos of light spinning out of us and yes this is me becoming holy human and my own self."
~ Echo by Francesca Lia Block
"I don't see why it matters what is written. Not when it's about people. It can always be crossed out."
~Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman, Good Omens
"A 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble."
~Mohandas Gandhi
Run(Air)
Holy girl
Don't get up
For running
Stay with me
I feel sad
When you run
Sands of time
Are lying
On my chest
Stay in bed
I feel sad
When you run
Stay like this
On the hills
Of my chest
Don't wake up
I feel strange
When you go
Stop the night
Hold me tight
Holy girl
Don't stand up
I feel strange
When you go
"I'm the rainbow, in your jail-cell" ~RHCP
Eddie Izzard:
"Yes, and the Crusades were, "We kill you in the name of Jesus!"
"Wait, we have Jesus too! He's a prophet in our religion! We kill you in the name of Jesus!"
"Do you? Well, we kill you for your dark skin, for Jesus was a white man from Oxford!"
"No, he wasn't! He was from Judea! Dark-skinned man, such as we!"
"Look, it's just we've come all this way. Would you mind awfully if we hacked you to bits? Just for the press back home."
My creation as described by my big brother in response to a LJ post in which I was asking people not to treat me as if I was made of glass after a break up:
Not made of glass? I'd sure hope not! I specifically remember building you from sugar, spice, many things which are nice (some glass, but not all. Mostly tempered high-grade steele and propane tourches), and barbed-fucking-wire. I didn't have none of those special gloves to handle the barbed wire, 'neither. You cannot imagine how hard it is to build a woman from sugar, spice, many nice things and barbed wire without those goddamned special gloves for handling said barbed wire!
Well, nearly 18 years, numerous 911 calls asking for an ambulance because I seem to have cut myself on this barbed wire again, countless ambulance rides due to said barbed wire cuts, hundreds of stitches (mostly due to barbed wire-related injuries - but a select few from burns and broken glass), and a few years left to sit on your own and brood/settle/cool off, I think we can finally assume that this Sofia is ready for the world. I seriously doubt that any guy could break, emotionally or physically, what you have become. I sure as hell know I probably couldn't without expending enough energy and such to let me count to infinity... twice. And we all know how lazy and ADHD I can get.
So, without further ado, I present to the world: Sofia! In all her quirky, loving, cuddling, mewing (and other random noises she makes), creative self. Remember kiddies, she won't bite unless provoked! And don't feed her after midnight. Bad things happen if you feed her after midnight. Things like... uh... I can't remember. But I know I put that in somewhere into the design. Oh well, just try it and see what happens. =^v^=
~Griffin
My best friend and I:
My parents (my mother and David-my ex-step-dad who is the father that rasied me) are wonderful, and I am blessed to have them.
My bio-dad loves me and I love him, though he is absent minded and rarely present in my life.
I have no blood siblings (other than the half-siblings my bio-dad fathered with his ex-wife before he was with my mother...I rarely if ever see them), and my extended family is mostly separated by distance. My closer friends are largely my family. Not in stead of the one I have been given, but in extention of. I love my friends and family very much.
I'm in college (LCC) but I would like to eventually transfer somewhere...my current college-crush is Evergreen State in Washington (west coast, not DC)...but I'm really not sure. I really don't know yet.
I'm starting the massage program in the Fall 07 semester. It's something I like doing and am relatively good at, though I don't know if I'd be able to do it really long term, seeing as I already have problems with my wrists and joint in general...but it'll be a good flexible-schedule thing to do that is a hell of a lot better than food service if I can make myself get through the program without loosing too much motivation.
I don't feel the same animosity with this city that many of my peers do. I don't really feel that burning drive to leave, though the economy and/or school may force my hand. My roots here run deep, but it would probably be good for me to leave someday in the next few years...if only to gain perspective and to experience the world beyond myself and my known world.
I like sci fi and fantasy stuff - a lot.
I love kittens. and cats, but especially kittens. I freak out when kittens are in close proximity to me. I plan on becoming a crazy old cat lady.
I love faeries, and have always felt an affinity with them. When I was little I believed in them hard core. I still kinda do...a little. I sort of miss the whole hearted belief in magic I had as a kid.
The animal that I relate with more or less best on a personality level is a squirrel.
I want a pet hedgehog!
I like vampires and lycans (were-animals), but feel less of an affinity with them and more of an interest. Though I've always wished my canines were sharper than they are...
I love movies, I can sit and watch nothing but movies or tv shows on dvd for longer periods of time than are good for me.
I'm not a big horror or pointless violence fan. There are exceptions, but often, I can't stomach it. And other times I can. It all depends on the tone of the movie and my mood and all that. But I prefer not to put that stuff in my head for no reason. There is enough horror and violence in the real world around us. Why make more?
I grew up without a televison in my home (though we've had one now for a few years). This probably enters into my difficulty with tv/movie violence.
I have had a habit of dying my hair a lot, people who know me are usually surprised when it isn't a strange color. This is changing some as I haven't really dyed my hair much in the last year.
I'm very silly and like to make bad puns. I do also have a morbid/sarcastic/facetious/inappropriate sense of humor. It's a pretty wide range, which is nice, because I laugh a lot.
I like the "goth/industrial" style but I don't really identify personally with the angry/sad culture of it. I tend to actually dress more comfortably on a regular basis, which puts me somewhere in the vicinity of hippy/indie chick, occasionally grunge or butch lesbian.
I've moved closer with a man I am very much in love with. Someone who respects me and who treats me like a partner and equal. Someone who stimulates my mind, stirs my heart, and encourages me on a daily basis to grow and flourish and be a stronger healthier person.
This sounds easy and good, but while it is wonderful and highly rewarding, it's hard work too. Being in this committed adult relationship requires me to look and myself and really work on being the best person I can be for myself. It also takes a lot of time and learning about him and how we can interact more effectively with each other as well as the rest of the world.
furthermore, in choosing to be part of his life, I have chosen to be part of his 8 year old daughter's life. She's a really smart great little kid. She also has a lot of big issues to deal with, which makes her difficult sometimes, but even if she didn't, she is still a tiny growing human being in need of love, attention and care. She is still learning about what it is to be a human being, and I want to be one of the people there to help teach her. She has had enough neglect and abandonment in her life and I have no intention of adding to that. Helping to care for her is not a responsibility I take on lightly.
"I'll be looking for you, Will, every moment, every single moment. And when we do find each other again, we'll cling together so tight that nothing and no one'll ever tear us apart. Every atom of me and every atom of you...
We'll live in birds and flowers and dragonflies and pine trees and in clouds and in those little specks of light you see floating in sun beams...And when they use our atoms to make new lives, they won't just be able to take one, they'll have to take two, one of you and one of me, we'll be joined so tight...." ~Lyra (from The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman)
"Time stands
still best
in moments
that look
suspiciously
like ordinary
life."
~Brian Andreas
From the movie MirrorMask:
~~~
"Helena: If I tell you something weird... will you think I'm crazy?
Valentine: Yes. I expect so."
~~~
"Valentine: You're hurt. Wait here.
Helena: What about you?
Valentine: Oh, I'm a panther. I shall slip unnoticed through the darkness... like a dark, unnoticeable slippy thing."
I'm not really looking to meet anyone. If I meet someone, so be it, but I'm not really looking. I am consentrating more on mantaining the relationships I've got.
Besides, I prefer to meet new people in the real world where I can see their faces and hear their voices in real time. The reality of standing next to someone is infinitly more satisfying than comunicating through a computer (or other piece of technology)
Anything At All~(Firewater)
Well if I was a satellite
I'd watch you when you sleep
And if I was an undertow
I'd drag you to the deep
And if I was a prison
I would hide you in my walls
And if I was an angel
I would catch you when you fall
It's such a cold day
Down here in hell
And it's a long way
Long way to heaven
But it's okay
'Cause we're singing with the angels
It's such a cold day
Down here in hell
And it's a long way
Up there to heaven
But it's okay
'Cause we're singing with the angels
And I will give you everything I have
If I had anything at all
And if I was a memory
I'd creep into your mind
And if I was a tourniquet
I'd never let you die
It's such a cold day
Down here in hell
And it's a long way
Up there to heaven
But it's okay
'Cause we're singing with the angels
And it's such a cold day
Down here in hell
And it's a long way
Up there to heaven
But it's okay
'Cause we're singing with the angels
And I would give you everything I had
If I had anything at all
Anything at all
It's such a cold day
Down here in hell
And it's a long way
Up there to heaven
But it's okay
'Cause we're singing with the angels
Anything at all
And it's such a cold day
Down here in hell
And it's a long way
Up there to heaven
But it's okay
'Cause we're singing with the angels
Anything at all
It's such a cold day
Down here in hell
And it's a long way
Up there to heaven
But it's okay
'Cause we're singing with the angels
Anything at all
If I was a hurricane
I'd blow your world apart
All over the world
Winners are cheating
Losers are weeping
Take anything at all
All over the world
Lovers are killing
Suckers are willing
Anything at all
Plants & Rags - PJ Harvey
plants and rags
ease myself into
a body bag plants and rags
ease myself into
a body bag
dreamt a man
he fed me fine food, he gave me shiny things I dreamt a man
he fed me fine food, he gave me shiny things
white and black
are you looking for the sun boy?
the sun doesn't shine down here no no no, white and black
are you looking for the sun boy?
the sun doesn't shine down here in the shadows
house and home
who thought they could take away that place?
outside, lead us out quietly
lead us outside, lead us out quietly house and home
who thought they could take away that place?
outside, lead us out quietly
lead us outside, lead us out quietly
"Can I count on you to be there, no matter what? she said & I said no & she said What kind of friend are you?
& I said the kind who won't lie to you any time you want
& I think she kept me around as a curiousity after that"
~Brian Andreas
"There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisedom, which if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness." ~Pearl S. Buck
Hey lady, your yogurt is still in my fridge and I am in Lansing for the rest of the summer. You should probably call me because I might need some Sofia in my life. And by might, I mean I do.
Sorry I didn't ealize who you were at first last night, I really though it was Hanna because it was so dark. Good seeing you though. I work at 3:30 in the morning, so I don't get tuesdays off that often, but maybe I'll see you there again.
My LJ
My GJ
