Making art, drinking wine, (frequently at the same time), books, records, vintage clothing, the public library, cooking extra-spicy fabulous food, collaging, 60's cookbooks, kitchens, pictures of chicken legs and milk cartons and other interesting food from the ground, art parties, my houseplants, plants in general, especially succulents and cacti, vegetable and herb gardens, knitting, crocheting, quilting and embroidery, travel, motels, road trips, drums, hanging out in my yard, and bringing glue and my sketchbook to bars so I can collage in a social setting.
Music
MAGNETIC FIELDS & SILVER JEWS. I love the Silver Jews and the Magnetic Fields more than absolutely anything, except maybe Jenny Lewis, it's becoming a sort of dangerous obsession. In a non-obsessive way, Pavement, Sebadoh, David Bowie, Outkast, Nas, Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks, Dresden Dolls, The White Stripes, The Pixies, Ani Difranco, The Gossip, Bjork, Peggy Lee, Jenny Lewis, The Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Cat Power, Billie Holiday, Nina Simone, John Lennon, Ethel Merman, Johnny Cash, The Magnetic Fields, Franz Ferdinand, Rilo Kiley, Judy Garland, Kanye West, Quintron &; Miss Pussycat, Jay-Z, Chicks on Speed, Dr. Dre, Lil Kim, Missy Elliott, Sleater-Kinney, The Cure, The Pet Shop Boys, Le Tigre, PJ Harvey, Tom Waits, Talking Heads, Belle &; Sebastian, The Smiths, Lil Wayne, Liars, Animal Collective, Wilco, Sigur Rós, Bollywood soundtracks, probably a lot more...
Movies
Crybaby, and in general John Waters is good for my heart, as are David Lynch and Jim Jarmusch, 8 Women, Stranger Than Paradise, The House of Yes, Dancer in the Dark, All About My Mother, Nashville, A Streetcar Named Desire, Suddenly Last Summer, Butterfield 8, Down By Law, The Swimmer, Mystery Train, Wild At Heart, Sleeper, Breakfast at Tiffanys, all things Bollywood
Television
The Wire!!! and I love Top Chef and all other reality/food shows that enable my fantasy of being a chef, also I love Rachael Ray and Paula Deen and essentially the food network is my wet dream. And I love Deadliest Catch. And Project Runway, especially this current season. I have this unfortunate problem where I like Rock of Love 2 so much I have added it to the tivo. Isn't that sad? I also really enjoy, especially on dvd, Six Feet Under, Big Love, Twin Peaks, Queer As Folk, The L Word, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, The Simpsons, The Sopranos, and Sex in the City.
Books
anything by Iris Murdoch, Zadie Smith, Kate Atkinson, Michelle Tea, Haruki Murakami, A.S. Byatt, James Baldwin, Hanif Kureishi...plus I love a good memoir, and I am very fond of food writing.
About me: http://bizzzcuit.blogspot.com/
I love: tigers (especially classic rock ones) and ten cent coffee on rte 146 at 2am and wine and ralph lauren cotton sheets in lime green or melon and vintage 60's print pillow cases and reading and any and all visual imagery and very hot peppers and new england weather and vintage cookbooks and finding a magnetic fields song to fit my every mood and situation and new bedford memorabilia (a dead whale or a stove boat, ali) and all my geranium plants and painting and noodles and the ocean and dive bars and savers and costume jewelery and amusement parks and flea markets and ghetto mama earrings and random hook-ups and pushing my own boundaries and diners at dawn and dancing and hardcore rap music and indian food and my old block in new orleans and finding ceramic animals at yard sales and road trips and struggling post-industrial american cities and artwork that creates something better than the reality it is attempting to imitate and being alternately very social and sometimes just wanting to sit in my room and drink wine and collage and cowboy boots and clothing in hot pink and orange and lime green and making mix cds and kissing and knitting leg warmers and people who are funny and parties with themes and vintage sweaters and glitter and hummus and gardening and cooking and my friends and treating my plants like people and piles of quilts and down comforters and loud makeup and tattoos and dressing slutty and being outrageous and being quiet and lying in the sun reading books and drinking coffee.
Sometimes I just listen to too much Nina Simone and sit in my room and am overwhelmed. Sometimes I get up to a lot of drunken nonsense. Sometimes I make brilliant art work and sometimes I can't even bring myself to clean my house or eat reasonable meals. Sometimes I throw fantastic parties and am a incredible cook and witty conversationalist. I like books and words and pictures. I like unexpected things to happen. I can be sad or very very happy from minute to minute. I have a lot of energy but sometimes I want to stay in my bed all day and be snuggly. I am very shy, but I have no boundaries either, and sometimes I confuse people. Plus I'm an amazing Night Street Table Tennis player. Believe that. Because the point is NOT to hit the ball people!!! The point is to RUN AFTER IT!!!
Also, see my art at http://www.lizmdiamond.com/index.html
Who I'd like to meet: fellow artists or just people who generally enjoy a good drunken evening of crazy talking...people who want to come to my art nights...or be on my Night Street Table Tennis Team. Cook, gardeners, travelers, and craftspeople.
i just found a four page letter i wrote you in March and never mailed...it kind of wasn't about anything except what it felt like to write by hand for that long, and the color of the ink, and where the pen had come from...haha! ridiculous. but it's been so long i'll just work on a new one where i actually say stuff that's interesting to read. peace and love jessmaya
remember when you said you'd dance with me on friday night at the bishop's lounge amity front show. that makes me happy. i hope you are still up for it. you're the best one way or another.
yesterday morning i awoke as i was dreaming of reading a letter from you that you felt that i was one of your oldest and dearest friends and for that reason you were inviting me to come to Iran to visit your family who was from there... except they're not! and then my housemate was screeching "gringa, gringa, gringa!" in this annoying way she has of repetitively screeching a word out loud. but all of it was a dream. and really, it was just time to get up and go to work...(sigh)
Britney Spears has agreed to hand the parenting reins over to Kevin Federline.
K-Fed's longtime attorney, Mark Vincent Kaplan, exclusively tells E! News the divorced duo have reached a settlement in their long-gestating custody case.
According to the agreement signed by all parties, Federline gets sole legal and physical custody of sons Sean Preston and Jayden James and Spears will have visitation rights.
"The case has been settled," Kaplan said. "The court still has to approve it. " Both parties are due in court Friday morning.
The case had been set to go to trial next month but all had been hoping to settle up beforehand.
"As of this evening there is a fully executed deal memo...All the issues that would have been addressed at trial have been settled," Kaplan told E! News. "Can't speak to the exact terms of the deal, [but the] orders in place...will stay in place."
Although this is theoretically good news for Federline, Kaplan maintains it isn't exactly what his client had in mind.
"Kevins was not [out] to get custody. Kevin's goal was to set up some kind of template so the mother of his children can coparent," Kaplan said.
"He said, 'I need to have Britney to be involved in the coparenting of the kids, but I need there to be a structure.' "
But this is the structure he got, and "Kevin is absolutely delighted," Kaplan continued.
"Nobody could have anticipated the terms of events that have occurred...This was a two-year journey that will be halted at a point that is good for these children. Custody is always modifiable. If there is a final order, it means there is nothing to try."
Spears has been enjoying monitored visits with her boys since late February after temporarily losing any on-hand-mommying privileges following a str
YES I DO. and it's 1 full hour. you could come to brooklyn. and we could get lunch and dine under my favorite tree in the park up the street from my house. oh yeah and my house is 1 block from my job...call me when you get here. YEAH!!!
Liz, you mean so so so much to me. Thank you for being you, i love that about you. When i get back from vacation let's have dinner then put a blanket in your backyard and watch dusk happen. k?
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