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switchblade... and the glass handed kites
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switchblade... and the glass handed kites's Interests
General
coffee, mugs.
Music
lately, way into the following-
J. Tillman
Bon Iver
Colour Revolt (still)
Brand New
Iron & Wine
Annuals
Menomena
As Cities Burn
Spoon
Say Hi
Tigers in the Backseat
still best band ever.
this stuff makes me me.
MEW
Engine Down
Bjork
Hum
The Colour Revolt
Jeff Buckley
Jeremy Enigk
mewithoutYou
Owen
Wax On Radio
Denali
Jimmy Eat World
Chris Staples
Pedro The Lion
The Meteah Strike
Sunny Day Real Estate
Minus The Bear
Monday's Hero
Refused
Jollie Holland
old Smashing Pumpkins
new As Cities Burn
everything else.
Ammi
Anathallo
Botch
Braille
Braid
Bright Eyes
The Casket Lottery
Colossal
Cursive
Deathcab
Deftones
Discover America
Dj Abacus
Dr Manhattan
El Oso
Esthero
Hanalei
The Jealous Sound
The Life & Times
Loved In Minesotta
The Moment
Of The Opera
The Police
The Progress
The Response
The Silent Press
Shiner
Small Brown Bike
Thin Cities
Twothirtyeight
U2
Vellum
Venna
Movies
Batman Begins
High Fidelity
Edward Scissorhands
Amelie
The Big Lebowski
Dr. Strangelove
The Life Aquatic
Dogma
The Pirates Of The Caribbean
American Beauty
The Lord Of The Rings trilogy
The Royal Tenenbaums
The Lion The Witch & The Wardrobe
Office Space
Lost In Translation
Unbreakable
Blue Planet
The Corporation
Harry Potters
Television
we don't have tv here, but i do manage to keep up with The Office and LOST online.
Books
i just finished reading Cat's Cradle. I love Vonnegut.
Here are some of my all time favorites-
Breakfast Of Champions
Atlas Shrugged
The Chronicles of Narnia (oddly enough i've actually read and re-read all of these multiple times)
...and i still read Batman graphic novels as well, my favorites being The Dark Night Returns and A Long Halloween. yup.
Heroes
def, batman, dad, joelly, jeff buckley, bjork, kyle johns, the ninja turtles
switchblade... and the glass handed kites's Blurbs
About me: still in love, whether she likes it or not.
i could do more.
1. No soda in cans (which means we’re probably less likely to get cancer from aspartame).
2. No water in plastic bottles (which means we get to keep our endocrines undisrupted).
3. No coffee in disposable cups (which means we don’t suffer from the morning sluggishness that comes from overnight caffeine withdrawal).
4. No throwaway plastic razors and blade cartridges (I’m staging the straightedge razor comeback).
5. Using non-disposable feminine-hygiene products that aren’t bad for women and are good for the planet.
6. No Indian food in throwaway takeout tubs.
7. No Italian food in plastic throwaway tubs.
8. No Chinese food in plastic throwaway tubs.
9. Taking our own reusable containers to takeout joints (except that now we’re eating local so this tip is out for us).
10. Admitting that we sometimes miss Indian, Italian and Chinese takeout.
11. Hopping on the scale and celebrating the loss of my 20-pound spare tire since I stopped eating bucketsful of Indian, Italian and Chinese takeout.
12. Buying milk in returnable, reusable glass bottles.
13. Shopping for honey and pickled veggies and other goods in jars only from merchants who will take back the jars and reuse them.
14. Returning egg and berry cartons to the vendors at the farmers’ market for reuse.
15. Using neither paper nor plastic bags and bringing our own reusable bags when grocery shopping.
16. Canceling our magazine and newspaper subscriptions and reading online.
17. Putting an end to the junk mail tree killing.
18. Carrying my ultra-cool reusable cup and water bottle (which is a glass jar I diverted from the landfill and got for free).
19. Carrying reusable cloths for everything from blowing my nose to drying my hands to wrapping up a purchased bagel.
20. Wiping my hands on my pants instead of using a paper towel when I forget my cloth.
21. Politely asking restaurant servers to take away paper and plastic napkins, placemats, straws, cups and single-serving containers.
22. Explaining to servers with a big smile that I am on a make-no-garbage kick.
23. Leaving servers a big tip for dealing with my obsessive-compulsive, make-no-garbage nonsense, since they can’t take the big smile to the bank.
24. Pretending McDonalds and Burger King and all their paper and plastic wrappers just don’t exist.
25. Buying no candy bars, gum, lollypops or ice cream (not even Ben and Jerry’s peanut butter cup) that is individually packaged.
26. Making my own household cleaners to avoid all the throwaway plastic bottles.
27. Using baking soda from a recyclable container to brush my teeth.
28. Using baking soda for a deodorant to avoid the plastic containers that deodorant typically comes in (cheap and works well).
29. Using baking soda for shampoo to avoid plastic shampoo bottles.
30. Using the plastic bags that other people’s newspapers are delivered in to pick up Frankie the dog’s poop.
31. Keeping a worm bin to compost our food scraps into nourishment that can be returned to the earth instead of toxins that seep from the landfills.
32. Switching to real—meaning cloth—diapers which Isabella, before she was potty-trained, liked much better.
33. Not buying anything disposable.
34. Not buying anything in packaging (and count the money we save because that means pretty much buy nothing unless it’s second hand).
35. Shopping for food only from the bulk bins and from the local farmer’s market where food is unpackaged and fresh.
36. Forgetting about prepackaged, processed food of any description.
37. Being happy that the result is that we get to eat food instead of chemicals.
38. Giving our second-hand clothes away to Housing Works or other charities.
39. Offering products we no longer need on Freecycle instead of throwing them away.
40. Collecting used paper from other people's trash and using the other side.
41. Using old clothes for rags around the apartment instead of paper towels.
42. Talking with humor about what we’re doing because making a little less trash is a concrete first step everyone can take that leads to more and more environmental consciousness.
Who I'd like to meet: i think i'm going to start a band with kyle johns, dustin henry, and matt jordan.
my son micah wrote a song. it goes like this:
the moon goes where i go.
the moon goes where i go.
the moon goes where i go.
and sometimes it follows me.
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Let me just say i slapped a random stranger for saying the dark night ride was bad at six flags. It was life changing but not like the movie will be. I love you
Oh boy...we have the thing done...we're just broke. We are planning to have it pressed by Byronfest. Glad you are interested though! We do greatly appreciate it.
