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Ariel

I've grown up in Texas, but I'm hoping to get out and see a bit more of what the world has to offer someday. I love to read but don't often get time to read for pleasure. (This class thing really gets in the way of my college life, you know?) I enjoy music, writing, theatre, movies, art, things related to psychology, and chatting over a cup...more »
  • Abilene, TX, USA
  • member since Sunday, March 30 2008

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  • akram s

    akram s says

    hi m how are you ? do you like to be friend ?

    posted 1 month ago. ( send a note )
  • CJ C

    CJ C says

    hey, i love Earthsea! good series ;)

    posted 4 months ago. ( send a note )
  • sajo k

    sajo k says

    hi u are very nice

    posted 4 months ago. ( send a note )
  • jon h

    jon h says

    hello

    posted 4 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Emily C

    Emily C says

    Hey! Not a bad reading list yourself! Thanks for listing so many of my childhood favorites - I haven't remembered to add them yet, so you jogged my memory a bit.

    posted 4 months ago. ( send a note )
  • CJ C

    CJ C says

    i knew that didn't get through. urg.

    i gave you my MYSPACE: http://www.myspace.com/dharmapops26

    and AIM: imladris1981

    i actually asked you the same thing before, but i don't think that message got through either. so, anyway, hope to talk soon :)

    posted 4 months ago. ( send a note )
  • CJ C

    CJ C says

    *whew* i'm in the clear then. lol

    hey, did you get my other message? my browser froze when i sent it. (urrrrg...technology! heh)

    posted 4 months ago. ( send a note )
  • CJ C

    CJ C says

    Whoa, whoa! i didn't say i disliked him; i merely stated that he wasn't my favorite. I do love his poetry, it's almost un-American not to. but my favorite poet is Walt Whitman (with Dylan Thomas a close second.) but i love Billy Collins' work.

    so that said, i totally agree with what you said about those stanzas. there's such an exquisiteness to the softness of the language. at the risk of sounding too melodramatic, his words are like an angel's tears.

    posted 4 months ago. ( send a note )
  • CJ C

    CJ C says

    omg, yes! although i will admit he's not my favorite poet, but i love The Art of Drowning. his words just feel warm and comfortable on your tongue. i love his poem Osso Bucco:

    I love the sound of the bone against the plate
    and the fortress-like look of it
    lying before me in a moat of risotto,
    the meat soft as the leg of an angel
    who has lived a purely airborne existence."

    i mean, c'mon. that's beautiful! and yeah, when i him at Caz Library, it wasn't planned or anything. he was just there doing a reading. i was with a friend and she didn't know who he was. i was like, dude, that's Billy Collins! it was pretty surreal. lol

    posted 4 months ago. ( send a note )
  • CJ C

    CJ C says

    still, very cool :)

    posted 4 months ago. ( send a note )
  • CJ C

    CJ C says

    omg, that's hilarious! lol....i could just imagine that. how awesome. sounds like something i would do.

    posted 4 months ago. ( send a note )
  • CJ C

    CJ C says

    yeah, i might try em out. a little humor is always a good thing.

    posted 5 months ago. ( send a note )
  • CJ C

    CJ C says

    Oh, yeah. EH is my greatest influence and hero; next to Bob Dylan. lol

    posted 5 months ago. ( send a note )
  • CJ C

    CJ C says

    I see you like Billy Collins. I met him once, when I lived in South Buffalo, up in New York. He was doing a reading at Cazenovia Park. He was really cool.

    posted 5 months ago. ( send a note )
  • CJ C

    CJ C says

    Hey, I've always wondered about the Pratchett books. I'm assuming they're a good read.

    posted 5 months ago. ( send a note )


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