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HighwayInTheRain
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[2008-02-16 21:10:13 +0000 UTC]
"a perfect day for bananafish"
(United States)
# Statistics
Favourites: 145; Deviations: 146; Watchers: 3
Watching: 20; Pageviews: 5575; Comments Made: 389; Friends: 20
# Interests
Favorite visual artist: Hopper, van Gogh, Degas, Chagall, Vermeer, the list goes onFavorite movies: AmΓ©lie, Persepolis, Everything Is Illuminated, Forrest Gump, Les Choristes, etc.
Favorite bands / musical artists: The Decemberists, Regina Spektor, Yann Tiersen, Arcade Fire, Said the Whale +more
Favorite writers: Sylvia Plath, Jonathan S. Foer, Fitzgerald, Vonnegut, Salinger, Nicole Krauss, Shakespeare
Other Interests: Dancing, stumbling upon things, playing pretend, convulsing with beauty
# About me
The day is sun-sodden, held in a clench of heat,a sump of air. Oak canopies flicker,
high overhead. A summer broth. A perfume
of green. If I'm there I'm crouching pondside,
brushing my arms of mosquitoes
and fingering the loam.
The bullfrog keeps its silence. It feels, I think,
the sky's blue-green weight.
I think we both do, the two of us, squatting there, struck dumb
by a sense of a day piled high, too high, sun-flooded,
pressing us to the earth. The bullfrog
shrinks into its puddle, two eyes in the scum,
nothing more, and across those eyes
the whole world bends, wired to a morsel
of fleshy mind, a speck of thought, a little soul-crumb.
I rise, long-nailed and lonesome,
like a soldier watching for any distant shape of Rome.
-- David Troupes
Current Residence: Tucson, AZ
deviantWEAR sizing preference: Small
Favourite genre of music: Anything that sounds good
Favourite photographer: Robert Frank, Robert Doisneau, Sally Mann, Francesca Woodman, Jen Gotch
Favourite style of art: All
Operating System: Brain
MP3 player of choice: iPod Nano 3G
Wallpaper of choice: Paint
Skin of choice: Mine
Personal Quote: Talk nerdy to me, baby!
# Comments
Comments: 97
*chuckles* I should probably rephrase that to be a bit more specific... But, oddly enough, yes to all of them! *As to the physics, one doesn't need to understand it in order to like it, so ha!*
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Oh, wow, you're officially awesome. 
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Nah, awesome would be thanking you in Haiku:
Thanks for the comment
My friend, HighwayInTheRain
Or is it 'Sheila'?
>_> That was a lot less creepy-sounding in my mind. ^_^;;
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Nahh, I literally laughed out loud at that one.
Thanks much, woke lolz - but
Your name eats the whole last line
PJF3K
No worries, I'm a practiced creeper myself.
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Thank you! (Cool emoticons too.)
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You're welcome. 
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No, not particularly. I only got one thing I wanted; even though one friend said she'd get me film and another friend said she'd bring me cookies, neither did. Plus me and my mom ended up having a fight that night. There was nothing to do but move on, though. Thank you for asking. How were your holidays? Sorry I've never on anymore. There's really no excuse.
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Aw, I hope you're feeling better about it. You're 17, right? 
That's okay. Have you been okay?
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Eh, you get over everything in time. Yes, I am, and still not even a permit! It's outright degrading. There are freshmen who can drive, yet not me. Oh yeah, miserable-birthday buddies - high five! I'm sorry it didn't go well, but I'm glad things got better.
My holidays were more eventful than usual, but not really better. There were highs and lows, and they cancelled each other out, but the most important thing in the end is that it was eventful.
I don't know. You?
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Hahaha, I had to renew my license and the line was horrifyingly long. My past birthday was very nice though.
Aw, none of that sounds too happy. I hope things are better and more exciting for you now.
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Yes, I am trying to create more adventures within my life and appreciate small beautiful things. School is rather bleh though. And I'm nervous for our dance show.
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Whoa, believe me, once you appreciate small beautiful things, you notice them everywhere and become so much more grateful for every moment and detail in life. It's amazing.
Ooh, how did that go? Or has it not yet happened?
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No, not yet. I saw another dance show last night, put on by my school's premier class. It made me cry and also laugh.
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I know it's probably not worth saying so, but I'm so excited because I've reached past 950 things on my list. I didn't even think I'd pass 300.
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Which list? Congrats! (PS. I think it's kind of awesome you wrote this on April 8th, for no other reason than that it's the name of a song by Neutral Milk Hotel and seeing it made me happy. Oh boy; me.)
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Goofy.
Haha, thank you! My list of things I like/make me happy.
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Hello again. I came across this photographer and thought you might like her gallery. 
There was someone else too. I came across their gallery twice and thought of you, but I don't remember who it was.
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[link]
I think that might've been who it was.
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ASDFAJSDFASKJDASD how did these comments ever escape my notice/message page? That is AMAAZINGGG. I died. I totally died. I am typing this from the dimension of the deadies. Seriously, I owe you one for showing that to me. ASKSDFSDF 
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You mighhttt like some of the photos here too. [link]
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Good God, that's amazing. You are so legit at sniffing out beautiful things.
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Haha, I'm glad you like it.
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I appreciate the support - thanks for the faves.
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PS. sorry if this gets sent twice. dA's a bit weird right now for me.
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Really? I always thought it as a place to post stuff. But then again, that's probably just me. It's annoying when people make an account just to talk to others with no intention of posting stuff. I mean, isn't that what Facebook/Myspace is for? (And by people, that doesn't include you, because you did post stuff.)
Wow, I just used the phrase "post stuff" three times in that paragraph. I sound smart. Hahaha. I know what you mean about impressions/image though. It was so obvious a lot of people were trying to impress others with their 'uniqueness'. In my opinion they're not much better than girls who wear tiny shirts and thrust their boobs in not just guys' faces, but everyone's faces -- to make the guys want them and the girls jealous. Some people are just gonna kill the value of uniqueness.
I'm sorry. You probably weren't expecting a full-on rant.
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Nahh, you're not, no worries.
But that's kind of sad, how Mibba never really worked out for you. :/
Haha, I didn't notice that either. "so" is a pretty common word.
Yeah, true. I feel like so many people are trying to mold themself into something. Like they're desperate for an identity that isn't necessarily really their own. Maybe they're just insecure..
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I know exactly what you mean. For example, I hate elitists but I too often feel myself acting like one. Like I'll see someone reading Twilight and be like, Lawl Twilight, when I've read the entire series (although that was when I still mostly liked it). Or I'd be like, Oh lawl someone who likes Justin Bieber (or insert generic Top 40 artist of your choice), and then I'll be like, Oh man, I'm such an elitist, arghh. 
And me too. I don't like how on those personality tests they're like, Choose what best describes you, and then like three different ones all best describe you. Or when you get your result it's like, Yeah I guess that's me, but then you look at the other results, it's, Hey this could be me too, or this. Nurr.
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I know exactly what you mean! I guess it's too easy to get caught up in things like taste in music or taste in fashion or books or pretty much anything, and disregard the other things that make up a person. I'm guilty of that myself. I wish I wasn't so much.
No, it's okay. I think we've known each other for a pretty good time. I think you're great as a person! You're so nice, and you're genuinely interested in others, and you're open-minded, and smart, and considerate. Plus, you're very artistic. You only doubt and underestimate yourself sometimes. And that is what I think of you.
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Aw, I think you're nicer! 
I don't like it when it's about a person. Like, people who are just kind of bashing others, and it'll start with one reason they don't like the person, and then they'll start looking for reasons to hate and make fun of the person. Like, maybe someone'll start the convo with, "Oh, so-and-so is so obnoxious! I hate him/her!" And then people will bring up kind of random things like how they dress or their looks just so they have more reasons to hate them. I really hope that made sense. Everybody seems to do that, and it just kind of bothers me.
But if it's about other things, I guess you need to vent sometimes. Like styrofoam things, or Trig tests, or how ineffectual people who work at TUSD are. But even that can get out of hand. Like, there were people on Mibba a while back who were forming an Anti-Twilight Club, which I honestly thought was kind of childish, even though I'm sick of Twilight myself. Think about it. Twilight clubs get together and talk about why they like Twilight. Anti-Twilight Clubs talk about why they hate it. Why would you form a club to make yourself more hateful? It makes me angry because the people in it seemed really nice and mature, too.
That's really good. You should feel accomplished.
I'm okay. My week was overall disappointing, but there were a few bright points. You probably already know, but J.D. Salinger died, and that made me sad.
How are you?
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