September 16, 2005

Seven Things

7 things I plan to do before I die:
1) Beat Matthew at Knuckles: once while drunk, once while sober.
2) Loft space, studio space.
3) Publish a short story collection I am mostly satisfied with.
4) Get my MFA.
5) Start a movement.
6) Work for a lit-mag, for pay.
7) Teach writing, officially.


7 things I can do:
1) Convince the bouncer to let five people into the club by presenting him with pennies, a guitar pick, and a lighter.
2) Read between the lines.
3) Inadvertently come up with witty, and entirely too cryptic sayings. (I.e.: is that an acronym, or are you just ghetto?”)
4) Describe what it’s like/was like..
5) Most motherfuckers.
6) Dirty dance low-down.
7) Kiss you until you faint.

7 things I cannot do:
1) Turn my life into a master bedroom.
2) Stop being so manic.
3) Write a plot-based story.
4) Not tell you what I think.
5) Stop writing.
6) Take birth control pills.
7) Have children.

7 things that attract me to others:
1) Elitisms.
2) Integrity, Unity, & Groove.
3) Openness. Humility.
4) Living on the edge, fringe.
5) Cynicism & tight pants.
6) Uncontrolled idealism.
7) Grace and Poise (at all times).

7 things that I say most often:
1) Moreover
2) I’m not drunk yet/I think I drank too much/I can't pee in front of you.
3) Daddy, can we go to the park? Can we go to the park again?
4) Hot.
5) Here’s the thing, . . . .
6) I’m having an existential crisis.
7) That’s so Atwoodian.

7 celebrity crushes:
1) Margaret Atwood.
2) Claire Danes.
3) Bianca and Sierra Casady (cocorosie)
4) Raymond Carver
5) Jack White
6) Jim Carroll
7) Leonard Cohen

7 people I want to do this:

Seriously? Everyone I know that hasn’t yet. or: I don't give a shit, but it would be nice(x7)

Posted by caroline at September 16, 2005 3:07 PM