alectromantia with a fervor

i'm only interested in paradise

2005-08-29T07:50:57Z

ELENA AKA NELLIO......i'm in the process of planning out a letter to write you! did you happen to bring your blythe to school with you? cuz ima goin' knit her a dress if you did. and good luck plundering and pilaging, my pirate friend.

LESLEY STEWART CHAPMAN, FORMERLY OF THE GREAT CITY-STATE OF BERKELEY.....wanna come into Northampton to see Rasputina wiff me on September 30th??? the answer is obviously yes. yes you do. (and if you wanna make an evening of it, The Posies are playing later the same night).

I. CANDY CORN.....stripping suits you well. and here:

KRISTAN BROWN, HONORARY BROWNIE GIRL SCOUT.....i will call you this week sometime. i hope the seedy underbelly of Walla Walla hasn't yet claimed you as one of it's own. and send me some fucking onions. i do hope the balling of the volley is going well.

also.....if anyone knows how to prepare Kraft macaroni & cheese using only a Mr. Coffee machine, please get in touch with me.

entire chinese villages worn as a hat

2005-08-08T18:58:35Z

isabella blow is officially the neatest lady evar.

...frolicking about with alexander mcqueen

...with a certain sacred friend

...loves her some hats

in some equatorial countries, canaries are pink

2005-07-28T14:21:29Z

so i've decided "brittany" is the most ridiculous name for a child ever.

instead, my parents should have named me heathcoate. if ever i start my own cloathing line or make a baby, that's what imunna name it.

though he may spell his name a bit differently than i would mine, i think that master john heathcote would agree with me that it is a pretty happenin' name.

why here's the little tyke now...

and i think this one was in one of the reno high history books:

and i learned to crotch-ay yesterd-ay!!!

i've got a bike you can ride it if you like...

2005-07-22T11:13:32Z

ummm... so summer's going by swimmingly. i've gone completely nocturnal and haven't eaten anything healthy in weeks.

i found a pattern to knit owl cables that look like this:

so, precisely 188 hours and 5 minutes until i can buy porn and cigarettes.
legally anyway.

precisely (i think?) 40 days and 20 hours 'til i move to the other side of the country and attend the largest accredited gathering of indie kids/hippies/alternative lifestyle subscribers in the entire universe (aka hampshire). i get to live in a 10 x 12 box! hurrah!

i took to twidling fingers, twirlingly twidlingly often

2005-07-01T00:28:55Z

i just finished reading this:

pretty darn good'un that Rebecca . sidenote--nellio m'friend, have you read this? if not, you should should should. it's like Jane Eyre , but in the twenties.--

then i watched the moooooovie. it was really pretty and hitchcocky and overall i think it was cast pretty well, but i think erick von stroheim would have made a really cool frith.

now i'm reading this:

aka, more historical lesbian erotica. hooray! it's much more depressing than Tipping the Velvet but quite good.

exactically one month till i'm legal!

to know most certainly is enough..

2005-06-07T21:11:10Z

so, really quick---does anyone know when graduation rehersal is? is it tomorrow or thursday and what time do we have to be there and what do we hafta bring? i never got one of those mailed reminders because washoe county school district has a personal vendetta against me.

in other news:

i despise this manner of shirt and most of the people who would wear such a monstrosity:

and i also really hate...

the oc. true, i've never actually seen an episode, but the very premise upsets me in ways you can't even imagine.

teabags. looseleaf all the way!!!

the gummi bears. this show never entertained me at all when i was little. it is boring and trite and the voices are really scary.

things i don't hate...

auntie mame. awesome book. pretty movie. and mame is one neat lady besides.

ludo. he is big. he is furry. he is not very bright.

fillemot @ 2005-05-23T00:41:00

2005-05-23T07:47:04Z

hey---is anyone doing an extra-credit project for meschery's class who needs an extra group member? cuz i don't have a group and would totally love to be in someone's cuz i need so much extra credit in his class and yeah. that would be really cool if anyone would let me be in their group. i promise i'll work super hard and make you cookies.

this is a crappy clip-art rendering of me begging you to let me be in your extra credit group.

speaking forcefully from the i

2005-05-13T07:36:51Z

everyone ever in the entirety of the universe seems to knit/crochet now. which is cool since it's a great passtime and what-not, but it makes me feel like such a fucking trendy wannabe hipster kid. probably because everyone else's yarn endeavors are much more genuine and not necessarily from stitch n' bitch. whereas mine are ridiculous and obsessive and almost entirely from the aforementioned books.

it's the one on the left...but i'm using really flimsy greenish-blue yarn instead of grey because i am too broke and lazy to go buy the right stuff.

and i wanna make this next if i ever finish my other projects...and manage to graduate high school

i got my court hours done today...and all whom i went with but dear nellio were rather rude about talking in the court room and sighing loudly and cheching their watches and bitching indiscreetly about retterer. which really makes me mad because it just reinforces people's feelings that teenagers are all disrespectful and have poor manners. but at least i got my hours done with.

being for the benefit of miss kite...

2005-05-01T22:25:15Z

my name is brittany and i'm addicted to ebay. seriously, where else can you find sarah coventry owl brooches, blythe dollies, and the most fucking beautiful pair of men's wingtip shoes in the entire history of the universe in exactly my size? oh man. if i don't get those wingtips i'm going break even more perfectly good sunglasses in a fit of rage. my life will not be complete without them. i would post a picture, but i'm worried someone else will see them and outbid me. that's how fucking beautiful they are. these will be the longest six days ever.

does anyone know if we have anything due in english tomorrow except for that weird earplug check thing? not that i would do anything. it would just be nice to know what exactly i'm not doing.

on an entirely unrelated note:

zebra finches are my new second-favourite bird.

it just leads to monstrous scenes...bedlam on the mezanine

2005-04-11T22:31:43Z

so...there have been some nasty rumors going around that i haven't posted in forever and a day; so here you have it. a new post to rectify that situation.

this is why i don't post much anymore, because i'm so busy doing:

that's right bitches, playstation I all the way!

and i also play dollies.

and i knit like a fiend

and throw birthday parties for the elderly.

that is, when i'm not busy being a cowboy

or hanging out with friends.

i also take naps sometimes.

oh, and also...it was take your daughter to work day recently (exept not really), and my dollies wanted to show off their cool grown-up looks:

Eudora's mommy works at a bank, and Maureen's mommy works...at an undisclosed location on 4th street. Anyway, they had oodles of fun and both learnt some pretty rad tricks o' the trade.

ima goin' reel 'round the fountain

2005-04-04T01:00:53Z

i found this on the Hampshire library website, and it made me happy:

i kind of secretly wish i were a monk who worked on illuminated manuscripts all day.

other news:
i have converted nellio to the religion of blythe, i feel like meschery gives us a shitload of busywork though he is a really neat person in general, i think i wanna be a librarian if i grow up, and i think i'm going to start Tess of the D'Urbervilles tonight. Has anyone read it?

I'm in such a silent film mood tonight, so here:

this is from that cool paperdoll site (www.paperdolls.com i think?) that nellio linked to:

my favorite silent evar! "the wind"

it's lulu. and she's in hollywood

Colleen Moore, who now makes fairy castles(???)

Valentino...

marion davies is a hat person.

alla nazimova was one hip chick.

barthelmess has good looks to spare, and a pretty sweet pipe.

and, completely unrelated, but i want one of these:

in which i gloat and consider taking up sailing

2005-03-28T22:57:49Z

I GOT INTO HAMPSHIRE!!!!!!!!!!!
so yup, i'm in. now my parents don't think i'm such a complete and utter fuckhead of a daughter. the following people are very happy for me:

and i must say, i'm pretty stoked too.

i over-use ellipses...

2005-03-20T09:32:06Z

apparently, this is what google image search thinks of my name:

Brittany

lesley...is into "female masking" (???)

mario...loves him some poker!

kristan...proud owner of an italian greyhound

elena...the shamrock queen!!!

my new krautscout merit badge...

2005-03-15T00:08:22Z

so it's monday again. how did that happen? i'm feeling slightly illiterate today. therefore:

this is what i did this weekend (in reverse chronological order, no less):

i went for chinese food with daddy dearest and m. and then we all watched Six Feet Under, the most brilliant television show in the history of ever. i can't wait until we get to the episodes that have this fine specimen in them:

Captain N. and i played some GTA III, indiscriminately taking out cops and pedestrians. i even jacked a semi. And we played dollies and tetherball!!!

i hung out with m. and kristan at the playground. we swung and hung upside down until our faces were red. and we had ice cream!!!

i jammed with my ubercool Jefferson Starship coverband friends and also went playgrounding. we got vietnamese food and devised a handful of new slang terminology involving chopsticks and sporks. yes. we are that cool.

so that's that, friends.

'tis the dawning of the age of aquariums

2005-03-08T06:37:53Z

ummm, before i forget, does anyone like black licorice Jelly Bellys? Cuz i despise them and have like four sitting on my desk uneaten. let me know and i'll totally bring them to you and you can eat them and they will be happy and i will be eternally indebted to you. i just feel bad throwing away four perfectly good Jelly Bellys.

that said, my weeks continue to be blissful and sickeningly happy. i keep failing tests, getting parking tickets, and being a badass in general, but can't seem to shake feelings of okey-dokeyness despite all this. there are of course the everpresent gnawing bad thoughts at the back of my head, but we shall ignore them and tell them to go fuck themselves for the time being.

cheers ever'body!

i am bored and waiting for the laundry buzzer, thus.....update!

2005-03-01T23:52:25Z

so, despite completely fucking everything up as far as being responsible and doing well in school, this is how my week's been:

so there. i am actually really considering just not going to college now, as school is unbearble. but enough about that.

ing is fun.

are fun.

is not fun.

also, three cheers and an overzealous hug for certain individuals who make me breakfast bagel sandwiches and smell nice.

...and then kristan dragged me to that fucking hillary swank movie

2005-02-23T07:45:39Z

this is a rough estimate of how many lies i told today: 5. and 4/5th of them were parental lies! hooray! okay, and this is how many assignments/tests i got f's on today: 3. i am destined for beauty school if i don't get sent to military school before then.

but, on an entirely different note, my weekend fucking rocked. many thanks to those who made it possible, you know who you are you silly smokers and ninjas and kristans and mexican-bracelet-givers. i would also like to take this opportunity to thank the various presidents who have birthdays observed yesterday, as not having to show up at school is always a treat.

and, to top things off, look what came in the mails today:

oh patty, how i love thee and thy folktronica. and it has a nico cover on the b side!!!

i prefer coke to pepsi anyday

2005-02-18T17:53:12Z

so, i kinda freaked out and cried a lot yesterday for no apparent reason. hence, the reason i looked like shit most of the day. but i stayed home from school today to recooperate. oh, how i adore being an angsty teenager.

i decided to get rid of the odious howard and instead, adopt a newer, friendlier doggie, who won't attack people. see here:

also,
der himmel über berlin (wings of desire)

it's incredible. you should really see it.

i'm no longer the quiet one.

2005-02-14T06:55:14Z

so. this weekend was good. i did lots of eating and lots of cuddling and lots of movie watching. i started writing a really shitty erotic prose poem, likely out of the anticipation of another sexually frustrated Valentines day and took a couple long naps. also:

my favorite sunglasses evar!

and now...motion blur!!!

i'm a sexy beast, no?

oh, but i'm a fragile little thing!

2005-02-08T22:24:40Z

so, i was being a total loser today and decided not to go to school because i fainted this morning and was really dizzy on the drive there. i sat in the parking lot for like fifteen minutes blaring weird german film music debating whether or not to go to class. god, i'm such a weakling. but worry not, my friends, for i shall be back tomorrow in high spirits!

i dreamt i had a pet mouse named marmaduke. he was white and told me i should change my name, move to buenos aires, and become a flamenco dancer. so i'm pretty sure that marmaduke=the voice of god telling me what my true calling is. so dont be surprized if this is me in a few years:

additionally, i'll be in need of a suitable latin lover, so if you know of any sexy argentinian men, let me know.

of all the stars in the sky, mary beth, you shine brightest...

2005-02-07T10:29:54Z

so it's fucking ten 'til two and i'm fucking still awake. fuck fuck fuck. profanity is so my best friend. and cuddling. if i could just curse all day and cuddle all night i would be a happy lass indeed.

movie update time: i watched and adored Seven Samurai, even though it started out kinda slow. then, kristan dragged me to Million Dollar Baby yesterday. Very good, but Clint Eastwood irritates me and it was so unbelievably sad. then, i watched Morvern Callar. Ratcatcher was ten times better, but Samantha Morton is so neato that i liked it anyway (even if there was no discernable point to it). Then i saw The Magdalene Sisters. Even more depressingness, but interesting and pretty good acting. Then, Run Lola Run, which i feel really guilty about not having seen before. Though one runs the risk of having seizures whilst watching it, it's pretty filthy and Franka Potente is quite hot. definitely recommended. gah. i need to get a life and stop living vicariously through motion pictures. who calles them motion pictures anyway? they're fucking "movies" you pretentious loser.

okay, so this is just a weird idea, but for every letter of my name, i'm doing
b-BAGPIPE

r-REPTAR

i-IGLOO

t-TUPPERWARE

t-TROGLODYTE

a-AVIATRIX

n-NARWHAL!

y-YURTLE

the wombles of wimbledon coming are we!

2005-02-01T17:54:41Z

okay, so i'm bored and was being too much of a fat kid yesterday to feel justified in accompanying manic_octopus and friends to breakfast this fine morning.

but look what i found at the river a while ago hanging from a tree:

strange no? i think it puts the blair witch to shame, personally.

damn i'm getting good at using this newfangled html shit. a self congratulatory pat on the back for me.

and what of the wheedling ripe fulcrums?

2005-01-31T08:53:49Z

so literally all i did today was sleep. adorable franny and i stayed up talking really late after my tea party, so i guess i was partly justified in not arising 'till near 5 p.m. then i watched the bbc adaptation of pride and prejudice. quite good, but a bit long (as in five hours). and look!,

i wish dodo birds weren't extinct.

2005-01-28T08:56:35Z

i am posting yet again this evening, because i have nothing better to do (studying included).

ebay is my mecca. here is stuff that i want:

an owl brooch!

like this lovely minty dress

or this happy happy sweatshirt

and this coat

and, finally, i would stab someone for this

hooray for updating every five seconds rather than studying!

2005-01-28T06:41:02Z

so yeah. still haven't studied. i'm playing with my dolly instead. she was like "it's high time i go out and see the world. i'll ride the rails and sleep under the stars."

and i was like, "um...maureen, sweetie, you're twelve inches tall and don't have moveable leg joints. just how do you propose to do this?"

and then she giggled maniacally and i feared for my life.

everyone thinks she's creepy looking, but she is my friend and i'll have no one defame little maureen. blythe dolls=love.

i shall now procrastinate further by knitting.