traceyourname Female • 20 • Salt Lake City, UT  • United States
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Status... Taken
Orientation... No Comment
I'm into... Writing Painting Activism Love Mind
I'm working on... a book. it's a memoir, mostly. chapters and poems all thrown between two covers.
My sites... http://www.myspace.com/thetifffff
My Profiles...
http://www.xanga.com/remembertherage
http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/973868
http://trace-yr-name.blogspot.com/

we mark ourselves with pen and ink


ps, feel free to comment on anything and everything. tell me it blows. tell me you loved it. just something so i know you're reading (:

About me

many parts of my life are over, some are just beginning. i'm okay with that. i paint sometimes, but usually just with words. i'm living out of a suitcase and feeling like my life is a movie. i stare out of windows a lot and i miss the ocean more than i ever thought i would. i like connecting with people. i really enjoy a good hand holding. driving around or wandering aimlessly at night is one of my favourite past-times. i like thermals, but i don't like capital letters. i also hate socks. i'm indecisive and intense and analytical. mostly, i am quite strange. i trust only myself and even that's sometimes shakey. i'm learning. i think human interaction is an odd concept, since there are so many variables. it's intriguing. i like talking to people and finding out the stories behind them.

Interests

books

,MICHELLE TEA,eileen myles,ali liebegott,everyone who's ever been on the sister spit! tour,chuck palahniuk,arundhati roy,miranda july,alice sebold,david sedaris,bukowski,kerouac,hunter s. thompson,ginsberg,simone de beauvoir,nietzsche,alison smith,alice walker,virginia woolf,sylvia plath...le petit prince will change your life.,

music

,ani d.,tegan and sara,regina spektor,kate nash,northern state,kimya dawson,le tigre,MIA,bjork,tori amos,sara bareilles,rilo kiley,saves the day,fighting over shotgun,gregory and the hawk,girl in a coma,mates of state,metric,the weepies...i'll listen to everything.,

movies

,ZEITGEIST,WAKING LIFE,girl interrupted,pulp fiction,natural born killers,the darjeeling limited,requiem for a dream,little miss sunshine,garden state,i heart huckabees,superbad,lars and the real girl,blow,fear and loathing in las vegas,hook,eternal sunshine of a spotless mind,amelie,boys don't cry,gia,ice age and the emperor's new groove,me and you and everyone we know,being john malkovich,hotel rwanda,borat,bent,but i'm a cheerleader,donnie darko,wristcutters...,

TV

,KILL YR TV.

i like art instead...
-jean-michel basquiat
-kurt halsey fredricksen
-cristy c. road
-cathy nichols
-aaron kraten
-gustav klimt
-jim houser
-jennifer m. lee
-frida kahlo
-dan perjovschi
-ian francis
-jen wang
-banksy
-henri matisse
-paul gaugin

take me to museums.,

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May 05, 2008 - 06:54 PM PST
Cris
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traceyourname
hey, how's it going?
Apr 09, 2008 - 12:08 AM PST
Cris
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traceyourname
At least you have an excuse. Mine is just lazieness haha.




thanks. =) I'm the same way getting sidetracked and stuff. Lately I haven't been writing as much as I use too story wise. Lately all that comes out of me is anything. But I found this website that gives you like a prompted each day. So its been helping write again.




And yes I am *grins a big grin* haha Its nice bc it's HUGE esp now that My friend moved out cause she was living in the garage with me, but she found a place to herself. If I had a job, I would have moved out with her.



Ah NYC...sounds so nice. I think it's just the idea of a city that sounds nice to me in general, since I'm just an la suburb kid...well sort of suburb....I mean its still city, but it's not...i live like in the shitty suburbs of la the poor people's version of the suburbs....Anyways, yea, I so need to go now.




Haha same here, school is my excuse to travel. I'm looking at schools over there too and the one that fit me was Columbia College they have an amazing writing and film program there. The best part about that school is that all the students from all departments collaborate on projects together, which is something that a lot of other schools don't offer.



Arcata...hmmm...It's really hard to describe, because I half hated it and half loved it. I'm going to start negative and end positive so I won't scare you off. haha Let's see first of all this is a huge oxymoron, but it's true. Their is a bunch of racist hippies. It's kind of funny actually. The town is REALLY racist and that's half the reason I left. I was tired of having to deal with all the racism. Being a person of color(even though I don't look it) is really hard cause you have to hear a bunch of ignorant shit and ugh...it can get really frustrating. Not that everyone up there is like that there are a rare few people that aren't like that. Plus it's SO FREAKING BORING!!! There's nothing to do except go to the mall the movies or go to parties, but the on the bright side your never bored alone. When I went there I was under 21 and well the only other thing you can do is go to a bar. Now for the positive. It is so beautiful up there and its an arty town and bc it's small networking up there is easy. If you're really into nature and stuff walking around in the forest is nice. I honestly wish I would have taken more advantage of doing that when I had the chance and HSU the school I went to up there can have some pretty interesting events at times. I went to a few. Oh and my favorite part has to be when bands go up there to preform. Since the school is so small hardly anyone goes so you can meet hand hangout with the bands. They usually go to our after parties too. yup yup...



I dont know if i beat your comment, but it feels pretty long haha =]>
Mar 31, 2008 - 01:15 AM PST
Cris
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Every time you mention startbucks in your writing it makes me want to go there and try writing there, maybe a change of environment will help me write more. Its been awhile since I've REALLY written anything. I forgot to tell your writing inspires me to want to write more thats how much i like it. =)
Mar 31, 2008 - 01:10 AM PST
Cris
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This was one of my favorites out of what i read.
Mar 31, 2008 - 01:08 AM PST
Cris
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traceyourname
haha don't worry about. I'm like that too actually. I always leave really long comments and then I feel like I've said too much or something. So yea I can see how you think were the same person. I'm glad someone else leaves long comments too though. i tend to always confuse prose and poetry when I read it, but either way thats a hard writing style. I only write a little bit of poetry. I tend to write stories more than anything else. I know how that feels ending up back home. I live with my mom right now, but my friend moved in with me and I live in the garage so its not that bad. I've always wanted to go to new york, but I feel like im to chicken shit for new york haha. and that's how I feel to like if i stay in one place for too long im missing out on this other world out there. I mean I've only lived in 2 different places which is here and in Arcata, CA. I want to live in Chicago, I'm trying to hurry up and finish my general ed so I can go to school over there. Now I think I just beat you for leaving a long comment.
Mar 30, 2008 - 11:40 PM PST
Cris
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traceyourname
sounds good. =] So you lived in long beach? For how long? Did you go to school there or did you grow up there? By the way your writing is REALLY good. I've read all your poetry. I really like your style.




Most of my stuff is more blog entry then writing pieces. Although I should add more writing pieces.
Mar 30, 2008 - 10:26 PM PST
Cris
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traceyourname
finally a female ql friend haha...every time i add female qlers they never talk to me.

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are we done?

Apr 06, 2008

there is so much
we stopped ourselves
from saying
because to mention
the depth
was to solidify
our sadness

i wish i could've
stopped loving you
the second i stepped
out of your car
like you wanted me to
and went about my life
without thoughts of you
picketing my brain

but
my heart doesn't
work like that
it is restless
and it is fierce
when it knows
what it needs
to know

i knew

part of me feels
like i've always known
part of me wants
to forget

most of me
simply holds
that strand of hope
tenuous,
futile, maybe
thin

but i still know
that no one
has ever touched
you
like that
thought you
that beautiful
genuinely reveled
in your
thought process,
creativity
talent
heart

i drove with you
to the end of
both our lines
we both
stepped out
of that car

we both
continue to look
back at

"us"


and i know
i know
we both
hope


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