Female • 26 • Montclair , NJ • United States
Status... Taken
Orientation... Straight
I'm into... Writing Photography Music Film and Video Acting Activism Art singing crocheting cooking blogging
I'm working on... being a person who actually does what she says she wants to do, a book, a blanket (crochet), not being such a food addict, finishing my master's degree, reading a couple of books, an audioblog, my sanity
My Profiles...
http://yentadiva.blogspot.com
http://jessicahope.tumblr.com
Music
- ,joni mitchell,marc broussard,sara bareilles,james taylor,kenny loggins,nina simone,ella,blossom dearie,india arie,john legend,ingrid michaelson,billy joel,mary j,joss stone,,
Literature
- ,poetry- lucille clifton,marge piercy,langston,maya,
plays- WASP (steve martin),Necessary Targets and Vag Monologues (eve ensler),Getting Out (Marsha Norman),Glass Menagerie(t. williams),Merchant of Venice,Titus Andronicus,
books- David Sedaris,Augusten Burroughs,Jodi Picoult,Michael Ondaatje,Peter Carey,Michael Chbosky,Mark Haddon,
Musical Theatre
- ,Sunday in the Park w/George,Into the Woods,West Side Story,Songs for a New World,Ave Q,Hairspray,Little Shop of Horrors,Sound of Music,anything by Goldrich and Heisler,Working,Pippin,Cabaret,,
Film
- ,Rear Window,Strangers on a Train,So I Married An Axe Murderer,Life As a House,Real Women Have Curves,Death Becomes Her,
The Yenta Diva Where Jewish Wisdom Meets Quarter Century Syndrome with just a hint of artistic flair and dorkiness
What is there to say that has not already been said? Ha. I feel like if I were to describe my life I would have to stack up a billion Woody Allen quotes (mostly from Annie Hall). Why do I think Woody Allen describes my life? I'm not really sure. Except that we are both self-deprecating Jews, not quite self-hating, but not self-loving either.
engulfed
Mar 25, 2008
EnGulfed
JHK
this Eiffel Tower
in This locket
hung low
around my neck
so I can press it close to my chest
when I need to remind myself
of the dreams
that have been
and
are coming true
yet
there is so much I have to find
this albatross
this black ring around the beck of my neck
this pound
after pound
after pound
excess
that exist on my body
This
Cross
I have to bear
always Have
had to
hold
in
this Smile
I glue to my lips
when I am out somewhere
anywhere
where people
exist
side by side
this quick wit
this sharp tongue
the knowing smiles
of the people who are weighed down
by that invisible albatross
while clinging to that locket of hope
tapping their fingers on their lattes
hoping the world doesn’t swallow them whole.
03/25/08 12:26 PST
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It was funny interesting, and honest. And dont worry, most of us have a frigid grandma. I do, and she a self loathing catholic lesbian too, but that is a whole nother problem.
Anyway, excellent job, and I look forward to more.