: About Me

"I'm nobody! Who are you?
Are you nobody too?
Then there's a pair of us - don't tell!
They'd banish us, you know.

How dreary - to be - somebody
How public - like a frog,
To tell your name the livelong day
To an admiring bog."

~A fellow Emily

My passion is ...

stories

I know too much about ...

Lord of the Rings

My parents always told me ...

I am worth something

My childhood ambition ...

to be an artist

My favorite memory ...

my trip to Europe two summers back with my best friends

Why I write ...

because otherwise my head would explode

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

reading Douglas Adams' "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"/ watching stand-up on Comedy Central/ listening to the Wall-E soundtrack

My first job ...

Cold Stone Creamery... ugh, never again

My best moment ...

getting lost in Paris alone... boy, that was a good time

My inspiration ...

music, art, words, people, beauty, laughter, life, history... stories

Entertainment > Movie Reviews Movie reviews: WALL-E

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WARNING: SPOILERS! Is it weird that the most moving and honest love story I've seen in a really long time, is a romance between a trash-compactor with eyes and a flying iPod? In this romance-obsessed, sex-craving, instant-gratification culture of entertainment, I truly cannot remember the last time I saw a romance in a movie that I really believed in. Some movies come very close; some can make me smile and go "aww, how sweet." But reflecting on it afterward, it's very difficult for me to really believe that the feelings two characters in a movie have for each other is real love. I won't sa...

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