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[10 Dec 2004|11:39pm] |
recent music purchases:
efterklang 'tripper'
feist 'let it die'
elizabeth cotten 'shake shugaree'
lo borges 'lo borges'
ted leo\rx 'shake the sheets'
cat power 'speaking for trees'
yes. dont know why im updating because im actually trying to leave the house. i think im just trying to up the odds of having actual email when i get back home. münchen has become a cold and frigid wasteland as of late. i cant feel my fingers. still have not decided where to go for vacation but i think somewhere warm would be good, so it looks like athens or lisbon, both about the same price range. i really wish i did not worry about money as much as i do but i think when you dont have any theres not much else to think about. well, my beer and the cold, cold night are calling.
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[02 Dec 2004|12:31am] |
which of these places should i visit for christmas?
Ibiza
Nice
Athens
Rome
Stockholm
Lisbon
Moscow
please leave your input here. thanks!
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[05 Oct 2004|07:09pm] |
do any of you know of photo booths in seattle?
tell me addresses or intersections.
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[02 Sep 2004|12:15pm] |
thanks so much to all my LJ friends for saying happy birthday.
here are some highlights of my party:
*watching 'summer school'
*a heart-shaped birthday cake from alisa
*my brother and his friends making themselves scarce so i could have my party
*phone call from charisma
it was a good day.
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[01 Sep 2004|10:59am] |
happy birthday to me
happy birthday to me
happy birthday
happy birthday
happy birthday to me.
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[25 Aug 2004|07:45pm] |
-summer is almost over. this worries me for a couple reasons, but the biggest is that i have yet to decide what i'm going to do with my winter. staying in alaska is not an option. what i really want to do is to move to a foreign country and be an au pair. the only problem with this is that i have no idea how to go about doing that. i wouldn't mind just moving to a foreign country for the winter and staying somewhere for 6 months or whatever as long as it is cheap. but since i don't think it would be cheap at all, i think a job is definitely in order.
i really want to leave here in october and sit in one place for six months. that would be really nice. what would also be really nice is if the place i choose to situate myself in is a place in which none of my friends live. not that i don't like my friends...i just feel like being alone for a while. i mean, i guess i wouldn't mind ONE friend being there, but we would have to be moving in together or something.
-am once again in the midst of unrequited love. it sucks. i'm making myself crazy over this boy who only likes me AS A FRIEND. but he really is a wonderful friend, so i guess i should be happy for that at least.
-i'm in a stage where i hate all my clothes. i have been wearing a pair of chocolate brown polyester pants made by "FARAH" for days and days and days. i need to go shopping somewhere that has cute clothes.
-i saw 'Napoleon Dynamite' for the second time yesterday. it's great.
-my summer reading has consisted lately of books about the salem witch trials and the lost city of atlantis and also freemasons. if you haven't already, check these books out from your local library:
"the robots rebellion" by david icke
"atlantis" by charles berlitz
"a delusion of satan" by frances hill
-i also recently got a record player after years of not having one that worked properly or that worked at all...i bought one of those wonderful portable players they have at fredflare.com
it's amazingly beautiful and now i can take my records to the park and force other people to listen to "wuthering heights" by kate bush. i have been having lots of fun at the thrift stores in anchorage, going through stacks and stacks of used records. here are some choice purchases in the last few months:
"songs from the big chair" tears for fears
"dreamboat annie" heart
"dare" the human league
"off the wall" michael jackson
"young hearts run free" candi staton
there are lots more that i don't feel like listing, but rest assured they are all equally amazing.
so that's my quick update. my head hurts now and i really should drink some water.
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[26 Mar 2004|12:57pm] |
NEW USER PIC
THANKS CHARISMA!!!!!!!!
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[25 Mar 2004|11:08pm] |
i would like to amend my last list of people with J Names I would like to do by adding:
Johnny Knoxville
and
Jared Leto (but only when he was on My So-Called Life)
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[25 Mar 2004|01:03am] |
a small list of people with "J Names" i would like to get it on with:
jude law
jake gyllenhaal
justin timberlake
johnny depp
jim carrey (only in eternal sunshine of the spotless mind because i think his hair is cute)
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| TO: SITONASTUMP |
[08 Mar 2004|01:28pm] |
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where are you? do you still read this? your email account seems to have mysteriously died. write me!
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[24 Feb 2004|02:10am] |
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sorry for all the posts, but seriously, is the news article i put up reason enough for us to try really hard to get Bush out of office this year?
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| i got this from Yahoo News....i'm kind of freaking out |
[24 Feb 2004|02:08am] |
Now the Pentagon tells Bush: climate change will destroy us
· Secret report warns of rioting and nuclear war
· Britain will be 'Siberian' in less than 20 years
· Threat to the world is greater than terrorism
Mark Townsend and Paul Harris in New York
Sunday February 22, 2004
The Observer
Climate change over the next 20 years could result in a global catastrophe costing millions of lives in wars and natural disasters..
A secret report, suppressed by US defence chiefs and obtained by The Observer, warns that major European cities will be sunk beneath rising seas as Britain is plunged into a 'Siberian' climate by 2020. Nuclear conflict, mega-droughts, famine and widespread rioting will erupt across the world.
The document predicts that abrupt climate change could bring the planet to the edge of anarchy as countries develop a nuclear threat to defend and secure dwindling food, water and energy supplies. The threat to global stability vastly eclipses that of terrorism, say the few experts privy to its contents.
'Disruption and conflict will be endemic features of life,' concludes the Pentagon analysis. 'Once again, warfare would define human life.'
The findings will prove humiliating to the Bush administration, which has repeatedly denied that climate change even exists. Experts said that they will also make unsettling reading for a President who has insisted national defence is a priority.
The report was commissioned by influential Pentagon defence adviser Andrew Marshall, who has held considerable sway on US military thinking over the past three decades. He was the man behind a sweeping recent review aimed at transforming the American military under Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.
Climate change 'should be elevated beyond a scientific debate to a US national security concern', say the authors, Peter Schwartz, CIA consultant and former head of planning at Royal Dutch/Shell Group, and Doug Randall of the California-based Global Business Network.
An imminent scenario of catastrophic climate change is 'plausible and would challenge United States national security in ways that should be considered immediately', they conclude. As early as next year widespread flooding by a rise in sea levels will create major upheaval for millions.
Last week the Bush administration came under heavy fire from a large body of respected scientists who claimed that it cherry-picked science to suit its policy agenda and suppressed studies that it did not like. Jeremy Symons, a former whistleblower at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), said that suppression of the report for four months was a further example of the White House trying to bury the threat of climate change.
Senior climatologists, however, believe that their verdicts could prove the catalyst in forcing Bush to accept climate change as a real and happening phenomenon. They also hope it will convince the United States to sign up to global treaties to reduce the rate of climatic change.
A group of eminent UK scientists recently visited the White House to voice their fears over global warming, part of an intensifying drive to get the US to treat the issue seriously. Sources have told The Observer that American officials appeared extremely sensitive about the issue when faced with complaints that America's public stance appeared increasingly out of touch.
One even alleged that the White House had written to complain about some of the comments attributed to Professor Sir David King, Tony Blair's chief scientific adviser, after he branded the President's position on the issue as indefensible.
Among those scientists present at the White House talks were Professor John Schellnhuber, former chief environmental adviser to the German government and head of the UK's leading group of climate scientists at the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research. He said that the Pentagon's internal fears should prove the 'tipping point' in persuading Bush to accept climatic change.
Sir John Houghton, former chief executive of the Meteorological Office - and the first senior figure to liken the threat of climate change to that of terrorism - said: 'If the Pentagon is sending out that sort of message, then this is an important document indeed.'
Bob Watson, chief scientist for the World Bank and former chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, added that the Pentagon's dire warnings could no longer be ignored.
'Can Bush ignore the Pentagon? It's going be hard to blow off this sort of document. Its hugely embarrassing. After all, Bush's single highest priority is national defence. The Pentagon is no wacko, liberal group, generally speaking it is conservative. If climate change is a threat to national security and the economy, then he has to act. There are two groups the Bush Administration tend to listen to, the oil lobby and the Pentagon,' added Watson.
'You've got a President who says global warming is a hoax, and across the Potomac river you've got a Pentagon preparing for climate wars. It's pretty scary when Bush starts to ignore his own government on this issue,' said Rob Gueterbock of Greenpeace.
Already, according to Randall and Schwartz, the planet is carrying a higher population than it can sustain. By 2020 'catastrophic' shortages of water and energy supply will become increasingly harder to overcome, plunging the planet into war. They warn that 8,200 years ago climatic conditions brought widespread crop failure, famine, disease and mass migration of populations that could soon be repeated.
Randall told The Observer that the potential ramifications of rapid climate change would create global chaos. 'This is depressing stuff,' he said. 'It is a national security threat that is unique because there is no enemy to point your guns at and we have no control over the threat.'
Randall added that it was already possibly too late to prevent a disaster happening. 'We don't know exactly where we are in the process. It could start tomorrow and we would not know for another five years,' he said.
'The consequences for some nations of the climate change are unbelievable. It seems obvious that cutting the use of fossil fuels would be worthwhile.'
So dramatic are the report's scenarios, Watson said, that they may prove vital in the US elections. Democratic frontrunner John Kerry is known to accept climate change as a real problem. Scientists disillusioned with Bush's stance are threatening to make sure Kerry uses the Pentagon report in his campaign.
The fact that Marshall is behind its scathing findings will aid Kerry's cause. Marshall, 82, is a Pentagon legend who heads a secretive think-tank dedicated to weighing risks to national security called the Office of Net Assessment. Dubbed 'Yoda' by Pentagon insiders who respect his vast experience, he is credited with being behind the Department of Defence's push on ballistic-missile defence.
Symons, who left the EPA in protest at political interference, said that the suppression of the report was a further instance of the White House trying to bury evidence of climate change. 'It is yet another example of why this government should stop burying its head in the sand on this issue.'
Symons said the Bush administration's close links to high-powered energy and oil companies was vital in understanding why climate change was received sceptically in the Oval Office. 'This administration is ignoring the evidence in order to placate a handful of large energy and oil companies,' he added.
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| japanjapanjapanjapan |
[16 Feb 2004|10:52pm] |
hello all!
i'm going to try to do this fast, please ignore the typos...this keyboard is kinda weird...well, just a little small...
-i have been in japan for almost two weeks now. it's not getting any less weird, but i am having a great time despite the weirdness. right now i'm in kyoto by myself...the person i'm staying with has work and wasn't able to come, but i'm actually kind of glad im' here by myself right now...i like being able to make my own schedule and stop in every store i want to stop in.
-i hardly know where to begin...i spent the day shopping on the sanjo shopping arcade. it was the craziest fucking thing i have ever seen...it was about four or five huge city streets filled to the gills with stores selling everything you could possibly imagine and probably a bunch of stuff you would never imagine. i had a successful shopping trip although i couldn't find any shoes. my GIANT AMERICAN SIZE 10 FEET simply cannot squeeze into the tiny japanese shoe size. the biggest size i found anywhere was an american size 9 and that was such a miracle. shopping for clothes is also kind of hard. seriously, every one here is fucking tiny...not just skinny, but bone-structurally tiny. i'm not small by american standards, but here i'm AMERIBEAST...a giant monster trying to find clothes that fit. the fashion here is pretty wild. well...the individual pieces aren't crazy alone, but they way they are put together is what makes it wild. the most popular clothing items i have seen are von dutch trucker hats, converse sneakers, leg warmers, turtlenecks of any kind, the shortest skirts imaginable and pointy-toe boots or flats. the prices are astronomical. we were in tokyo for a couple days and it was ridiculous the kinds of prices they were asking.
one of the coolest things has been the weird american sayings on the fronts of t-shirts and things here. no one here has any idea what the words say or they have made an attempt to form a coherent english sentence but it just isn't working...here are some funny thing i have seen:
-saw a sweatshirt the other night that said "DANCE CRAZY TIL A MEAL GET'S"
-another sweatshirt that said "THIS TIME THIS BITCH ISN"T STOPPING"
-a shirt that said (in Japanese) "I MULTIPLY A CROTCH BY THE WORLD"
-a roughly 10 yr old boy wearing a jacket with a pot leaf on the shoulder and the words "LEGALIZE POT"
-the food has been the fucking coolest thing. there is virtually no american food here...there are mcdonalds and kentucky fried chickens and wendy's around, but ok, besides that...you can find the occasional pizza place, but they are few and far between...also, pizza is considered kind of a luxury item here so they cost between $25 and $30!! fuck pizza anyway, i'm in japan, let's eat sushi!
so yeah, we have been to a few keitan sushi places, which are the restaurants where the sushi comes around on a motorized track around a giant table. you pick off what you want and it's fucking good.
the food that i have been enjoying the most are the innumerable noodle houses here. for about $6-9 you can get a giant bowl of udon, soba or ramen noodles. the etiquette here is to slurp your food which is fun considering how rude that is considered at home...i have eaten some kind of noodle dish every day since i have been here and it fucking rules.
there are also lots of places for gyoza (pot stickers) and another thing the japanese are crazy about are crepes. there are crepe stands everywhere and you can get all kinds of stuff inside them like ice cream and bananas and nuts and stuff....mmmmmm....
-there are hot springs baths here called "onsen" which are an everyday part of a lot of people's lives here. you pay about 5 bucks to get in and once inside you take a shower and then go into the onsen naked. there are some pools inside and some outside, a sauna and one pool that is lukewarm. once you are used to sitting around naked with a bunch of strangers, onsen are the best thing ever.
we visited an onsen the other day that is actually a monkey bath. there are these furry gray monkeys running around all over and you just go inside and watch them do their thing. there is a warning before you go in not to stare directly at the monkeys, but really, there weren't any problems. the monkeys walk around eating soy beans and barley that have been thrown out for them to eat and they occasionally take a dip in the hot springs that are around.
hmmm...so yeah, that is a long yet quick update on what i have been doing. this place is really amazing. if i actually got into half of what i'm experiencing, this email would be a lot longer. i have found the japanese people to be extremely nice. the language barrier is kind of hard, but most people can understand a little bit of english so it's not that bad. i have been lost a couple times and both times the person i asked for directions has stopped what they are doing to walk blocks out of their way to walk me right to my destination. since japan is so homogenous, it's not uncommon for people to stare at you, the foreigner, in public places like trains or out on the street. it's really just curiosity, though, so it's no problem. every
once in a while there is some weirdness when people distrust you because you are a foreigner....like, we could not get a cab to stop for us while in tokyo and that same night we were turned away by about ten ryokan (traditonal japanese inns) who didn't want foreigners staying with them. its really been nothing, though, and i'm having the time of my life.
just a couple more days left here in kyoto. tomorrow i'm going to check out the national museum of modern art, the traditional craft market and whatever temples i can get to. the next day will be more of the same thing, just sightseeing and the next day i'm going to take a side trip to the city Nara. there are hundreds and hundreds of deer in Nara that hang around in the city park. you can buy crackers from sellers in the park and then feed the deer who, by this point, have come to recognize when you are buying crackers and they will swarm around you begging for food and have even learned to bow for a cracker. in Nara there is also the largest Buddha in Japan so i'm going to check that out and then back to Nagano for the rest of my trip.
i'm about out of money so it's good it's almost over.
ok! if you got this far, thanks for reading...i'm diligently sending out postcards so if you left an address yours should be there soon.
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[16 Jan 2004|12:23am] |
i found out that i'm a virgo with gemini rising...this is scary
also, why am i never satisfied?
i want to move to the uk.
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| COMING TO DC |
[28 Nov 2003|05:16pm] |
This is for my friends on the east coast:
I'm getting back to DC on December 3rd and staying indefinitely. I think I will take a side trip up to Philly.
If you are going to be there, we should get together, ok? You can reply to this, email me directly: sarahahamilton@yahoo.com
or call my cell phone 970 217 6101
thank you and i will see you soon.
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[12 Jun 2003|04:42pm] |
i'm in alaska. still just looking for a job and being exhausted by all the weirdness that goes on here. there's not much new. lack of funds and lack of entertainment make sarah a very dull girl.
i just wanted to let everyone know what's going on with me.
also, my cell phone doesn't work for those who have the number, so you can't really call me. i can try to call some of you sometime. deal?
also, if you want a postcard, reply here or to my email with your address.
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