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In all her awesomeness, Elizabeth - at It's Unbeweaveable!- Tagged me to share some pretty fabulous info about...ME!

TAG: show me your heart...

Instructions: "with as much creativity as you can muster, show your heart in: a picture, a poem, a song (or piece of music), a phrase (or quote), an item of clothing, a place, and (just for fun) a Disney princess. if you want to join in, tag 6 more blogs."

Song: 'Motorcycle Drive By' - Third Eye Blind(ur listening to it!) Jason put this song on a mix cd for me- I had never heard it despite being a Third Eye Blind fan for years. When it came through the speakers, I was in love, and called him immediately after it finished:
Penny: "Where did you get that song?!"
Jason: "It's Third Eye Blind. It was on one their cds."
Penny: "Jesus Christ!! You're a freakin genius!
I loved it from the FIRST guitar pick! It makes me want to feel the wind on my skin.

Also- My SECOND fav song is 'The Scientist' by Coldplay- 2nd on my playlist-I like the lines, "Tell me you love me. Come back and haunt me."- THAT'S commitment! :) ahahaha!

Picture:The first time I saw this moment in the movie, 'Almost Famous', I felt it was the sum of me- The character-Penny Lane-(one of the inspirations for my blog title)- Is young, experienced, in love, elated, embarassed, vulnerable, and joyous all at the same time. I've always felt loads of emotions at once in that way-
Her feelings show through her eyes, and I love that- when you're everything you want to be, but still your own vulnerable self in a single look :)

Poem:

Female Author

All day she plays at chess with the bones of the world:
Favored (while suddenly the rains begin
Beyond the window) she lies on cushions curled
And nibbles an occasional bonbon of sin.

Prim, pink-breasted, feminine, she nurses
Chocolate fancies in rose-papered rooms
Where polished higboys whisper creaking curses
And hothouse roses shed immortal blooms.

The garnets on her fingers twinkle quick
And blood reflects across the manuscript;
She muses on the odor, sweet and sick,
Of festering gardenias in a crypt,

And lost in subtle metaphor, retreats
From gray child faces crying in the streets.
-Sylvia Plath

-Plath is my literary soul mate :) I read this particular poem at 14, and connected with the first line. I've never analyzed the poem, but I don't really want to- It means too much to me for me to see what anyone else thinks:) The first line made me feel like Plath felt the same way I did. I've always been acutely aware of my faults, and I think Plath was as well- It's cruel, but I cannot look into the mirror or even think of myself without seeing everything that I'm not-all that I don't live up to. That ability is both dangerous and beautiful.

Quote: “The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.” - Stephen King
Stephen King-God of the Penny Universe. On a crisp fall day in 1993, 'The Shining' changed the course of my literary life :)

Item of Clothing: Dorothy's Ruby Slippers! They're shiny, mesmerizing AND a way to another place in the universe--
If I ever get the chance to steal these, I'm gonna take it! :)

Place: Paris

My mom's family is from France, and she has always wanted to visit there- Paris in particular. It's been painted in my head since I was young that Paris was a city made of magic- When I actually get there one day, I'll probably cry- For me, the city seems to breathe and sparkle :)
...and-of course- the FIRST thing I want to see -even before the La Tour Eiffel, is LADUREE!

Where I will eat one of each flavor of their macaroons,

AND- One of these pastries each day I'm in Paris!

Disney Princess: Sleeping Beauty!

Hands DOWN! She's my fav!! She's friends with a cute owl,

I've always felt that love is more powerful than a feeling, so I digg the "kiss that can wake u from a coma" thing :) AND- She has not one fairy godmother, but THREE!! Cuz she's the most important princess- obviously! :) I like when they make Aurora's birthday cake with magic!!

BEYOND AWESOME!! I also watched the 'American Ballet Theatre' Put on a production of "Sleeping Beauty" a few years ago on tv that was amazing-

I usually don't like shows like that on tv, but the grace was still conveyed. I LOVE ballet! Jason and I went to see 'The Nutcracker' the first Christmas we were a couple, and it's one of my favorite experiences EVER with him!! :)

BUT- My fav song from a princess "story" has to be "Ten Minutes Ago" from Rogers and Hammerstein's "Cinderella"--I could sing it word for word when I was 7!-along with all the other songs!

Fun Fact: Jasmine Macaroon,
my half tabby/half siamese cat is named after Princess Jasmine from Aladdin:)...Siam just kind of made me think of 'Aladdin'- tho it's not at all the same country as where Aladdin was- I think-in the original story- he was in China...The movie(I think)-just says Arabia....which I don't think ever included China...

...and now I tag!
-You must do what the tag says-

TAG: show me your heart...

Instructions: "with as much creativity as you can muster, show your heart in: a picture, a poem, a song (or piece of music), a phrase (or quote), an item of clothing, a place, and (just for fun) a Disney princess. if you want to join in, tag 6 more blogs."

I'm talking to YOU,
Kaylynn - at Princess Kaylynn
Drollgirl - at Drollgirl
Lightning In a Bottle - at A Labyrinth Into Which I Can Venture
Dutch Donut Girl - at The World According to Donut Girl
Danyelle - at 'Myth Takes'
Lois - at Lotus Rising
Jessica - at Booking It
Sara - at Sara Says Awesome
M - at Pure and Simple

Sexy Poet - at The Sexy Poets Den

I KNOW I put more than 6...I'm sorry! :)