NOTICE TO READERS: Any suggestions are welcome, as I am suffering from writer's block. Plot bunnies, however complicated or odd, will be cheerfully adopted from most fandoms.

Hi! My name is Liz and I'm an avid reader, writer, RENThead, Broadway addict, and movie fan. I'm 20, and therefore no longer able to employ the traditional RENT joke about my age.

Current school: a small liberal arts college in the middle of nowhere

Major in said college: French/Anthro , recently changed to English minor.

Interests/hobbies: Theatre, poetry, art, literature, movies, music.

Current projects/plans: Writing the world's first grindhouse book. If you don't know what "grindhouse" means, here are two links: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grindhouse

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exploitation_films. If you don't want to go to all of that trouble and reading, just watch a movie directed by Quentin Tarantino. He's the master of the

exploitation-movie revival. If you simply don't care, then I pity you, who have fallen victim to the apathy of today's society (said sarcastically, not seriously).

Faves:

Food: Anything flavorful and exotic. Indian, Thai and Japanese come to mind here...

Music: A lot, but I guess I like a lot of 80s rock (Siouxsie is awesome!)

Books: Harry Potter, SOUE, Lizzie at Last, Standing Up to Mr. O, Perloo the Bold, and much too much more. Anything by Chuck Palahniuk is my new obsession.

Movies: Again, a lot but I'll pick a few here: Across the Universe, V for Vendetta, RENT, Moulin Rouge!, The Others, Girl, Interrupted, anything directed by Tarantino, Julie Taymore (sp?), or Tim Burton.

Family: Mom, Dad,sister, 2 dogs, frog, fish, 'nuff said.

Religion: Eclectic Christian (Christian who accepts certain teachings from other religions)

"Life is mostly froth and bubble, two things stand like stone,

Kindness in another's trouble,

Courage in your own."

-Adam Lindsay Gordon

In memory of Dorothy O'Leary.

Shout-out to PandaFire McMango, Elephantian, DestinysGlitter, and BohemianCane (a wonderful poet who first suggested I join this site)

PLEASE VISIT: www.voicesforrent.com If anyone decides to join PLEASE say MarcieCohen sent you!

I .am the boy who never finished high school, because I got called a fag everyday
I am the girl kicked out of her home because I confided in my mother that I am a lesbian.
I am the prostitute working the streets because nobody will hire a transsexual woman.
I am the sister who holds her gay brother tight through the painful, tear-filled nights.
We are the parents who buried our daughter long before her time.
I am the man who died alone in the hospital because they would not let my partner of twenty-seven years into the room.
I am the foster child who wakes up with nightmares of being taken away from the two fathers who are the only loving family I have ever had. I wish they could adopt me.
I am not one of the lucky ones. I killed myself just weeks before graduating high school. It was simply too much to bear.
We are the couple who had the Realtor hang up on us when she found out we wanted to rent a one-bedroom for two men.
I am the person who never knows which bathroom I should use if I want to avoid getting the management called on me.
I am the mother who is not allowed to even visit the children I bore, nursed, and raised.
The court says I am an unfit mother because I now live with another woman.
I am the domestic-violence survivor who found the support system grow suddenly cold and distant when they found out my abusive partner is also a woman.
I am the home-economics teacher who always wanted to teach gym until someone told me that only lesbians do that.
I am the woman who died when the EMT stopped treating me as soon as they realized I was transsexual.
I am the person who feels guilty because I think I could be a much better person if I didn't have to always deal with society hating me.
I am the man who stopped attending church, not because I don't believe, but because they closed their doors to my 'kind.'
I am the person who has to hide what this world needs most, love. I am the person ashamed to tell my own friends I'm a lesbian, because they constantly make fun of them.
I am the boy tied to a fence, beaten to a bloody pulp and left to die because two straight men wanted to "teach me a lesson"
--IF YOU BELIEVE THAT HOMOPHOBIA IS WRONG... REPOST THIS--

Gay marriage:
1) Being gay is not natural. People always reject unnatural things like eyeglasses, polyester, liposuction and air conditioning.

2) Gay marriage will encourage people to be gay, in the same way that hanging around tall people will make you tall.

3) Legalizing gay marriage will open the door to all kinds of crazy behavior. People may even wish to marry their pets because a dog has legal standing and can sign a marriage contract.

4) Straight marriage has been around a long time and hasn't changed at all; women are still property, blacks still can't marry whites, and divorce is still illegal.

5) Straight marriage will be less meaningful if gay marriage were allowed; the sanctity of Briteny Spears' 55-hour just-for-fun marriage would be destroyed.

6) Straight marriages are valid because they produce children. Gay couples, infertile couples, and old people shouldn't be allowed to marry because our orphanages aren't full yet, and the world needs more children.

7) Obviously gay parents will raise gay children, since straight parents only raise straight children.

8) Gay marriage is not supported by religion. In a theocracy like ours, the values of one religion are imposed on the entire country. That's why we have only one religion in America.

9) Children can never succeed without a male and a female role model at home. That's why we as a society expressly forbid single parents to raise children.

10) Gay marriage will change the foundation of society; we could never adapt to new social norms. Just like we haven't adapted to cars, the service-sector economy, or longer life spans... --
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