(I never stay anywhere for too long.) I'm Kaitlyn Paige Nakamura, I'm half Japanese (and quarter French and quarter Irish) and I'm unoriginal, brash, and unjustifiably stubborn. I prefer the night to the day, a storm to the sun, and a good horror movie over a romantic one. I keep my walls covered with posters and my floors buried with books. I like morbid things, dusty record stores, urban exploring, and always holding one foot over the edge - this does not mean that I'm thrilling, dauntless, or dark by nature. I just am, that is all, I just am. I resist the temptation to resist temptation and I have a ferocious intolerance of intolerance, so I'm smashingly hypocritical. I am not fresh, and new, and dazzling, nor all too charming - if anything, I'm stale, sporadically sappy, annoyingly snarky, and I frequently find myself liking books, and music, and art, and just words as they are...more than people. I'm an awkward adventure on legs and if I ever had anything on my tombstone it would be this, and just this: "wherever she went, it was always against her better judgement." I'm not here to prove myself, to fit a mold, to pursue the societal norm - I'm just here to burn trails through the night, and maybe, just maybe, figure it all out. http://www.facebook.com/kaitlyn.nakamura

All photos by the author, except where noted.

ka-wa-zu to-bi-ko-mu

perishable smile