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Karen.

i'm in flux.

About Me

"duchess of kickaldy, always smiling and arriving late for tea"If there are stairs, I will trip walking up them. If there's a doorframe, I will walk into it. If theres a jagged edge, I will bump my head on it. Whatever it takes.
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My Interests

pretentious quips, early mornings, BRUNCH, breezes, having money, acting, prose-poems, ugly diners, living in brooklyn, using my mad dance skills to impress others, red shoes, sauvigion blancs from new zeland, coffee, watching a good movie for the first time, traveling to japan in the near future, casting, rockumentaries, warhol, the ice hotel, YELLING CURSE WORDS AND RUNNING ON NYC STREETS, PREFERABLY AT THE SAME TIME!!!, piano music,people who wear berets, droll humor, envy, people with choice vocabularies, forcing myself out of my shell, pretentious lists.

I'd like to meet:

Someone who takes their coffee the same way I take mine.

Music:

fiona apple, the decemberists, rilo kiley, lily allen (omg so catchy), regina spektor, spoon, the new pornographers, the pipettes, the magnetic fields, annie, the arcade fire, the dandy warhols, metric, clap your hands, say yeah!, lou reed and the velvet underground, thelonious monk, billie holiday, sufjan stevens, wilco, the doors, peter bjorn and john, css.

Movies:

Annie Hall. Paris, Texas. Rushmore. The Graduate. Five Easy Pieces. Waking the Dead. The Philadelphia Story. Paper Moon. Before Sunset. Kicking and Screaming(1995)Reality Bites. Postcards From the Edge.

Television:

Project Runway, The Office (both UK and US versions)

Books:

Jeffery Eugenides needs to write more novels so I can greedily devour them with the same lust as I did the first two. I think that sentence was full of bad grammar. But Mr. Eugenides would know better.

Heroes:

all birds. except pigeons. i like to kick pigeons if one gets in my path on the street. but they usually fly away. because they have wings. damn you, pigeons.

My Blog

"Sand overrated, it's just millions of tiny rocks"

Joel: Wait. Clementine: Why? Joel: I don't know. Just wait... for a while. Clementine: I'm not a concept, Joel. I'm just a fucked up girl who's looking for my own peace of mind. I'm not perfect. Joel:...
Posted by Karen. on Wed, 14 Feb 2007 08:41:00 PST

Adventures in the Office

Today a woman walked into the bathroom stall I was using at work. I guess I had neglected to lock the stall door completely. "I didn't see anything, just your shoes" she said. "It's okay...I rea...
Posted by Karen. on Fri, 09 Feb 2007 05:27:00 PST

side effects include nausea and headaches. if fever occurs, contact your physician.

Sometimes I wonder if I'm really just a "dreamer" or if I need to head to the nearest clinic and recieve my diagnosis for Adult ADD.   ...seriously.
Posted by Karen. on Fri, 26 Jan 2007 05:38:00 PST

Highly Reccomended.

"When the woman you live with is an artist, every day is a suprise. Clare has turned the second bedroom into a wonder cabinet, full of small sculptures and drawings pinned up on every inch of wall spa...
Posted by Karen. on Sun, 14 Jan 2007 09:20:00 PST

God Bless My Grandparents, and God Bless the Weather.

My grandparents are decidedly liberal. And they are Texan to the core. The two do not usually go hand-in-hand. I share their sentiments about the U.S. Government, but there is one point on which&...
Posted by Karen. on Sun, 07 Jan 2007 12:11:00 PST

nasal spray.

So has my doctor-perscribed flonase elevated me to true nerd territory?   Discuss.
Posted by Karen. on Thu, 04 Jan 2007 11:06:00 PST

last blog before 2k7?

The Dandy Warhols are the only band i would take my top off for. I want to go hang out with them in the Odditorium and shake a tambourine. Who am I kidding? I'd shake my tambourine for anyone.  ...
Posted by Karen. on Sat, 30 Dec 2006 01:24:00 PST

wearing seven different skirts at the same time.

maybe if i was wearing a june carter cash-esque circle skirt with gold shoes, you would dance with me. maybe we could sleep the day away. or never sleep again at all. i could look at you without any c...
Posted by Karen. on Wed, 13 Dec 2006 12:08:00 PST

urges.

sometimes when i'm on the train and i'm watching a group of schoolchildren horsing around on the train and i notice that the man next to me is watching them as well, i always fight the urge to turn, g...
Posted by Karen. on Sat, 09 Dec 2006 10:04:00 PST

winter in nyc rules. so far.

i like new york because sometimes when you're out on the street random ass people will talk to you and it's funny. mostly, they are trying to sell you things. sometimes they are crazy and look like th...
Posted by Karen. on Wed, 06 Dec 2006 04:11:00 PST