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About Me

"...and now I have to fucking deal with it, and I don't like having to deal with things. I'd much prefer to pretend that they don't exist."- Celia Hodes, Weeds

My Interests

music, live music, writing, journalism, pop culture, the freaking datalounge, cable news, politics, democratic opinions, witty people, feeling inspired, indie movies, TV, generally: escapism, hiking in the hills, travel, big cities, hick towns, corner dive bars named Lyle's, shopping, yahoo! games, photography, softball, keeping active, being lazy, road trips, musicals, wine, staying up late, the outdoors, TiVo, internet geek stuff, sleeping, eating, breathing. wasting time on YouTube. organization, self-improvement, deluxe scrabble. cats, my iPod.

I'd like to meet:

a Space Heater

Music:

Stevie Nicks, Sarah McLachlan, Dixie Chicks,

Movies:

Shut Up & Sing, March of the Penguins, Brokeback Mtn. Improper Conduct, The Devinn Lane Show: The Forbidden Zone, Casting Couch Cuties, Showgirls, RENT, Gia, The Breakfast Club, That Thing You Do, American History X, Collateral, Transamerica, 28 Days, Rocky Horror, Kissing Jessica Stein, Saved, The Notebook, Happy Endings, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Mulholland Drive, Moulin Rouge, Heathers, Bad Santa, Cruel Intentions, The Lost Boys, Sister Act, Latter Days, Office Space, How To Lose A Guy in 10 Days, Tipping the Velvet, It's In the Water, Margaret Cho, Thirteen; anything funny, campy, thought provoking and smart, dramas, cool indie flicks, Roman Holiday, Alfred Hitchcock's "The Birds"

Television:

Bad Girls, Six Feet Under, Weeds, Boston Legal, Cold Case, China Beach, Picket Fences, Grey's Anatomy, South of Nowhere, Amazing Race, News, The X-Files, Xena, Buffy, QAF, Ellen, ER, The Wonder Years, Roseanne with the old Becky, The OC, KATHY GRIFFIN, VH1, HGTV, Nancy GRACE, the View, the Oprah & Gayle Show.

Heroes:

Rosie; people who break away from bad relationships; my parents

My Blog

quick hits

* i love the new VIEW. love rosie. and i even like elizabeth.* i hate the Gwen Stefani song "Wind it Up." Wow is this what passes for music now? Total shit. Oh and her new ghetto fab image is tacky. *...
Posted by One of 300 Million on Mon, 18 Dec 2006 01:15:00 PST

long overdue blog part I (portland)

i haven't been online @ home as much as i normally would be. since i got my laptop, i've been [ using ] wireless in my apartment attempting to save money but the last few weeks it's mostly dead. no si...
Posted by One of 300 Million on Mon, 18 Dec 2006 06:34:00 PST

check out this band!

hey ya'll check out my best friend back in minneapolis' boyfriend's band!!!http://www.myspace.com/drksydemuzyk...
Posted by One of 300 Million on Thu, 14 Dec 2006 01:30:00 PST

grammy noms

Here I am to rave about the girls again. I am SO HAPPY the dixie chicks picked up grammy noms. Yay!! Now if they could win a Grammy AND an Oscar -- that would be fabulously perfect... just perfect. LO...
Posted by One of 300 Million on Fri, 08 Dec 2006 05:32:00 PST

dixie chicks "shut up & sing" in running for best doc oscar

GO GIRLS! if there was ever a film i was cheering for...LOS ANGELES, Nov. 15 (UPI) -- The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has named 15 semifinalists for this year's Oscar for best document...
Posted by One of 300 Million on Sun, 19 Nov 2006 12:21:00 PST

the weekend, the murmurs...

well it's friday and it's a friday preceding a long-ass holiday weekend. god, what's NOT to love about that?  thank goddess. the office is especially light-paced (is that a word?) today and we're...
Posted by One of 300 Million on Fri, 17 Nov 2006 11:17:00 PST

Delta Burke Too Gay For Nashville?

Ok. I needed a funnier/lighter blog at the top so here it is. Now to my Nashville friends, wazup with this?? :-0Delta Burke Too Gay For Nashville!November 16, 2006 / TMZ.COMDelta Burke and Leslie Jord...
Posted by One of 300 Million on Fri, 17 Nov 2006 04:36:00 PST

angry

I am so filled with rage and frustration... ugh!  It all started when my mom e-mailed me asking how I was doing today? well she asks almost every day and for some reason it kind of bothers me. i ...
Posted by One of 300 Million on Thu, 16 Nov 2006 08:56:00 PST

Voting Today!

I'm so excited to go vote. I will leave around noon, probably taking an early lunch break. I get to go to some Russian Center on SMA BLVD whose name I can't pronounce. I've been registered, but I move...
Posted by One of 300 Million on Tue, 07 Nov 2006 09:47:00 PST

CMA's play by play

country slut that I am, I'm at home watching the CMA's - Country Music Awards, if only for the little controversy over Sara Evans, like "will she or won't she sing that 'cheating' song?" and will she ...
Posted by One of 300 Million on Tue, 07 Nov 2006 08:30:00 PST