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Karen

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About Me

starving artist...tree hugger...ocean enthusiast...non judgemental...has a clue, but could use a few more... warrior...painter...weak...strong...growing...learning...sin ging in the shower...playful prankster...smart alec...earth child...uncategorizable...woman bare-knuckle boxing reality into a million shiny pieces MyGen Profile Generator




My Interests

quantum physics... the shape of seeds... Thai food... hot springs under the stars... orcas... art that makes the hair on the back of my neck stand up... great beer... campfires that burn on wet days...a great kiss... museums... the audacious things children say... twilight in Maui... mushrooms... the spark of inspiration that comes out of nowhere, and departs the same way... a song that sounds as great the 150th time as it did the 2nd... pomegranates... people who understand the concept of friendship... gin & tonics on tropical beaches...absurdly expensive pens... swimming pools at night, (especially if you had to climb a fence to get there.)... horses, dogs, most four legged folks...glossy art magazines...bumper stickers that make me go, "huh?"...the moments at my easel when everything else falls away except hand/brush/paint.

I'd like to meet:


Music:

This what's on my ipod right now, and only a sample of the screwy stuff I love to listen to...John Doe. Ani DiFranco. Catpower. Yeah Yeah Yeahs. Tom Waits. Moloko. Modest Mouse. Spearhead. Of Montreal. Portishead. Smashing Pumpkins. This Mortal Coil. The Unicorns. The Eels. Old school David Bowie, The Pouges. The White Stripes. Interpol, John Butler Trio. Frank Zappa, The Flaming Lips. Beck. Big Bud...Seu Jorge. Ben Harper. The Shins. Death Cab. Jeff Buckley. X. Adrian Belew. Dali's Car. and Massive Attack

Movies:

Apocolypto,Fur, Children of Men, Little Miss Sunshine, Betty Blue, Harold and Maude, Life Aquatic, Amelie, Delicatessen, Triplets of Belville, Life is Beautiful, Run Lola Run, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, Seven Samurai, Ran,(Akira Kurosawa; genius!) Taxi Driver, Apocalypse Now, Rivers and Tides, Blue Velvet, Sliding Doors, Brother from Another Planet...Down by Law, Mystery Train, Ghost Dog, Dead Man, Stranger than Paradise...(Yes, I am still waiting for Jim Jarmusch to ask me to marry him...)Trainspotting,

Television:



Books:

Mating by Norman Rush, Valdamir Nabokov, James Joyce, Balzac. Kerouac and Bukowski. White Oleander, by Janet Fitch,I worship every word ever pounded out by Henry Miller's typewriter.( the things he was thinking in the '40s are just occurring to the rest of us!) Walker and Lamont and dont forget, Hunter S.Thompson. Ruth Bebe Hill's epic "Hanta Yo". Lone Wolf and Cub (Thanks Vox)Chuck Palahniuk (thanks Julio)Edward Abbey, Langston Hughes.

Heroes:



My Blog

Karen-Seuss for the GMO generation

Frankenstein Seed; Monsanto greed! Where will all this lead? It is not agreed. (but apply more poison to this weed, let's see if it will bleed.) Third world countries we will feed with our brand new ...
Posted by Karen on Mon, 14 May 2007 07:40:00 PST

Open Fire on the NRA

Ani Di Franco has a gorgeously sad/angry song whose lyrics have been looping through my head since I heard about the hideous shootings at V-Tech. "To the Teeth"  "......school kids keep trying ...
Posted by Karen on Tue, 17 Apr 2007 07:09:00 PST

Gin-Grinch fumbles

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, who is mulling a presidential bid, said his "word choice was poor" when he equated bilingual education with "the language of living in a ghetto."In a video statemen...
Posted by Karen on Sat, 07 Apr 2007 07:01:00 PST

pack animals

In this world of , what? (six billion people let's say) How is it possible to feel lonely? How is it possible that we ignore those around us? Why is the current culture promoting the idea that only yo...
Posted by Karen on Tue, 06 Mar 2007 06:23:00 PST

Quitting Smoking

Quitting smoking. I have been at that nasty habit for years untold. When my lungs started to actually hurt, and common colds lingered, I began to picture the thick, black toxic sludge oozing. The swis...
Posted by Karen on Sat, 24 Feb 2007 06:04:00 PST