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About Me

I am a secular humanist. I am a naturist. I am an Extroverted, iNtuitive, Thinking Perceiver. I am a pacifist. I am a sub. I have an insatiable wanderlust. Why don't bosses understand that we work so we can have time off? I suffer from existential anxiety, but I try not to let it hold me back. It does. I'm pro-choice, anti-shopping, and I aim to be carbon-neutral. I'm that dirty, free-thinking hippy your mother warned you about.

My Interests

music, film, travel, science fiction novels, diner talk, SCUBA diving, psychedelia, house painting
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I'd like to meet:

"I'd like to meet a spaceman who's got it goin' on." -Morcheeba
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Music:

some styles/examples: space-rock/radiohead, spacehog; ska/toasters, allstonians; trip-hop/morcheeba(not their new crap), moloko; singer-songwriter types/jeff buckley, ben folds, suzanne vega, nellie mckay, sting; grunge/soundgarden, stone temple pilots; musicals/stephen sondheim, george gershwin; reggae-pop/THE POLICE; jazz/antonio carlos jobim, harry connick, jr.; geek rock, nerdcore/they might be giants, weird al yankovic, MC frontalot; a capella/moxy fruvous, bobby mcferrin; r&b/jill scott, stevie wonder; funk/jamiroquai, chase

Movies:

New Favorite: What Would Jesus Buy?Other Favorites: Children of Men, Shortbus, The Taste of Tea, Casino Royale, The Science of Sleep, The Virgin Suicides, The Shawshank Redemption, Fight Club, Night on Earth, Cube, Being John Malkovich, City of the Lost Children, Gross Pointe Blank, Trainspotting, A Knight's Tale, Brazil, Happiness, Rocky Horror, Napoleon Dynamite, Cannibal! The Musical, Little Man Tate, Cries and Whispers, Pi, Nobody Loves Me (Keiner Liebt Mich), Sicko, Crooklyn, Punch-Drunk Love, Lorenzo's Oil, Goodbye Lenin!, Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure, Amelie, The Big Lebowski, Torch Song Trilogy, Troy, Spaceballs, 1984, Star Trek VI (the one where the Klingons' moon gets blown up), Pee Wee's Big Adventure, Singin' in the Rain, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, About a Boy, Moulin Rouge, South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut, Indochine, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Better Off Dead, A Mighty Wind, 12 Monkeys, Me and You and Everyone We Know, The Full Monty, Pink Flamingos, Labyrinth, Do the Right Thing, Dancer in the Dark, The Usual Suspects, Dr. Strangelove, The Graduate, Playing By Heart (crappy name, great movie- you can ask my sister), Secretary, Willow, Real Women Have Curves, The Who's Tommy, and much much more!

Television:

Firefly, Star Trek:TNG, Home Movies, Venture Brothers, Dexter, and whatever happened to Behind the Music?!

Books:

Broken Music by Sting, Asimov's Foundation series; the Wrinkle in Time Trilogy; Harry Potter 5 is by far the best in the series; books by Pohl, Sturgeon, Vonnegut; Life: The Movie- everyone should read this book; I have a love/hate relationship with Dune; 1984 is probably still my favorite book.

Heroes:

Madeline Kahn, Kurt Vonnegut, Hunter S. Thompson, George Gershwin, Samantha from Sex And the City, John Linell and John Flansburgh, Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping

My Blog

Stop Shopping!

I love to travel. I am so thankful to have had all these amazing opportunities to see other parts of the world. You don't really understand what 'home' is until you've been away from it. But if the US...
Posted by A Girl Named Fred on Thu, 13 Dec 2007 07:36:00 PST

The Written Word

At first look, the written word is a truly magical and unique art form, because one person pours their mind on to a page and when they're done it just looks like a bunch of words. But when another per...
Posted by A Girl Named Fred on Sun, 18 Mar 2007 01:49:00 PST

My life since 9th Grade (if anybody was curious)

The following blog is probably more for my sake than anyone else's- it's an exerpt from an email I sent to a former teacher to let him know how my life has been, and I kinda rambled on, and he'll like...
Posted by A Girl Named Fred on Sun, 04 Mar 2007 03:33:00 PST

Movie Review- The Fountain

I'm surprised so many people were befuddled by such a simple plot. I'm reading people's comments about it on movie review sites and they all seem totally confused. If there was any problem with t...
Posted by A Girl Named Fred on Thu, 14 Dec 2006 08:05:00 PST

What the 'Holiday Season' means to me

My friend Donna from college sent this quote in an email to all of her friends: "I always believe we are the same; we are all human beings. Of course, there may be differences in cultural background o...
Posted by A Girl Named Fred on Thu, 07 Dec 2006 10:50:00 PST

Long Distance Runaround (Take 2)

Dear Everybody,I was almost finished writing a really long new blog when I stupidly checked my Outlook mail. One email shared this window and when I flipped back to my blog it was gone. So in the orig...
Posted by A Girl Named Fred on Mon, 17 Apr 2006 02:23:00 PST

drunk and lonely

I shouldn't be listening to Radiohead right now, but it's their first album so it's not too intense. I'm home, I've had some rum and coke (the zero calorie kind- s'not bad) and I've turned down an awe...
Posted by A Girl Named Fred on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

previous "About Me" content

Honestly, the Story of Steph is a fairly dull one. Each twist and turn is predictable and contrived. First off, I am a singer. I have been one for as long as I can remember. I was born in Norwalk, Con...
Posted by A Girl Named Fred on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

active subconscious

Usually the dreams I have are just scrambled up bits of information I acquired the day before. Like my roommate Jaime telling me she was protesting against pants because she'd lost weight and all her ...
Posted by A Girl Named Fred on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

letter to my new friend Julia

I was just bitching about Hollins with my roommate tonight. Neither of us felt that we were pushed hard enough while we were there. The problem is that there's no penalty for laziness there. I handed ...
Posted by A Girl Named Fred on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST