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Miss Kate

in omnia paratus

About Me

I have described myself as short, silly, and strange, and I think that is pretty accurate, but add in lighthearted, highly opinionated, irresponsible, impractical, and impulsive. Sometimes this is good, sometimes bad. I try to look at everything with a sense of humor. Sarcasim is a way of life for me. I fuck up all the time and make a mess of things, but it all seems to work out in the end. I think the real secret to life is just to have fun with it all. I'm a hopeless romantic, a result of watching sappy old black / white movies and reading Wuthering Heights at a highly impressionable age. Yes, I worked at Cahoots. No, I don't remember you. I am perpetually trying to lose 5 more pounds, but will never turn down a dessert, because I believe no meal is finished without it. I have turned procrastination into an art. I believe in forgiving and forgetting and try desperately to practice what I preach. I'm not scarred of much other than bad weather and ghost stories. I always pick up newspapers with the best of intentions of finishing it front to back, but only read the features section. I'm a good driver, no matter what some might say. You don't like it, take a fucking cab! I'm usually late, but I'm trying harder to be on time. Oh, and I tend to blush and giggle a lot.
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My Interests

art, reading, movies, music, drinking coffee, candy, shoes, shopping, people watching, SLEEPING, skirts that twirl, drinking cheap champagne on Friday and bourban the rest of the week, and eating lots of dark chocolate

I'd like to meet:

Nikki S. Lee, Gerhard Richter, John Currin, Cecily Brown, Polly Apfelbaum, Nan Goldin, Kiki Smith, Do-Ho Suh, Shahzia Sikander, Kara Walker, Lisa Yuskavage, Mark Wallinger, Paul Pfeiffer, Bill Henson, Sam Taylor Wood, Ghada Amer, Richard Ross, and Monica Bonvicini

Music:

Irma Thomas, jazz (Gordon, Davis, Parker, Vaughn, C.Brown, Burrell, Dizzy, Cannonball, D. Reinhardt), classical(Beethoven, Bach, Vaughn), opera, the cds Alexis makes for me, bad pop, punk, country (old, like Johnny Cash, Patsy Cline) Magnetic Fields, Mos Def, any member of the rat pack and I'm an oldies fanatic. As cliche as it sounds, I love a little bit of evertything and I love when I learn about something new (even if it just new to me).

Movies:

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Godfather 1 and 2, Elf, Pieces of April, High Fidelity, The Adventures of Sebastian Cole, Possession, The Hours, Truly Madly Deeply, the Kieslowski Colors trilogy, Paris Blues, Woody Allen movies, Sweet Hereafter, Young Frankenstein, Napolean Dynamite, Married to the Mob, Stealing Beauty, Anchorman, 40 Year Old Virgin, Belle de jour, Obscure Object of Desire, Amelie, Basquiat, Wonder Boys, Goodfellas, Mafia movies in general, Being There, Fight Club, old cheesey over-the-top-big-budget movie musicals, The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, Bell Book and Candle, The Apartment, basically anything with Cary Grant, Audrey or Katherine Hepburn, or Hitchcock, and of course, Love Story.

Television:

FREAKS AND GEEKS, Nick at Night (I know the theme songs to too many old tv shows!), Golden Girls, Sopranos, Six Feet Under, Gilmore Girls, and a new obsession with The L-Word

Books:

Jane Austen, any of the Bronte sisters, Virginia Woolf, Edith Wharton, EM Forster, Nabokov, Foucault, Barthes, Graham Greene, Dostoyevsky, Jerzy Kosinski, Milan Kundera, Sylvia Plath, William Styron, Philip Roth, Martin Amis, Isabel Allende, Ernest Hemingway, Dorothy Allison, John Steinbeck, Julian Barnes, Jennifer Lash, Anchee Min, Italo Calvino, Walt Whitman, Jorge Luis Borges

Heroes:

My amazing Mom, my brother J.P., Danielle, my Aunt Dinah, who taught me everything I ever needed to know about being a bitch, and of course, Jamie Daniels, for all of the obvious reasons

My Blog

Are you kidding?!

So yesterday, I go to the doctor for an annual exam that I have managed to put off for about two years.  I don't particularly enjoy going to the gynecologist, not that there really is a woman out...
Posted by Miss Kate on Thu, 22 Feb 2007 04:52:00 PST

I am an idiot.

Today, while trying to get a pad of paper from under a pile of junk, I managed to knock over a lamp and punch myself in the eye.  Now that is talent.
Posted by Miss Kate on Thu, 01 Jun 2006 03:52:00 PST

Better late than never!

I feel like apologizing to any and all that I came into contact with last Saturday night at Cahoots.  I don't remember a great deal of it, but I understand the evil Kate Monster came out with a v...
Posted by Miss Kate on Fri, 12 May 2006 01:51:00 PST

Seriously? (edited for Amanda!)

I had the strangest experience tonight at work!  I was helping a woman find some movies to buy and I saw she had picked out The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, a great old movie about a widow that moves int...
Posted by Miss Kate on Mon, 10 Apr 2006 07:08:00 PST

Wings of Desire

"When the child was a child, it was the time of these questions. Why am I me, and why not you? Why am I here, and why not there? When did time begin, and where does space end? Isn't life under the sun...
Posted by Miss Kate on Wed, 15 Mar 2006 07:26:00 PST

That's my favorite, bitch!

Sex: Female DOB: 8/10/1979 Middle Name: Elaina Eyes: Dark Brown Hair: Dark Brown and really long Birth Sign: Leo Eastern Zodiac Sign: Year of the Sheep/ Ram Blood Type: B positive Religion: Orthodox C...
Posted by Miss Kate on Sat, 18 Feb 2006 09:51:00 PST

tonight, yet again

What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why, I have forgotten, and what arms have lain Under my head till morning; but the rain Is full of ghosts tonight, that tap and sigh Upon the glass and li...
Posted by Miss Kate on Sat, 19 Nov 2005 01:18:00 PST

with a grain of salt

So I thought I'd write a blog with a theme :  KENTUCKY.   Or just THE SOUTH in general.  I'll tell you,  this has been one of those days where its not so much that I have...
Posted by Miss Kate on Fri, 16 Sep 2005 09:19:00 PST