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Julie

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About Me


BASICS:
I guess I’m like most people in that there are many facets that make up my personality, and certain aspects of me shine through at different times depending on the situation I’m in or the people I’m with. Generally speaking, I’m a laugher who enjoys long conversations about life and random observations with my few close friends.
DAILIES:
The day to day consists of rehearsals and performances with The Newyorkettes, an a cappella "beauty shop" quartet, you can check us out at www.thenewyorkettes.com (for me, singing=happiness), managing a salon in the West Village (I thoroughly LOVE the beauty industry), and taking a bajillion pictures of my cat, Zeppelin (I seriously never thought I’d become THAT person!). City life is chaotic and although the chaos resonates with me I train at Seido for balance and peace of mind.
THE RECIPE:
Puerto Rican/Italian, Midwestern upbringing (Indiana to be exact), spoon fed oldies (music and television), bookworm, writer, singer. Mix together, throw in some gummy bears for color, and you’ve got Julie Castro in a nutshell.
MINDSET:
I believe that everything happens for a reason, even the bad things that make you ask yourself, “Why me?” I’m all about trying to stay positive, to focus on solutions rather than dwell on problems. It’s not always easy in this crazy and confusing world of ours, but I do my best. Negative people are like mosquitos; they drain me of my energy so I avoid them at all cost.
FAVE QUOTES:
“Enjoy yourself. It’s later than you think.” – Chinese Proverb
“There is no such thing as ugly woman, only lazy woman.” – Julie Lin
In my next life I want to be less high maintenance than I am now, more at peace than I am now...but I wouldn’t change who I am now.
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My Interests

Performing Arts. Writing. Martial Arts. Beauty Industry. Time Travel. Seido.

I'd like to meet:

Movers and shakers ...negative and/or lazy people turn me off!!! ...only those who live a life of sincerity...

Music:


Check out the bands/artists in my top friends. And here are a few more of my faves: Led Zeppelin, Ella Fitzgerald, Ween, Aretha Franklin, Stevie Wonder, The Beatles, Bob Dylan, Leslie Gore, Talib Kweli, Madonna, Patty Griffin, Billie Holiday, Artie Shaw, Carole King, Alan Silvestri, Tan Dun, John Williams, Manu, Thievory Corporation, Marc Anthony, Muddy Waters, Buena Vista Social Club, Brenda Lee, Cherry Poppin' Daddies, The Supremes, Dobro, Elvis, Dolly Pardon, Loretta Lynn, Patsy Cline, Duke Ellington, The Doors, Erroll Garner, Fletcher Henderson, Pixies, Idina Menzel, Johnny Cash, John Scofield, Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers, John Mellencamp, Jimmy Durante, India Arie, Prince, Ray Charles, Queen Latifah, Mos Def, Tim McGraw, Tosca, Reba McEntire, The Velvet Underground, Whitney Houston, Cab Calloway...

Movies:

Back to the Future, II, III / An Inconvenient Truth/ It Happened One Night / Stage Door / Bringing Up Baby / I Married A Witch / Paper Moon / Little Women (with Elizabeth Taylor) / On the Waterfront / National Velvet / Grand Hotel / Life is Beautiful / Annie Hall / From Here to Eternity / Singin' In the Rain / Mame / Some Like It Hot / Guess Who's Coming to Dinner / Peggy Sue Got Married / Muppets Take Manhattan / Contact / Office Space / The Notebook / Love Actually / Karate Kid / Goonies / Brokeback Mountain / Maria Full of Grace/ Drunken Master/ Jet Li's Fearless/ The Last Samurai/ Rocky/ Casino Royale/ The Departed / Goodfellas/ Borat / Knocked Up/ Match Point/ Dreamgirls/ House of Flying Daggers/ Kill Bill 1&2 / Hero / The Stuff / Team America / Old School / Memoirs of a Geisha / Running on Empty / Anything with River Phoenix (I'll always love you, River!!!) (August 23, 1970 - October 31, 1993)

Television:

National Geographic channel, LA Ink, Family Guy, South Park, Real Time with Bill Mahr, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Flight of the Concords, Big Love, Sex & the City, Sopranos, Welcome Back Kotter, I Love Lucy, Mary Tyler Moore, Taxi, Car 54, The Patty Duke Show, All In the Family, Sanford & Son, Good Times, Golden Girls, Matlock, Little House on the Prairie
Ultimately, I prefer the old shows over the new ones.

Books:

The Age of Reason (Thomas Paine) / Bruce Lee (--any books about him)/ The Lottery (Shirley Jackson) / Comic Books (DC Comics) / Mayfair Witches Novels (Anne Rice) / Yo Soy Latina (Linda Nieves-Powell) / Candy (Mian Mian) / The Time Traveler's Wife (Audrey Niffenegger) / The Mirror (Marlys Milhiser) / The Soul of A Butterfly (Muhammad Ali) / Memoirs of a Geisha (Arthur Golden) / Harry Potter (J.K. Rowling)/ When I Was Puerto Rican (Esmeralda Santiago) / Kite Runner (Khaled Hosseini) / The Picture of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde) / Sabriel (Garth Nix) / Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts (Maxine Hong Kingston) / Beyond Black (Hilary Mantel) / The Inheritance (Louisa May Alcott)/ The Historian (Elizabeth Kostova) / The Thirteenth Tale (Diane Setterfield) / I Know This Much Is True (Wally Lamb) / The Bonfire of the Vanities (Tom Wolfe) / Buddha (Deepak Chopra) / Time Travel Books by Jack Finney / Make Lemonade (Virgina Euwer Wolff) / The Bell Jar (Sylvia Plath) / On The Road (Jack Kerouac) / Night (Elie Wiesel) / Anne of Green Gables (L.M. Montgomery) / The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (Tom Wolf) / Al Capone Does My Shirts (Gennifer Choldenko) / The Human Face of Karate (Kaicho Tadashi Nakamura)/ I could keep going because I LOVE TO READ, I collect books, I want to live in a library...

Heroes:

My mom for her unconditional love and support, for putting up with me and all my shananagins, for "always finding a way" and instilling in me that I can do or be anything I want.

My Blog

At Last

Do you know what it's like to be taken seriously? To have people not only ask for your advice but then act on whatever it is you said because they trusted your judgment? And not because you had to s...
Posted by Julie on Sun, 02 Dec 2007 02:42:00 PST

Jose Tony Guzman 6/10/46 - 9/11/07

So many memories race through my mind when I think of my uncle, The Big Tony, as he was known to all his nieces and nephews. The ones that stand out the most are those derived from my childhood in Lak...
Posted by Julie on Thu, 27 Sep 2007 03:28:00 PST

Gone Corporate...But Ill Be Seein Ya Real Soon

Everything has a price. With every decision there is something to be gained and something to be lost. At what point do you realize that you're losing more than you gain, that in essence, you're losin...
Posted by Julie on Tue, 04 Sep 2007 11:13:00 PST

An Official New Yorker: The Beauty & Agony of The City

It takes an excruciating amount of strength to move from any other part of the US by yourself to make a life in New York City. If it's so hard why do it? Why bother? Why not just leave? People as...
Posted by Julie on Tue, 28 Aug 2007 11:12:00 PST

Wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii!!!!!!!!!!!!

I think when the clock struck midnight I went twenty years back in time...and became 9 years old again. Because my birthday couldn't have been more fun...thanks to my very good friends who brought me ...
Posted by Julie on Tue, 10 Jul 2007 09:53:00 PST

iLoathe...

I WAITED AND WAITED AND WAITED AND WAITED AND WAITED...to renew my drivers license, all the while getting shit from work for not being at the office.  ...
Posted by Julie on Mon, 02 Jul 2007 12:12:00 PST

iLove...

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Posted by Julie on Mon, 02 Jul 2007 08:40:00 PST

Top 10 Reasons Not to Eat Pigs

Top 10 Reasons Not to Eat Pigs Attention, shoppers: Stop picking up dead "Babes" and "Wilburs" at the grocery store! Here are our top 10 reasons to keep pork off your fork and put delicious Babe-free...
Posted by Julie on Fri, 15 Jun 2007 10:36:00 PST

Clarity

Relationships of all kinds can be complicated. Even those that you thought were solid -- the ones you always knew you could count on.Then one day, without warning, everything changes. Family becomes t...
Posted by Julie on Wed, 06 Jun 2007 06:46:00 PST

School Prayer: My Reply to a Bulletin

Teacher ApplicantAfter being interviewed by the school administration, theteaching prospect said, "Let me see if I've got this right You want me to go into that room with all those kids, correcttheir ...
Posted by Julie on Mon, 28 May 2007 09:41:00 PST