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Victoria

I am not paranoid, I am just trying to stay alive - A quote from Xander :)

About Me

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Work is work..those bastards extended my contract *laugh* actually I really love my job..I am moving into a "new" house in St Paul, an older house with lots of space for the kidlets. Bonus points..it is haunted..sweet, something to play with! I feel that moving to St Paul can be likened to hitting the reset button. (When we moved to Minnesota from Chicago, we lived in St Paul.) Maybe I'll settle down, take time to smell the roses and get to know my muse again..seems we haven't been speaking in a while. Time to start taking photos again or pick up the brush...

My Interests

As you will see when you take a glance at my movies..I love Asian Cinema - it all started with Godzilla, Bruce Lee, Akira and Speed Racer (yes it is one of the original animes released in the US). My daughter is responsible for introducing me to Blade of the Immortal, an excellent manga. In return I did however introduce my daughter to Roman Dirge's Lenore. I am a huge fan of the Sandman series and have all of the original comics. Like all things SPARKLY, Sparkly is hypnotic, sparkly is good - all things sparkly. Like Tattoos a lot but I have only one, fascinated with Asian culture - this started in my early teens, fireflies, hiking the desert, crows and I am studying the Golden Dawn. Reading Tarot, can't get enough of my Egyptian studies and a host of a million other things. Curious about life and all it entails...oh yeah love that Cowboy Bebop.
Fabian (who is amazing) sent this quiz to me - 81% Popular Girl,75% Goth, 63% Nerd - Slut who would have thought that these things would be so accurate.

You scored as Popular Bitch,

Popular Bitch


81%

Goth


75%

Nerdy Girl


63%

Slut


63%

Hippy


38%

Athletic Tomboy


38%

Loser


6%

Preppy Girl


6%
What type of girl are you?!!
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Your Deadly Sins
Lust: 40%
Greed: 20%
Pride: 20%
Sloth: 20%
Envy: 0%
Gluttony: 0%
Wrath: 0%
Chance You'll Go to Hell: 14%
You'll die from overexertion. *wink* How Sinful Are You?
Looks like I'll be in the market for a good dog..
Fruitcake lady

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I'd like to meet:

Anyone on my heroes list - providing time or death is not an issue. Tadanobu Asano (purely to discuss cinema - yeah right), Neil Gaiman, Peter Murphy, Bri (my future daughter in law), Vin Diesel (a gamer geek with muscles), the guy with the snowblower and a Chupacabra (to photograph for Xander).

Music:

Bauhaus, Sisters of Mercy, Depeche Mode, The Cure, NIN, Marilyn Manson, Psychedelic Furs, Stabbing Westward, Lumin, Govinda, Smashing Pumpkins, Delerium, New Order, Tears for Fears, hide, KMFDM, Annie Lennox, Disturbed, StaticX, David Bowie, Chara, The Smiths, Morrisey, The Beatles, Siouxsie and The Banshees, Dead Can Dance, Nick Cave, Smithereens, Iggy Pop, Pink Floyd, Roxy Music, Peter Murphy, Alice in Chains, Silverchair, Blur, Rammstein, Audioslave, Radiohead, Dragon Ash, Epik High, Mew, Inoran, luna sea, Fake?, hide, shiina ringo, spin aqua, x-japan, kind of all over the place...HATE Spandeau Ballet!!!

Movies:

Ichi the Killer, Oldboy, Suicide Circle, Audition, The Returner, Hero, Versus, Death Note, Infection, Premonition, Alive, Godzilla - all except The Smog Monster, Zatoichi the Blind Swordsman, Be Cool, Dodgeball, The Birds, Rear Window, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Il Postino, Cinema Paradiso, Eat Drink Man Woman, La Vie en Rose, Jurrasic Park 1 & 3, House of Flying Daggers, Ju-on, Ringu, Ikiru, Donnie Darko, The Ninth Gate, Kill Bill, Pulp Fiction, Three Extremes, Seven Samurai, Akira Kurosawa's Dreams, Gohatto, Il Mare, The Eye, LOTR, Last Life In The Universe, Akira, Vampire Hunter D, Grave of the Fireflies *sob*, Monsoon Wedding, Salaam Bombay, this list will continue to grow..

Television:

Discovery Channel, Miami Ink, Nip Tuck, Lost, Full Metal Alchemist, Robot Chicken, Shin Chan, Naruto, Invader Zim, Hard Gay - FUUUUUUUU,! I watch a lot of TV on YouTube. This is my virtual pet Yume, can't have one where I live.
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Books:

Good Omens - The nice and accurate prophecies of Agnes Nutter Witch, The picture of Dorian Gray, Macbeth and pretty much anything by Shakespeare, all of Amy Tan's novels, Tales of Lestat, The Witching Hour, The Hot Zone, Sandman, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Universe, Prey, Razor's Edge, Blade of the Immortal, Emerson, Edgar Allan Poe, Robert Frost, Pablo Neruda - Sci-Fi, History, Poetry, Fiction/Non-Fiction, Science..I love it all.

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Heroes:

Alexander the Great, Elizabeth 1, Queen Hatshepsut, Oscar Wilde, Imogen Cunningham, Georgia O'Keefe, Alfred Stieglitz, Helmut Newton and Ansel Adams ..he was brilliant read this
"Under the Civilian Exclusion Order of 1942 over 100,000 western seaboard residents of Japanese descent were evacuated from their homes and relocated in internment camps in the interior. The order was conceived by the U.S. government during the hysteria following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, in an effort to prevent sabotage of America's war effort. Toyo Miyatake, a Japanese photographer who was interned at the Manzanar camp, was photographed by Ansel Adams, who visited Manzanar at the invitation of the camp's director. Adams's visit resulted in the famous landscapist's only photo essay, the book Born Free and Equal (1944). Two copies were sent to Franklin Delano Roosevelt by Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes, as part of the secretary's campaign to end the internments. Copies of the book were burned in protest by a public largely unreceptive to the idea of Japanese innocence. To safeguard the record for better times, Adams then deposited his Manzanar negatives in the Library of Congress. (Gift of the photographer)" Internment camps are being discussed for those of Middle Eastern Descent haven't we learned anything?

My Blog

Mercury in Retrograde

Defined as: A Mercury retrograde gives rise to personal misunderstandings; flawed, disrupted, or delayed communications, negotiations and trade; glitches and breakdowns with phones, computers, cars, b...
Posted by Victoria on Sun, 25 Feb 2007 08:26:00 PST

kids..

So, my daughter and I have a myspace account..what amazes me are the number of her friends who seem amazed that an "old" person has a myspace. Never mind the fact I work in IT and had computer access ...
Posted by Victoria on Sat, 18 Nov 2006 08:08:00 PST

okay...

So the job is going really well and I may be getting another raise in salary. I have a great house, my kids are wonderful, going to be a grandmother again (Neil's wife is having another baby :)  ...
Posted by Victoria on Sun, 12 Nov 2006 10:37:00 PST

Dating woes!

So I go on this date yesterday..I have talked to this guy a number of times over a couple of weeks and have a relatively decent feeling about him. He asked me out and I said sure. We decide on di...
Posted by Victoria on Sun, 01 Oct 2006 08:56:00 PST

Down with the sickness

Our boy Xander has diseased us with this rotten head cold - the cost of education. reminds me of this episode of Invader Zim - Germs...that's what I feel like these days. Though he said something real...
Posted by Victoria on Sat, 30 Sep 2006 01:35:00 PST