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Kristina is pretty swell

None but ourselves can free our minds

About Me

I'm learning how to embrace the highest expression of myself without censoring or changing it. Learning what I wanna let go of about myself and what I wanna keep as I move on to the next phase of my life. I wanna be a naturopathic doctor, if all goes as planned I got two more years until I move to oregon to study naturopathic medicine. I love yoga cause it keeps me centered and relaxed. I love music and campfires and bonfires, being outside at night in general, and going to music festivals, but I don't do nearly as much of that stuff as I would like, I'm at home a lot. I have a huge spiritual side to me, I wanna understand things from deep places. Some of the most sacred moments I've had were staring out the window of my car just watching strangers and their facial expressions. There have been points in my life when everything was so backwards, so the opposite of what it needed to be. I'm just working on bringing it all back into balance and getting myself to where I need to be. Taking a deep breath and allowing everything to be as it is while still embracing the change. Here's a pretty sweet quote from the band why to help me sum up how I see life."In abstract, WHY? is the process of adapting to the somehow simple business of existing. WHY? is the searching for something clearly unreachable, with hopes of finding small significance along the way. The attempt to understand what’s really going on by observing, neither by telescope nor microscope, but by naked eye, the intimate details in the most mundane of life’s happenings. The attempt to describe the gist of the feeling of the tiniest modicum of The Great Universal Unutterable Joke we are all always not laughing at—except when we are. WHY? is living out the set-up of that old gag over and over, until we finally reach a punch-line. Or we die and we don't."

My Interests

I like writing, a lot. I listen to a lot of music, been listening to Kalx and fecal face podcasts lately. I also can't seem to turn off pedro the lion. I like loveline but I miss adam. I love tattoos but I'm to immature and non-comittal to get anymore right now. I love spending time on haight st and at brainwashed cafe. I like art and poetry but not the contrived kind. Glass stuff is pretty cool, and surrealism- I like dali a lot. I drink a lot of coffee, tea and chai, go on a lot of hikes, watch a lot of sunsets and I dole out herbs from jars for a living.

I'd like to meet:

I've never met anybody on myspace and I doubt that's gonna change but nonetheless, I like artsy types. People who say what they mean and don't have time to think about it first. Those people are the most genuine. That type of non-self-censory is rare for me to find in anyone. There have been a few times when i thought I saw it in people but I dunno... it's rare. It's why I like Allen G so much. When you express first and think second you end up creating things that are way more sacred and way more honest than anyting you could create by thinking about it. It's like being a vessel for the sacred cosmos. You can't push a river. As far as romantic types go I'm far more drawn to dark hair, dark eyes, small frames, that sort of thing. But you never know, I'm pretty all over the map. I even confuse myself. :) I'm also quite bitchy when I feel betrayed by someone, you should know that off the bat.

Music:

Music is what makes life beautiful. Otherwise, not so much.

Movies:

Juno, little miss sunshine, reality bites, empire records, slc punk, eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, american history x, american beauty, bufalo '66, waking life, 200 cigarettes, my dinner with andre, neverending story, into the wild, garden state, and the first bob dylan documentary whose name escapes me at the moment, lords of dogtown, dogtown and z boys, willy wonka~ the original, what's eating gilbert grape, alice in wonderland, & fear and loathing in las vegas (never attempt to defy the great magnet :) )

Television:

most of the shows I like aren't being made anymore, that's what tv series on dvd are for. :) I really love daria, my so called life, six feet under, and my personal favorite- gilmore girls. I really watch too much tv~ I should probably study more...

Books:

books about herbs and nutrition, dharma punx, dharma bums, please kill me~ the uncensored oral history of punk music, can't find my way home~ the history of drugs in america, fear and loathing in las vegas, kurt vonnegut, allen ginsberg, tom robbins. I started on the dali lama's views on the history of tibet, that book is pretty interesting if you like that sort of stuff.

Heroes:

'if i could make the world as pure and strange as what I see, I'd put you in the mirror I put in front of me. Linger on your pale blue eyes'- velvet underground ~~~ 'I've searched and I've searched to find the perfect life. A brand new car and a brand new suit, I even got me a little wife. But wherever I have gone, I was sure to find myself there. You can run all your life but not go anywhere.' -Social distortion My dog is always happy and full of unconditional love. I'd like to be more like that. Right now, not so much.

My Blog

yes.

Letting go of the past is good.I have been doing a lot of it lately and all I can say is, I'd reccommend it.I'd also reccommend telling off any assholes who deserve it. If there's anything you've been...
Posted by Kristina is pretty swell on Thu, 18 Sep 2008 11:59:00 PST

New beginnings

I'm ready for a new beginning.That's all.
Posted by Kristina is pretty swell on Mon, 11 Aug 2008 08:27:00 PST

Twisting ribbons through the fog

Somewhere between space and time, between the veins in your forehead and the stains on your windowsill, between the deception and exhausting endless trials, between the exotic yachts and the bums divi...
Posted by Kristina is pretty swell on Mon, 04 Aug 2008 09:00:00 PST

Sex.

Haha~ made you look. :)
Posted by Kristina is pretty swell on Wed, 25 Jun 2008 11:42:00 PST

Poem.

I'm dancing on the edge underneath piles of papers and fallen leaves. Past faces that have lost their place in who I'm trying to be. Striving and driving to get them to me when all I needed was a litt...
Posted by Kristina is pretty swell on Sun, 21 Oct 2007 10:47:00 PST

Love Makes You Feel

I didn't write this.   Life isn't what it seems, I'm forever drifting into dreams. Such a sad affair, to always be drifting into air.   But it's not what you say or do that makes me feel lik...
Posted by Kristina is pretty swell on Thu, 12 Jul 2007 11:18:00 PST