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Chrissie

I am here for Friends

About Me

general enthusiasm.

My Interests

music, bad movies, tv for teens, concerts, places I can go alone, singing, dancing (nonstop), the GREAT AMERICAN NONFICTION ESSAY!, internet paranoia, cheap sunglasses, potatoes, caffeine, bolo ties, choreographing, summer camp, celebritizing people, pez dispensers signed by stella, confusing body language, skirts, zombies, hitchhikers, mannequin on dvd, the FACTS (anatomical and otherwise), sonic the hedgehog 2, roadtrip planning, gumby, magic, not growing up Peter Pan style...

I'd like to meet:

people to dance with, people to hold hands with, people who know things I don't know and want to teach me about them. people who like things just because, and anyone, ANYONE AT ALL, who has a piece of that ROCKIN' AGGRO CRAG!

Music:

tv on the radio, the old 97s, WOLF PARADE, PRINCE, daft punk, the police, the hip replacements, billy joel, elton john, björk, the who, elliott smith, THE TALKING HEADS, electric light orchestra, hot hot heat, the beegees, the faint, modest mouse, outkast, jurassic 5, madonna, aaliyah, fleetwood mac, the arcade fire... Anything I can dance to.

Movies:

are great, I love movies. the carebears in wonderland, stop making sense, interstella 5555, things by almodovar, dance films by carlos saura, newsies, the last unicorn, the chipmunk adventure, WET HOT AMERICAN SUMMER, the goonies, footloose, better off dead, teen witch

Television:

salute your shorts and arrested development on DVD, degrassi

Books:

BLEAK HOUSE!, a swiftly tilting planet, sixth grade secrets, dogs don't tell jokes, the hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy, the catcher in the rye, the collected works of billy the kid, even cowgirls get the blues, south american literature, spanish poetry, about a boy, one hundred years of solitude...

Heroes:

Billy the Kid, Superman, Michael Showalter, Kid Icarus, Trey Parker, Federico García Lorca, Antonio Gaudí, Anyone who's idea of an awesome greeting is picking me up, People who give kisses on the cheek, RICHARD!, people who hold my hand when we cross streets, Sharon, Lois, and Bram...

My Blog

Buck Up, Little Guy.

Everything sounds better when you add "little guy" to it. That's a lesson I learned from Sarah. Check her out in my top whatever.Really, this is me writing a blog to procrastinate from taking a show...
Posted by Chrissie on Thu, 08 May 2008 04:01:00 PST

Voyager

You know, I spend a lot of time being bitter/thinking everything would "turn out okay" if I could just land that steady boyfriend/job/apartment/city/bill of health/pet/self-image/group of friends/fina...
Posted by Chrissie on Sat, 12 Apr 2008 12:01:00 PST

I just can’t stop!

1. Are you into anyone?--I'm pretty in to myself. I guess I'm in to a lot of people.2. Did you date anyone this past summer?--no, can't say I did. I dated Interlochen ARts Camp.3. Who was the last f...
Posted by Chrissie on Sun, 24 Feb 2008 09:11:00 PST

unnerving?

... how good I feel about everything, even though it's far from perfect and even though I have a cold. is the part that is disconcerting that I'm resiliently happy? or is it disconcerting that I fin...
Posted by Chrissie on Tue, 15 Jan 2008 10:47:00 PST

something totally new!

No, I'm kidding! Michigan Christmas wasn't all bad, for the record. Sometimes you have to stop whatever it was you wanted to be doing in order to cram a lot of family time into a small space because...
Posted by Chrissie on Fri, 28 Dec 2007 09:56:00 PST

sucks

that the second I leave Austin, I get phone calls from people who blew me off last week and everybody else gets in to town and starts having fun. I mean, I'm just saying. Whatever, I got some really ...
Posted by Chrissie on Mon, 24 Dec 2007 08:16:00 PST

Scary!

Today was filled with a bunch of scary things that I didn't expect and weirdness and disappointment. Which is not to say that it was all bad, but it was bad enough.Scary thing 1: court. Which shoul...
Posted by Chrissie on Fri, 16 Nov 2007 10:58:00 PST

I’ll stop bulletining for a minute...

But I won't stop surveying.1. What's worse? Liars or cheaters?liars. 2. Is it easier to forgive or forget?I can't forget, so I guess it's easier to forgive.3. Can men and women be "Just Friends"?they...
Posted by Chrissie on Wed, 03 Oct 2007 05:59:00 PST

Sounding that Call

I love camp so much. so much that I'm actually resentful of my dad and step mom trying to take me out to lunch/shopping today. that's not very nice of me, is it?but I've been a grumplestiltskin late...
Posted by Chrissie on Tue, 24 Jul 2007 06:46:00 PST

Hey!

I'm coming to Austin for 6 days! Starting tomorrow!Then I'm going to Michigan for 7 weeks! Starting next Saturday!But then I'm going back to Austin! Starting August 9th-ish! Until September! I wa...
Posted by Chrissie on Sun, 10 Jun 2007 05:26:00 PST