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janna.

I am here for Friends and Networking

About Me

Just a small town girl. Living in a lonely world. Took the midnight train going anywhere.

I be on Flickr. Enjoi.

My Interests

Jokes Made by Robots, for Robots
Seattle
Beavers: Nature's Architect
Owls , in this order: Pygmy Owl, Burrowing Owl, Great Horned Owl, Asian Bay Owl and the Western Screech Owl. But, really, any owl will do.
Globe Trekker
Frontline World
826 Valencia

I'd like to meet:

Scrabble and/or Yahtzee partners
Competitive high-fivers
Pandas Not Robots
Puppies
Brass instrument musicians and/or enthusiasts
A 1960s r&b dance party (yes, the entire party)
Barack Obama
Someone to do that Kid N' Play dance move with me...

Who I'd NOT like to meet:

People who slurp their drinks audibly
People who push elevator buttons repeatedly thinking that it will make the thing arrive faster
Email forwarders
Kelly Choi (unless we ran into each other in a dark alley and had to break dance battle to uphold our families' honor. I would kick her good-for-nothing ass.)
etc.

Music:

STREAMING KEXP, Prince, Decemberists, Pixies, The Smiths, Broken Social Scene, Blonde Redhead, Paul Simon, Belle & Sebastian, Pavement, Tom Waits, Talking Heads, Sufjan Stevens, Bowie, Charles Mingus, A Tribe Called Quest, TV on the Radio, Neutral Milk Hotel, The Roots, Radiohead, Hall and Oates, Caribou, Dead Science, Xiu Xiu, Godspeed You Black Emperor, Sam and Dave, Motown (circa Barry Gordy), Boards of Canada, Paul Simon, Thelonious Monk, Elliott Smith, Jimmy Scott, Sea & Cake/Sam Prekop, Stars, Yo La Tengo, Spoon, Mum, Bell Biv Devoe--and now you know!

Movies:

A Charlie Brown Christmas, Labrynth, Mystery Train + various other Jarmusch films, Muppet Movie, Jean-Pierre Jeunet filmography (excluding Aliens IV), Brain Candy, Eternal Sunshine, Wong Kar Wai films (but not Fallen Angels), Cool Hand Luke, Wes Andersen mooovies, The Ice Storm...

Television:

Lost, Project Runway, Arrested Development, Adult Swim (if I still had cable...) Simpsons, Kids in the Hall, The State (a la Froggy Jamboree), The Office...I have to download anything else that's good.

I'm just gonna put this out there. That "Heroes" show is so good.

Books:

Scrabble dictionary, Middlesex, Confederacy of Dunces, Geek Love, The Corrections, Harry Potter, White Teeth, The Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, Geek Love, The Interpreter of Maladies, Word Freak, Sedaris, too many biographies of musicians, Vonnegut, Old Testament (before Jesus became a douche).

...I've never heard of this "non-fiction" you speak of.

Heroes:

You.

My Blog

This is precious, precious, precious stuff

"...All my friends who don't live in New York hate New York. Near as I can tell, they imagine the city as one giant, loathsome American Apparel ad, a crass, joyless, narcissistic, careerist, emaciated...
Posted by janna. on Fri, 09 Nov 2007 09:56:00 PST

Vacation all I ever wanted...

I don't think I know what it means to be on vacation anymore. I've been in Hawaii for nearly 72 hours and I haven't been to the beach yet. I sat on a lawn overlooking the beach, but my feet have not m...
Posted by janna. on Mon, 26 Feb 2007 10:55:00 PST

re: F Train

"...it's like little retarded children are running the F. They get so confused when they meet up with the G or V."-Patrick Lane
Posted by janna. on Tue, 13 Feb 2007 09:51:00 PST

Panty hose, hats and beards

Firstly, I'm concerned about the state of inappropriateness. The inappropriateness of bad choices -- and by bad choices I am obviously talking about the dire under-layering going on in this city. Esse...
Posted by janna. on Tue, 06 Feb 2007 08:48:00 PST

A semicolon broke my heart

To start, you can't spell and punctuation is merely a suggestion. No, scratch that. You wouldn't know where to stick an apostrophe if it was your penis and the space between "you" and "re" was a large...
Posted by janna. on Tue, 05 Dec 2006 08:29:00 PST

Does anyone else get messages like this?

.ciao ciao bambina hello sweety i hope im not disturbing u ...... my name is flavio im born in transylvania{one very nice places} and grow up in few contrys fro, europe(transylvania,italy,holland,ukra...
Posted by janna. on Wed, 23 Aug 2006 12:01:00 PST

On writing:

I make a living writing as other people. It hasn't always been this way, but in a way it has. When you start out you don't know what you're supposed to sound like, and everyone tells you that you soun...
Posted by janna. on Tue, 22 Aug 2006 01:14:00 PST

Here's what I like:

I like tea and cake. I'm having some right now. It didn't happen on purpose. I made a cake for my roommate Dorothy. She doesn't know that I made it for her. But I did. Because she was having a bad wee...
Posted by janna. on Fri, 18 Aug 2006 08:05:00 PST

Super Best Songs w/ Names in 'Em List...EVER!

Yes, they are in order of superiority and, no, I don't think "Hey Jude" should be moved up. *I welcome any and all comments, gifts of fruit and/or assorted jams baskets or subscriptions to Potato of...
Posted by janna. on Fri, 21 Jul 2006 07:30:00 PST

On (attempted) Pirate Dating:

(Note from Janna: A message to me from outer space...or a pirate ship or something.) "Ahoy PandasNotRobots!"---,---'---@I very much enjoyed Your profile and all conveyed therein -- Your values...Your ...
Posted by janna. on Sat, 08 Jul 2006 02:22:00 PST