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Kristen

My burden to bear in this life is men with Kenny G. hair.

About Me

Ask me about my new philosophy on life: You are split. The prophecy on a napkin written by a Somerville native who couldn't speak English very well.

My Interests

writing, reading, pro-choice, music of all shapes and sizes, gin and tonics, being a cheap date, being "on", putting myself in awkward situations and figuring out why they make me squirm, intellect, being and becoming, being in solitude and socializing, being a child and an adult, finding a nice space between passion and comfort, finding the differences and similarities in people, finding a "take-away" from every person, being in love

I'd like to meet:

Those who can give me a real, deep down in the stomach laugh. Snarky optimists. Intuitive observers of other people. Readers. People who have something in their life that causes them to get excited when they talk about it. People who want to go to concerts with me. Synesthetists. A charismatic bastard with a sordid past. Those that cause poetic memory.

Music:

I love me some music. Best discussed drunk and with an iPod or my external hard drive or rekkids if you got 'em

Movies:

Annie Hall, Secretary, A River Runs Through It, Y Tu Mama Tambien, All the Real Girls, Royal Tenenbaums, Big Fish, Jesus' Son

Television:

Arrested Development, Freaks and Geeks, House, Law and Order

Books:

My "to read" list gets longer before it gets shorter and my bookshelves are sagging...Gabriel Garcia Marquez (One Hundred Years of Solitude, Of Love and Other Demons, Love in the Time of Cholera), Eduardo Galeano, Guns Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond, Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin, short stories of Andre Dubus, What We Talk About When We Talk About Love by Raymond Carver, The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera, A River Runs Through It by Norman Maclean, The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. DuBois, Empire Falls by Richard Russo, JD Salinger, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Travels with Charley by John Steinbeck, The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir, Kurt Vonnegut, Chuck Palahniuk, Wind Up Bird Chronicles by Haruki Murakami, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck, The Chosen by Chaim Potok, Night by Elie Wiesel, Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, The Awakening by Kate Chopin...You get the idea...

Heroes:

I am more interested in heroic actions rather than one or two people encompassing what a hero should be.

My Blog

Generation Gap

The other night I was out with work friends at the Grafton Street Pub in Harvard Square, doing the usual post-work drink-and-bitch. Toward the end of the bar, I noticed a very straight-laced man in hi...
Posted by Life of My Laugh on Fri, 06 Apr 2007 03:03:00 PST

A Non-Academic Book Report

The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera is awesome. Two quotes that really stood out to me:"The brain appears to possess a special area which we might call poetic memory and which records e...
Posted by Life of My Laugh on Thu, 25 Jan 2007 04:23:00 PST

I am killing time, and time is not killing me

More and more, I am starting to see that adulthood is a negotiation. You give up certain things. You take on new things. You accept some things as truth. You realize that the certain truths have an ex...
Posted by Life of My Laugh on Fri, 24 Nov 2006 02:57:00 PST