Katie C. - ProfilesArchive

About Me

The above clip is one of my bands, The Panda Conspiracy at Flowmotion's Summer Meltdown, with intro by Blake Lewis. I love creating music--I play trumpet and slide trumpet in a number of bands, mainly THE PANDA CONSPIRACY, Hotdish, Missing Players and The Mood Swings. IMPROV is life, music and otherwise. One of my favorite things is watching people laugh uncontrollably. I like abstract conversation over deep dark red wine. Love to travel but will always live in the Pacific Northwest. I don't mind getting soaked in the rain-no no I actually love it, especially love the El Nino season. I spend all day working for the biggest Biotech in the world-Amgen, making miracles out of little cell/antibody/reagent-xyz stew, trying to make the quality of our patient's lives better. I like eating oysters even though I don't LIKE oysters. I see the glass half full with complete intent on filling it to the brim and spilling it out all over the place. Oh, I also like that glass to be full with Elysian IPA.
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My Interests

BIKE COMMUTING!!-I finally finished building my cyclocross and she's gorgeous! Hmmmmmm. . ..also PLANTS. . .totally in love with the complex biochemistry. Meeting people in Africa and climbing the trees there (esp. Mozambique with the Southern cross in my vision), writing, reading, trumpet, gardening, walking my two big pups Denali and Kenya, dancing on clear frosty nights to Simon and Garfunkel in empty parking lots, mud football (or anything muddy, really), riding my bike down steep hills at top speed, hanging in pubs while listening to some good music.

I'd like to meet:

Charles Shaw and Ayn Rand. Maybe the person who founded Glide Floss, also. HEMPFEST 2006!!!!

Music:

Mostly, creating the music (on various instruments). Other than that-INGRID JENSEN, The DOORS, Grateful Dead, Miles Davis, T. Monk, Coltraine, Gipsy Kings, Slim Gaillard, Daniel Barry, Maria Schneider, Bela Fleck, They Might Be Giants, THE PANDA CONSPIRACY, Missing Players and the SHINS

Movies:

I'll never shake it-Dead Poet's Society. After that, Drop Dead Gorgeous and A Waking Life. Yes, yes, and Fried Green Tomatoes.

Television:

Nah. Well, I guess CNN and Argentina soccer

Books:

Atlas Shrugged, Fountainhead, 100 Years of Solitude, Tale of Two Cities, Sweet Thursday, Cannery Row, Grapes of Wrath, My Name Is Asher Lev, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Jack Kerouac, Alice in Quantumland, Cry the Beloved Country, anything by John Knowles and Edward Abbey etc., etc., etc.

Heroes:

Ingrid Jensen, Maggie Josiah, Marie Curie, and Crystal Lynn

My Blog

Inspired by a Pea Patch, Part II

I met you in a parallel universe You saw me through glass on a wall Breathe deep my soul to reimburse Seek clues within a distant call - My mind holds tight to a colorful vision Serenity hiding...
Posted by Katie C. on Sat, 06 Oct 2007 05:26:00 PST

Inspired by a Pea Patch, Part I

Friction burning, wheels to street Searching deep to find a beat Horizon blazing, light the air Avoid the eyes of judgment's stare - Whimsical to nature's breeze Falling prey to high degrees Hopes in...
Posted by Katie C. on Sat, 06 Oct 2007 05:23:00 PST

Fight the source

Face of fire Back of ice Embrace desire Lack device Feel the surge Fight the source Reel the urge Spite all force Sound does stop Worries old Round the crop Stories told Glance behind Turn around Cha...
Posted by Katie C. on Tue, 25 Sep 2007 11:05:00 PST

Kinetic Whereabouts

Biking crooked hills This fever Gives me chills Foot to pedal I fight Rocks to metal Ride an albatross Ascend Soaring cyclocross Mind juxtaposed With heart None supposed Why do the crows all lan...
Posted by Katie C. on Thu, 06 Sep 2007 02:36:00 PST

Undertow of Reality

Discovery, obvious but hidden for so long This girl I saw in a mirror and never talked to Catering hard and energetically to an idea Exhausted by the strong undertow of reality Seeing it now, ta...
Posted by Katie C. on Tue, 21 Aug 2007 08:53:00 PST

Manipulate

Brain Thinks Heart Pumps Heart Hurts Brain Works Senses Seek Heart turns Weak Ears to Hear Sight so Near Blood to Heart Fall Apart...
Posted by Katie C. on Sat, 23 Jun 2007 01:44:00 PST

No sense, cyclical

A you (we?) elemental And a me (we?) experimental Mental, we, exist, empirical So much societal Mindless, done! We, responsible All, we, a particle Mind, us, so practical Twisted, touched, do, impossi...
Posted by Katie C. on Fri, 08 Jun 2007 12:50:00 PST

Djembe heart drum

Engulfed in a blanket of precision Slow rumble growles from the earth's belly Chords harmonious yet paradoxical Run parallel to each other, laughing Electrostatic energy builds, surges Dissonance cree...
Posted by Katie C. on Tue, 05 Jun 2007 11:00:00 PST

handcuffed to coersion

My heartbeat echoes in my skull reverberates off the caverns of my dream canyon I should walk slowly when descending the tri...
Posted by Katie C. on Wed, 30 May 2007 06:46:00 PST

Twisp.

Twisp. Night falls and temperatures drop. . . .mosquitos turn it in for the night, finally ignoring their voracious appetites. A thin mist is present in the lower atmosphere though not n...
Posted by Katie C. on Fri, 18 May 2007 09:46:00 PST