Carrie - ProfilesArchive

About Me

I'm originally from the Las Vegas area and somehow ended up in the northwoods of Wisconsin. I am constantly amazed that two places in the same country could be so different.
While I always enjoy adding more people as friends on here, I have a rule against adding people who are obviously running "hook up" profiles that are devoted to just how much borderline (and sometimes not-so-borderline) porn they could fit on the screen. If your profile has animated gifs of jiggling backsides, naked chests of either gender, or in any way appears to have been made with your genitals, I won't add you. Unless you happen to already be a friend of mine, anyway, in which case I must already know you're a pervert.
I play with graphic design and search the Internet to find the ridiculous, the funny, and the scary, which often ends up getting reported here. Occasionally, I'll toss out a fabulously bizarre essay or observations on my daily life.
For fun, I write children's books about giant insects and create innocuous websites with naughty sounding names. I'm horrifically sardonic. In fact, you can trust nothing I say. I'm probably being sarcastic right now. Oh no!

My Interests

Web design, publishing, fantasy, sci-fi, sculpture, painting, poetry, religion/mythology, musical theatre, roleplaying, writing, happiness.

I'd like to meet:

God. Anyone else is just a detail.

Music:

30 Seconds to Mars, Abney Park, Adam Cohen, AFI, Aimee Mann, Alanis Morissette, Ali, Alien Ant Farm, Alison Krauss, All American Rejects, Amy Winehouse, Annie Lennox, Arctic Monkeys, The Beatles, Better Than Ezra, Billie Holiday, Billy Joel, Black Lab, Black Sabbath, Blackmore's Night, Blink 182, Bob Segar, Boney M, Brian Tyler, Bright Eyes, Bush, Carly Simon, Caroline's Spine, Cat Stevens, Christina Aguilera, Clash, Coldplay, Cranberries, Crash Test Dummies, Danzig, Darren Hayes, David Bowie, Delerium, Denez Prigent, Depeche Mode, Disturbed, Dropkick Murphys, Eddie Izzard, Elvis Costello, Eva Trout, Evanescence, Fastball, Filter, The Flaming Lips, Flogging Molly, Foo Fighters, Four Star Mary, Frank Black, Franz Ferdinand, Fuel, Future Bible Heroes, Garbage, Gerard McMann, The Gin Blossoms, Gnarls Barkley, Goo Goo Dolls, Gorillaz, Green Day, Guided By Voices, HIM, Hinder, Incubus, James Blunt, Jamiroquai, Jimmy Eat World, John Fogerty, Josh Groban, Justin Timberlake, Kidney Thieves, The Killers, KMFDM, KoRn, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Led Zeplin, Leonard Cohen, Less Than Jake, Linkin Park, Lisa Loeb, Lisp, Live, Lordi, Loreena McKennit, Lou Reed, Machines of Loving Grace, The Magnetic Fields, The Mars Volta, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Massive Attack, Matchbox 20, Meat Loaf, Meat Puppets, Metallica, Midnight Oil, Mindless Self Indulgence, Mudvayne, Muse, Mx Px, My Chemical Romance, Nellie McKay, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Nickelback, NIN, The Offspring, Papa Roach, Paul Simon, Pearl Jam, Pink Floyd, Poe, Powerman 5000, Prodigy, Puscifer, Queen, R.E.M., Radiohead, Rasputina, The Refreshments, Rob Zombie, Rufus Wainwright, Saliva, Santana, Savage Aural Hotbed, Savage Garden, Scissor Sisters, Screamin' Jay Hawkins, Seven Mary Three, Shriekback, Simple Plan, Soul Coughing, Stabbing Westward, System of a Down, Thom York, Thou Shalt Not, Tom Petty, Tonic, Tool, Tori Amos, Type O Negative, U2, Velvet Underground, Vertical Horizon, The Verve, Vienna Teng, Violent Femmes, Voltaire, The White Stripes, White Zombie, The Who and more.

Movies:

I'd tried to make a list of all of my favorite movies here, but found it difficult to keep updated. Most movies, I wait to watch them on DVD. Often, I'll get through about six DVDs a week, and I generally like all of them. There are very few movies that I don't enjoy in one capacity or another, simply because I'm a horrible movie-watching-companion and will talk throughout the whole thing if it's not good enough to keep my attention. If that's the case, I'll then make up entire subplots of my own and characters and backstories, and then fall in love with my version of the movie, which is invariably ten times better than the original.

Television:

Don't really watch it. I don't have the attention span for it.

Books:

If you're actually capable of listing all of the books you like, there's something wrong with you. Books are like little encapsulated universes, and should be collected and explored constantly. I have read and enjoyed far more books than I could ever possibly list.
I started out with the Roald Dahl and worked my way up to Stephen King by the time I was ten. Most books, I finish within a day or two, and so like any junky must constantly look for bigger and bigger scores to get my "fix."
Currently, I'm (re)reading the Bible, just because it's got lots and lots of words.

Heroes:

My mom.

My Blog

Question

If you are a rock star, can you do things for no other reason than "because they're awesome" or do you have to have some sort of motive?I'm left wondering because of the most ridiculously huge live pe...
Posted by Carrie on Tue, 08 Jan 2008 04:48:00 PST

Ponderings

A long time back my old friend Jonathan had laughed at me when I told him I was going vegetarian. He didn't think I could do it. Instead, I've ended up almost entirely vegan. After thinking about it o...
Posted by Carrie on Thu, 03 Jan 2008 08:38:00 PST

The worst part about being sick

I have some sort of awful lung blech today and a fever. I feel all discombobulated and out of it, and vaguely as though I've inhaled water. The worst part is as tired as I am, as out of it as I am, I ...
Posted by Carrie on Wed, 02 Jan 2008 10:28:00 PST

Whoa

I'm going to have to dedicate a week to sorting through my music collection. I currently have 4 days and 19 hours worth of music on my computer, plus some CDs that I haven't converted. According to Wi...
Posted by Carrie on Wed, 02 Jan 2008 05:48:00 PST

More Light

Though winter has just begun, its death is already on the air. The nights are no longer growing longer, even if they might yet grow colder. Whatever holidays you celebrate, I hope they have ...
Posted by Carrie on Sun, 23 Dec 2007 11:48:00 PST

For those who didn’t know...

I've got a blog over on Blogspot that I update more frequently than this one. It's usually about music or movies (and often kind of gay), but I've got other things there, too. Like I just made my own ...
Posted by Carrie on Tue, 18 Dec 2007 09:48:00 PST

To Call, or Not to Call

That is the question!Okay, okay, I'm calling. Never turn down the possibility for adventure, right?Especially if said adventure may involve fedoras.
Posted by Carrie on Thu, 13 Dec 2007 09:01:00 PST

...er

...I just remembered that at some point last night at the bar, I apparently danced the polka.Odd.
Posted by Carrie on Sun, 09 Dec 2007 11:32:00 PST

Ow

Last night was my birthday and I very nearly was not able to get down the stairs this morning, after having slept for ten hours. Apparently, there is only so much dancing I can take and after having d...
Posted by Carrie on Sun, 09 Dec 2007 11:17:00 PST

My Daemon

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Posted by Carrie on Fri, 11 May 2007 03:56:00 PST