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Courtney

Chicks, man.

About Me

I'm just a caveman (woman?)... your modern inventions frighten and confuse me.

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My Interests

Music. Cooking. TiVo. Music. Shoes. Amoeba. Sleeping. Music. Mass Transit. Unemployment. Silver. Los Angeles. Glossy Magazines. Sample Sales. Furniture shopping on eBay. Fondue at the Farmer's Market. The Prince Show. Speaking in Absolutes. iPod. Free Shit. Tiffany Blue. Portland. Game Shows. Perfect Jeans. Current TV (as in Current, the network). Tempurpedic Mattresses. Books. Iced Tea. Lazer Cats. Record Stores That Actually Have Records. Downtown. Textiles. Quiet. Orange. Wholesale Prices. Diet Coke. Funny Shit. Improbable Band Names. Fresh Flowers. New York. Loud. Chinese Food. Unicorns & Wizards. IKEA. White Lights. Decaf, lots of milk.

My Special Purpose.

I'd like to meet:

Neil Diamond.
Oliver Sacks.
Madonna.
Robert Krulwich & Jad Abumrad.
this guy:
http://www.prodikeys.com/products/prodikeys_DM/watch/5_Drums _High.wmv
the grammar police.

gypsies, tramps and thieves. well, maybe not thieves.
also, while i am an admitted music junkie, that doesn't mean i love YOUR BAND. unless you're into wizards and unicorns or something.
and watch this. it's funny.

Music:

Sonic Boom
Entrance
Neil Diamond
Herman Dune
Dublab
Cornelius
Don Cavalli
XFM
6 Music
WOXY
Little Radio
T. Rex
Little Barrie
Twilight Singers
Lansing-Dreiden
The Staples Singers
British Sea Power
Beatles
Neko Case
Brian Wilson
Calexico
Scott Walker
Super Furry Animals
The Bees
The Libertines
Richard Hawley
Dr. Dog
David Bowie
Velvet Underground
Komeda
Flaming Lips
Henry Mancini
Nelson Riddle
Leonard Cohen
Stereolab
The Band
Spiritualized
Old 97's
PJ Harvey
My Morning Jacket
The Free Design
Sonic Youth
Amy Winehouse
Rolling Stones
Dirty Pretty Things
Belle & Sebastian
Kevin Ayers
The Blueskins
Brian Eno
5.6.7.8.'s
Primal Scream
Devendra Banhart
ELO
Hot Chip
Simon & Garfunkel
Pavement
Saint Etienne
Phoenix
Spoon
Beulah
The Duke Spirit
Prince
Phil Spector
Raveonettes
ABC
The Kills
New Order
Black Sabbath
Clinic
Bjork
Nina Simone
Pulp
Os Mutantes
french pop
60s italian movie music
international 60s garage/psych
George Harrison
Broadcast
Yo La Tengo
Baxter Dury
Hall & Oates
Serge Gainsbourg
Relaxed Muscle
The Charlatans
The Tyde
Pink Floyd
Shirley Ellis
Isaac Hayes
Sloan
DFA
Howe Gelb/Giant Sand
Echo and the Bunnymen
Frank Sinatra
Frausdots
Silvinha
McDonald + Giles
Lon + Derrek Van Eaton
Dennis Wilson
solo George Harrison
Air......

Movies:

But is it funny?

Anchorman, Caddyshack, The Jerk, Groundhog Day, Ghostbusters, Old School, Ferris Bueller, Shaun of the Dead, 40 Year Old Virgin....

La Vie En Rose, Lost in Translation, Royal Tennenbaums, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Commitments, City of God, Goodfellas (kaaaaaaren!), Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, Sunset Boulevard, Double Indemnity, Primer. Wayne's World (but not Wayne's World 2).

Television:

The Office (u.s. and u.k.)
Peep Show
Knights of Prosperity (R.I.P.)
The Soup
Adult Swim
SNL
The Daily Show
Little Britain
Spaced
I'm Alan Partridge
Arrested Development
South Park
Weeds
Curb Your Enthusiasm
Entourage
Freaks and Geeks
Project Runway
Small Space, Big Style
Dwell
Megastructures
MythBusters
I can absorb countless hours of HGTV, The History Channel and Discovery Channel. I'm down for documentaries, dudes.
Foreign tv makes me smile. Especially if it's funny.
random things the TiVo auto-records because it contains the word "fart" in the title and/or description. yes, i am six years old.

Books:

still life with woodpecker
the wind-up bird chronicle
generation x

rock and roll pap. glossy magazines of the music/tech/design varieties.

Heroes:

Jimmy Rabbitte. Kay Corleone. SuperHans.

My Blog

dateline is watching you.

So lately I'm starting to think that the barrage of friend requests I receive from 14 year old teens (from kissimmee florida, who would like to make the sexy time during study breaks) are really comin...
Posted by Courtney on Wed, 25 Apr 2007 11:45:00 PST

make me something crafty.

is it bizarre that most of my comments on this page either involve fondue, dogs (the only dog - dylan), retards and dinosaurs?also, who's got a custom furniture hookup for me? i've got a problem that ...
Posted by Courtney on Wed, 16 Aug 2006 04:32:00 PST

The Upside of Unemployment

having time to go to the gym and losing a pant size. help, i lost a size - where did it go? it's not on my ass, so thanks for that. plus apparently the lost pant size comes with the ability to find su...
Posted by Courtney on Fri, 10 Mar 2006 11:58:00 PST

puppy love

dogsitting. i'm into it. our pal Dylan Keith Hollywood Burgess, aka the Best Dog Ever (yorkshire terrier division) has been staying with us for the past week. and i want to keep him! don't wo...
Posted by Courtney on Wed, 15 Feb 2006 03:51:00 PST

totally the ANTI Hate Report Volume 1

You can be too pissy and depressed about the election when you're sitting in the 5th row watching Brian Wilson and co. deliver a pristene performance of "God Only Knows." It's the kind of song that's ...
Posted by Courtney on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

The Hate Report Vol. 2

Fuck this shit. i'm moving to canada. who's with me? seriously.
Posted by Courtney on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

The Hate Report Volume 1

Thing to hate on November 1st: Christmas Trees up in malls already, and the Halloween candy hasn't even begun to get stale. Don't put up the trees before thanksgiving, assholes. Put up a gigantic pap...
Posted by Courtney on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

The future of ROCK

i have seen the future of rock and roll and its name is Surferosa. www.myspace.com/surferosa blew the doors off the place. if nena got those 99 luft baloons some guitar licks and a fucking atti...
Posted by Courtney on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

now playing....

nothing to report.... playing on the work stereo today: yeah yeah yeahs - fever to tell komeda - kokomemedada loretta lynn - van lear rose midnight movies - s/t ep nina simone - verve jazz mas...
Posted by Courtney on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

the Ten Commandments: The Musical

okay, so i'm not bullshitting you when I say that there is literally a play called "The Ten Commandments: The Musical." It's coming to the Kodak Theatre and i'm fraught with both curiousity and horror...
Posted by Courtney on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST