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AnNiMaL

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About Me

I bowl. Drive around. The occasional acid flashback.
TELL ME ABOUT YOURSELF - The Survey
Name: Annie L.
Birthday: 8/20/84
Birthplace: Morristown, N.J.
Current Location: Back in NY for a bit. Yeah baby.
Eye Color: green
Hair Color: brown
Height: 5'7"
Right Handed or Left Handed: righty
Your Heritage: Supermutt! Run-of-the-mill American blend..Russian, Polish, Welsh, Scottish, German..
The Shoes You Wore Today: Emerica Felts
Your Weakness: spending money I don't have
Your Fears: right wing nut-jobs taking over the world
Your Perfect Pizza: As of late, none actually. Not doing the dairy thing these days surprisingly enough.
Goal You Would Like To Achieve This Year: Going going back back to Cali Cali! And getting my teacher credentialing ball rolling. Back to school.
Your Most Overused Phrase On an instant messenger: no clue
Thoughts First Waking Up: bummmerrr.
Your Best Physical Feature: eyes
Your Bedtime: I'm nocturnal, the freaks come out at night! Ow ow owooOoOo!
Your Most Missed Memory: I miss Phish tour. Alot.
Pepsi or Coke: Jack & Coke
MacDonalds or Burger King: absolutely not
Single or Group Dates: eh whatever
Lipton Ice Tea or Nestea: chai or peach detox or earl grey or blueberry tea mmmm.
Chocolate or Vanilla: I adore everything about vanilla
Cappuccino or Coffee: I love tea actually, see two questions back.
Do you Smoke: Not usually no. You may catch me with a ciggie when I'm in serious festival mode though.
Do you Swear: at times indeed for emphasis
Do you Sing: in the shower, at the top of my lungs
Do you Shower Daily: yes except for when I'm on the road in which case every couple days
Have you Been in Love: nope, I think I may have a complex of some sort
Do you want to go to College: I've taken a little hiatus and am now finally ready to go back and finish
Do you want to get Married: someday perhaps
Do you belive in yourself: totally
Do you get Motion Sickness: nah
Do you think you are Attractive: I've got no complaints
Are you a Health Freak: I like healthy yummy organic goodness, but I also enjoy a good party, so perhaps they cancel eachother out? Hmm..
Do you get along with your Parents: My parents are the absolute greatest.
Do you like Thunderstorms: LOVE a good storm. The sights, the sounds, the smells. Aww yes.
Do you play an Instrument: I am a top notch whistler. Does that count?
In the past month have you Drank Alcohol: yes
In the past month have you Smoked: smoked what?
In the past month have you been on Drugs: no
In the past month have you gone on a Date: no
In the past month have you gone to a Mall: yes. these questions are getting really dumb.
In the past month have you eaten a box of Oreos: eek no.
In the past month have you eaten Sushi: avocado/cucumber/asparagus rolls and sweet potato tempura rolls. I'm sort of addicted.
In the past month have you been on Stage: Just recently at Caribbean Holidaze, what a rrrridiculous trip.
In the past month have you been Dumped: no
In the past month have you gone Skinny Dipping: no
In the past month have you Stolen Anything: no
Ever been Drunk: um, yeah
Ever been called a Tease: yes, though I don't think I am
Ever been Beaten up: no
Ever Shoplifted: yes, way back when I was a little dirt gremlin in GF. Yuck.
How do you want to Die: painlessly
What do you want to be when you Grow Up: Happy :-)
What country would you most like to Visit: Thailand, India, Nepal, Brazil, Australia, & New Zealand are all pretty high up there, but that's just the tip of the iceberg.
In a Boy/Girl..
Favourite Eye Color: LOVE one brown and one blue, but since that rarely happens anything interesting and pretty. Big fan of long eyelashes too.
Favourite Hair Color: brown I guess
Short or Long Hair: whatever I like messy hair though
Height: whatever
Weight: whatever works in proportion to their height
Best Clothing Style: I dig alot of different styles, you just gotta be you though. Trying too hard is always a turn-off..
Number of Drugs I have taken: hmm.
Number of CDs I own: alot
Number of Piercings: 6 including ears
Number of Tattoos: 3
Number of things in my Past I Regret: No regrets baby, live n learn!
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Your Power Color Is Gold
.."http://images.blogthings.com/whatsyourpowercolorquiz/gold .jpg" At Your Highest:You are engrossed in passions that mentally stimulate you.At Your Lowest:You seek thrills and neglect what's important in your life.In Love:You see dating as adventure and approach it with an open attitude.How You're Attractive:You passion for life makes others passionate about you.Your Eternal Question:"Am I Having Fun?" What's Your Power Color?.."http://images.quizilla.com/I/IamOrange/1046047954_s huntitled.JPG" border="0" alt="Divided Sky"
Divided Sky! You're peaceful and content, and would
like nothing more than to run out and fly a
kite on a nice summer day. Your personality is
complex and has several different facets, but
in general you just tend to be in a good mood,
which is why everyone likes you so much.
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My Interests

PHISH! Oh how I miss those boys.. *JAMCRUISE *the summer time *basking in the sun *clouds *sunsets *starry nights *being mesmerized by the moon *fireflies *festival hopping *all things funk *all things flair *creativity *conjuring up costumes *the process of turning a vision into reality *fairy wings *wigs *glitter *powertools *running wire *the smell of sawdust *the smell after it rains *smelling yummy *devouring books *sharing knowledge *sharing moments *possessing hopeless adoration for my fabulous friends and family *people watching while pigeon feeding *putting myself in other's shoes *compassion *empathy *acceptance *epiphanies *learning to embrace the quirks and idiosyncrasies of others, and myself *whistling *my kittycats * animals *not eating animals *furry-eared animal hats *politics *(far)left leaning liberalism *volunteering my time & energy to good causes *pushin' the good vibe *spreadin' the love *smiling, laughing and/or giggling *music that tickles my soul *maintaining amazement at the magic that is

I'd like to meet:

The dreamers, the doers, the shakers & the groovers. Those who keep me on my toes. Those who keep me cracking the f* up. And of course, Angelina Jolie, just so I can gawk at her.Yup.

Music:

*In no particular order*..Phish, The Dead, The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, moe., The Disco Biscuits, Particle, Umphrey's McGee, Bob Marley, Karl Denson's Tiny Universe, Greyboy Allstars, Sublime, Animal Liberation Orchestra,Tea Leaf Green, The Velvet Underground, Talking Heads,David Bowie,Scarecrow Collection, Old Crow Medicine Show, Frank Zappa, The Black Crowes, The Rolling Stones, The Doors, The Band, The Allman Brothers, The Doobie Brothers, Galactic, Garage a Trois, Sound Tribe Sector 9, Lotus, The Benevento/Russo Duo, Grace Potter & the Nocturnals, MMW, Martin Sexton,Ray LaMontagne,The Spam Allstars,Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra, Toubab Krewe,Eric Clapton, The New Deal, Perpetual Groove, Deep Banana Blackout, The Postal Service, Brothers Past,Juggling Suns,The Motet, Magic Gravy,Soulive, anything with Les Claypool, Jaco Pastorius, Steve Kimock, George Clinton & P-Funk, The Meters, Dumpstaphunk,The Ominous Seapods, Donovan,MOFRO, Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings,North Mississippi Allstars, Col. Bruce Hampton and the Codetalkers/ Aquarium Rescue Unit, Railroad Earth, Robert Walter's 20th Congress, the Jazz Mandolin Project, Gov't Mule, Toots,Steel Pulse, Barrington Levy, Damian Marley, Robert Randolph and the Family Band, Fantastic 4, Critters Buggin,The Big Wu, Addison Groove Project, Rusted Root, Simple Kid, Bob Dylan, Neil Young,Laura Nyro, Aerosmith,Quicksilver Messenger Service, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jefferson Airplane, the Counting Crows, Coldplay, Pearl Jam, Jane's Addiction,Red Hot Chili Peppers, Nirvana, Audioslave, System of a Down, Blind Melon, Tom Petty, Fiona Apple, Scissor Sisters,The Shins, Modest Mouse, Ryan Adams, Dispatch, Otis Redding, Marvin Gaye, Al Green, James Brown, Michael Jackson, Prince, Guns n Roses, AC/DC, Led Zeppelin, Blackalicious, J5, The Roots, Talib Kweli, Mos Def,a Tribe Called Quest, Del tha Funky Homosapien, Digable Planets, KRS-ONE, Eazy E, Snoop Dogg, De La Soul, Gang Star, Lost Boys, Aesop Rock, Lyrics Born, Al Howard, the Beastie Boys,Brazillian Girls, the Chemical Brothers, Ozric Tentacles,RJD2, DJ Venom, Bad Boy Bill, Bassnectar,Sasha, Aphex Twin, Prodigy, Ben Harper, Queen, Gorillaz, DJ Harry, Ozomatli, Zilla, Keller Williams, Brett Dennen, Moonshine Still, Herbie Hancock, The Who, and the list goes on and on and on...Anything that inspires me to bliss out and boogie, sport a ginormous perma-grin and shake my ass. :-)

Movies:

The Big Lebowski, The Princess Bride, The Neverending Story, Willow, The Sandlot, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Dazed & Confused, To Wong Fu Thanks for Everything Julie Newmar, Almost Famous, Napoleon Dynamite, Welcome to the Dollhouse, Igby Goes Down, Gandhi, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Requiem for a Dream, Empire Records, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Drop Dead Fred, Being John Malcovich, Finding Nemo, Gia, The Sultan Sea, Wayne's World, 40 Year Old Virgin, Old School, Anchorman, Meet the Parents/Fockers, Zoolander, Billy Madison, Happy Gilmore, BioDome, Son in Law etc..Documentaries such as An Inconvenient Truth, Bush's Brain, McLibel, Paragraph 175, Born into Brothels, Jesus Camp, The Corporation, The US vs John Lennon, Sicko, The Yes Men, Enron:The Smartest Guys in the Room...

Television:

FOX news.............Psyche!! Gotcha, just kidding, but really the BBC world news on PBS, CSPAN, the Simpsons, Family Guy, Aquateen Hungerforce, Seinfeld, animal planet, the discovery channel, the history channel, comedy central.. I guess a good chunk of this list is theoretical, I would watch this if I had it- but alas I don't have a television, so 'fuck it Dude, let's go bowling.'

Books:

Mutant Message Down Under, The Way of the Peaceful Warrior, ...and a hard rain fell, Honor Lost: Love and Death in Modern Day Jordan, All Quiet on the Western Front, Lakota Woman, Black Elk Speaks, Walking with Grandfather, Nisa:The Life and Words of a !Kung Woman, Hiroshima, 1984, Fast Food Nation, The Wal-Mart Effect, You Got Nothing Coming: Notes from a Prison Fish, Slaughterhouse-Five,The Rape of Nanking, Murder of a Gentle Land: The Untold Story of Communist Genocide in Cambodia,The Lady: Aung San Suu Kyi, We wish to inform you that tomorrow we will be killed with our families: Stories from Rwanda, Darfur Diaries, The Diary of Anne Frank, The Nazi Officer's Wife, The Essential Ghandi, Forbidden Fruit: Love Stories from the Underground Railroad, A Child Called It, The Color Purple, The Prince of Tides, Kafka on the Shore, Stolen Lives:20 Years in a Desert Jail, The Phish Companion Vol. 1 and 2, Love is in the Earth:A Kaliedescope of Crystals, Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right, The Autobiography of Malcom X, No One Here Gets Out Alive,The Mists of Avalon, Interpreter of Maladies, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, Tuesdays with Morrie.. and mainly anything about different cultures, current events, crimes to humanity, wars and government, and memoirs dealing with those issues.

Heroes:

My Mom, peaceful revolutionaries, and anyone who dares to defy the confines of convention to march to the beat of their own damn drum.

My Blog

Friendly reminder to all JAMCRUISERS!

Hello friends, and how do you do? The time is drawing near for another magical adventure out to sea, and I wanted to give you all a reminder (or a heads up) about the drive that will be taking place o...
Posted by AnNiMaL on Wed, 19 Dec 2007 05:34:00 PST

FAIR WARNING- This Ones Long.

Whoever first said "time flies when you're having fun" wasn't kiddin'. This year has flown by at such an accelerated pace that it's hard for me to wrap my head around that fact that fall is fast appro...
Posted by AnNiMaL on Tue, 11 Sep 2007 05:35:00 PST

Ameri-blog .1 (and 2)

Hello my friends! It seems somehow 2 months have slipped by without so much as a peep from me to you all, so before I get any more behind in keeping ya posted on my world, here's a lil update. The fir...
Posted by AnNiMaL on Tue, 03 Apr 2007 08:10:00 PST

TO MY FELLOW JAMCRUISERS

Here I am sitting back at my computer in San Francisco, my head still a-twinklin' and my body still a-swayin' (god I hope that stops soon), and I am reflecting back on JC5, my favorite cruise as of ye...
Posted by AnNiMaL on Tue, 09 Jan 2007 02:47:00 PST

Good-bye San Francisco, Hello Americorps!

I finally got word of the whereabouts of my Americorps campus assignment in the mail today:(drum roll please).......................Perry Point, Maryland, here I come!! As many of you know, I really h...
Posted by AnNiMaL on Wed, 27 Dec 2006 09:50:00 PST

Vegas Baby!

So, I wasn't at all planning on going to Vegoose, but Ashley n I (er, Dwayne and Bobby-joe) won the costume contest last night @ Pre-Hallow's Eve and won a pair of tickets! So looks like I'm in there ...
Posted by AnNiMaL on Thu, 26 Oct 2006 02:27:00 PST

Crazy homeless friend coincidence

This past Father's Day here in SF, thousands of miles away from my Dad, I went out for (veggie) sushi and sake with my girl Charlotte. After dinner while waiting for the bus I noticed a forlorn lookin...
Posted by AnNiMaL on Fri, 06 Oct 2006 07:35:00 PST

SURVEILLANCE CAMERAS USED TO SPY ON US AT WAKARUSA!

Hey all, It has recently come to light that we were all spied upon in our campgrounds at Wakarusa this year by the police using hidden cameras which covered 85% of the festival grounds, and were equ...
Posted by AnNiMaL on Sat, 16 Sep 2006 12:02:00 PST

You tell 'im Keith Olbermann!! YOU MUST WATCH THIS!

I just posted this as a bulletin, but transient as those are I transformed it into a blog to give it some staying power. Yes yes I've got all sorts of tricks up my sleeve. ;-) Enjoy. Wow..It is so tho...
Posted by AnNiMaL on Wed, 13 Sep 2006 09:37:00 PST

Back home from my Mexico build!! Lotsa pics!

Ahhh, where to begin?The trip came and went so fast.. It was fleeting, like a dream. Our team consisted of 9 volunteers as well as a handful of helpers from Mexico, and over the course of 6 days we bu...
Posted by AnNiMaL on Fri, 11 Aug 2006 04:13:00 PST