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Carmen

Nice try God - You almost had me!

About Me

Deep down I'm a gay man, but honestly, who isn't? Most of my time is spent between LA (where I'm from) and Chicago (where I was born and where I go to school.)

My Interests

the ABSOLUT PANDA, Photography, the South Pacific, the 70's Pop, Italian food, NEW YORK CITY, hot or cold cereal palmtrees, ice cream, biting my nails, and drinking milk with a straw.

I'd like to meet:

MonaLisas and Madhatters

Music:

Gavin Degraw, Coldplay, Elton John, and Trip Hop. Beck, Blackalicious, BLONDIE, CHAKA KHAN, The Clash, COMMON, Daft Punk, DAVID BOWIE, DIDO, DJ Dangermouse, Earth Wind and Fire, Esthero, the Flaming Lips, Gwen Stefani, GNARLS BARKLEY, GOld Frapp Heather Headley, Jack Johnson, Jamie Cullum, Jill Scott, Jimi Hendrix, JONI MITCHELL, John Coltrane, John Legend, Justin Timblerake, The Killers, Lenny Kravitz, Massive Attack, MAROON 5, MODEST MOUSE, Mono, Muse, Nappy Roots, NELLY FURTADO, Nikka Costa, No Doubt, PRINCE, Portishead, QUEEN, Queens of the Stone Age, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Regina Spektor, R.E .M., The Roots, SCISSOR SISTERS, Simon and Garfunkel/Paul Simon, Tenacious D, Travis, THE WHO, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs (they're less annoying than the white stripes).

Movies:

Almost Famous, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Office Space, Great Expectations, Dogma, Old School, There's Something about Mary, The 40year old Virgin, South Park: Bigger Longer, and Uncut, Swingers, Friday, Shakespeare in Love, The Birdcage, FightClub, Being John Malkovich, and The Royal Tenebaums.

Television:

Will and Grace, South Park, SNL, the Simpsons, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Scrubs,Sex and the City, Chappelle Show, The History Channel, + BBC America (b/c Brits are some silly SOB's, lol).

Books:

Great Expectations, To Kill a Mockingbird, Pride & Prejudice, Where the Sidewalk Ends, Black Coffee Blues, Frankenstein, and other 19th C. British Romantic Novels (+ anything by Poe or Hawthorne) and those devil Harry Potter books.

Heroes:

Leopold Stotch (aka, Butters)

My Blog

In case you're ever in LA

We only understand prose bitches ...   I drive everywhere I drive the freeways, expressways, the highways and byways The streets, the roads, and the paths (but rarely the sidewalks) I've loomed...
Posted by Carmen on Sat, 17 Jun 2006 01:23:00 PST

Freddy made me do it

What's weird about you?Each player of this game starts with the "6 weird things/habits about you". People who get tagged need to write a blog of their own 6 weird habits/things as well as state this ...
Posted by Carmen on Tue, 28 Mar 2006 07:41:00 PST

Chimera anyone?

Hey, so is the world still on fire?   Disclaimer: Complicated subject, tried to make it as short as possible, so don't start reading unless you are completely.   um bored, I guess?   o...
Posted by Carmen on Sun, 12 Mar 2006 04:51:00 PST

Don't forget to bring a straw...

...when you've got nothing else to bring, or just in case things get awkward - you can go ahead, pull it out and start sucking away.... My Profile reach 1000 views today.  Yea me.  I'm ...
Posted by Carmen on Fri, 17 Feb 2006 10:50:00 PST

Amazing Grace

So, this actually wasn't the blog that I intended to post today (sorry Jake), but I was checking my email a few minutes ago, and I got one from my Aunt Grace (who works for the Chicago police departme...
Posted by Carmen on Wed, 08 Feb 2006 03:30:00 PST

The OTHER 'F' word

I have never been able to understand the appeal of Florida.  I admit that I've only been there once, and was just to Disney World (so I didn't actually 'take in' the 'real' atmosphere of the Suns...
Posted by Carmen on Fri, 02 Dec 2005 03:27:00 PST

Tacos + Milkshakes = best week ever

I've been back in Chicago for eleven weeks now, and I think I've just had the BEST WEEK EVER!!!  Screw VH1, they don't what I'm talking about.  This week should not have been this much fun, ...
Posted by Carmen on Sat, 05 Nov 2005 12:21:00 PST

Giant. Gingavitis. Absolute. Panda. Vodka. Dammit!

I've decided to remove the 'notorius' ABSOLUT PANDA' picture, with Rachel, Jake, and Nate, just because I feel it's a little 'outdated' now (PS  fyi, the Gavin will NEVER be outdated). ...
Posted by Carmen on Fri, 14 Oct 2005 01:20:00 PST

Life is Good

Seriously, I forgot good it was - until I went grocery shopping yesterday, and it was on sale: 2 for $4 (regular price $3.something).  Hadn't had it in a long time.  It's a good thing I boug...
Posted by Carmen on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST