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becks.

Whoo! Alright! Yeah...Uh Huh!

About Me

becks is a graduate of queen's university. she doesn't know what her diploma says because it's in latin. she framed it for her wall anyway. she now lives in England, living as a professional geek so she can have the letters 'm' and 'a' added to her business cards.she likes music. especially when it has hand claps. she swings her hair and flails her arms when dancing. be careful. you could get hurt.she likes her coffee black and her wine red. she will probably have stained teeth. but she thinks it's worth it.If you ask nicely she'll tell you why it's very bad in England to have a "badly packed kebab" or be "smuggling peanuts".actually, maybe it's best not to ask at all.

My Interests

music, theatre, independent film, writing, knitting, karaoke, reading,

I'd like to meet:

a british husband who will let me use him for a uk visa.

Music:

the cure, sex pistols, the smiths, morrissey, david bowie, belle and sebastian, the doors, radiohead, broken social scene, stars, the streets, neil young, hot chip, depeche mode, blondie, the futureheads, sufjan stevens, wilco, yo la tengo, john vanderslice, islands, interpol, final fantasy, cuff the duke, controller.controller, clap your hands say yeah!, mates of state, math and physics club, luke doucet, shout out louds, the lovely feathers, depeche mode, stereophonics, travis, voxtrot, jason collett, the hidden cameras, mstrkrft, the unicorns, boy least likely to, talking heads, roy orbison, art brut, of montreal, pulp, oasis, nouvelle vague, doves, the long winters, iron and wine, elliot smith, dinosaur jr., cat power, you say party! we say die!, wolf parade, vhs or beta, red house painters, thom york, sparklehorse, tilly and the wall, gossip, the sounds, mojave 3, supergrass, do make say think, caribou, yeah yeah yeahs, modest mouse, wilco, sun kil moon, camera obscura,jetplanes of abraham, turning into salt

Movies:

any movie starring molly ringwald

Books:

anything by douglas coupland, that man is so witty.

My Blog

7 degrees to flava flav

mike and i got a cab the other day and the cabbie told us he was the manager for flava flav's nephew.  Then he brings out all these headshots and demo CD's.  we tried to sound interested. no...
Posted by becks. on Tue, 20 Jun 2006 09:16:00 PST

keep on rockin' in the free world

Joanne and I went and saw the Neil Young movie, "Heart of Gold" on Sunday.  We were the only ones younger than about 65 in the audience.  During "Harvest Moon" everyone starting singing alon...
Posted by becks. on Wed, 24 May 2006 05:47:00 PST

i'm like where's waldo...except, not

this summer will involve a lot of moving and my body being in a different location than most of my possessions.  I hope you can keep up.  For all of you who are trying to hunt me down h...
Posted by becks. on Sun, 30 Apr 2006 09:05:00 PST

ahem...ladies and gentlemen...

I just handed in my final assignment of my undergraduate education.  I've officially gradumatated...i mean graduated. I don't feel any smarter. LAST Kingston summer of FUN! THEN ENGLAND. CAPS ARE...
Posted by becks. on Fri, 21 Apr 2006 01:43:00 PST

no one wants an empty tube

i "accidentally" booked a plane ticket to england overtop of my graduation ceremony in May.  I was fine with it, my mother was not.  It will be rescheduled. (the plane ticket, not the ceremo...
Posted by becks. on Fri, 24 Mar 2006 08:18:00 PST

across the ocean I go

So it's official, I got an acceptance from the University of Exeter yesterday, giving me a spot in the Masters program.  Exeter is my 2nd choice so i'm still waiting to hear from the others befor...
Posted by becks. on Wed, 15 Feb 2006 03:39:00 PST

are you doing a sociological study?

Last night was supposed to be a very tame, refined night.  I invited 5 of my close girlfriends over to have dinner and play hours upon hours of board games.  Well we only got through half of...
Posted by becks. on Sun, 12 Feb 2006 03:34:00 PST

I wish i had a hatchback for all this junk in my trunk

jords got his wisdom teeth out yesterday and when the freezing wore off we found a broken off piece of a scalpel left in his mouth!  Sadly we can't sue unless there was damage.  Jords declin...
Posted by becks. on Fri, 30 Dec 2005 09:18:00 PST

cut my strings bitch, i'm free!

i'm doing this performance tonight for 431 where i'm a puppet and my puppetmaster is manipulating my movements with strings tied to me.  Sometimes my puppetmaster gets a little overzealous a...
Posted by becks. on Wed, 30 Nov 2005 07:28:00 PST

the mormons are out to get me

yesterday two mormon missionaries stopped me in the street. they asked me my name and where i lived. but my mommy taught me well.  i told them my real name but pointed to a house that wasn't...
Posted by becks. on Sat, 26 Nov 2005 07:04:00 PST