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Christen

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About Me



If you missed the bulletin, take note: Christen and Charles are getting married in April, 2008! (Can I have an "oh yeah!")
Christen wants to laugh everyday.
And usually does.
For absolutely no reason at all.
"God, this is like living every moment in an orgasm, with only pauses between plunges." - Anais Nin, Diaries
"It is immoral not to tell." - Albert Camus
"...by the power of the written word to make you hear, to make you feel... before all, to make you see. That — and no more, and it is everything. If I succeed, you shall find there according to your deserts: encouragement, consolation, fear, charm — all you demand — and, perhaps, also that glimpse of truth for which you have forgotten to ask." - Joseph Conrad
"I think we ought to only read the kind of books that wound and stab us. If the book we are reading doesn’t wake us up with a blow on the head, what are we reading it for? So that it will make us happy, as you write? Good Lord, we would be happy precisely if we had no books, and the kind of books that make us happy are the kind we could write ourselves if we had to. But we need the books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us. That is my belief." - Franz Kafka, to his friend Pollak, 1904
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My Interests

History, books, people, underwear, feather pillows, plants, crochet, knitting, barns, lowercase writing, writing, lost kittens, the question why, dancing, typing fast, ho-hos (the swiss miss kind), ho-hos (the transvestite prostitute kind), burlesque, art, silver rings, tattoos, staple guns, crime, serial killers, movies movies movies.

I'd like to meet:

Fucking nuts! I looong for a grapefruit...

Music:

I do dishes to Remy Shand and Maxwell; I drive to instrumental like Boud Deun, Herbie Hancock and Fugazi; I sing to the likes of Ani DiFranco, The Nields (now often seen as Nerissa & Katryna Nields), Natalie Imbruglia, Marry Me Jane, Air Supply. I'm moved by the likes of Janis Joplin, Counting Crows, Joan Baez, Bright Eyes, Califone. I'm cool because I listen to Ween, Oysterhead, Gov't Mule, The Cure, The Derek Trucks Band, PJ Harvey. I'm super cool because I've seen NIN, David Bowie, Ween, Gov't Mule, Alanis Morrissette, the B-52s, the Derrick Trucks Band and Ani DiFranco. "Let's watch a movie" is music to my ears...

Movies:

I'm a freak for movies. Though I've always had an unpleasant before-taste for slapstick comedy, every time I go, I end up laughing and liking it. I dig fantasy shit that can't happen. I dig suspense and thriller in which there's always a bad guy and I get to try to guess who it is. I like Run Lola Run, The Lover, The Shining, Shaun of the Dead, The Professional, La Femme Nikita. Love Dr. Strangelove, Rear Window, City of Lost Children, Amelie, and many others. Can't even think of how many movies I enjoy watching. Others to consider and get excited in the parking lot about: Exorcist, The Shining, Resident Evil. Anything with goblins, zombies, ghosts, killers, scary shit that says "boo" and freaky shit that says nothing (like the first hour of Wendigo). I love horror, even the shitty kind, and I love weird: David Lynch can step in my dreams any fuckin' time: I'm a fan of Twin Peaks, Mulholland Drive, Dune (DUNE!) and Lars von Trier (Dogville, The Kingdom, Medea, Element of Crime, Dancer in the Dark)
Which David Lynch movie are you?
you are: eraserhead
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Television:

Barney

Books:

i like brain candy, like mysteries (Patricia Cornwell, Minette Walters, Elizabeth George). I love brain food, like Hemingway, Kundera, Winterson, Marquez, Tartt, Proulx, Camus and a whole slew of others. See my website for all the books I've recently read. A list: Confederacy of Dunces, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Sexing the Cherry, Frankenstein, Jane Eyre, The Secret History, Lake of Dead Languages, Perks of Being a Wallflower, Possession, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, Singing Songs, House of Leaves, The Diamond Age, Catcher in the Rye, Anais Nin's Henry and June, Grendel, Julip, The Dark Towers Series, His Dark Materials trilogy, Dune, Farewell to Arms, Slowness, The Awakening, Woman in the Dunes, Atlas Shrugged, The Big Sleep & The Long Goodbye, Quo Vadis, I Spit on Your Graves (Boris Vian), Handmaid's Tale, Love in the Time of Cholera, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, This Boy's Life, I Am Legend, On the Road, Kafka's In the Penal Colony and The Hunger Artist, Hoffman's The Golden Pot and The Sandman, Stones from the River, Bastard Out of Carolina, The Untouchable (Bannville), The Shipping News, The Stranger, Giovanni's Room, The Red Tent, The Brothers Karamazov, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter and Member of the Wedding, Summer, Light in August, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, On the Road and more... Currently reading: Perfume: The Story of a Murderer, by Patrick Suskind.

Heroes:

heroes?all the dead people that did good stuff.and my sister.oh. I guess living people that did good stuff too.want a real hero? put a cape on me, motherfucker.

My Blog

Leslie did it; I can too!

Use the 1st letter of your LAST name to answer each of the following... They have to be real places, names, things... nothing made up! Try to use different answers if the person in front of you had th...
Posted by Christen on Thu, 20 Sep 2007 06:54:00 PST

Writing writing, practice naked

So I used to be a lexxicon-exhibitionist. A word show-offer. A page-stripper. Now I hide. I hide out of shame, my friends! I have slowed my pace; my journals take longer to fill, and I peek, now, at w...
Posted by Christen on Fri, 06 Jul 2007 08:09:00 PST

Egypt smartens up

Yay for Egypt! Though the cost of realizing what's wrong with female mutilation is tragic, I hope it limits future occurrences. I also hope the ban doesn't lead to an abundance of underground, sleazy ...
Posted by Christen on Tue, 03 Jul 2007 08:35:00 PST

Me, defined

I was sucked in by Leslie. I swear!Four years ago, I did a free version of the Meyers-Briggs test. I was deemed an INFP. Reading those results now just didn't seem right. So I did a version Leslie did...
Posted by Christen on Thu, 28 Jun 2007 01:17:00 PST

This Subject Line Intentionally Left Blank

My, that's a big tree you have.Ahem. Ack.*Got something stuck in my throat.......
Posted by Christen on Thu, 28 Jun 2007 10:48:00 PST

my dna, vermont and bars

Right quick: I am an animated creator. Which rocks, cause it slightly suggests (The Sandman by ETA Hoffmann is on my mind) that I am an automaton who knits. Yessssssssss (now Napolean Dynamite is on m...
Posted by Christen on Thu, 28 Jun 2007 08:10:00 PST

tailbones and latin....

    A friend of mine hurt her wee wittle tailbone in the middle of a raucous good time (she was naked). Her father is a doctor, and she thought she'd ask him how a person knows when the...
Posted by Christen on Tue, 26 Jun 2007 10:55:00 PST

Allow me to break the silence....

things that hurt and make us uncomfortable, but we don't say aloud. for instance:i hate it when i sneeze and it makes my ovaries hurt.yeah. that sorta sucks. *the more you know.......
Posted by Christen on Tue, 26 Jun 2007 06:23:00 PST

new rule... that i just made up

to anyone is who is anybody who is anything...or nothing....(let's not get into this)...i refuse to do the following:consistently use one case over another (that is, lower versus upper) - but please n...
Posted by Christen on Thu, 21 Jun 2007 06:46:00 PST

Baltimore finally robbed me

It's happened. Aside from the incident in 7-11 two and a half years ago when a woman punched me, I am officially a victim of Baltimore crime.I was robbed tonight. I was having a glass of wine and knit...
Posted by Christen on Sat, 31 Mar 2007 12:41:00 PST