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colleen

if we get lucky we'll be dead by dawn

About Me

fuck magnet

we have a pretty severe bike problem at our house:

p.s. i love my roomates, and i also love hardcore thursday.

My Interests

bikes, boys, beer, burritos, in that order. molecular biology, genetics, and being one of "us rock and roll kids." sleep-over parties, a good sandwich, dolores park on a sunny day, breaking into swimming pools, skinny dipping.

I'd like to meet:

people who like me.

and then anyone who wants to ride to dolores park to hang out with me and drink beer. yeah.

Music:

early black flag, gang of four, the damned, the dead boys, the avengers, stiff little fingers, the minutemen, the buzzcocks, joy division, op iv, gorilla biscuits, minor threat, husker du, lifetime, fugazi, botch, cave-in, converge, ink and dagger, unbroken, shotmaker, arab on radar, go go go airheart, nation of ulysses, the slaves/pleasure forever, the vss, at the drive-in, knapsack, jawbreaker, cap'n jazz, the get-up kids (yeah yeah yeah yeah, whatever, fuck you) jets to brazil, jawbox, braid, mineral, planes mistaken for stars, hot water music, les savy fav, the coachwhips, dfa 1979, oneida, murder city devils, le shok, lightning bolt, the make-up, hot snakes, drive like jehu, the stooges, mc5, love, 13th floor elevators, the kinks, the small faces, the standelles.

Movies:

whatever is on the shelf in the living room.

Television:

the young ones. project runway.

Books:

dead american authors who wrote between 1920 and 1960.

Heroes:

i am my own hero

My Blog

i am just a girl with a bicycle

it is monday and i feel almost as if i am a different person today than i was on monday a week ago. i am confused by people. i am confused by the decisions that they make and by the actions they carry...
Posted by colleen reckless on Mon, 22 Jan 2007 01:12:00 PST

i think that maybe the way things are going is trying to tell me something

but i'm totally not listening. of ALL the bands, it had to be jawbreaker, didn't it. i wish i could spend all of my afternoons reading in the park.
Posted by colleen reckless on Sun, 21 Jan 2007 11:05:00 PST

i got in this crazy ass fight today. seriously. i wish i had someone to get a beer with me.

i suppose i've finally lived up to the descriptives "scrappy," "ghetto," and "totally awesome." also, maybe not the most hardcore of fights, but still! so i'm on caltrain, of all places. and it is ...
Posted by colleen reckless on Thu, 11 Jan 2007 07:47:00 PST

my brain and i are constantly at odds. constantly, i am odd.

sara called me this afternoon. it woke me up. "did i just wake you up?" she asked."umm..." it was 2pm. "yeah. sorry." i apologized for some reason.she went on to tell me about plans that were being ha...
Posted by colleen reckless on Fri, 05 Jan 2007 11:25:00 PST

what happens when you save someone's life? this is for those of you who have never seen me cry.

because that is most of you. i prefer to keep it that way, you know. there are no pictures here. only mysteries solved and a new feeling that maybe there is some good left in this world. i received t...
Posted by colleen reckless on Tue, 02 Jan 2007 02:56:00 PST

post-traumatic stress disorder : bicycle accident redux. epiphanies about my future.

i was walking to the n station at market and van ness today. i have to walk there every work day because i still cannot ride my bicycle, and yes, i am still incredibly bitter about this. i also have ...
Posted by colleen reckless on Mon, 18 Dec 2006 03:13:00 PST

the end of my rope

i feel like i'm cheating, running the heater during the daytime. but my house is so cold right now that i can barely move my fingers. it makes typing quite the chore. i am not one to wuss out and turn...
Posted by colleen reckless on Mon, 11 Dec 2006 12:32:00 PST

an mri story

i came to the conclusion a while ago that i don't post this blog so much for me as i post it for the 102 random people who have read my blog today. i hope that, whoever you 102 anonymous people are wh...
Posted by colleen reckless on Fri, 08 Dec 2006 10:25:00 PST

bike coalition winterfest photobooth

was fun. here it is, in all of its glory, me and two of maybe the nicest people i've ever met in san francisco. my theory behind this is that i met them right after they moved here from somewhere else...
Posted by colleen reckless on Wed, 06 Dec 2006 01:07:00 PST

bikes, boys, beers, ice cream, drunk haircuts, bloody fingers, prison tattoos, swolleen knees

i am missing the tip of my left middle finger. i don't know where it went. i bandaged it up last night but it still hasn't stopped bleeding. i probably need stitches. i did it while i was giving ted a...
Posted by colleen reckless on Fri, 01 Dec 2006 12:30:00 PST