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Kara

You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy.

About Me

Very deep. Hysterically funny.

Myspace Layouts at Pimp-My-Profile.com / Gray and Simple

My Interests

The American West. Knitting. Makers Mark. Dependent Thoughts. Halloween. Banality and Cliche. Music. Truisms. Religious Fanatics. Long Walks on the Beach.

I'd like to meet:

Chris Cornell. Miss Rodeo America. The Dalai Lama.

Music:

Interpol. Muse. Led Zeppelin. Halloween, Alaska. Peter Murphy. Dwight Yoakam. Mew. Office. Belle and Sebastian. The Radio Dept. Autolux. Band of Bees. Beta Band. Brendan Benson. The Shins. Magnetic Fields. Camera Obscura. Chopin. Jesus and Mary Chain. Ladytron. Kings of Convenience. Galaxie 500. Siouxsie and the Banshees. Kompis. Billy Bragg. Damon and Naomi. Joy Zipper. Kinky. Dolly Parton. Hybrid. Echo and the Bunnymen. Oranger. My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult. Say Hi to Your Mom. Young Galaxy. Gang of Four. Solvent. Rhett Miller. White Stripes. Bauhaus. Prince. Son Volt. Uncle Tupelo. Woody Guthrie. KMFDM. Hank Williams. Talk Talk. Teenage Fan Club. Velvet Underground. Jesse Sykes. Soundgarden. Nine Inch Nails. Johnny Cash. Super Furry Animals. etc. etc. etc.

Movies:

Star Wars. Planet of the Apes. Logan's Run. Brokeback Mountain. Sounder. Two Gun Man from Harlem.

Television:

24. Passions. Firefly. Ninja Warrior.

Books:

Picture of Dorian Gray. La Bete Humaine. One Hundred Years of Solitude. Therese Raquine. Madame Bovary. Lolita. Perfume. The Painted Bird.

Heroes:

George Lucas. El Che. Paul Banks and Daniel Kessler. Oscar Wilde. Toshiro Mifune.

My Blog

Tattoo Poll

I am trying to figure out what new tattoo I should get. I considered getting the Chinese symbols for "Serenity" in tribute to one of my favorite television shows of all time: Firefly. I also am consid...
Posted by Kara on Sun, 23 Sep 2007 10:59:00 PST

The Force: It surrounds us and penetrates us. It binds the galaxy together.

I love the occasional references to Star Wars that just spring up out of the blue. A MySpace headline, a band called Nerf Herder, a dog named Yoda, a tattoo, a cartoon, a photograph, an old t-shirt st...
Posted by Kara on Sat, 15 Sep 2007 09:34:00 PST

Am I ________ enough?

As I was sitting in my transnational American studies class this afternoon, mind wandering back toward the conference I'm setting up for my money-paying job that is taking place this coming Monday thr...
Posted by Kara on Thu, 06 Sep 2007 04:50:00 PST

Unforgiven

I've been feverishly watching movies for possible analysis and/or viewing in my intro to pop culture class, "reading" them as texts for the first time even though I've seen many of them already, somet...
Posted by Kara on Wed, 08 Aug 2007 01:34:00 PST

kara is

over it
Posted by Kara on Wed, 08 Aug 2007 11:35:00 PST

Monomaniacal...

I am a woman obsessed. I have a lot to take care of over the next week or two or three. A lot of brain power to expend on school and work and my living situation:- I have a test coming up on the 13th ...
Posted by Kara on Thu, 02 Aug 2007 09:18:00 PST

the luckiest person in the world

We celebrated my birthday last night, and I ended up having one of the most spectacular times of my life. And seeing as the people I know are some of the most spectacular people I could ever know, I r...
Posted by Kara on Wed, 01 Aug 2007 11:37:00 PST

May I admire you?

I got the new Interpol CD yesterday. I even pre-ordered it on iTunes, which truth be told makes no difference in the scheme of life. You can't actually get it and listen to it before it's released, so...
Posted by Kara on Thu, 12 Jul 2007 10:30:00 PST

the force is with me

i got this tattoo yesterday. my very first. it's my name done in aurebesh, the alphabet used in the star wars movies. that's right. and yes: that is the color. awesome. ...
Posted by Kara on Sun, 24 Jun 2007 02:59:00 PST

My life in music

I am supposed to be working but instead I've decided to make a list of as many bands I can think of that I've seen live in my life. Tita wanted me to put this together for my impending birthday. I am ...
Posted by Kara on Tue, 19 Jun 2007 02:03:00 PST