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Crystal Stranger

There's no Crystal Lite here... just 100% pure Crystal and it burns....

About Me

This is my personal page for friends only. Period.You are welcome to add my band page or podcast page though: www.myspace.com/themysluts www.myspace.com/backseatbeat Maybe if you make friends with me on that page or in person, someday I'll add you to this one, but until then stop bugging me with all those add me messages!Reel

Add to My Profile | More Videos I recently moved to LA to become a star.(hahahaha! Everyone here takes themselves so damned seriously....) I play guitar and sing in the greatest (aka dumbest) band in the whole wide world (isn't myspathe the whole world?)- check out our Myspace page: www.myspace.com/themysluts I also like to drink and drive. Well not at the same time usually... I've been really into Mopars for quite a while now. I didn't grow up around it, actually my parents are useless when it comes to cars, they can't even check their oil. I got into cars while living in San Francisco, how that makes sense I don't think I'll ever figure out, but it happened. I kept buying old cars that broke down on me, and since my boyfriends were all a bunch of useless rockers and artists I had to figure out how to fix them myself. Pretty soon I discovered speed parts and that I could fix up cars to go faster just as easily as I could just fix the problems. Once I started making my cars go faster it got addictive, and I wanted them to go faster & faster, and of course I started racing them on the streets. I was drag racing down in Hunter's Point and I had no clue that there were tracks where I could do this until I bought a car off a friend that raced at Sear's Point. I started going up there in my horribly slow daily drivers because I blew up the fast cars trying drive them on the freeway to the track. I got addicted to racing, and basically wound up changing my whole life around to be car friendly. Since having seven cars on the streets of SF and moving them for street cleaning twice a week was pretty frustrating I decided I needed to buy a house somewhere. Just like everything else in my life, it seems I can't be content with just one, and now I have quite a few houses, now I'm everyone's favorite slumlord. I was on Monster Garage a few times, the first all girl episode and then the rock em sock em robots episodes. The first episode they made me look like an incompetant bitch, which is fine, I don't really give a shit what everyone thinks about me. The fight was real, but the buildup surrounding it was greatly changed from reality. Hey at least I got tattooed on national television before it was trendy. I spent some time over the last couple years being officially retired, but working harder than ever, renovating rental houses, building up my ill-fated rock club, I got my EA licensing so I could be a tax attorney if I feel inclined to get a real job someday... and now I've bitten the bullet and decided to rejoin the business world so I got myself a real job wearing suits and everything in a high end financial services company... I'm the kinda person that doesn't relax easily and I have a tendency to do a lot of different things constantly. Of course in addition to all this responsible stuff I've still been racing, playing music, having a social life, drinking, etc... Recently I feel like I have come out of a fog and I've decided I want to have more fun in my life. Life is too short to be so serious. It's time to live a rock-n-roll hot rodding crazy fun lifestyle for a while again.And here's a couple articles about Mopars I wrote a while back that I recently stumbled across:Accelerateus Maximus The Rise and Fall of the Plymouth Road Runner: http://www.moparstyle.net/history/roadrunnergtx.htmThe Golden Age of The Chrysler Hemi: http://www.moparstyle.net/history/earlyhemimotor.htm

My Interests

Gladys

Add to My Profile | More Videos I like to make people laugh, so I have a tendency to do a lot of stupid things, especially when I'm drunk.

I'd like to meet:

People that aren't on myspace.

Music:

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Movies:

I love car movies, B movies, and horror films. I'm really out of date when it comes to mainstream movies, I never have time to go to the theatre and I'm horrendous at returning rentals so I gave up on that and buy something on dvd when I want to see it.

Television:

I don't watch standard TV. I've had cable internet for over a year now and according to my friends they can't give it to me without hooking up basic cable, but I've never tried to hook my tv up to it to find out if I get any channels or not. I think TV is a huge waste of time, not that this isn't, but at least on the computer I have a little more control over what I see, and I must admit I'm addicted to You Tube and I watch a lot of DVD's. Right now I'm addicted to You Tube and watching music videos, I'm also obsessed with Nardwuar, lately I've been watching a lot of the Trailer Park Boys, Spaced, and Strangers with Candy... I've always loved the Munsters and lots of other old shows, lost of shows I've gotten into for a little while and burned myself out on... I just don't watch much of that stuff. I'd bet that I appeared on TV far more often than I watched TV or even movies or videos in the last few years, wow that is weird to think about....

Books:

I read voraciously. Mostly old novels because I can't stand shopping at big bookstores, so I tend to buy all my books at thrift stores and get a rather eclectic selection. I love non-fiction, history, and select fictional authors. I go through phases, recently I went through a civil war phase where I read an entire Oliver Optic series of six novels from the late 1800's. Lately I've been on a nautical kick. It's time to go shopping for books again, I wonder what I'll read next?

Heroes:

All my friends that have encouraged me to do what I want to do.
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My Blog

Last minute trip to NYC.

I'm super excited, I just got my ticket for my last minute weekend in New York, whoohoo! Russ is in SF on business and I needed to get outta town so I cashed in my frequent flier miles and emptied out...
Posted by Crystal Stranger on Wed, 18 Jun 2008 04:47:00 PST

Wedding Pictures.... finally!

So I finally got a chance to upload the amazing pictures Margie took at our wedding onto my Flickr page.... the link is:http://flickr.com/photos/hemicat/sets/72157605548109235/A lso I finally got aroun...
Posted by Crystal Stranger on Wed, 11 Jun 2008 06:38:00 PST

My New Name

Russ is soooo awesome, that is why I'm marrying this guy! He had the brilliant idea that for us to start a new life together we should have a new last name, so we decided to combine our current last n...
Posted by Crystal Stranger on Thu, 01 Nov 2007 12:07:00 PST

I’m getting married!

Two months from today..... I'll be married! Not a joke this time- seriously I'm gonna tie the knot.Russ and I are going to get married on December 9th in Tulum, Mexico in a traditional Mayan ceremony-...
Posted by Crystal Stranger on Tue, 09 Oct 2007 12:01:00 PST

On the wagon- who me????

Yes it's true.... I decided to take the next six months off from drinky drinking. I actually started a week ago, and I'm going until Punk Rock Bowling next January.... For those of you who don't know...
Posted by Crystal Stranger on Fri, 03 Aug 2007 03:52:00 PST

Condos Suck

"Fair Avenue is a condominium development of 34 units. Your decision to live here, with its many other advantages, signifies a willingness to forego the relatively complete freedom possible in a priva...
Posted by Crystal Stranger on Wed, 04 Jul 2007 08:23:00 PST

Adventures Behind the Velvet Rope

Andy Warhol once said that he loved LA because everything here is plastic.... even the people. Last night at the Hudson Jeans Party at the new Stoli Hotel he would have been in heaven. Never before ha...
Posted by Crystal Stranger on Fri, 04 May 2007 11:49:00 PST

Finally got around to finishing....

Episode number 4:Host: Crystal SternSummer is here and it's roadtrip time! So come along on this tire-crunching, fast-action adventure as Crystal plays you some of her favorite hot rod tunes perfect f...
Posted by Crystal Stranger on Wed, 02 May 2007 05:19:00 PST

Gladys

Finally got around to posting this, xoxo... Gladys Add to My Profile | More Videos...
Posted by Crystal Stranger on Thu, 29 Mar 2007 02:53:00 PST

Backseat Beat Podcast .2

Yay, my second podcast for GaragePunk.com aired today!!! Go check it out:http://backseatbeat.garagepunk.comCrystal has been busy rolling around in the backseat of her car listening to all the greatest...
Posted by Crystal Stranger on Wed, 24 Jan 2007 11:21:00 PST