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Belén

I get my kicks above the waistline, sunshine.

About Me


There's more to read here and more to see here .

I eat A LOT of vegetables .

I sometimes play an actor in real life.

And continuing with that artistic theme: I'm in a band .

All hail me for I once was the bus driver .

I like watching people shuck oysters and enjoy cleaning shrimp myself.

I pick up accents whether I want to or not.

I don't want to sell you anything, I just want to talk...

I can't stand a sink full of dishes; if I see that your sink is full, I will either [1] wash your dishes (no, I won't load the dishwasher - that's cheating) or [2] throw them away so the sink is empty. Then I will scrub your sink with Comet - because YOU never do - so it shiiiiiiiiines.

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My Interests

Many. Varied.

I'd like to meet:


I just couldn't do it... knowing me, I'd have built my idols up to such heights they would surely knock themselves down by having crust in their eyes or weird-looking toes or something equally human.

A note to strangers: Stop tempting me with your candy. I was brought up to fear you people.

(Directors, filmmakers, and anyone else who wants to utilize and positively exploit my talent(s) are exempted from this.)

Music:

In no certain order (other than alphabetical [that's kind of a joke... not really, though, since jokes are usually funny and this isn't and I can't tell a joke to save my life ... well, except for the one about the General and his armies, but you all have probably heard me tell that joke a hundred times now. On the off chance you haven't, let me know and I will enlighten you and your life will everafter be filled with laughter and joy for having heard that joke. Anyway, music... ]):

'80s dancey tunes, Air, bagpipes, Ben Folds Five, Bjork, Bloodhound Gang, blue grass night at Madams Organ, Blur, Britpop, Cake, Carmina Burana, The Cars, Chris Isaak, Coldplay, DJ Desperate , Dolly Parton, Dresden Dolls, Gogol Bordello, Goldfrapp, James, Kaiser Cheifs, The Killers, Ladytron, M. Ward, Mousetrap / Rightround at the Black Cat, Muse, Patsy Cline, The Pogues, Prince, Pulp, Radiohead, Run Lola Run soundtrack, Sigur Ros, Snowden , some synthpop, Steve Earle, Travis, Ye Olde Madrigal Tunes.

Please feel free to expand upon this list; new music suggestions always welcome.

Books:

Porno, Glue, How I Became Stupid, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime, Trainspotting, Anything Murakami, Bloodsucking Fiends, Practical Demonkeeping, Travel Guidebooks ('specially the Lonely Planet series), Anything involving the quotes of Winston Churchill, Lullaby, The Diary, Leave Before You Go, We Think the World of You, Lucky You, Harry Potter, The Great Gatsby, more to come more to come more to come...

Heroes:

My mom.

My Blog

New York Television Festival Tickets

As some of you might know I had the fortune (btw - thanks again, Kelly, for sending that email to me) of working as an extra on the set of Codeword Secret, an entry for the independent pilot competiti...
Posted by Belén on Tue, 21 Aug 2007 12:27:00 PST

On recent live music shows and randometry

The Starlingtons put on quite a show last night ...I aint joshin', kids: lots of clapping-with-the-beat from the audience and more than a few hoots-n-hollars (of course, mine were probably the loudest...
Posted by Belén on Tue, 07 Aug 2007 10:38:00 PST

Gardeners are your friends

I ran this morning.  If you happen to live in the DC area and were outside between the hours of 8.45am and 9.30am, then you know that it was just a wee bit warm-ish (you sense the sarcasm, right?)**....
Posted by Belén on Wed, 01 Aug 2007 08:03:00 PST

A bizarre competitive streak

Recently, in the span of one week, I had the displeasure of being told by two different women (both I'm guessing in their 50s-60s), at two different gyms miles apart from one another that they were es...
Posted by Belén on Mon, 30 Jul 2007 01:25:00 PST

The little things

I hope... I hope to think of more......it's the two restaurants I know of here in the city (both offering Middle Eastern fare) that serve rice pilaf the way I grew up eating it, the way my mother made...
Posted by Belén on Tue, 03 Jul 2007 07:22:00 PST

Hot for teacher

No, no, no... bite ME, alien boy!
Posted by Belén on Mon, 11 Jun 2007 01:59:00 PST

My other car is a spaceship

Cleaning out your email inbox is not unlike cleaning out your closet - you often forget about the goodies you've left in there (well, that is, if you're like me and you happen to store old photos, let...
Posted by Belén on Tue, 05 Jun 2007 08:38:00 PST

Who says running isn't a contact sport?

Well, it is when you make contact with a bat. As in "mammal-with-wings." ...
Posted by Belén on Tue, 03 Apr 2007 07:56:00 PST

Hypothermia Hotline

If, in below-freezing/inclement weather, you see a person in need, please call the hypothermia hotline at 1-800-535-7252.From the SOME website: Save a life in cold weather! If you see a homeless perso...
Posted by Belén on Tue, 06 Feb 2007 11:44:00 PST

Thank you, Brad...

... for these....
Posted by Belén on Thu, 14 Dec 2006 02:32:00 PST