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Kristina

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About Me

I'm an LMU animation alumna who obviously loves to draw (Need proof? Just take a look at the drawings below!). Someday, I hope to achieve equality with my hero Matt Groening on a creative level. Either that, or surpass the success of James Bond.

Yeah, right...

My Art:
The Survey:


TELL ME ABOUT YOURSELF - The Survey
Name: Kristina Caeg Bustamante
Birthday: February 2, 1985
Birthplace: San Diego
Current Location: Los Angeles
Eye Color: Brown
Hair Color: Black
Height: 5'2
Right Handed or Left Handed: Right Handed
Your Heritage: Filipino with some royal Norwegian blood mixed in.
The Shoes You Wore Today: Black round toe slip ons from Punkrose with red and white hearts.
Your Weakness: The internet.
Your Fears: Loneliness, the kind where there's absolutely no one out there who gives a damn about you.
Your Perfect Pizza: Olives, mushrooms, onions...THE WORKS!!! Which would also be how I like my hot dogs.
Goal You Would Like To Achieve This Year: Draw and publish a graphic novel.
Your Most Overused Phrase On an instant messenger: "Haha"
Thoughts First Waking Up: I don't even remember what I was thinking when I got up this morning.
Your Best Physical Feature: My face. NO, DON'T TOUCH IT!!!
Your Bedtime: Midnight
Your Most Missed Memory: Jenny's 21st birthday celebration at LAX, and the crazy stuff that followed after it. Holy shit, that night was amazing...
Pepsi or Coke: Coke
MacDonalds or Burger King: MacDonalds. Because the Big Mac rules!
Single or Group Dates: Single, though the double date I had with Rahim, and Ben/Jenna was a lot of fun. Thank you, Ben.
Lipton Ice Tea or Nestea: Lipton
Chocolate or Vanilla: Chocolate
Cappuccino or Coffee: Cappuccino
Do you Smoke: No
Do you Swear: Fuck yeah.
Do you Sing: Yes, but mostly in private. Don't want people wishing to murder themselves away from the pain of my tone deafness.
Do you Shower Daily: Yes, though there are times when I skip a day or two.
Have you Been in Love: Yes
Do you want to go to College: Proud alumna.
Do you want to get Married: Yes
Do you belive in yourself: Oh, yeah. Because I am HOTNESS!
Do you get Motion Sickness: A lot. Worst was when I got it first day of Jay's class. Traffic really sucked coming back from Film Roman, and my body couldn't handle it. I ended up leaving during the middle of class because it was that bad.
Do you think you are Attractive: Refer to the second from above line: "Do you believe in yourself."
Are you a Health Freak: I try to follow the food pyramid as best as I can.
Do you get along with your Parents: Most of the time.
Do you like Thunderstorms: Thunderstorms freak me out, so NO!
Do you play an Instrument: I wish. Pianos and drums...they tempt me.
In the past month have you Drank Alcohol: Yes
In the past month have you Smoked: No
In the past month have you been on Drugs: No
In the past month have you gone on a Date: Yes
In the past month have you gone to a Mall: Yes
In the past month have you eaten a box of Oreos: I hate Oreos, so no.
In the past month have you eaten Sushi: Yes
In the past month have you been on Stage: Yes
In the past month have you been Dumped: No
In the past month have you gone Skinny Dipping: Still waiting for another chance. WHEN WILL I GET MY OTHER CHANCE!!!???
In the past month have you Stolen Anything: No
Ever been Drunk: Yes
Ever been called a Tease: Yes
Ever been Beaten up: Yes
Ever Shoplifted: Back when I didn't know what money was, yes.
How do you want to Die: Naturally, of old age.
What do you want to be when you Grow Up: The creator of a successful animated series. Hoping to be the next Matt Groening over here.
What country would you most like to Visit: If for some place that I want to go to again, it would be Italy. If for some place that I have never been to, then Greece.
In a Boy/Girl..
Favourite Eye Color: Blue
Favourite Hair Color: Brown
Short or Long Hair: Short
Height: Taller than me always does it, though a guy as short as Zach can totally make my day as well. LOL!
Weight: As long as the guy's not insanely obese, it's fine. So maybe under 250 lbs.? Dunno.
Best Clothing Style: Dark colors are my fave. Just like Andrew's style!
Number of Drugs I have taken: Two
Number of CDs I own: More than enough to open a store.
Number of Piercings: One piercing on each ear.
Number of Tattoos: None
Number of things in my Past I Regret: None
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Recipe for Yours Truly:


How to make a Kristina
Ingredients:
3 parts jealousy
1 part ambition
1 part energy
Method:
Blend at a low speed for 30 seconds. Serve with a slice of sadness and a pinch of salt. Yum!
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Personality cocktail
From Go-Quiz.com

My Interests

Acting, animals, animation, anime, art, books, clubbing, comics, cooking, drawing, family, fanfiction, fashion, filmmaking, fine dining, friends, internet, movies, music, photography, television, traveling, writing

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I'd like to meet:


Matt Groening again, of course ^_^

Links:

Me Andy's Alternate The Art of Kristina Bustamante Facebook My Half.com Shop LiveJournal The Squirrel and the Stupid Kid with the Sombrero My Wishlist "Heroes" Fanlistings

Site Credits:

"Heroes" Image Sources AnimePRO Magazin -- Rumiko Takahashi Capsule Corporation -- Akira Toriyama Genius -- Hayao Miyazaki Hero Realm -- Trey Parker and Matt Stone Jhonen Vasquez: The Greatest Comic Artist Ever -- Jhonen Vasquez People's History -- David Cronenberg Latino Review -- Brad Bird NNDB -- John Kricfalusi Switchpack -- Bill Gates Westchester1.com -- Alexandra Nechita Wikipedia -- Matt Groening, Seth MacFarlane "Heroes" Source View Kat HTML Tutorials The Bare Bones Guide to HTML Createblog Dave's Site EchoEcho.Com PimpWebpage Image Hosting ImageShack "Interests" Image Source Half.com Layout Createblog "My Art" Source Views Golden Dragon The Slayers

Music:

Top Favorite Album:

Demon Days
Artist: Gorillaz

A Complete Listing of Songs and their Respective Artists:

Almost everything by the Beatles and in the Garden State and Sliver soundtracks, and anything on the albums that the Six Degrees company dishes out; Atarashii Hibi - Puffy Amiyumi; Candle Chant (A Tribute) - DJ Krush and Boss the MC; Clocks - Coldplay; Closer - both the NIN and Richard Cheese versions; Confessions - Usher; Don't Let the Sun Catch you Crying - Gerry Oliver; Don't Make Me Over - Dionne Warwick; Enjoy the Silence - Depeche Mode; The Girl from Ipanema - Stan Getz, Joao Gilberto, Astrud Gilberto, and Antonio Carlos Jobim; Give a Reason - Megumi Hayashibara; Got to Love Somebody - Sister Sledge; Happy, Happy, Joy, Joy - Bob Camp and Charlie Brissette; Iceblink - Ken Ishii; I Wish I was your Lover - Susie B. Hawkins; Kagirinai Yokubou no Naka ni - Megumi Hayashibara; Kilted Yaksmen Anthem (from the Ren and Stimpy Show) - Billy West, Bob Camp, Charlie Brissette, and Members of the Gay Men's Chorus of Los Angeles; Konspiracy VIP - Kemal and Rob Data; Light My Fire - The Doors; Log Commercial (from the Ren and Stimpy Show) - Charlie Brissette and Cheryl Chase; Loading Program - Dieselboy; The Love You Save - Jackson 5; March of Death - Zack de la Rocha and DJ Shadow; Move on Up/Up Up Up - Destination; New Wave Jacket - Polysics; Ordinary World - Duran Duran; Poetic Tragedy - The Used; The Scientist - Coldplay; Scorpio (Simpsons end credits) - Sally Stevens; Talk Shows on Mute - Incubus; Tenshi no Yubikiri - Kareshi Kanojyo no Jijyo opening; Thank You - Alanis Morisette; Twisted Tenderness - Electronic; View to a Kill - Duran Duran; Walk on By - Dionne Warwick; When She's Gone - Electronic; Windmills of your Mind - version from the second Thomas Crown Affair; Wouldn't it be Nice? - The Beach Boys; Yume no Nakae (malted milk mix) - Dt.

Movies:

Top Favorite Movie:
A Passage to India
Director:
David Lean
A Complete Listing of Movies:
About a Boy, Adaptation, the first three Alien movies, An American in Paris, Atlantis (both the Disney and 1950s versions) Bad Santa, The Birds, Cabin Fever, Catch Me if you Can, Chasing Amy, Children of a Lesser God, The City of Lost Children, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Dirty Pretty Things, Dogma, Donnie Darko, Down Periscope, The Dreamers, Election, The Emperor's New Groove, Eyes Wide Shut, The Exorcist, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Finding Neverland, Garden State, Ghost, Ghostbusters, Ghost in the Shell 2, Ghost World, The Good Son, Graveyard of the Fireflies, Harold and Kumar go to White Castle, Harry Potter, Heavy Traffic, Hellraiser, Hard Day's Night, Help!, Igby Goes Down, Kiki's Delivery Service, Kill Bill volumes 1 and 2, The Last Samurai, The Last Unicorn, The Lord of the Rings trilogy, The Matrix, Monsters Inc., My Fair Lady, My Neighbor Totoro, Naked Lunch, Napoleon Dynamite, A Passage to India, Pearl Harbor, Perfect Blue, Phone Booth, Pirates of the Caribbean, Pleasantville, Porco Rosso, the original Psycho, Princess Mononoke, Pulp Fiction, Radio Flyer, Requiem for a Dream, The Ring, Roma, The Royal Tenenbaums, Sex and Lucia, The Shawshank Redemption, Seven, Simon Birch, Spanglish, Spirited Away, A Streetcar Named Desire, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles I and III, The Thief and the Cobbler, Three Ninjas, Tokyo Godfathers, The Triplets of Belleville, Videodrome, The Watcher in the Woods, Wayne's World, Wizards, X, Yellow Submarine, Zoolander

Television:

Top Favorite Show:
The Simpsons
Creator:
Matt Groening
A Complete Listing of Shows:
24, All That, Andy Richter Controls the Universe, Animaniacs, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Arrested Development, The Bernie Mac Show, Camp Anawana, Chappelle's Show, Clerks, The Critic, Digimon, Dr. Katz, DragonBall Z, Eekstravaganza, The Fairly OddParents, Family Guy, Freakazoid, Futurama, Garfield and Friends, Gary the Rat, Harvey Birdman, His and Her Circumstances, Home Movies, Inu Yasha, Invader Zim, MAD TV, Magic Knight Rayearth, Malcolm in the Middle, Neon Genesis Evangelion, Peach Girl, Ranma 1/2, The Ren and Stimpy Show, Robot Chicken, Samurai Champloo, Saturday Night Live, Sealab 2021, The Simpsons, The Slayers, South Park, Space Ghost Coast to Coast, Spongebob Squarepants, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Striparella, Tazmania, That 70's Show, Tiny Toon Adventures, Titus, The Vision of Escaflowne, The Wacky World of Tex Avery, Yu-Gi-Oh, X

Books:

Top Favorite Novel:
My Year of Meats
Author:
Ruth L. Ozeki
A Complete Listing of Books and their Respective Authors:
1984 - George Orwell; The Amityville Horror - Jay Anson; Anthem - Ayn Rand; The Book of Atrix Wolfe - Patricia A. McKillip; The Book of Revelation - Rupert Thomas; Bridge to Terabithia - Katherine Paterson; The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger; The Collector - John Fowles; The Confessions of Saint Augustine - Saint Augustine; Created in Darkness by Troubled Americans - McSweeney's; Devil's Desire - Laurie McBain; Flatland - Edwin A. Abbott; The Flower Boy - Karen Roberts; Flyboy Action Figure Comes with Gas Mask - Jim Munroe; The Golden Compass - Philip Pullman; The Good Earth - Pearl S. Buck; Healing Earthquakes - Jimmy Santiago Baca; The Hiding Place - Corrie Ten Boom; His Current Woman - Jerzy Pilch; Matilda - Roald Dahl; Misery - Stephen King; The Moon and the Sun - Vonda N. McIntyre; My Year of Meats - Ruth L. Ozeki; The Oblong Box - Edgar Allen Poe; Ombria in Shadow - Patricia A. McKillip; The Only Alien on the Planet - Kristen D. Randle; Parsley, Sage, Rosemary, and Crime - Tamar Myers; A Passage to India - E.M. Forster; The Pigman - Paul Zindel; Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen; Rose Madder - Stephen King; Spring Moon - Bette Bao Lord; That Summer - Janet Appleton; The Slave Dancer - Paula Fox; The Snow Goose - Paul Gallico; Too Many Crooks Spoil the Broth - Tamar Myers; The Wayside School series - Louis Sachar; Where are the Children?- Mary Higgins Clark; Where the Sidewalk Ends - Shel Silverstein

Heroes:

First and foremost:

Matt Groening

Other artists worthy of note:

Brad Bird

David Cronenberg

John Kricfalusi

Seth MacFarlane

Hayao Miyazaki

Alexandra Nechita

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

Ignacio Pena

Jeremy Polgar

Rumiko Takahashi

Akira Toriyama

Steve Troop

Jhonen Vasquez

In the opposite direction:

Bill Gates

And of course...

My parents

My Blog

Survey. Stupid long-ass nap...

I went to the humble abode of my fair, sweet Prez Steph, Laure-bot, and Zach earlier today to enjoy what little precious time I have with them before they leave later on today. Well, Zach and Steph re...
Posted by Kristina on Thu, 22 Dec 2005 08:36:00 PST

Christmas is this Sunday!!??

Well, I've lost track of the days. Wonderful. I thought I could stay up here for much longer, but knowing that Christmas is this Sunday, I should really get my ass down to San Diego and follow those l...
Posted by Kristina on Thu, 22 Dec 2005 05:23:00 PST

My sleep schedule's out of whack! GAH!!!

I have the whole Jay experience to thank for this. For the past few days, I've been unable to enjoy the daytime because I'm always passed out! I went to bed on Saturday morning at 4, and ended up waki...
Posted by Kristina on Tue, 20 Dec 2005 03:12:00 PST

Looking on the bright side now...

Sure... flowers are nice. But if you really think about it, they're really a shallow gift to give to a girl. I mean, flowers really only exist to be pretty. Not to mention, if you dont leave them in ...
Posted by Kristina on Mon, 19 Dec 2005 07:23:00 PST

And a bad semester comes to an end. Sort of...

It's 5:03 in the morning, and I'm bored as hell with life. For the moment, I would say. It's an incredibly jarring experience, coming out of a horrifiying, work-filled semester and landing into the va...
Posted by Kristina on Mon, 19 Dec 2005 06:53:00 PST

Starting to look up a bit

     For the first time in a long while I was absolutely ecstatic. It all started when I saw Peter Herlein, my old TA whom I had not seen since the night of the animation screening...
Posted by Kristina on Tue, 13 Sep 2005 12:48:00 PST

Praying for something special

     Every day now I pray for a certain something to happen to me and that when it does it will have a lasting power that will draw me out of this sadness that refuses to leave me ...
Posted by Kristina on Mon, 12 Sep 2005 02:05:00 PST

And my current anthem would be...

     Okay, so in the spirit of the previous blog, I'd have to add that my current anthem would be "Komm Susser Tod" or "Come Sweet Death" from the Evangelion movie The End of Evang...
Posted by Kristina on Sun, 11 Sep 2005 10:22:00 PST

My life just got weirder

     Geez...what the hell happened last night!? I'm not gonna go into details, but I stayed over at Dave's place after being reunited with him after the eternal summer - and I'd al...
Posted by Kristina on Sun, 11 Sep 2005 09:57:00 PST

A promise of fun fulfilled, actually

     Jordan came back to me yesterday, a few minutes after I had posted up my last blog. I was speaking to Carolyn on my cell, when he came over, hiding himself away from the door...
Posted by Kristina on Sat, 27 Aug 2005 09:01:00 PST