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Katie the Magnificent

I wish I could have a Nom de Guerre...but I'm a pacifist so I can't

About Me

I like to think of myself as a hipster know it all.


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My Interests

Intellectual superiority, apathy.

I'd like to meet:

Sir Ian McKellen, so I can thank him for teaching me everything I know about acting. width="425" height="350" ..

Music:

I love Beck. I also love: The Kings of Convienience, The beatles, Janis Joplin, The Killers, Brave St Saturn, Sufjan Stevens, Johnny Cash, Simon and Garfunkel.

Movies:

I like movies about people who live lives of quiet desperation. Stranger than Fiction, Children of Men, The Graduate, Good Will Hunting, Office Space, all beatles movies especially Help, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Mystic River, Million Dollar Baby, THE ROYAL TENNENBAUMS, Motorcycle Diaries, Brokeback Mountain, Memoirs of a Geisha, anything basically by Kevin Smith or Clint Eastwood.

Television:

Arrested Development, The Office, My Name is Earl, 30 Rock.

Books:

Kurt Vonnegut, Rosemary Radford Ruether, JJR Tolkien, CS Lewis, Soren Kierkegaard, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Chuck Palahnuk.

Heroes:

Kurt Vonnegut, Rosemary Radford Ruether, Soren Kierkegaard.

My Blog

Status and Stasis

Reading a book by Sarah Vowell has changed the direction of my life. I want to be an essayist. I also want to be a contributing editor to the radio show This American Life, which revolutionized my sum...
Posted by Katie the Magnificent on Tue, 11 Sep 2007 08:42:00 PST

Filmic Obsession

So if you know me even in the slightest, you know I have an obsession with film. Its bad. Unhealthy possibly. But only really good film, but then again my standards of "really good" not everybody agre...
Posted by Katie the Magnificent on Fri, 20 Jul 2007 12:52:00 PST

So it goes, Kurt Vonnegut, So it goes.

One of my favorite authors of all time, probably my favorite living author, just died. I am sad. But, I thought I would share some of his more poignant thoughts with everyone, as a sort of "in memoria...
Posted by Katie the Magnificent on Tue, 24 Apr 2007 10:44:00 PST

Anyone up for a witch-hunt?

This is an article from cnn.com that I feel very accurately portrays the current emotional state of America, and I find it very disturbing. Read it all the way through and let me know what you think. ...
Posted by Katie the Magnificent on Sat, 31 Mar 2007 12:39:00 PST

Katie the Hypocrite Motorist

So, the other day I was driving to school, and I was running late (which I hate it when I am late, it makes me not want to even go to class, which is a very bad mentality) and I was SO CLOSE to school...
Posted by Katie the Magnificent on Thu, 29 Mar 2007 05:01:00 PST

Hilary Clinton and other considerations

I am sick and tired of people harping on Hilary when they really have no true knowledge of her political views or accomplishments. I don't necessarily agree with her on all of her policies and opinion...
Posted by Katie the Magnificent on Fri, 02 Feb 2007 07:32:00 PST

Apparently, since I wasn't born with male genitalia...

...you don't have to take me seriously. Just so you know. It doesn't matter that I'm passionate, well-informed, out-spoken,intelligent, and insightful with a curious and active faith, anything I ...
Posted by Katie the Magnificent on Wed, 17 Jan 2007 06:43:00 PST

Earth, Spirit, and...I have no idea

This is a thesis I recently wrote for my God and Humanity class. I am quite proud of it, and Dr Slane gave it an A. He said it is the best thesis I have written for him, which is crazy. So...let me kn...
Posted by Katie the Magnificent on Wed, 13 Dec 2006 06:45:00 PST

Wild Hilarity

Me and my roommate Katie have this habit, where we lose our phones alot and stuff. So...we are always asking plaintively "will you call my phone?" so that we can find them. This happened just now like...
Posted by Katie the Magnificent on Sat, 04 Nov 2006 02:39:00 PST

I want a pet canary...

I want a pet canary.His name would be Dietrich. He would be a bright, sunny, yellow. I would put him in an old fashioned tarnished bronze cage that swings from a lamp stand about 5'5" tall. I want to...
Posted by Katie the Magnificent on Fri, 27 Oct 2006 05:26:00 PST