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Heidi

I am here for Friends

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Barbara Kingsolver, Joseph Campbell, Peggy Hong, Harrison Ford, Paul Newman, David Byrne, Toni Morrison, Bill Moyers, one of those creation-scientist preachers on the Jesus channel, or anyone who's mildly interesting, really.

Music:

art of noise, bjork, cocorosie, neil young, death in june, decemberists, depeche mode, dj shadow, elliot smith, electric light orchestra, elvis costello, explosions in the sky, felix da housecat, fannypack, four tet, the good life, gorillaz, lcd soundsystem, leonard cohen, juno reactor, massive attack, michael jackson, miss kittin and the hacker, moody blues, moorbeck stellar, blue jays, new order okkervil river, nin, nico, peaches, petra haden, psychich tv, public enemy, beastie boys, plastikman, portishead, queen, ratatat, radiohead, aretha franklin, ride, sigur ros, simon and garfunkel, sly and the family stone, talking heads, the streets, tangerine dreams, boards of canada, wolf parade, UNKLE, tricky, yaz, wolf parade

Movies:

harold and maude

Television:

twin peaks, arrested development, MST3K, akage no an

Books:

i'm a huge book junkie.these are the most important nonfiction books that have influenced my life:Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell, Autobiography of Assata Shakur, Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser, Cunt: a Declaration of Independence by Inga Muscio, Walden by HD Thoreau, Reefer Madness by Eric Schlosser, The Rape of Nanking by Iris Chan, How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America by Manning Marable, Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking, Diet for a New America by John Robbinsmy favorite writers/series':Barbara Kingsolver, Hermann Hesse, Chuck Palahniuk, Margaret Atwood, Neil Gaiman, Peggy Hong, Richard Russo, Alan Moore, Anne Sexton, Charles Bukowski, Luigi Pirandello, Frank Herbert/Dune series, Isaac Asimov/Foundation Series, LM Montgomery/Anne of Green Gables series, JRR Tolkien/ LOTR series, JK Rowling/Harry Potter series, Madeleine L'engle/Wrinkle in Time Seriesother books i like:Corregidora by Gayl Jones, Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell, House of Leaves by Mark Danielewski, The Romance of Lust, The Passion by Jeanette Winterson, My name is Charlotte Simmons by Tom Wolfe, The Belgariad by David Eddings, The Dark Tower series by Stephen King, Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier, Look Homeward, Angel by Thomas Wolfe

Heroes:

Joseph Campbell, Barbara Kingsolver, Neil Gaiman, David Byrne

My Blog

Venture Bros. Season 3 Episode 1..

..gets an A+ by me!Excellent stuff.  Hilarious!  I LOVE the excellent continuity of the show.  Every episode moves along the main story a bit.  This one focuses on The Monarch.&nbs...
Posted by Heidi on Mon, 02 Jun 2008 07:45:00 PST

i need ginger

man, am i nauseated. i've realized that i've been randomly nauseated a LOT in the last few weeks. i've even barfed once or twice. there's no good reason for my nausea today. i have no other symptoms. ...
Posted by Heidi on Sat, 31 May 2008 06:28:00 PST

I’VE NEVER SEEN A MAN EAT SO MANY CHICKEN WINGS

for some reason i've been dreaming about brian boitano for the past few days.  i think it was because i saw a video on youtube and thought it was pretty sweet.  brian boitano skates to "what...
Posted by Heidi on Fri, 30 May 2008 10:25:00 PST

Detoxing my life.

I had a fantastic day today tromping all over bay view with katie and ben, looking for apartments. the two apartments we were supposed to view flaked out on us, but whatever. we got lots of phone numb...
Posted by Heidi on Fri, 23 May 2008 04:52:00 PST

awwwwwwwwwwww geez

Shit, I'm totally drunk and my mom is on the phone.  I mena, I'm fucking WASTED watching cnannibal the musical again.  It's becoming a great source of comfort.  I told my mom I'm drunk ...
Posted by Heidi on Sun, 18 May 2008 09:11:00 PST

ughhh.

today was weird.  i feel like everything around me is just SOAKING in negativity, and i don't know why.  the weather is gorgeous and summer is here, but my stomach is full of anxiety.  ...
Posted by Heidi on Sat, 17 May 2008 04:14:00 PST

DONE DONE DONE DONE, HOT DAMN, I’M DONE!

it's true.  i'm done and i passed all my classes.  whoo-hoo!now i'm off to uwm to sell back these wretched books and block this horrible semester from my memory forever.  DAMN.  i ...
Posted by Heidi on Tue, 13 May 2008 09:47:00 PST

diseases

the other day i made my mom go through the family tree up to my great grandparents on all sides, and tell me what health problems they all had.  if you are a pennell, this is what you have to loo...
Posted by Heidi on Mon, 12 May 2008 08:07:00 PST

tip toe through the tulips

this summer i'm probably going to be writing endless blog entries about how wonderful the world is, if the past few weeks have been any indication.  i've been having adventure upon adventure near...
Posted by Heidi on Mon, 12 May 2008 06:55:00 PST

Whats love got to do--got to do with it?

I'm starting to have sanguine expectations for the summer. Sanguine is my word of the day. It means optimistic, confident, positive, and hopeful about the future. Now that school's practically over I'...
Posted by Heidi on Fri, 09 May 2008 05:33:00 PST