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About Me

MyGen Smashing Porcelina

My Interests

Music, art, philosophy, dance, yoga, religion, politics, foreign history/affairs/language, film, Krav Maga, cooking- or non-cooking (raw/living foods).

I'd like to meet:

someone with a pillow. And the ability to make my MySpace profile something more than it's current blahness. And Paul McCartney before Heather drives him to a deadly heartattack. and someone with a pillow. Go Cubbies.Click to view Demo Reel

Music:

Quantic, Jem, Radiohead, PoiDogPondering, Beatles, Nick Drake, Damien Rice, Eminem, Coldplay, Bowie, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Frank Sinatra, Etta James, Nina Simone, Moby, Smiths, Cure, Peter Murphy, Psychedelic Furs, Jazzanova, Middle Eastern, Irish. I'm intrigued by Niko.

Movies:

Little Miss Sunshine, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Moulin Rouge, Willie Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (Gene Wilder version!), Heathers, Help, Mary Poppins, The Lover, Spirited Away, Singing in the Rain, Marty, White Nights, Fantasia, Kill Bill Vol 1, The Royal Tennenbaums, Fargo, Citizen Kane, Showgirls!

Television:

Heroes!!! Arrested Development - sigh. 6 Feet Under - sigh. South Park. Family Guy. Scrubs. Medium. Curb Your Enthusiasm. Nip/Tuck. Extras. Office is getting pretty good. My Name is Earl has made me laugh out loud a couple times. Aqua Teen Hunger Force. Entourage. Other than those, TV is painfully bad so I keep it off and just watch DVDs.

Books:

I love Augusten Burroughs so much I'm considering a subscription to Details magazine (Fave - Running with Scissors). ANYTHING by David Sedaris (Fave - Barrel Fever). ANYTHING by Milan Kindera (Fave - Unbearable Lightness of Being). ANYTHING by Jack Kerouac (Fave - On the Road) Other faves: In His Own Write, Killing the Buddha-A Heretics Bible, Nadja, Sieze the Day, Naked Lunch, Hero (W.Burroughs), The Lover, Les Enfants Terrible, Alice in Wonderland, Night, The Sexual Life of Catherine M. NOTE-The Alchemist - nice story but not life-changing as assured by every stanger who saw me carrying it.

Heroes:

My Mom. John Lennon. Paul McCartney. Bill Clinton. Elie Wiesel. Tho not nec a HERO, a mighty interesting dude: Yves Klein.

My Blog

Beuhler? Beuhler? Boston?

Going to Boston today- Baby cousin getting married on Saturday.So strange....I vividly recall him running about the living room of my grandparents' home in his batman underoos complete with cape.Now h...
Posted by karakara on Thu, 29 May 2008 06:14:00 PST

Chaos and lack of

It's been a long time since I've written anything more than a quickie email or two-It's been a busy busy year so far- but mostly my doing-I adopted a dog in February. After being her foster parent fo...
Posted by karakara on Tue, 20 May 2008 06:24:00 PST

Bedazzled! Finally a way to see it more than once a year and not at the Egyptian Theatre

One of my very favorite movies -- EVER ...
Posted by karakara on Tue, 13 May 2008 08:40:00 PST

Once

WHY DID I HAVE TO SIT THROUGH 3 VOMIT-INDUCING SONGS FROM ENCHANTED WHEN "ONCE" IS A SOLID 90 MINUTES OF AMAZING ORIGINAL SONGS????TRULY ORIGINALNOT NEWLY-WRITTEN-BY-SOME-JOKESTER-WHOS-COPYING-EVERY-D...
Posted by karakara on Thu, 06 Mar 2008 07:58:00 PST

Another reason to be a vegetarian....

USDA recalls 143 million pounds of beefU.S. officials call action on S. Calif. slaughterhouse largest beef recall everThe Associated Pressupdated 2:43 p.m. PT, Sun., Feb. 17, 2008LOS ANGELES - The U.S...
Posted by karakara on Mon, 18 Feb 2008 04:55:00 PST

The Ultimate Reality Show

email last week - "omg heath ledger is dead!"Exclaimed down the hall at my job "aaaack! Britney's out!"Used to be - first thing in the morning in offices, people would debate whether or not Rachel and...
Posted by karakara on Thu, 07 Feb 2008 12:21:00 PST

Forever in sunbeams

Thank you everyone who sent prayers, compassion, angels, candles both here and privately.10 years ago I had a 16 yr kitty who Fred adored (Fred was 4). He would wash the old man's head and other hard-...
Posted by karakara on Sat, 19 Jan 2008 10:39:00 PST

Sweeney Todd and Johnny Depp win!

While going through my obsessive checking of the various feline cancer groups I've found, I stumbled on an announcement from the Golden Globes.Sweeney Todd - Best Musical/Comedy (funny award for this ...
Posted by karakara on Mon, 14 Jan 2008 07:36:00 PST

Fred’s Update

Fred was diagnosed with cancer on Thursday.The earliest they could see him at the Cancer facility was 2pm Tuesday.This was farrrrr from acceptable to me and anyone who knows me knows the best thing I ...
Posted by karakara on Sun, 06 Jan 2008 11:00:00 PST

Sparks in the Darkness

Feeling weird sharing this at a time of year when most people's hopes are at their highest, but my outlook right now is a wee.....challenged....the line about how God is found in the dark cloud made m...
Posted by karakara on Thu, 03 Jan 2008 08:20:00 PST