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annika

I am here for Friends

About Me


city girl in mind.
farm girl at heart.
tomboy by day.
temptress by night.
obsessed with words and images.
pretty things.
dark things.
lights and sounds.
tired of summing things up into truncated blanket statements

My Interests



airports. trains. pool halls. dives. truckstops. legions. strip clubs. mountains. lakes. rivers. camping. bike rides. badminton. firearms. tennis. photography. reading. cleaning. renovating. organizing. quantum physics. spontaneous combustion. public fornication. random acts. making things happen. throwing down when necessary. getting dirty whenever i can. jack daniels and anything hard.

I'd like to meet:



rambling boys of pleasure and ladies of easy leisure.

Music:

She Wants Revenge, Wolf Parade, The Arcade Fire, M. Ward, Castanets, Modest Mouse, The Organ, Rilo Kiley, The Church, The Concretes, John Coltrane, JJ Cale, Will Oldham, The Cure, Nick Cave, Nick Drake, Lydia Lunch, Johnny Cash, The Clash, John Zorn, The Decemberists, Broken Social Scene, The Magnetic Fields, Tindersticks, Cranes, Cat Power, The Pogues, Pharcyde, Jurassic 5, Beatnuts, Beastie Boys, Air, Radiohead, Muddy Waters, Robert Johnson, King Tubby, Thelonios Monk, Leonard Cohen, Tom Waits, Al Green, Marvin Gaye, Billy Holiday, Ella & Dinah & Louis & Charlie & Miles, ELO, Joy Division, Prince, Mew, Kevin Shields, Jim O'Rourke, Echo and the Bunnymen, Suede, Jesus and Mary Chain, INXS, My Bloody Valentine, The Flaming Lips, Blood Sweat and Tears...

Movies:

Naked, Trouble Everyday, A Clockwork Orange, Repulsion, Chung-King Express, In The Mood For Love, The Lover, The Warriors, Withnail and I, Donnie Darko, Gummo, Julien Donkey Boy, Decalogue, Red, White and Blue, The Wicker Man (original), Apocalypse Now, Chopper, Vivre se Vie, Grey Gardens, The Cruise, Blue Velvet, Last Tango in Paris, Frankie and Johnny, Scarface, Carlito's Way, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Taxi Driver, Buffallo 66, True Romance, Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolfe, On the Waterfront, Songs from the Second Floor, Princess Bride, horrors and comedies

Television:

Jeopardy. and America’s Funniest Videos- those rascally kids always seem to go right for the balls. High class entertainment people.

Books:

The Master and Margarita, The Deptford Trilogy, The Cold Six Thousand, Journey to the End of the Night, Tropic of Capricorn, Breakfast of Champions, Jitterbug Perfume, GEEK LOVE, Nausea, Kieslowski’s Decalogue, A Coney Island of the Mind, The Winter of Our Discontent, Catcher in the Rye, Franny and Zooey, Fear and Loathing, Morvern Caller, Great Apes

Heroes:

my Mom and my Dad. each for opposite reasons. sort of a left brain right brain thing.

My Blog

Mondo Artacko!

Mondo Artacko!Come see The Mondo Spider at the Snap Gallery on Aug 12th!!...
Posted by annika on Sat, 21 Jul 2007 01:36:00 PST

no box

i was just reflecting on a slice of minutia&. every place of business or job of any sort that ive ever worked at has had one of those closets. you know the ones. theyre full of files. these storage ...
Posted by annika on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

my bday in history:

August 24th in history: 79 Mt Vesuvius erupts, buries Pompeii & Herculaneum 410 Rome overrun by Visigoths, symbolized fall of Western Roman Empire 1891 Thomas Edison patents motion picture camera...
Posted by annika on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST