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sunshine

you want what you want but you don't want what you need...

About Me

i'm completely manic for music. i dance my pretty little ass off. i'm pretty loud and opinionated. what most people say after meeting me is, "You're so funny!" but i'm not sure they mean as in hahah or as in wierdo. i'm pretty sure i'm a funny wierdo.

yes, sunshine is my real name. yes, my parents were hippies.

i love graphic design. i also happen to be OBSESSED with street art, specifically stencils, awesome writing and stickers.

My Interests

people who fuck shit up with style, reading, writing, sleeping, beat matching, eating, cooking, drinking, laughing, stickers, stenciling, being good to people, traveling, art, watching leaves and trees sway in the wind from my sun porch, making shit work, finding solutions, offering help, loving the sun on my face, my cats the iller sisters, my turntables, my boyfriend... and more.

I'd like to meet:

awesome people, inside and out. oh... and mofos who can talk like this or at least thinks this is incredibly amusing:.. width="425" height="350" ..

Music:

i heart music. iggy, bowie, lee perry, plump djs, groove armada, manu chao, the zombies, leaping lizards, missy elliott, jay z, grandmaster flash, africa bambaata, rita mitsouko, dj krush, cassius, daft punk, bugz in the attic, gang of four, the cure, siouxie and the banshees, the stranglers, the damned, sisters of mercy, skinny puppy, duran duran, human league, kajagoogoo, snoop, dr. dre, biggie smalls, de la soul, jimi hendrix, howlin' wolf, john lee hooker, miles davis, beethoven, mozart, kraftwerk, sex pistols, adam and the ants, joy division, bauhaus, new order, dj shadow, q-bert, talvin singh, dj cheb sabbah, cheb mami, sonu nigam, prince, stevie wonder, run dmc, evelyn champagne king, donna summer, kool and the gang, rick james, the mary jane girls, sugarhill gang, asian dub foundation, the witches, chin up chin up, boys against girls, death cab, broken social scene, spinto band, little barrie, silversun pickups, cpen, dj sneak, chicken lips, white dwarf, boney m, the beegees, gene vincent, elvis, george clinton, amy winehouse, lily allen, sergio mendes, joao and astride gilberto, dean martin, frank sinatra, the rolling stones, the beatles, hrn marley, stars, verdi, puccini, mozart, the supremes, marvin gay, michael jackson before 1984, ray charles, edith piaf, the primitives, slick rick and on and on and on she kept on.... i love house, breaks, techno, nu-jazz, broken beat, garage, grime, dub, almost anything electronica.but NO trance... that's just pure crap. i cannot stress this enough.

Movies:

south park-bigger, better, uncut; fight club, the big lebowski, resevoir dogs, b-grade horror films, bollywood films like khabie khushie khabie gham, veer-zara, devdas, dilwale dulhania la jayengye, kuch kuch hota hai, godzilla films, anime, animated porn, office space, down by law, mystery train, hedwig & the angry inch, tarnation, fetish, dogs in space, breathless, amelie, diva, bladerunner, 2001, bad kung-fu films, pootie tang, this is spinal tap, waiting for guffman, monty python, the hunger, in the mood for love, chunking express, 2046... etc., etc., etc.

Television:

i hate television. but i love adult swim. do YOU SEE my conundrum here?! boondocks, robot chicken, athf, samurai champloo, moral orel, family guy, futurama... ugh!!!

Books:

g. garcia marquez, moliere, maupassant, zola, proust, allende, montaigne, huxley, denis johnson, rollins, gaiman, danticat, llosa vargas, palaniuk, sartre, mahfouz, ishiguro, t.s. eliot, wilde, asimov, hesse, burgess, turgenev, heinlein. as long as it isn't a NYTimes bestseller, i'll read it. if everyone and their momma is reading it, i won't touch it. i get snobby like that about my literature.

Heroes:

my momma

my gran

leonardo da vinci

My Blog

What Pseudo Historical Figure Best Suits You?

You scored as Friedrich Nietzsche. Well you're an egotistical maniac, and you are so very iconoclastic that you probably are currently lost in a post-modern Jupiter, I mean jungle of self-definition....
Posted by sunshine on Mon, 20 Nov 2006 09:57:00 PST

my fave jam EVAR!!

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Posted by sunshine on Thu, 16 Nov 2006 07:07:00 PST

7 weird habits/things about me

Continuing the game.... below are the rules.The first player of this "game" starts with the topic "seven weird habits/things about me" and people who get tagged need to write a blog about their seven ...
Posted by sunshine on Thu, 02 Nov 2006 09:51:00 PST

Desmond Dekker

seriously, go get one of his best ofs (ex: Israelites: The Best of Desmond Dekker, issued 2002) and tell me that you don't immediately smile once you start listening... that shit is irie mon!...
Posted by sunshine on Fri, 18 Aug 2006 09:56:00 PST

et tac! zinédine s'explique...

Ce n'est pas un geste à faire, je tiens à le dire haut et fort, a expliqué d'un côté Zinédine Zidane. Il a été vu par des millions d'enfants. Auprès d'eux, auprès des éducateurs, je m'en excuse». Comm...
Posted by sunshine on Wed, 12 Jul 2006 12:20:00 PST

my linguistic profile...

Your Linguistic Profile:65% General American English15% Upper Midwestern10% Yankee5% Dixie0% MidwesternWhat Kind of American English Do You Speak?...
Posted by sunshine on Tue, 11 Jul 2006 08:31:00 PST

one

this is something i wrote back in may 2003. so sad yet hopeful at the same time... sbb[to the one] you're out there. i can feel you sometimes. you know, like fate rippling like water as we take ...
Posted by sunshine on Fri, 19 May 2006 07:53:00 PST

SUMMER DANCE DJ SERIES SCHEDULE 2006

SUMMER DANCE DJ SERIES SCHEDULE 2006 Monday, June 19th Petrillo Band Shell 6:00-9:00pm DJ: TBD Monday, June 26th Daley Plaza 6:00-9:00pm DJ Pierre and Harrison Crump Wednesday, July 5th Taste of...
Posted by sunshine on Wed, 17 May 2006 10:25:00 PST

perfectly said!

"Physical intimacy or possible intimacy is only a device for opening the floodgates to what really matters: words.  What I want from my friends, male or female, are words. Great torrents of conve...
Posted by sunshine on Wed, 26 Apr 2006 09:29:00 PST

begging for money on myspace

i find it highly ironic that myspacer stars like jeffree star, raquel whatshername, ron decor and others would be asking people for money using the bulletin board. i find it... very very declasse.but ...
Posted by sunshine on Mon, 17 Apr 2006 09:33:00 PST