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Carin is voting yes on Prop 2

I'm gonna sit at the welcome table, I'm gonna sit at the welcome table one of these days...

About Me

What to say? 38 years old. A library clerk by day... by night... well... anyway, nevermind.

"If you judge people, you have no time to love them."
- Mother Teresa

"In Memory of our God, our religion, and freedom, and our peace, our wives, and our children."
- Alma 46:12, The Title of Liberty

"We're sick of being pushed around... People took our God away from us and left us Darwinism. Darwinism doesn't work, we'd like our God back"
- Ben Stein

My Interests

Hobbies: Reading, Geneaology, The Sims, collecting toys, dino-digging, concerts, going to the movies, hanging with my homies, but mostly I just like to work.
Food: Mostly vegetarian, Basque and Mexican. Pasta.
Sports: HORSERACING is my obsession. The only other sport that really interests me at all is boxing.
Clubs: National Society Daughters of the American Revolution, Daughters of Utah Pioneers, The American Legion and The American Legion Ladies Aux. Rags To Riches brilliantly passes the test of champions, June 9, 2007
Absolutely Cindy upsets the Battaglia, March 1, 2008
Ruffian is without question the greatest racefilly who ever lived. I would argue she was also the greatest RACEHORSE who ever lived. Better than Secretariat - I believe it!
HRTV piece on Lost in the Fog, my beloved, the best sprinter in the world and Smokey Stover who kept the dream alive just a little while longer. Lava Man - the once and forever KING of California. A true blue-collar, rags to riches, working class hero.

Curlin winning the '08 Dubai World Cup.

I'd like to meet:

LIVING: Jung Woo Sung(cuz he is FINE,)Peggy Noonan, Nanci Griffith, David and Amy Sedaris, Laffit Pincay Jr., Charismatic, Smarty Jones, Lava Man.
DEAD: My maternal grandfather William Ballard, John Doyle Lee, Chief Wahunsenacawh(aka Powhatan), Joseph Smith, Jesus Christ, Melvil Dewey, Benjamin Franklin, Ronald Reagan, Frank Lloyd Wright, Vincent Van Gogh, Dickey Chappelle, James Dean, Bruce Lee, Sid Vicious, Darby Crash, Chris Antley, Lost In The Fog, Ruffian, John Henry, Seattle Slew and the other ten Triple Crown winners.

Music:

The Mountain Goats, Bright Eyes, Dashboard Confessional, Placebo, Concrete Blonde, Social Distortion, Nanci Griffith, Glen Hansard and The Frames, The Smiths, Oasis, Pulp, Death Cab For Cutie, Snow Patrol, M. Ward, Rilo Kiley, Everclear, Rancid, Bad Religion,The Cure, Joy Division, X, Sex Pistols, FEAR, Black Flag, TSOL, 7Seconds, Germs, The Damned, Violent Femmes, Dramarama, Nirvana, Dropkick Murphys, The Mighty Mighty Bosstones, Flogging Molly, Against Me!, Alkaline Trio, Sublime, Matthew Sweet, Blind Melon, Guns n' Roses, AC/DC, Sinead O'Conner, Tanita Tikeram, Natalie Merchant & 10,000 Maniacs, Annie Lennox, Shawn Colvin, Marianne Faithfull, Lisa Marie Presley, Kate Bush, Frank Sinatra, Elvis Presley, Leonard Cohen, Tom Waits, Ted Hawkins, Waylon Jennings, Johnny Cash, David Allan Coe, The Beatles, John Lennon, Bob Marley and the Wailers, Simon & Garfunkel, Janis Joplin, Bob Segar and the Silver Bullet Band, Pink Floyd, Ice Cube, Eminem and many, many more...

Movies:

The greatest movie ever made, in my humble opinion, is the little known 1980 film The Earthling, starring William Holden and a young Rick Schroder. Unfortunately, this film has never been released on DVD. You can probably find a VHS copy for thirty or forty bucks and you should.
I also like Asian movies and have found that Korean movies, like Daisy, are especially good.
My other favorites are as follows: States of Grace (see youtube video above,)
Gods and Monsters
The Good Girl
Map of the Human Heart
Ghost World
200 Cigarettes
Life as a House
Once
The Break-Up
Cinema Paradiso
The Remains of the Day
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Lars and the Real Girl
The Crow
Sid & Nancy
Charly
Magnolia
Seven Years in Tibet
Legends of the Fall
Captives
Open Range

The original Star Wars Trilogy
The Warriors
Bugsy Malone
The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas
Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Stealing Home
Great Balls of Fire

and classics like
East of Eden
Laura
Breakfast at Tiffany's

and Camelot

Television:

Currently Watching:
HRTV
TVG Network
The Triple Crown
The Breeders' Cup
Fox News Channel
Red Eye
Smallville
Dexter
Weeds
Big Love
Bones
The Simpsons
Secret Diary of a Call Girl
General Hospital

All time favorites:
Arrested Development
Twin Peaks
The X-Files
Veronica Mars
Buffy The Vampire Slayer
Angel
Firefly
Space: Above and Beyond
Seaquest DSV
Star Trek
(any of them)
Freaks and Geeks
Strangers With Candy

Books:

The Poetry of Robert Frost, Dorothy Parker and Pablo Neruda
84 Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff
The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
Breakfast at Tiffany's and A Christmas Memory and pretty much everything else by Truman Capote
The Reader by Bernhard Schlink
The Abortion: An Historical Romance by Richard Brautigan
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistlestop Cafe by Fannie Flagg
The End of the Affair by Graham Greene
Come to Me: Stories by Amy Bloom (and everything else she has written.)
Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson
Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris (and everything else he has written.)
Smilla's Sense of Snow by Peter Hoeg
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
American Skin: A Novel by Don De Grazia
The Work and the Glory series by Gerald N. Lund
Socrates Cafe: A Fresh Taste of Philosophy by Christopher Phillips
Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation by Joseph J. Ellis
When Character Was King: A Story of Ronald Reagan by Peggy Noonan
Ruffian: Burning From the Start by Jane Schwartz
Seabiscuit by Laura Hillenbrand
Chosen by a Horse: How a Broken Horse Fixed a Broken Heart by Susan Richards
When Heaven and Earth Changed Places by Le Ly Hayslip
Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place by Terry Tempest Williams
John Doyle Lee: Zealot, Pioneer Builder, Scapegoat by Juanita Brooks
Encyclopedia of Joseph Smith's Teachings
By the Hand of Mormon: Scenes from the Land of Promise by Walter Rane
The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran
The Death of James Dean by Warren Newton Beath
The Long Winter (Little House) by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
A Step From Heaven by An Na
The Nana series by Ai Yazawa
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint Exupéry
Bread and Jam for Frances Russell Hoban (and all the other Frances books)
My Life with the Wave by Catherine Cowan (based on a story by Octavio Paz)
Old Turtle by Douglas Wood

Heroes:

Waverly, Ruffian, G.I. Joe, Dickey Chappelle, the brave men and women of the United States military, and
Mr. Giles, Hero Librarian

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