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About Me

"Questioning and saying, our opinions are failing. They're constantly changing, our ignorance remaining. We're hoping and waiting, we're living, but dying, while trying to find out, my meaning isn't planned out. Come to the conclusion might as well be an illusion while trying to find out I did nothing but shut out." ~dredg
I've got a way with words that can change a normal description into something fantasmagorical. But then again, there are days when I feel my words are a worthless weapon against the beast of life with its fangs of deception and its claws of confusion. A spark of insanity lives within my brain and I feel nothing at times. Other times I feel so much I think I'll explode with the burden. Words are my dearest comfort and my ultimate frustration. Emotions transform each day, molding me into someone different and more complex. As it stands, I hold my friends and family dear, I try not to let my honesty get the best of me, I can spend hours writing, listening to music, and dabbling in different types of art. Most of all I want to be happy in a simple sort of way.Read my VisualDNA ™ Get your own VisualDNA™

My Interests

friends, family, books, poetry, movies, writing, reading, dogs, music and shows, d-d-dancing, bowling, tattoos and piercings, calvin and hobbes, traveling (been to England, Italy, Greece and France) nature, philosophy, words, walking, people watching, pondering, designing t-shirts, Australia, meeting interesting people, dreaming, sleeping, magazines, star-gazing, hoodies and jackets, drums, photography, breaking glass, dinosaurs, the ocean, fire, celtic heritage, asian culture, art, learning, glass art, Native American culture, cooking, incense, oddities, pirates!, trivial facts, russian literature, nature trails, halloween, liquor, billiards, horses, mahjong, Asian Indian culture, recycling, finding my passion, accepting imperfections, making collages, working with my hands, Europe, good wine, cow bell, puzzles, History, questions, Athens, nerds(the candy), owls, dance parties

I'd like to meet:

,font size=2 Someone who can provide intellectual stimulation with mild to uproarious humor to boot. Sensitivity with a thick skin.
A horse of a different color.
A light to dispell the days of dark.
Someone with a sense of adventure and the energy to keep up with life's perpetual motion.

Music:

30 Seconds to Mars,The Album Leaf, Alicia Keys, AFI, Amelie soundtrack, at the drive in, Beastie Boys, The Bled, Bjork, Coheed and Cambria, Circa Survive, City Sleeps, Codeseven, Color Revolt, Classic Case, The Clash, The Cure, Damien Rice, David Bowie, David Gray, Deftones, Desmond Dekker, Dog Fashion Disco, dredg , explosions in the sky, Face to Face, Fiona Apple, The Fugees, glassjaw, old skool Greenday, Guns N Roses, Head Automatica, I Am The World Trade Center/Twin Powers, Incubus, Imogen Heap, Interpol, Kanye West, The Killers, KrushGirls, Keane, old skool Less Than Jake, classic Madonna, Machester Orchestra, The Mars Volta, Michael Jackson, Mindless Self Indulgence, minus.driver, Modern Skirts, Murder By Death, Muse, The Postal Service, New World Order, Nothingface, NUFAN, A Perfect Circle, Prince, Pearl Jam, Placebo, old skool punk, Queen, Radiohead, old skool Rancid, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Refused, Sinatra, Sade, shun, The Slackers, The Smiths, Sigur Ros, Steve Burns, Strata, Tool, Thrice, Travis, Thursday, Tears For Fears, Vast, Weezer

give me something that's not here, i'll see if i like it.

Movies:

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Goonies, The NeverEnding Story, The Great Outdoors, Shaun of the Dead, The Crow, SLC Punk, Trainspotting, LOTR trilogy, Princess Mononoke, Moulin Rouge, The Princess Bride, Robin Hood: Men in Tights, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Donnie Darko, Hero, Fight Club, Legends of the Fall, Boondock Saints, The Jerk, Snatch, the Harry Potter movies, Don't Be A Menace..., Johnny Depp movies, Disney movies, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Clockwork Orange, Legend, Brave Heart, Amelie, Kill Bill & 2, Planes Trains and Automobiles, Napolean Dynomite, Purple Rain, Dancer in the Dark, House of Flying Daggers, The Labyrinth, Schindler's List, Les Miserables, Flight of the Navigator (ollllld skool!), Garden State, Seven, Hocus Pocus, Powder, The Worst Witch, Requiem For a Dream, The Machinist, Pirates of the Caribbean, Office Space, Akira, Kalifornia...

Which Trainspotting Character Are You?

Television:

Discovery Channel, TLC, Animal Planet, History channel

Books:

I'm a literature major, so I like books. Especially Russian literature (Franz Kafka, Fyodor Dostoevsky, some Tolstoy); poetry (Walt Whitman, William Blake, Wallace Stevens, Emily Dickinson, Sylvia Plath, Allen Ginsberg, E. A. Poe, Baudelaire, Yeats); fiction (Ray Bradbury is a genius - Something Wicked This Way Comes is phenomenal - Poppy Z. Brite, Stephen King, Chuck Paluhniak and Vladimir Nabokov, R. A. Salvatore); Their Eyes are Watching God, The Giver, Neverwhere, House of Leaves, The NeverEnding StoryHarry Potter, Clockwork Orange; a non-fiction book here and there; magazines...

Heroes:

me mum
those who live with determination

My Blog

Beloved

...I miss that band.  They were too good to breakup...The only Beloved left is much more meaningful anyway.  I've got my family and friends around me all the time.  They are truly wonde...
Posted by strike a match on Fri, 14 Sep 2007 09:18:00 PST

call me Auntie

The biggest news in my life is a little baby named Cameron Alexander. My brother is now a father, celebrating his first father's day today, and that makes me an Aunt.  Little Cameron was born las...
Posted by strike a match on Mon, 18 Jun 2007 09:01:00 PST

moving to the city

The gaps between my blogs might tell you how good I am about writing diary entries.  I guess I'm just so busy living life day to day that I seldom have time or thought to document it all. So...
Posted by strike a match on Thu, 24 May 2007 07:43:00 PST

a long time coming

I posted a blog a little while ago, but Myspace said "helll, no" and erased it somehow.  Tricky little devil.  So this time I'm patting Myspace nicely on the head and reassuring it: "it...
Posted by strike a match on Tue, 23 Jan 2007 08:27:00 PST

Code for WTF

Holy Hell I haven't blogged in a long time.  I'm not even sure why I'm here blogging now.  I've been working on touching up my myspace page for hours now and have gotten absolutely nowhere.&...
Posted by strike a match on Mon, 14 Aug 2006 10:11:00 PST

HA

March 21st Head Automatica finally comes to Ga. WITHOUT CANCELLING!  And they chose the Georgia Theater in Athens.  Hell yeah!  It was a kickass show, one that I've longed for.  Bu...
Posted by strike a match on Thu, 23 Mar 2006 06:43:00 PST

Morning Scrawls

The birds woke me up this morning much earlier than my alarm.  Their repetitive call drilled beyond my pillow sandwich, hackling my attempt to sleep just a few minutes longer.  I finally gav...
Posted by strike a match on Mon, 13 Mar 2006 04:22:00 PST

semi-responsible parent

I guess I can consider myself a semi-responsible parent.  I've got a kid, one that requires responsibility. The root-word being responsible, the root of that being response.  Though I'm good...
Posted by strike a match on Sun, 26 Feb 2006 12:21:00 PST

Move On

Move On   When your days no longer warm up to your expectations, When your dreams disappear with the sleep in the corner of your eye, When the stars are only visible when youre not looking, Then...
Posted by strike a match on Tue, 07 Feb 2006 09:17:00 PST

Tumbling Rocks

new poem:   We are tumbling rocks made of iron and full of ballistic energy.  Sometimes we are stationary, long enough to make an indention in the dirt.  But we keep rolling with our ro...
Posted by strike a match on Sat, 12 Nov 2005 11:25:00 PST