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Sadie

I am here for Dating and Friends

About Me

fun-loving, kind-hearted, easy-going 6th grade teacher.. love to smile and laugh, and to make others laugh. loyal to my friends (even if i don't see everyone as often as i'd like) and family. can party with the best of them (don't let the teacher thing fool you). Big into reading and music. Live by the beach.

My Interests

Lots

I'd like to meet:

Laid-back people who aren't out to judge, who are capable of forming a complete sentence and/or thought (stimulating, intelligent conversation always welcome!), who like to have fun and can teach me something new. Liking dogs and kids a plus. And, the person who i would like to meet most, but probably won't: Kurt Vonnegut (i would follow him to the 9th circle of hell, if he asked me to).

Music:

queens of the stone age, pearl jam, rolling stones, the beatles, brmc, blind melon, the mars volta, john frusciante, rhcp(pre-stadium aracadium), stp, nirvana, incubus, kings of leon, mark lanegan/ screaming trees, franz ferdinand, arcade fire , tom petty, u2, rem, blondie, nick drake, dave matthews, van morrison, anything from Motown, dj shadow, the j.b's, beastie boys, heartless bastards, ella fitzgerald, bowie, kt tunstall, wolfmother, no north, heartless bastards, amy winehouse, lily allen, albert hammond jr, band of horses, black lipstick, ted leo and the pharmacists, ambulance ltd, black lips, and much much more

Movies:

Little Miss Sunshine, Wonder Boys, Goodfellas, The Departed, Stranger Than Fiction, Platoon, What a Girl Wants (c'mon, you know you love it), Old School, Breakfast at Tiffany's, High Art, anything by the Coen Brothers, especially Big Lebowski and Blood Simple, Bad Santa, Wild at Heart, Wildcats (F-F-F-Football!), Half Nelson, Last King of Scotland, Volver, Little Children, The Departed. I continue to be neglectful about mentioning the Hal Ashby films, so i'm going to quit the neglect right now: Coming Home, Being There, Harold and Maude. Plus lots lots more.

Television:

Dead Like Me, Frasier, Friends, Oz, Sex and City, Freaks and Geeks. 6 Ft Under, Inside the Actor's Studio, South Park, ER, Law and Order SVU & CI, anything on the Food Network, Fosters Home for Imaginary Friends, Monk, Psych, Veronica Mars, The Minor Accomplishments of Jackie Woodman, Ugly Betty, Grey's Anatomy, Studio 60, 30 Rock, Heroes. I won't lie. I LOVE tv.

Books:

Anything by Vonnegut, especially Galapagos and Bluebeard. Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, Wonder Boys, Mona in the Promised Land, Fried Green Tomatoes, Life of Pi, House of Sand and Fog, biographies/autobiographies, Truman Capote, Dorothy Parker, Irvine Welsh, Sarah Vowell

Heroes:

Hard to say, but i've always admired Martin Luther King Jr. Any person who fights for civil rights and for personal and intellectual freedom.

My Blog

My ears are SO happy

So i got 3 killer albums today. And like i say, my ears are SO happy. 1) Silverchair "Young Modern" - these guys are back, and with a vengeance. i dragged my cousin max to see them at lollapalooza thi...
Posted by Sadie on Wed, 29 Aug 2007 08:35:00 PST

Ill eat my words...

So about 10 years ago my good friend jared was singing the praises of Hal Hartley's film "Henry Fool." I tried to watch it, twice, because Parker Posey was in it. I never got very far and I believe m...
Posted by Sadie on Sat, 25 Aug 2007 10:48:00 PST

This is the end...

So usually I write a beginning and end of summer blog, and i think that i skipped the former this time round, so i figured i better get this one in. here goes:i had a pretty rad summer. san francisco ...
Posted by Sadie on Fri, 24 Aug 2007 10:35:00 PST

In the stereo & on repeat

Some albums i haven't been able to get enough of over the past 6 months, in no particular order:* The National "Boxer"* White Rabbits "Fort Nightly"*QOTSA "Era Vulgaris"*Kings of Leon "Becuase of the ...
Posted by Sadie on Sat, 07 Jul 2007 11:25:00 PST

Who knew?

So today was the last day of class for my 8th graders - either they have grad practice monday and tuesday or they aren't graduating and basically don't show up next week. I wasn't really expecting to ...
Posted by Sadie on Sat, 16 Jun 2007 05:16:00 PST

WTF

Has anybody seen Jesus Camp?!! I don't even know where to begin with this one... ok, so i've never been a huge fan of organized religion; honestly, i think its scary, and after seeing this doc, with ...
Posted by Sadie on Thu, 14 Jun 2007 08:20:00 PST

RIP K.V.

i was hoping that i could write a happier blog, but my favorite author, Kurt Vonnegut, has passed away. it is a sad, sad day. "I'm in the middle of a sentence," I said. "Who isn't?" she said.rip mr v...
Posted by Sadie on Thu, 12 Apr 2007 09:27:00 PST

Listen

So i'm in love. With a band. Band of Horses. Their album, "Everything All The Time, " is a thing of beauty. Close to perfection. I haven't been able to stop listening to it for the last week or so..it...
Posted by Sadie on Fri, 26 Jan 2007 04:58:00 PST

Bluebeard

We worried about Paul Slazinger. I speculated as to what his helpless soul must have felt like when it realized that his meat had thrown itself down on a hand grenade which was about to go off. "Why d...
Posted by Sadie on Wed, 27 Dec 2006 02:30:00 PST

Read Me

It's thursday. this day ordinarily would have no significance except for the fact that i'm in an exceptionally killer mood. i had lunch with one of my oldest and dearest friends, who i really don't se...
Posted by Sadie on Thu, 21 Dec 2006 02:33:00 PST