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About Me

I'm Claartje van Swaaij. I act and I do standup comedy, that's what I'm going for anyway. I love hanging out with my friends, just trying to make eachother crack up, while watching a movie or something. You can often find me in the cinema, I'm a sucker for funny quirky independanty movies, everything focus features brings out, stuff like that. I get nerdy enthousiastic about people like Hans Teeuwen, Jim Carrey and Tom Waits. I love creative stuff. I love sites like postsecret and found . I love to draw too. I'm a sucker for funny animation like Ren and Stimpy and for pretty art. I browse art forums a lot, just getting inspired. I collect little flip-animation books that you flip through with your thumb. I'm a bit chaotic and a professional clutz, I like being comfortable, I can be a bit of a hermit at times. Besides this myspace thingiemabob, I have a website as well, at claartjevanswaaij.com where you can find out more stuff about me. Ohyes!

My Interests

acting, standup comedy, improv, drawing, website nerding, hanging out with friends, corny stuff from the 30's-50's.

I'd like to meet:

See heroes.

Music:

Jazz! Old Jazz! The American Standards (Frank Sinatra stuff, Louis Prima etc) corny 30's-50's music. alternative rock. Tom Waits Zita Swoon DeUS

Movies:

Anything with Jim Carrey in it. Anything written by Charlie Kaufman. Anything directed by Michel Gondry. Really like seeing Steve Buscemi too. John Turturro, Film noir. Good animation. creative interesting stuff that doesn't take the easy way out. Movies with a magical feeling to it and stunning photography and awesome actors basically..

Television:

Have I got News for You. Ren and Stimpy. Seinfeld. Will and Grace. Forensic detective stuff. Cook shows. Jonathan Ross. We love the (insert year here) kind of stuff. Nostalgic stuff. Old cartoons.

Books:

Discworld series by Terry pratchett. Lemony Snickets series of unfortunate events. Peoples bio and autobio.

Heroes:

Hans Teeuwen. Jim Carrey. Tom Waits. Raymond Scott. John K. Kate Winslet. Paul Proch. Theo Maassen. Billy Connolly. Mitch Hedberg. Jerry Seinfeld. Steve Buscemi. Paul Giamatti. Charlie Kaufman. Jeremy Irons. Nicolas Cage. Tea Leoni. Tim Burton. Coen Brothers. Alex van Warmerdam. Mark de Cloe. Michel Gondry. Nicholas Brothers.

My Blog

I’m in a play today/tonight/tomorrow!

Wops! I'm a bit late with promoting this thing, but just in case you have nothing better to do today/tonight/tomorrow: I'm one of the jingle girls. Bedoobedo wapwap! RADIO GHOST STORIESBy Terrin Adair...
Posted by Cableclair on Sat, 03 Nov 2007 12:02:00 PST

I am a winner!!

Yes!! After having won 2 whole Euro's in the lottery a few years back, luck has struck again! We just won a full automatic cat litter box in a raffle at our local pet store.It's an absolutely fascinat...
Posted by Cableclair on Thu, 18 Oct 2007 11:54:00 PST

For Shame!

Not updating for so long! tsk tsk tsk tsk! In my own defense, I've been super busy with school. I'm making very long days at SMC, partly because I work there too. I got cast in two plays and rehearsal...
Posted by Cableclair on Thu, 18 Oct 2007 11:52:00 PST

Winter fun in the middle of summer

The last thing I expected to have next door to my apartment was an ice skating rink, but sure enough, there it is in all its frosty glory. I have wobbled on the ice a few times in my life. I wasn't pa...
Posted by Cableclair on Fri, 17 Aug 2007 10:07:00 PST

Overwhelmed.

It's weird how your life can be so different in an instant! One day I'm still in the Netherlands, living my life, biking around to quickly get groceries before the shop closes at 8, close to my family...
Posted by Cableclair on Fri, 17 Aug 2007 10:04:00 PST

Math!?

I want to apologise for things being so slow here lately, but it turns that moving country takes up a little bit more of my time than I had foreseen. Who'd guessed?16 days to go, to be exact. Time fli...
Posted by Cableclair on Sat, 14 Jul 2007 03:48:00 PST

Goodbye Picknick

What? Claartje van Swaaij's big goodbye picknick!When: June 30th 14:00 - ??Where: Vondelpark. Amsterdam. [email protected] for exact location. What? Claartje takes the plane to L.A.When: July ...
Posted by Cableclair on Tue, 29 May 2007 05:57:00 PST

Short Shaw

Short ShawYou can see me in a play this week! Come check us out :-)Short Shaw - Three one-act comedies by Bernard ShawAn InPlayers ProductionMay 31 and June 1, 2 & 3, at 20.30At the Ostade Theater...
Posted by Cableclair on Mon, 28 May 2007 07:43:00 PST

Ola!

While you all are eagerly waiting when I'm finally going to update this thing again and get disappointed every single time you visit, (actually I bet most of you have given up on me with my lack of u...
Posted by Cableclair on Wed, 02 May 2007 01:08:00 PST

Mucato presents: De Verschrikkelijke Moeder

Mucato presents: De Verschrikkelijke MoederI'm in a play, come check it out :-). It's in Dutch, so here is the information in Dutch as well... speelt: De Verschrikkelijke Moeder (Alex van Warmer...
Posted by Cableclair on Wed, 07 Mar 2007 08:34:00 PST