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carissa

this passion is a plagerism

About Me

lover of all antiquities

My Interests

tea parties , antique perfume bottles , birdcages, neo-victorian , art deco , vodka , fashion , hair, shoes , dancing, vinyl , money for road trips with small amounts of cash , foreign cities , tim burton , dancing , carnivale , baroque , arcades , mark ryden , juke boxes , the ocean breeze , the south , sewing , cooking , HATING ski lifts , long drives with someone funny , cameos , skylines, dirty city streets and neon lights ,epiphanies , religious history/scandal , food network , amazing thrift store discoveries , knitting , being martha stewart core....tax fruad and all.

I'd like to meet:

my doppleganger

Music:

the mars volta , the hives , portishead ,the cars ,black mountain, pj harvey , the faint , oingo boingo , the dresden dolls , postal service , evergreen terrace , frank sinatra , etta james , elvis , neutral milk hotel, , ac/dc, rasputina , muder city devils , phyllis dillon , nick cave , turbonegro , doug martsch , interpol , ladytron , eartha kitt , the fitness , necro , modest mouse , aceyalone , handsome boy modeling school ,the shins , elysian fields , mogwai , air , fischerspooner, and a lot of other things you dont know about...and maybe some i dont even know about.

Movies:

i enjoy them.

Television:

aqua teen hunger force. the oblongs . dave attell.

Books:

poppy z. brite.

Heroes:

well between dave attell traveling the world on a mission to find the best drinking spots and being paid for it or mother theresa for being herself...its a toss up.

My Blog

wedding woes

so i browse through my usual wedding porn daily , just about ,and it gives me inspiration and ideas mostly. It also tells me what the hell i DONT want , like pink and blue and purple bullshit. Bl...
Posted by carissa on Sat, 17 Nov 2007 07:32:00 PST

semi portfolio

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Posted by carissa on Fri, 16 Feb 2007 07:59:00 PST

shake and shimmie

so as it turns out burlesque is fantastic. i was nervous as hell but im coming out of my shell rapidly...as well as my clothes.har har har. i can now successfully shake my hips at you as if they were ...
Posted by carissa on Thu, 25 Jan 2007 11:06:00 PST

forever aint that long


Posted by carissa on Tue, 28 Nov 2006 01:29:00 PST

road trip pictures

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Posted by carissa on Thu, 31 Aug 2006 11:33:00 PST

ROAD TRIP COMING SOON!

this august sometime , adam and i are taking his jetta golf across the country...sort of. All the way to texas and back in 10 days. i think we can do this. heres the map.....LA to flagstaff , az. (&nb...
Posted by carissa on Mon, 12 Jun 2006 01:00:00 PST

things ive learned from drinking

things ive learned about myself when drinking 1. im a bitch. i try to be witty but it fails and im just a bitch. 2. i speak with a british accent. who knew? 3. i promise marraige to many people i dont...
Posted by carissa on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

im a knitting fool

thats right. i totally learned how to knit. i can successfully make anything square or rectangular. and when i fucked up ...apparently triangular. so im now taking aplications for carissa knitted ...u...
Posted by carissa on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST