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Kerry

At the side of the everlasting why there is a yes, and a yes, and a yes!

About Me

I'm going to go with some simple "about me" statements here. I'm a fair skinned, redhead who goes out in the sun at her own peril. I love my boyfriend who makes me laugh. I love my friends that bring joy to my life. I love my family that supports me. Being an auntie is cool. I don't want kids of my own. I am an avid Netflixer. I adore my ipod. I podcast so much NPR I can hardly listen to it all. I'm an unapologetic TV junkie. I love my DVR. I'm a bookworm. I collect postcards. I would eat sushi every day if it weren't so damn expensive. My biggest dream is to travel the world (so cliche, huh?). I drive a truck. I'm a native of Las Vegas. Yes, some of us were BORN here. When I drink too much (or even just a little) I talk talk talk talk talk. I'm addicted to Chapstick. Is that enough "about me" stuff? Well too bad cause I'm done.

My Interests


In addition to the big three (music, movies, books), I am interested in and enjoy the following:
~ my ipod (I'm obsessed with my ipod! I podcast waaaaay too much stuff!)
~ sushi
~ poker
~ bourbon
~ shoes
~ dive bars (you can find true love in one, I did!)
~ good conversation (not always easy to come by)
~ KEXP Seattle (best radio station ever)
~ Bookcrossing.com
~ road trippin with my man
~ celebrity magazines (it's a sick addiction I know!
~ Pink is the New Blog
~ Project Rungay
~ Project Gay
~ art and art museums
~ live shows
~ Tennis Grand Slams
~ listening to NPR, especially Wait Wait. . .Don't Tell Me, Car Talk, and Fresh Air
~ Classical Ballet (Giselle is my favorite)
~ macaroni and cheese
~ sarcasm
~ famed literary circles such as The Beat Generation, The Bloomsbury Group and The Algonquin Round Table
~ Eddie Izzard:
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~ Game nights with friends! We play Yahtzee, Cranium, Trivial Pursuit, Boggle, Apples to Apples and other board games
~ Media Gadflies
~ World Cup Soccer
~ channa masala
~ John William Waterhouse
~ searching for the perfect dirty martini
~ rainy days
~ catnaps
~ Flight of the Conchords
~ And. . .I wouldn't usually post this warm and fuzzy Care Bear stuff, but this like soooo got me! Kind of freakishly accurate: See what Care Bear you are.

I'd like to meet:

Paul Gross. I'm currently obsessed with the Canadian TV Show he stars in, "Slings & Arrows." The third season just started on The Sundance Channel. If you've never watched it, you don't know what you're missing! It's an absolutely brilliant show about the onstage and backstage antics of a Shakespearean Theatre Company. I've even started a group on myspace for it, Click Here .

That's Paul on the left, with Don McKellar and Mark McKinney who also star in the show (oh, yes, did I mention that the cast is amazing also? Sarah Polley is guest starring this season! Hooray!).

Music:

I always like to post here a video or two by artists that I am into at the moment. Here is The Stills' new video for "Helicopters," the third single off their album "Without Feathers:"

And here is Arcade Fire performing the song "Keep the Car Running" off their new album "Neon Bible" on SNL:

And now here is my incomplete list:
~ Arcade Fire
~ Aztec Camera
~ Chet Baker
~ The Band
~ The Beatles
~ Band of Horses
~ Be Your Own Pet
~ Belle and Sebastian
~ Bjork
~ Bloc Party
~ Blondie
~ Blur
~ David Bowie
~ Billy Bragg
~ Jeff Buckley
~ Neko Case
~ Johnny Cash
~ The Clash
~ Coldplay
~ Concrete Blonde
~ CSS
~ Cub
~ The Cure
~ Dixie Chicks
~ Nick Drake
~ Bob Dylan
~ Ella Fitzgerald
~ Franz Ferdinand
~ PJ Harvey
~ Billie Holiday
~ The Honorary Title
~ Interpol
~ The Jam
~ James
~ Jesus and Mary Chain
~ Kasabian
~ The Killers(hometown boys made good!)
~ Kings of Leon
~ The Kinks
~ Ladytron
~ Le Tigre
~ Led Zeppelin
~ Sondre Lerche
~ The Lucksmiths
~ Loretta Lynn
~ The Magic Numbers
~ Mando Diao
~ Joni Mitchell
~ Modest Mouse
~ Van Morrison
~ Neutral Milk Hotel
~ Joanna Newsom
~ Of Montreal
~ Pavement
~ Edith Piaf
~ The Pixies
~ The Police
~ The Postal Service (but NOT Death Cab, go figure!)
~ The Pretenders
~ Pulp
~ Radiohead
~ The Ravonettes
~ Otis Redding
~ R.E.M.
~ Rilo Kiley
~ The Shins
~ Shout Out Louds
~ Silversun Pickups
~ Simon and Garfunkel
~ Nina Simone
~ Sleater Kinney
~ Sly and the Family Stone
~ Elliot Smith
~ The Smiths
~ Snow Patrol
~ Dusty Springfield
~ The Stills
~ The Stone Roses
~ The Strokes
~ The Sundays
~ Supergrass
~ The Thermals
~ The Trash Can Sinatras
~ Travis
~ The Velvet Underground
~ The Verve
~ Rufus Wainwright
~ The Walkmen
~ Weezer
~ The White Stripes
~ Wilco
~ Wild Sweet Orange
~ Yeah Yeah Yeahs
and there are many others but I should stop now. . .

Movies:

Top 5:
~ A Room With a View:
~ Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (I am a huge Paul Newman fan):
~ East of Eden:
~ The Philadelphia Story:
~ Almost Famous (if you have only seen the theatrical version and not the Bootleg Director's Cut, you are really missing out!):
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Other movies I can watch time and time again:
~ All the Real Girls
~ Amelie
~ Annie Hall
~ The Anniversary Party (great cast, great script!)
~ Barcelona
~ Barefoot in the Park (could Robert Redford and Jane Fonda BE any cuter?!)
~ Before Sunrise/Before Sunset
~ Better Off Dead
~ The Big Lebowski
~ Blood Simple
~ Blue Velvet
~ Breakfast at Tiffany's
~ Bridget Jones' Diary
~ Bullets Over Broadway
~ Cabaret
~ Casablanca
~ Chinatown
~ City of Lost Children
~ The Claim
~ Dazed and Confused (ah, the midnight movie of my youth!)
~ Dead Poet's Society
~ Drugstore Cowboy
~ Elizabeth
~ Emma
~ Fast Times at Ridgmont High
~ Ferris Bueller's Day Off
~ Four Weddings and a Funeral
~ Ghost World (I completely identify with Enid, but don't we all?)
~ Gidget (the original Sandra Dee one with hunky James Darren AND Cliff Robertson! How do you choose between Moondoggie and Kahuna?!)
~ The Godfather Trilogy
~ Good Will Hunting
~ The Goonies
~ A Hard Day's Night
~ Harold and Maude
~ Hello Dolly!
~ How to Steal a Million
~ Hud
~ The Hustler
~ I am Trying to Break Your Heart
~ Impromptu
~ Indochine
~ It's a Wonderful Life
~ Kicking and Screaming (Noah Baumbach is brilliant)
~ The Last Waltz (Robbie Robertson is the sexiest Canadian ever!)
~ Lawrence of Arabia
~ The Lion in Winter
~ A Little Princess (the gorgeous Alfonso Cuaron version)
~ Lord of the Rings Trilogy
~ Lost in Translation
~ Love and Other Catastrophes
~ Manhattan
~ Mansfield Park
~ Meet Me in St. Louis
~ Metropolitan
~ The Misfits (Marilyn's last and I think her best)
~ Monty Python and the Holy Grail
~ Moonlight Mile (Ellen Pompeo is so crushable in this film!)
~ The Nightmare Before Christmas
~ Notting Hill
~ Office Space
~ Oklahoma!
~ The Parent Trap (original Hayley Mills version)
~ Persuasion
~ A Place in the Sun
~ The Portrait of a Lady
~ Pride & Prejudice (especially the 6 hour BBC version starring Colin Firth as Darcy, but the new one with Keira is decent for a quick fix!)
~ The Princess Bride
~ Rear Window
~ Rebecca
~ Red Dust (my fave Harlow/Gable pairing)
~ The Royal Tenenbaums
~ Rushmore
~ Sabrina
~ Say Anything
~ Sense and Sensibility
~ Shakespeare in Love (I adore Tom Stoppard)
~ Sixteen Candles
~ Sliding Doors
~ the Thin Man movies
~ Trust (well, any Hal Hartley film really, but this one's my favorite)
~ Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me
~ Under the Tuscan Sun (Diane Lane rocks my socks!)
~ Valley Girl
~ Vivacious Lady
~ Walking and Talking
~ Where the Boys Are
~ Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf
~ Wild at Heart
~ Wonder Boys
and on and on. . .
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Television:

First of all, can I just say how much I love my DVR? What did the world ever do before this was invented?? The ability to fast forward through commercials, to record two shows on two different channels at the same time, all with the freedom from any kind of time constraint or bad quality video tape! It's all so lovely and amazing! Ok, now for my list:
~ The Amazing Race
~ American Dad
~ American Idol (I truly can't help myself)
~ Most anything on BBCAmerica especially Ground Force, but only the old ones with Alan Titchmarsh (his poetry about shrubbery has a calming effect on me)
~ China Beach
~ The Colbert Report
~ The Daily Show
~ Deadwood
~ Dexter
~ Old Dungeons and Dragons cartoons - totally my fave cartoon as a kid!
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~ Entourage
~ Family Guy
~ Felicity
~ Freaks and Geeks
~ Grey's Anatomy
~ Heroes
~ How I Met Your Mother (Neil Patrick Harris' comeback continues - and it's awesome!)
~ Globe Trekker (Ian Wright is my fave traveler)
~ Kathy Griffin's My Life on the D-List
~ Lost
~ Meerkat Manor (Sometimes I really love Animal Planet - who knew the drama that goes on in a meerkat colony?)
~ MST3K
~ Project Runway
~ Rescue Me (wow Mr. Leary, your show is AWESOME)
~ Scrubs
~ Sex and the City
~ Six Feet Under
~ Slings and Arrows (proof that Paul Gross is a fantastic actor - in case you didn't get that from Due South)
~ The Soup
~ Survivor
~ Twin Peaks
~ Ugly Betty

~ Weeds (love love love Mary-Louise Parker)
~ Wonderfalls (Greatest show about Niagara Falls ever! Huh? What? It's the only show about Niagara Falls ever? Well, that's what I meant!)
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Books:

Writers I love:
~ Jane Austen (even if I had not sorted this list alphabetically, she'd still be first!)
~ The Bronte Sisters
~ Truman Capote
~ Michael Chabon
~ Stephen Cosgrove (he wrote the Serendipity books that I loved as a child)
~ Daphne Du Maurier (I've read Rebecca about 100 times)
~ E.M. Forster
~ Neil Gaiman
~ Allen Ginsberg
~ Edward Gorey
~ John Hodgman
~ Henry James
~ Joyce Johnson (brilliant if you want to get an insider female perspective on The Beats)
~ Jack Kerouac
~ Armistead Maupin
~ George R. R. Martin
~ Larry McMurtry
~ Edna St. Vincent Millay
~ Dorothy Parker
~ Sylvia Plath (her unabridged diaries are wondrous)
~ Tom Robbins
~ David Sedaris
~ Willy Shakes
~ John Steinbeck
~ Tom Stoppard
~ Lytton Strachey
~ J.R.R. Tolkien
~ Sarah Vowell
~ Alison Weir (historical biographer, her book on Eleanor of Acquitaine is amazing!)
~ Edith Wharton
~ Oscar Wilde
~ P.G. Wodehouse (dry British humor at its best!)
~ Virginia Woolf
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Books I love:
~ The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
~ the Anne of Green Gables series (I completely identified with Anne as a kid)
~ Assassination Vacation
~ Catcher in the Rye
~ Crime and Punishment
~ Dharma Bums
~ East of Eden
~ The Feast of All Saints
~ Good Omens
~ all the Harry Potters
~ The Hours
~ The House of Mirth
~ Jane Eyre
~ The Last Picture Show
~ Lonesome Dove
~ Lord of the Rings
~ The Lovely Bones (can't wait for the Peter Jackson film adaptation)
~ Minor Characters
~ Neverwhere
~ The Outsiders (one of my all time favorite books, I read it once a year)
~ Portrait of a Lady
~ Pride and Prejudice
~ The Prophet
~ Rebecca
~ A Room with a View
~ Savage Beauty
~ The Secret Garden
~ Tales of the City
~ To Kill a Mockingbird
~ Twilight Sleep
~ The Weetzie Bat Books (could Greg Araki adapt these for the screen soon please?)
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Heroes:

~ Dorothy Parker for her wit and honesty:

~ Jane Austen for not compromising her romantic ideals:

~ Hedy Lamarr for not letting her sexuality preclude her genius:

~ Jean Harlow for being ahead of her time:

~ and my mom for her eternally sunshiny outlook on life - she's so super cool in this pic:

My Blog

Kids write the darndest similes and metaphors

I took this article from The Manbottle Library of Arcane Knowledge and Questionable HumorEvery year, English teachers from across the country can submit their collections of actual similes and metapho...
Posted by Kerry on Thu, 22 Mar 2007 01:23:00 PST

Typical act of boredom

What's in the backseat of your car right now?Trash, a sweater, and a case of poker chips  you never know when a poker game will break out and chips will be needed!What was the last thing you threw up...
Posted by Kerry on Tue, 20 Mar 2007 04:17:00 PST

Wow! Go Arcade Fire!

From Pitchforkmedia.comArcade Fire's Neon Bible Debuts at #2 The Arcade Fire's second album, Neon Bible, claimed the No. 2 spot on the U.S. Billboard 200 charts this week, stomping all over new LPs fr...
Posted by Kerry on Thu, 15 Mar 2007 02:53:00 PST

Irving Berlin is alive and well.

I am in love with the new Gap commercial for their "Boyfriend Trouser" which features Claire Danes and Patrick Wilson dancing to the Irving Berlin song "Anything You Can Do, I Can Do Better" from the ...
Posted by Kerry on Thu, 15 Mar 2007 08:15:00 PST

Cool Whip

I love Family Guy. Sometimes there is a scene in an episode that totally does it for me and I can watch it over and over and over and still laugh every time! I will also quote it for weeks on end an...
Posted by Kerry on Tue, 13 Mar 2007 01:49:00 PST

Eddie Van Halen Enters Rehab

(I got numerous responses to this bulletin I posted, so thought I would add it to my blog. Enjoy!) Thank God. Someone please put a stop to this:He used to be such a dreamboat!Remember when he and Vale...
Posted by Kerry on Sat, 10 Mar 2007 03:39:00 PST

Arcade Fire's "Neon Bible" - A Review

Ok, I'm going to try here to put into words my thoughts and feelings about the new Arcade Fire album "Neon Bible." I should just make it simple and give like a two word review. I could choose from so ...
Posted by Kerry on Sat, 10 Mar 2007 03:20:00 PST

Local weather man and his "date" spotted out on the town tonight.

While having drinks at The Griffin tonight, Phillip, Cameron and I noticed Weather Forecaster Mark Pfister from our local Channel 13 News at a booth across the way from us. With him was his date (*cou...
Posted by Kerry on Sat, 10 Mar 2007 10:52:00 PST

Who should paint your portrait?

Edvard MunchEdvard Munch should paint your portrait. You are a very emotional person. You are always up for a good talk with one of your friends. You don't like to keep things bottled up. Often, y...
Posted by Kerry on Wed, 07 Mar 2007 02:42:00 PST

My favorite kind of quiz

1. Put your music player on shuffle.2. Press forward for each question.3. Use the song title as the answer to the question.What does this year have in store for me?Mr. Clean - The Jam (ew - that doesn...
Posted by Kerry on Mon, 05 Mar 2007 07:06:00 PST