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Karen

GO TRIBE!!!

About Me

Main Entry: feisty Pronunciation: ..,,f,,-st,,.. Function: adjective Inflected Form(s): feist·i·er; feist·i·est Date: 1896 1chiefly Southern & Midland a: full of nervous energy : fidgety b: touchy, quarrelsome c: exuberantly frisky2: having or showing a lively aggressiveness : spunky — feist·i·ness noun

My Interests

Adventure, exploration, writing, observing, performing, problem-solving, building, kicking ass, immersion, grinning and grinners, music,the human condition, and how it affects other non-human conditions

I'd like to meet:

Surprise me. That's what I like the best. Especially when it's done with goodness. Plate steppers and go-getters, please apply. I'm lonely without you(my cry for help)

Music:

Music gets me in a lot of trouble. Let's see... Descendents, The Clash, The Replacements, Pixies, Seam, Michael Penn, Madder Rose,Mr. Bungle, Juliana Hatfield/Blake Babies, Jeff Buckley, Kevin Devine, Todd Deatherage, Wedding Present,Lloyd Cole, the Pogues, Kirsty Macoll, The Smiths, The Cure,the Sundays,Kate Bush, Billy Bragg, Stone Roses, Pavement, Tom Waits, Leonard Cohen, Dinosaur Jr, SeBADoh, Ani Difranco, Bob Mould(before that whole electronica debacle-saw where he was going with it, but was not for me. I'm sure if he keeps up with it he'll kick it's ass everywhere, but I'm currently really mad that I have that album)/Husker Du, St. Etienne, Sonic Youth, Glenn Gould,Ella Fitzgerald, Miles Davis, NYC Jazz clubs, i have a great CD of rain falling that I sleep to.

Movies:

Amelie, Man Bites Dog, Happiness, Say Anything, Gothic, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless mind, Shallow Grave, The Gleaners and I, Emmet Otter's Jugband Christmas,many of the Scottish crossovers from '95-'97, Henry and June, those french are funny and involved.

Television:

Arrested Development, New York Souls, News Radio, Twin Peaks, Law and Order, that's about it. WAIT!!! STARVEILLANCE! It rocks.I've been known to watch some of those VH1 reality shows...but not the Pick up artist...I'll write a performance piece about that one...grrr...

Books:

Nathalie Saurraute, Leonard Cohen, Dave Eggers, Virginia Woolfe, Simone De Beauvoir, Henry Miller, Anais Nin, Jean Genet, Milan Kundera, Raol Dahl, Please Kill Me

Heroes:

goodness, my Father, Ali Booher

My Blog

Sometimes...things are golden

Waking up this morning, I didn't think much of today. I knew that I was going to press time this evening between Merce Cunningham and somehow getting up to the Beat Kitchen to see Kevin Devine(who has...
Posted by Karen on Sun, 14 Oct 2007 11:17:00 PST

Mistake by the lake, or baseball of biblical proportions?

CLEVELAND (AP) -- Joba Chamberlain was really bugged.A swarm of insects invaded Jacobs Field in the eighth inning Friday, creating havoc in the playoff game between the New York Yankees and Cleveland ...
Posted by Karen on Sat, 06 Oct 2007 06:15:00 PST

Horoscopes!

My visual images instructor emails us our weekly horoscopes... This is mine..."Water that is too pure has no fish," wrote Zen teacher Ts'ai Ken T'an. Keepthat advice close to your heart in the coming ...
Posted by Karen on Wed, 03 Oct 2007 02:05:00 PST

Independence Day, revisited.

Last year for the Fourth of July, I hosted an intimate, impromptu grill out session. It was cool. This year, I went to see SiCKO by myself, then spent the rest of the day brainstorming the plausibilit...
Posted by Karen on Mon, 09 Jul 2007 08:41:00 PST

Oh, Giuliani...just go away, already...

Raise your hand if you ever lived in Giuliani's New York. It was certainly safe for me, being white, from an upper middle class family, a college graduate, and having a career that was profitable...a...
Posted by Karen on Wed, 27 Jun 2007 05:31:00 PST

Celebrity endorsement v. artistic license

I don't care much about James Frey. I haven't read his book, I didn't buy it, and that probably has more to do with Oprah's initial support of it, more than anything else. I'm sure it's good, and thos...
Posted by Karen on Sat, 19 May 2007 07:18:00 PST

Project Writing Readers Series starts TONIGHT at IO!!!

Here's a cool free thing to do on a Friday night...Every Friday night at 7:30 pm another original, fantastic, INCREDIBLE new screenplay will be featured in the IO Annex. It's free! There is food! And ...
Posted by Karen on Fri, 05 Jan 2007 10:07:00 PST

Nuts V. Bananas

So, let me talk about nuts for a moment...Growing up, I hated nuts. It was less the taste, but more the texture. I just didn't like it. It didn't suit me. When I'd bite into a cookie or a brownie-ther...
Posted by Karen on Sun, 03 Dec 2006 01:38:00 PST

First review-NYtheatre.com

Billy The Mountain and Other American Card Tricksreviewed by Tess GillBilly the Mountain and Other American Card Tricks offers some great production values as far as Fringe shows go. The show makes th...
Posted by Karen on Tue, 22 Aug 2006 10:18:00 PST

My feet hurt

I walked through Central Park from Columbus Circle en route to the Met today. I forgot that the Met is closed on Mondays, so I played my favorite city wandering game instead- the "zen walk light until...
Posted by Karen on Tue, 22 Aug 2006 09:47:00 PST