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. . . short for cassandra

Radiohead is not here to make you happy.

About Me

What is it I need? I need to know that someone thought of me today. I need friends who do the same thing music does- make me feel better when I need it and let me cry when I have to. I need space to breathe, to sleep, to write, to learn. I need the kind of love that only comes from people who understand what it's like to be so terribly alone. What do I need? I need it all, and nothing, and a brutal cup of coffee each morning. I need to wake up next to you and know that despite it all, you're the face I most want to see.

Fancy schmancy professional site: steponitvelma.com

If you want to know what Tiffany and I think about music, check out Wayward Panties .

There are pictures of my life on my flickr page, too.

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My Interests

I love . . .

cooking, photography, the way tire stores smell, traveling at high rates of speed, watching crap movies on the big screen, watching good movies in my jammies, cartoons, music, my boyfriend, my family, long walks in the city, karaoke, tattoos, new shoes, my cat, pedicures, making out, cold beer, vinyl, vintage clothes, scooters, writing, reading, trivia, sleep, learning new things.

I'd like to meet:

Dolly Parton.

Music:



A: Arcade Fire, ACDC, Apples in Stereo, The, And They Shall Be Known By The Trail of Dead, Architecture in Helsinki
B: Bjork, Beasties, Beck, Bela Karoli, Bad Weather California, Black Keys, Bowie, Born in the Flood, Bright Eyes, Broken Social Scene
C: Case, Neko, Calexico, Cat Power, Christie Front Drive, Clap Your Hands, Say Yeah!, The Cure, Cash, Johnny, Coheed and Cambria
D: Dirty South, DeVotchKa, Decemberists, Drake, Nick, Deathcab for Cutie, Dirty South
E: Everything Absent or Distorted, Envy, ELO, Explosions in the Sky, Eagles of Death Metal
F: Faint, The, Flaming Lips, From Monument to Masses, Fitzgerald, Ella
G: Grandaddy, Gorillaz, Gnarls Barkeley, Get Up Kids, Guided by Voices
H: Her Space Holiday, Heart, Holiday, Billie, Havnevik, Kate, The Hellacopters
I: Interpol
J: Jules, Gary, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Jackson, Wanda
K: Keane, The Killers
L: Lucero, The Life There Is
M: Mars Volta, Matson Jones, Mates of State, Muse, Modest Mouse,
N: Neutral Milk Hotel
O: Of Montreal
P: Polyphonic Spree, Pee Pee, Pop, Iggy, The Ponys, The Pixies, Planes Mistaken for Stars, Postal Service, Pinback, Photo Atlas, The Ponys, Parton, Dolly
Q: Q and not U
R: Rilo Kiley, Raveonettes, Rainer Maria, Radiohead, Ramones
S: Sigur Ros, Sinatra, Frank, Shins, Shoreline Dream, Springsteen, Bruce, Spektor, Regina, Springfield, Dusty, Sondre Lerche, Stevens, Sufjan, Superchunk, Souxie Sioux and The Banshees, Sly and the Family Stone
T: Theivery Corporation, Traffic, T-Rex, Thank God for Astronauts, Tarantella
U: U2 (pre-1990)
V: Voices Underwater, Von Iva, Velvet Underground
W: Wolf Parade, Walkmen, White Stripes, Weezer, Waits, Tom X: X, Xiu Xiu
Y: Yo La Tengo, Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Z: The Zutons

Movies:

Secretary, Little Miss Sunshine, Eternal Sunshine, David Lynch of almost any flavor, SLC Punk, Shopgirl, Barbarella, Rebel Without a Cause, The Ice Storm, Pleasantville, Kurosawa, Fellini, Hitchcock, Tarantino, anything in black and white with Marilyn or Audrey or Cary, old Woody Allen, French New Wave, Film Noir, old Ingmar Bergman, Jarmusch.

And if it's on VH1 movies that rock, I can't NOT watch "Showgirls."

Television:

I like "Heroes" and PBS. And when I'm mooching cable, I'll watch cartoons, Mexican wrestling movies and Food Network.

Books:

David Sedaris, Sarah Vowell, Jeffrey Eugenedies, Homer, Ovid, Shelley, Byron, Keats, Virginia Wolfe, Chuck Palanhuik, Nick Hornby, Jonathan Safran Foer, and so many more.

Heroes:

Dorothy Parker. My parents. Hunter S. Thompson. My little sister, who will save the world someday.

My Blog

i love "say anything"

Probably because I've always loved the world's Lloyd Dobblers.
Posted by . . . short for cassandra on Tue, 25 Sep 2007 09:43:00 PST

oh wow, you have *four* teeth

Today this meth head guy would not leave us alone at the Englewood shop. He kept having this weird argument with my boss, saying that if he gave him his money back (for a repair that was not going wel...
Posted by . . . short for cassandra on Fri, 21 Sep 2007 07:01:00 PST

nothing hotter

I've just been informed by my mechanic that there's nothing hotter than a naked girl in glasses, smoking and drinking a PBR tallboy. Thoughts?...
Posted by . . . short for cassandra on Thu, 20 Sep 2007 05:29:00 PST

i’ll build a tunnel from my window to yours

My feet were killing me and I was wedged between a rude, overweight Quebecois and my friend Kindra. But somehow, still, the Arcade Fire show last night at red rocks was every kind of beautiful. Like a...
Posted by . . . short for cassandra on Tue, 18 Sep 2007 08:19:00 PST

all set for winter laziness

OK, so I've had digital cable TV for all of three hours and here are my lessons thusfar:Movies showing decadent homosexuality intercut with images of Nazi Germany are generally NOT headed the happy-en...
Posted by . . . short for cassandra on Mon, 17 Sep 2007 01:26:00 PST

two things

OK, I need people to come with me to do the following:1. See "This Is England" at the Esquire (I have a shitload of free Landmark passes I need to use by the end of the year, and this is the first mov...
Posted by . . . short for cassandra on Mon, 17 Sep 2007 07:31:00 PST

boss lady

I'm at work early. On a Saturday. I've finally gotten to that point- I show up early and now I have keys so I can sit here and chill before the day begins.I overheard one of the techs yesterday refer ...
Posted by . . . short for cassandra on Sat, 15 Sep 2007 08:47:00 PST

nothing hits the spot like a three-pbr lunch

Today I worked in Englewood. Here is my day:10:00 a.m.: Show up before anyone is there to unlock the doors. Wind up talking to Cockney working-class dude outside who is interested in Lambretta clubs. ...
Posted by . . . short for cassandra on Fri, 14 Sep 2007 10:03:00 PST

ok, shoot me, i hate sarah silverman

Because she's cute hipster eye-candy and as such, she automatically gets a pass to be as offensive, racist and non-funny as possible and still get drooly-mouthed fanboys to pay for tickets to her show...
Posted by . . . short for cassandra on Tue, 11 Sep 2007 08:20:00 PST

drizzly day

I woke up this morning with an awful crick in my neck that is currently keeping me from looking over my right shoulder except for short, pain-filled seconds at a time. Ow. So I've been laid up on my c...
Posted by . . . short for cassandra on Mon, 10 Sep 2007 02:18:00 PST