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tawdry hepburn

Once upon a time there was what there was, and if nothing had happened there would be nothing to tel

About Me

There's no secret handshake. There's an IQ pre-requisite -- but there's no secret handshake. -- Troy Dyer

Random adjectives (to clear up the ambiguity of this heading -- yes, the following list does apply to me): unconventional, feisty, twisted but sweet, seductive if properly provoked, empathetic, grounded, snarky, honest, sometimes caustic, saucy, pessimistic optimist

I'm a recovering goth and a master of verbal guerilla warfare.

Although I miss Hell's Kitchen something fierce, I've decided heading back to NYC while still flat broke probably isn't in my best interest. I've also adopted a "fuck the PhD" policy, which makes moving to a college town unnecessary. HellAy is really too horrid to consider for more than a weekend.

Back in Misery -- this place is starting to feel like home. Feel free to say hello.

We must be careful about what we pretend to be. -- Kurt Vonnegut



My Interests

campaign for eeyore as original goth, broken (or fixed) rocker boys, 90s alternative, emily strange, thunderstorms, live music, ancient egypt, accents, film, cemetaries and graveyards, gargoyles, photography, people watching, theater, travel, writing, tattoos, yoga, academia, biting, cloves, europe, route 66, introspection, kissing, fire, angst, dive bars

I'd like to meet:

A true friend stabs you in the front. -- Oscar Wilde

What does one look for in a friend? Brutal honesty and a sarcastic wit, someone that can hold my attention. Anyone that would be at home amidst my menagerie of malcontents. Scruffy sauce-hounds are encouraged to apply.

Also, you must be willing to kill spiders. If you won't annihilate them, then at least be willing to relocate them to a place I can't see. This isnt an arbitrary vendetta against the arachnid family. My reason involves 40 stitches.

If you'd like to be more than friends -- I apologize, but you're too late. I have a boy that will whip up a gourmet meal and then serve it up with a side of bang. Can't beat that, can you? I didn't think so.

Music:

NIN, Ani Difranco, Juliana Hatfield, Tool, Stone Roses, Rhett Miller, Jonny Lives!, David Bowie, Incubus, The Cure, Depeche Mode, James, Soul Coughing, Queens of the Stone Age, Bellyfeel, Counting Crows, AFI, Type O Negative, Dead Milkmen, Radio Iodine, Belly, Lycia, Mazzy Star, Black Tape for a Blue Girl, Fall Out Boy (shut up), Soul Asylum, Anna Nalick, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Peter Gabriel, Gin Blossoms, Nirvana, Old 97's, VAST, Jude, Cracker, Soup Dragons, Siouxsie, A Perfect Circle, Uncle Scratch's Gospel Revival, VNV Nation, Switchblade Symphony, Love Spirals Downward, Front Line Assembly, Catherine Wheel, Louis XIV, Dresden Dolls, She Wants Revenge

Movies:

Undergraduate Production Thesis – The Breakfast Club, Weird Science, Some Kind of Wonderful, Pretty in Pink, Sixteen Candles, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off

Childhood Regression Library – The Phantom Tollbooth, Labyrinth, The Dark Crystal, Flight of Dragons, The Last Unicorn, The Black Cauldron, Goonies, The Princess Bride

Anything else is unfair on the grounds that I’m a former (and possibly future) film major…

Television:

Buffy the Vampire Slayer, My So Called Life, Felicity, Six Feet Under (hm, it would seem I have an affinity for things that are cancelled)

Currently – Lost, Grey’s Anatomy, Veronica Mars

Books:

The Secret Life of Bees(sue monk kidd), Wicked(gregory maguire), Fall on Your Knees(ann-marie macdonald), The Red Tent(anita diamant), The Handmaid's Tale(margaret atwood), Wuthering Heights(emily bronte), Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister(gregory maguire), The Memoirs of Cleopatra(margaret george), The Bell Jar(sylvia plath), Lightning on the Sun(robert bingham), To the Lighthouse(virginia woolf), Cry to Heaven(anne rice), Anne Sexton's Complete Poems, Jane Eyre(charlotte bronte) Poe short stories, anything by Anne Rice(even the pseudonymns, but pre-Jesus), The Alchemist(paulo coelho), Where the Wild Things Are(maurice sendak), The Awakening(kate chopin), The Yellow Wallpaper(charlotte perkins gilman), Running with Scissors(augusten burroughs), The Eyre Affair (jasper fforde), Fast Food Nation (eric schlosser), Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs (chuck klosterman), The Perks of Being a Wallflower (stephen chbosky)

Heroes:

Jack Daniels

My Blog

one word survey

Body: One. Word. Survey.Because I'm bored -- read if you feel like it, I won't know if you don't. You. Can. Only. Type. One. Word. Not as easy as you might think... 1. Yourself:Content 2. Boyfriend/gi...
Posted by tawdry hepburn on Sun, 03 Dec 2006 12:15:00 PST

dogs are gross (-or-) vomit-underpants breath

This is a repost from my LJ -- but I just had to share the amusement. *~*~*~*~*~*~* I was minding my own business, cleaning up the kitchen -- getting ready to reward myself with some yummy chocolate p...
Posted by tawdry hepburn on Wed, 23 Aug 2006 08:42:00 PST

just sayin'

I'd just like to say, with some level of certainty, I made the right decision in coming back to St. Louis. That's saying a whole heck of a lot, considering I'm still jobless (aside from two Satur...
Posted by tawdry hepburn on Mon, 05 Jun 2006 09:21:00 PST

things that make me smile

Changed my top 8 to people that made me smile this weekend.  Nine Inch Nails gets the honor for putting on the best show EVER. For those of you that know about the LJ, you can refer to it for the...
Posted by tawdry hepburn on Tue, 04 Apr 2006 12:25:00 PST

Ode to "Strike"

I've always had an aversion to bowling.  I admit it is mostly because I'm not any good.  I liked bowling in NYC mainly because it involved hard liquor and chocolate fondue -- but I digress. ...
Posted by tawdry hepburn on Mon, 27 Mar 2006 11:44:00 PST

top 8 survey

Well, last night I couldn't sleep -- and this was the first survey I stumbled across.  Enjoy -- or skip it -- I'll never know the difference.   [PERSON ONE]: Phoebe1) How long have you known...
Posted by tawdry hepburn on Sun, 19 Feb 2006 01:21:00 PST

swedish fish are sometimes evil

So, last Thursday I was munching on Swedish Fish (but not the red ones), and I swallowed a filling that Ive had since the 4th grade.   Today, I went to have the filling replaced.  I refused...
Posted by tawdry hepburn on Tue, 24 Jan 2006 02:17:00 PST

break from the holiday hurricane

1. Do you still talk to the person you had your first kiss with? My first kiss was with this guy that didn't even go to my school in Berlin -- he followed me out of the bowling alley on base and pract...
Posted by tawdry hepburn on Wed, 21 Dec 2005 09:47:00 PST

Gobble Gobble Splat

I assure you I never intended to sleep anywhere in Texas that was not Austin, but American Airlines had other plans.  A scary La Quinta in Bedford, about ten miles from the Dallas Fort Worth airp...
Posted by tawdry hepburn on Thu, 01 Dec 2005 07:09:00 PST

tainted (and squeaky) love

I think I developed a strong sense of neighbor etiquette because I've moved a billion times and had a myriad of different neighbors. I'm beginning to realize not all people share these values.I live i...
Posted by tawdry hepburn on Mon, 31 Oct 2005 10:18:00 PST