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Carolina

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About Me

Quirky. Perky. Petite. Fruit Gobbler. Pinot Drinker. Whole Foods Eater. Rock Hopper. Book Sniffer. Lip Balm Lover. Explorer. Creator. Cleaner.

My Interests

art, life, love, happiness, health. books. farmers markets. cooking yummy creations. music. movies. climbing trees, hiking and other outdoorsy stuff. dancing, bouncing, stretching. singing silly songs. road trips and traveling. writing.

I'd like to meet:

People I used to know, people I should know & people who want to know me.
But not people who want to add me without even looking at my profile.

Music:

$tinkworx, Backwards Sam Firk, Jazz, Big Band, Swing, Handsome Boy Modeling School, Bad Religion, System of a Down, Beth Orton, Kate Wolf, The White Stripes, Dido, Tori Amos, Archers of Loaf, Beastie Boys, Indigo Girls, Portishead, Weird Al, Tracy Chapman, Morcheeba, DEVO, Jurassic 5, Gomez, Cake, lots more

Movies:

Better Off Dead, Star Wars, Walk the Line, V For Vendetta, American Splendor, Ray, Clue, Revenge of the Nerds, Last of the Mohicans, Emperor of the North, Strange Days, The Jerk, Goonies, This Film is On, Without A Paddle, The Karate Kid, Monty Python and the Quest for the Holy Grail, Superman, Cool Hand Luke, Hellboy, Enter the Dragon, Sin City, The Machinist, The Tune, Indiana Jones, Drunken Master, LOTR, Star Trek, The Search for Animal Chin, Life is Beautiful, Girls Just Want To Have Fun, Ghostbusters, Pee Wee's Big Adventure, Crumb, Eternal Sunshine, The Gods Must Be Crazy, Pump Up the Volume, The Shining, Ghost World, Heathers, Wild Style, Kung Fu Hustle, The Triplets of Belleville

Television:

Seinfeld, Arrested Development, LOST, Heroes, Battlestar Gallactica, Jeopardy. The Olympics.

Books:

Barbara Kingsolver, Tom Robbins, The Secret Life of Bees, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, James Baldwin, E.M. Forster, D.H. Lawrence, Jhumpa Lahiri, Clifford Meth, Edith Forbes, Anaïs Nin, The Year of Yes, A Portrait of a Lady, Women in Love, Living Life Inside the Lines, Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim (and ALL David Sedaris--especially audio), Dave Eggers, children's books, Sylvester's Magic Pebble, Harry Potter (finally got hooked)...I love books and have thousands upon thousands (no joke)

Comics American Splendor (Harvey Pekar), The Diary of a Teenage Girl (Phoebe Gloeckner), R. Crumb Handbook, Belly Button Comix (Sophie Crumb), Local (Brian Wood and Ryan Kelly), The Escapists (Brian K. Vaughn et al), Fell (Ben Templesmith and Warren Ellis), Little Nemo (Winsor McCay), Fun Home (Alison Bechdel), Valetine (Daniel Cooney), Liberty Meadows (Frank Cho), The Far Side (Gary Larson)

Heroes:

my grandmother Jean (an all-around incredible, fascinating, independent woman), Bunny Yeager (the legendary pin-up photographer), D.H. Lawrence, Emperor Norton I (a most intriguing character, look him up!), sanitation workers (glad somebody does it), good doctors and nurses, Sean Johnson (R.I.P), Daniel J. Cooney, Dr. Seuss, Banksy

My Blog

Halloween Par-tay

Alright everybody, let's see those costumes! Here's how we get down at Bud Plant.......
Posted by Carolina on Wed, 01 Nov 2006 01:57:00 PST

Photos from Comic-Con

Comic-Con '06 was by far the best yet! Right now it's still a total blur...To hear more about my Comic-Con adventures go to http://budplant.com/article.asp_Q_ai_E_64. I'll also try to get some of my n...
Posted by Carolina on Mon, 24 Jul 2006 12:44:00 PST

A tale of two Crumbs...

July 3, 2003 He had said the place wouldn't be hard to find, and it wasn't. A purple house stands out, even in San Francisco. I'd talked to Jesse a few times before, mostly by email. My father sells ...
Posted by Carolina on Tue, 04 Apr 2006 09:42:00 PST