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Beth

LAMRONBA

About Me



I like trains and things in jars.

My Interests

Things in jars, skulls and bones, knives, swords, inside out bears, creating things, touching moving trains, hiking, watching people, adventure.

I'd like to meet:

surprise me.

Music:

System of a Down, Lucid Dementia, Throbbing Gristle, the Tunahelpers, Ultra Vox, Talk Talk, Depeche Mode, the Cure, Laurie Anderson, Bauhaus, Dead Can Dance, Cocteau Twins, Xymox, the soundtrack to Liquid Sky, the Carpenters, opera.

Movies:

Freaks, City of Lost Children, Delicatessen, Heathers, any Monty Python, Harold and Maude, Baraka, Trainspotting, Young Frankenstein, Brazil, Blade Runner, 5th Element, Fantastic Planet, 1984, the Lathe of Heaven, old John Waters films especially Desperate Living, the Forbidden Zone.

Television:

I don't watch television, but I do like The Addams Family, Monty Python's Flying Circus, and Kids In The Hall.

Books:

the dictionary, Adbusters. Favorites: Douglas Adams, Richard Bach, Charles Addams, Chariots of the Gods, the Illuminatus trilogy, Modern Primitives, Sandman, Hothead, histories of...torture, Hell, knives, anything about death, wierd old psychology books.

Heroes:

Chad

My Blog

getting fancier

I got my first cell phone in November last year.  Lori was the one really pushing for it.  Her lure was the idea that she could let me know right away of any good road kill.  I've never...
Posted by Beth on Thu, 23 Oct 2008 06:23:00 PST

creatures in the woods

While camping at McKinney Falls I saw so many creatures, some too fast for photographs:  squirrels, raccoons, deer, rabbits, opossum, armadillo, quail, turtles, praying mantis, lizards, beetles, ...
Posted by Beth on Tue, 14 Oct 2008 06:23:00 PST

nine years ago today

i moved to austin!
Posted by Beth on Wed, 01 Oct 2008 02:13:00 PST

In trouble with the MAN

I got a ticket for littering tonight.I threw a stuffed animal out of the back of truck.  I tried to explain to the officer that it was a gift to the people who were walking down 8th street. ...
Posted by Beth on Thu, 18 Sep 2008 12:44:00 PST

bonding with a straight dude

I was at Jackalope last night having a few beers at the bar and they were showing the movie Children Of Men.  It's very good.This guy walked up to get a beer and started talking about the best sc...
Posted by Beth on Sat, 30 Aug 2008 03:00:00 PST

I thought there’d been a coup

I have a new beetle in my colony of dermestids.  For a while I only saw this new one and thought they'd killed off my babies.Turns out they are silphid beetles, true carrion beetles and they will...
Posted by Beth on Fri, 22 Aug 2008 03:10:00 PST

Good thing there was a map


Posted by Beth on Thu, 19 Jun 2008 02:12:00 PST

Easily fixed problems. Number 1

I keep scraping my elbow on the tree that's in my car.
Posted by Beth on Mon, 09 Jun 2008 07:17:00 PST

it was a good run

After a year of having beetles on my patio in an apartment complex there has been a complaint about the smell.  I guess a full grown cat is a lot stinkier than a squirrel.  They are getting ...
Posted by Beth on Thu, 05 Jun 2008 04:09:00 PST

saw horse

There's a sad little saw horse lying on it's side all alone on Ben White. I'm going to rescue it tonight. I know I don't really have room for it but it is so sad and needs a good home.
Posted by Beth on Sat, 10 May 2008 04:20:00 PST