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CatieHarker.

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About Me

"I never said I loved him....I said he was handy"
Carouse: (verb) To engage in boisterous, drunken merrymaking.
Purveyor of Pomp and Circumstance
I sympathize with EE Cummings on grammar and punctuation
If you play the bass I'll probably fall in love with you
I find nice teeth and nice hands universally attractive
I share a birthday with Ella Fitzgerald, Al Pacino, Edward R. Murrow, Vladimir Lenin & Bethany Reyes. Beat that.
" Lets go back up to your house, take our clothes off, and just push and pull ourselves until we're deep inside of sleep. And with your body next to me, its sleepy sighing sounds like waves upon a sea too far to reach. But I'll gather up my men and try to sail on it again, and we'll walk and quietly talk all through the country of your skin, made up of pieces of the places that you've dreamed and that you've been. We will sleep outside in tents upon this unfamiliar land, and in the morning we'll awake, as a foreign dawning breaks, my men and I we will awake and try again"
- Okkervil River.



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My Interests

Things I Find Rad:
-my dog Kasher
-the Theremin
-pickled ginger
-Eddie Izzard
-Nikola Tesla.
-Vodka Tonics with an obscene amount of lime
-dancing in the morning
-Brandon Reilly's Cover of Sweet Avenue by Jets To Brazil
-parking on the top of parking decks
-the Tree that Owns Itself (you should google it)
-Jenny Lewis
-bass players
-Boy Tokyo
-notebooks
-John Congleton. In every form and fashion
-my future first edition library
-cufflinks
-hoodies
-pockets
-Rob Lowe circa 1985
-old books
-old buildings
-mango tea
-hindsight bias
-musing photos
-me moving to L.A.
-using coffee cups for non-coffee related things ( read: wine, soup, Lucky Charms)
-the words Lexicon, Elixir, Depravity, Circumnavigate, Antipodean, Mellifluous, Ecumenical, Mustachioed, and Phantasmagoric
-owls
-Blood and Ice Cream
-Japanese Purple Magnolias
-sepia
-The Halo Effect ( this is both rad and disturbing)
-Burrito Shark
-Vargas Girls
-boys with one syllable names, apparently

Things I Find Not So Rad:
-math
-fur
-Ugg Boots
-Professional Wrestling
-the 2ed amendment
-shitty beer
-Tom Cruise
-when people spell "a lot" as "alot"
-Thomas Kinkade ( it's tacky hotel art. prove me wrong. i dare you)
-Nascar
-willful ignorance
-Nicholas Sparks books
-Movies made from the aforementioned pathetic excuse of literature
-People who think homosexuality is a communicable disease.

I'd like to meet:

"But some of the nonsense was evil, since it concealed great cries. For example, teachers of children in the United States of America wrote this date on the blackboards again and again, and asked the children to memorize it with pride and joy:
1492
The teachers told the children that this was when their continent was discovered by human beings. Actually millions of human beings were already living full and imaginative lives on the continent in 1492. That was simply the year in which sea pirates began to cheat and rob and kill them."
-Breakfast of Champions
Kurt Vonnegut
1922 - 2007
And anyone who can quote "Ghostbusters" line for line with me.

Music:

In no particular order:
Cursive
The Good Life
The Decembrists
Weezer
Boy Tokyo
Band of Horses
Bright Eyes
Thrice
Murder by Death
Against Me!
The Weakerthans
The Pixies
CASH
Hank
The Faint
Metric
Rilo Kiley
The pAper chAse
The Mountain Goats
Death Cab
SavesTheDay
The Anniversary
Marvelous3 ( like i could escape this one.)
The Reverend HH
Okkervil River
My Chem
Knapsack
Hot Hot Heat
Nerf Herder
Modest Mouse
Pedro the Lion
Queen
The Cure
The Smiths
The Clash
Joy Division
Miles
Ella
Coltran
Jeff Buckley
Rufus Wainwright
Ozma
Neutral Milk Hotel
MAN MAN
Of Montreal
The Postal Service
Sufjan Stevens
The White Stripes
Broken Social Scene
Nightmare of You
How I Became The Bomb
The Fratellis
"You are the music while the music lasts"

Movies:

The Nightmare Before Christmas
Big Fish
Edward Scissorhands
Donnie Darko
High Fidelity
The Lost Boys
Ghostbusters I and II
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
The English Patient
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Igby Goes Down
The Royal Tenenbaums
The Rules of Attraction
The Last Unicorn
Annie Hall
The Big Lebowski
The Virgin Suicides
The Princess Bride
All Zombie and bad in a good way horror movies
The Sea Inside
Kiss. Kiss. Bang. Bang.
Brick
Howl's Moving Castle
Say Anything
24Hour Party People
Pan's Labyrinth
Shaun of the Dead
Hot Fuzz
The Fountain
Children of Men
Southland Tales
I Love Your Work (This movie is nuts. i loved it)

Television:

As everyone who has ever lived with me knows, I really, really dig Law and Order.
Anything on The Discovery, History, and Travel Channels, especially How It’s Made
And,Spaced and Arrested Development maybe the greatest television shows ever made...

Books:

Animal Farm
Thomas Stearns Eliot
And the Dead Shall Rise
Catch-22
Horton Hears a Who
Anything by Vonnegut, Palahniuk, and Ellis. Just like everyone else my age.
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
The House of Leaves
Rosemary's Baby
The Wasteland
As I lay Dying
The Church of Dead Girls
Wicked
Sons and Lovers
C.S. Lewis and Lewis Carroll
Through The Looking Glass over Alice in Wonderland
I'm Not Myself These Days
She's Come Undone
My DSM-IV
Strange Brains and Genius: The Secret Lives Of Eccentric Scientists And Madmen
Pillars of the Earth

Heroes:


John Congleton

Tim Kasher
Editor's note: If Caitlin Harker is ever in the same room with both of the above gentlemen simultaneously she will, in fact, explode.

By Colin "Justice" Harker.
FACT: My little brother is so much more awesome than yours.

Jenny Lewis.
It’s no secret that I love this woman. When I grow up, if I get to be half as unbelievably fantastic as she is, I’ll be lucky.

My Blog

And here I thought I was enigmatic.

  So I was sitting in my living room last evening before going over to Brandon's, half watching Anthony Bourdain travel to corners of the world just to see sights and eat amazing foods, and liste...
Posted by CatieHarker. on Tue, 03 Jun 2008 01:16:00 PST

Social Science. Robert Downey Jr. Brunettes. Self-Fulfilling prophecy. Seafood.

Social science. Robert Downey Jr. Brunettes. Self fulfilling prophecy. Seafood.I swear all these things are connected.. or at least they are in my brain, so I'm going to try my damnedest to get my tho...
Posted by CatieHarker. on Tue, 13 May 2008 09:49:00 PST

Boobs.

Boobs are not evil things.I'm a chick, I have them. Two in fact. Boobs are a part of life. I have personally owned my matching set since i was about 13. I know what kind of power they hold, and how th...
Posted by CatieHarker. on Wed, 12 Mar 2008 05:48:00 PST

Typing Just to Hear Myself Speak

I'm having an existential crisis. I know, I know..how fucking cliche. I'm a 23 year old white, fully employed college graduate. Who lives in a pretty decent part of one of the richest suburbs in Amer...
Posted by CatieHarker. on Sun, 02 Dec 2007 07:11:00 PST

5 years of misadventures, what I have learned

4.30.2007I remember the first day of moving into my freshman dorm at GSU like it was yesterday. Packing up the car, almost being hit by a semi merging from 400 to 85, meeting my new ( and soon to be ...
Posted by CatieHarker. on Mon, 14 May 2007 03:34:00 PST

stuck between a rock and a firing squad...

i graduate college in less than a week.I'm freaking out.i keep remembering my first day of first grade, getting off the bus with my brother and thinking i was so grown up.I was six.all i can think abo...
Posted by CatieHarker. on Sun, 06 May 2007 03:33:00 PST

Hey, while i'm down here, you think you can kick me in the ribs?

So this is the day I am having.....i got up late which automatically puts me in a bad moodi take kasher for a walk and step on a piece of glass, thus cutting the middle of my not so "arched" irish arc...
Posted by CatieHarker. on Wed, 04 Apr 2007 09:49:00 PST

I put a spell on you....

So in day 4 for my lost voice I am convinced that someone has put a hex on me. Here is my proof. friday night we walked into Chapel ( which is an awesome bar by the way) totally fine, voice intact. ...
Posted by CatieHarker. on Mon, 26 Mar 2007 01:47:00 PST

The Never Boring musings of Dr. Paul Roman

Dr. Paul Roman is my Teacher for Sociology of Drug and Alcohol Use. ( Enter obligatory drug test joke here.) Now keep in mind that this man is a pillar in his field. The essence of academia. He is abo...
Posted by CatieHarker. on Sun, 11 Mar 2007 07:11:00 PST

Why my little brother is brilliant and you are lucky if you know him

So I sent copies of my "art " to my little brother Colin, who is an amazingly talented , actual artist. His work is not culminated on the back of psych lab schedules. The point is that i sent them to ...
Posted by CatieHarker. on Sat, 10 Feb 2007 01:56:00 PST