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Katie

if we won't burn together, I'll burn alone.

My Interests

I'd like to meet:



“The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars...” - jack kerouac

Music:

I like: !!!, Arctic Monkeys, The Black Keys, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Bloc Party, Brand New, Bush, Johnny Cash, The Cliks, The Cribs, Cursive, Daft Punk, Death From Above 1979, Does It Offend You Yeah?, The Flaming Lips, Ben Folds, The Frames, The Good Life, Hello Stranger, Incubus, Juliette & the Licks, Kill Hannah, Kings of Leon, Mindless Self Indulgence, Modest Mouse, MUSE, Neutral Milk Hotel, Nine Inch Nails, Radiohead, Rage Against the Machine, Rilo Kiley, She Wants Revenge, Smashing Pumpkins, The Strokes, The Swell Season, Timbaland, Justin Timberlake, The Used, Tom Waits, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Rob/White Zombie, etc etc etc.

I've seen: !!!, Animal Collective, The Apples in Stereo, Audioslave, Bad Religion, Battles, Be Your Own Pet, The Black Keys (x2), Black Kids, Dierks Bentley (by accident), Blink-182, Bloc Party, Blonde Redhead, Bon Iver, Boris, Brand New (x2), Caribou, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Chevelle, The Cliks, Cold War Kids, Cursive (x2), Cut Copy, Daft Punk, Damien Dempsey, DeVotchKa, The Distillers, Disturbed, Does It Offend You Yeah? (x2 +1 DJ set), The Donnas, Dr. Dog, Drive By Truckers, Duffy, The Duke Spirit, Eve 6, Fenix TX, The Flaming Lips, Fleet Foxes, Flogging Molly, Foo Fighters, Girl Talk, Gogol Bordello, Green Day, Hanson (haha), Hello Stranger, HIM, The Hold Steady, Ima Robot, Incubus, Innerpartysystem (x2), Iron & Wine, Jane's Addiction, Juliette & the Licks, The Killers, Kill Hannah (x8 or 9ish.. I've lost track), Kings of Leon, LCD Soundsystem, Les Savy Fav, The Like, The Living End, Louis XIV, Lostprophets, Medic Droid, Mindless Self Indulgence, Modest Mouse (x2), moe., Mooney Suzuki, Muse (x3), My Chemical Romance, Nicole Atkins & the Sea, Nine Inch Nails, OK Go, Pearl Jam, The Polyphonic Spree, Queens of the Stone Age, The Raconteurs, Radiohead, Rage Against the Machine, Dizzee Rascal, The Rasmus, Red Hot Chilli Peppers, She Wants Revenge, Silverchair, Silversun Pickups (x2), Bruce Springsteen, The Sounds, Spoon, The Strokes, The Swell Season, Switches (x2), Taproot, Ted Leo & the Pharmacists, Titus Andronicus, Toadies, T Pain (seriously), The Used (x2), Vampire Weekend, VHS or Beta, The Virgins, Von Iva, M. Ward, The Whigs (x2), Amy Winehouse, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Yo Majesty, Zox and probably etc..(goddamn this list is getting kind of ridiculous....)

Movies:

300
Adaptation
A Lot Like Love
Amelie
An Affair to Remember
Anchorman
Dead Poets Society
Dedication
Donnie Darko
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Fight Club
Forgetting Sarah Marshall
Garden State
Harry Potter
Highway
Hot Rod
Lady in the Water
Lord of the Rings
Love Me If You Dare
The Notebook
Once
Penelope
Peter Pan
Pirates of the Caribbean
Romeo + Juliet
Sin City
SLC Punk!
Stardust
Stranger Than Fiction
Under the Tuscan Sun
V for Vendetta

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John Cusack
Kevin Smith
Quentin Tarantino
Tim Burton

Books:

"Harry Potter" - J.K. Rowling, "Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy" - Douglas Adams, "Brave New World" - Aldous Huxley, "A Million Little Pieces" - James Frey, "Neverending Story" - Michael Ende, "Altered States" - Paddy Chayefsky, Jack Kerouac, Oscar Wilde, Allen Ginsberg, Chuck Palahniuk, C.S. Lewis, F. Scott Fitzgerald, J.R.R. Tolkien, TS Eliot, Charles Bukowski, Bret Easton Ellis, etc etc etc.

My Blog

My boyfriend is a vampire and I like it.

At the behest of my co-workers and, well, my delayed awareness of what books all the kids are reading these days (tending to spend more time reveling in literature of decades past), I finally picked u...
Posted by Katie on Thu, 23 Oct 2008 11:19:00 PST

Life is a daring adventure, or nothing at all.

"Get good grades. Get a degree from a respectable university. Get a good job. Work hard. Become a respectable employee. Save for retirement. Meet a life partner in your early-to-mid 20's. Go out for t...
Posted by Katie on Fri, 10 Oct 2008 10:54:00 PST

I wish you were here.

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Posted by Katie on Mon, 06 Oct 2008 07:55:00 PST

your girl is lovely, Hubble.

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Posted by Katie on Sat, 13 Sep 2008 09:04:00 PST

jacking someone else’s blog..

..because it's fucking brilliant."I could've been born an idiot. That would've been perfectly fine. A breezy life of Oreo dunking, scratch offs, and sweet glorious mind-numbing ignorance. Set my sight...
Posted by Katie on Thu, 04 Sep 2008 05:42:00 PST

what’s wrong?

I don't know! I DON'T KNOW! I'm lost! I'm scared! I feel like I'm disappearing! MY SKIN IS COMING OFF! I'm GETTING OLD! Nothing makes any sense to me.. NOTHING MAKES ANY SENSE.
Posted by Katie on Mon, 01 Sep 2008 01:26:00 PST

fitzcarraldo

"this song is about deciding at some point to take the long road because you've tried to take the short cuts and and you keep banging your head off a wall. so this song is about reaching a wall in you...
Posted by Katie on Tue, 26 Aug 2008 09:32:00 PST

portions for foxes

there's blood in my mouthcause I've been biting my tongue all weekI keep on talkin trash but I never say anythingand the talkin leads to touchinand the touchin leads to sexand then there is no mystery...
Posted by Katie on Tue, 05 Aug 2008 09:07:00 PST

skinny love

Come on skinny love just last the yearPour a little salt we were never hereMy, my, my, my, my, my, my, myStaring at the sink of blood and crushed veneerI tell my love to wreck it allCut out all the ro...
Posted by Katie on Tue, 22 Jul 2008 08:09:00 PST

Goodbye, beaten path.

Lately I have decided that I have no interest in conventional living. The whole cycle, the American Dream... go to college, get a job, marry (with the same white dresses and pretty flowers as everybod...
Posted by Katie on Tue, 29 Apr 2008 04:06:00 PST