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Crystal

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About Me

What can I say? I love to observe people and the funny things that they do. I try to live life to the fullest and to never regret anything I do. I'll try anything once given the opportunity. I love the color green. I love sushi. I love getting tattooed. I wish I could work for National Geographics. I hate Derek Jeter and maybe all of the New York Yankees...but mostly Derek Jeter. I like drastic changes. I love to travel and see new places. I hate routines. I have 2 brothers and 3 sisters. I am from Maine. I love Denver weather. I wish I weren't so self critical. I over commit myself. I love taking photos of people when they're not watching. I am currently trying to curb an addiction for fried chicken. I hate telephones. I have bad credit. Film will always look better than digital. I have an overbite. I wish that hangovers could be cured by candy. I am never on time. I bar tend at a comedy club. I love thunderstorms. And all shades of red.
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My Interests

I'd like to meet:

You.

Music:

I listen to pretty much everything....including (but not limited to...): Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Etta James, Robert Johnson, Ma Rainey, Louis Armstrong, Al Green, Marvin Gaye, JAMES BROWN, B.B. King, Le Tigre (YAH!!), Walls of Jericho, Overthrow, Joan Jett, Peaches, Pretty Girls Make Graves, the Distillers, Descendants, Bjork, Madonna, Sade, Notorious BIG (Yeah, I said it....wanna fight about it?), Portishead, PJ Harvey, Led Zepplin! Led Zepplin! Led Zepplin! ACDC, I See Spies, Angry Amputees, Coheed and Cambria, Barium, God Forbid, Thousand Year Suffering, The White Stripes, Placebo, Primus, anything that Ben Roy screams in (sigh), anything with a cowbell, and anything with a little dirt........

Movies:

I'll watch any movie once, any great movies 5 or 6 times...but cheesy girly teeny bopper flicks I can watch forever. She's all That, 10 things I hate about you, Clueless, Legally Blonde, Bring it On, The Cutting Edge, The Breakfast Club, Heart Breakers.....I have a problem...I know. I do like really great and well made movies (not involving bad teen actors) as well, but I can't help watching the poorly made, completely predictable ones. I am so ashamed. What I will not watch: WAR MOVIES. Why, you ask? Well here's one reason: Storyline....bang bang bang bang (explosion) bang bang bang (close up of dead guy) bang bang (explosion) bang bang bang (main character just got wounded) bang bang (another close up of a dead guy)bang bang (speech about brotherhood) bang bang (sensitive lead character makes it home and his wife has a baby). End of movie.

Television:

Besides the occasional Red Sox game at a bar...I don't watch television. If I started, I would never stop. Besides, NPR is WAY better!

Books:

Anything David Sedaris, Sylvia Plath, Charles Bukowski, Jaqueline Susann. Blue Highways, Pimp, Catcher in the Rye, The Giver, (the biography of) Diane Arbus.

Heroes:

Diane Arbus will always be my photographic hero (I'm a dork), and David Sedaris is my other hero currently--read his books...you'll pee your pants.

My Blog

Rock Shoots...check it check it out....

Hey Ya'll.  These are some images from the "Rock" series that I have been working on.  They take a second to load...but are well worth the wait!  I still have one shoot left to complete...
Posted by Crystal on Wed, 07 Mar 2007 09:44:00 PST

I miss you.....

So I guess I feel like my life is moving at 170mph, and I have had no time to see anyone or say hi, or respond to emails.  So if you are reading this, and you are a friend....I'm sorry.  One...
Posted by Crystal on Wed, 08 Nov 2006 10:40:00 PST

Laughter and pointing fingers.

So  here I am on a thursday afternoon sitting on my computer and "getting shit done".  I am working on a thousand and one things today and would just love to abandon all of this and get a co...
Posted by Crystal on Thu, 19 Oct 2006 01:35:00 PST

crystalallenphotography.com

It's up and running.  In the beginning stages, but I have Shann to thank for setting it up.  Yeah for Shann!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  (VividDecay)   I love you Shann.....come over so we can ...
Posted by Crystal on Mon, 09 Jan 2006 12:29:00 PST

Studio studio studio

So.  I just put the deposit down on an art studio with a darkroom.  It's aaaaaaaammmmaaaaaaazing!  I am so excited, I can hardly contain myself.  It's 800sq. feet...with great ligh...
Posted by Crystal on Mon, 14 Nov 2005 11:01:00 PST

Dookie Booty

I wish....no wait.  I'm starting this all wrong.  God, this is my first "Blog" ever, and I'm already fucking it up.  Jesus.  Ok.  (cough).  Here it goes....  I ...
Posted by Crystal on Sat, 08 Oct 2005 12:32:00 PST