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Carissa

Don't underestimate the power of corduroy.....

About Me

I edited my profile with Thomas' Myspace Editor V4.1
It is entirely possible to squeeze blood from this turnip.
It is entirely possible we have met before.
It is entirely possible I live alone with a cat.
It is entirely not possible to have met me and not heard at least one thing you thought was extremely odd.
It is more than entirely possible I use myspace to stalk you.
It is entirely possible one of these sentences uses a double negative.

My Interests

anime, the Beats, Bohemia, theatre, law, writing, singing, sports, activism, vegetarianism, romanticism, being both dramatic and romantic, urban planning, environmentalism, postcolonial studies, marxism, music, traveling, sexuality, gender studies, queer theory, comics, March Madness, old movies, academia, aclu, adoption, anarchy, anything folk, arguing, atheism, basketball, cheezy movies, chocolate, conservatives, conversing, cubs baseball, dancing, feminism, freedom, gandhi, gin, jazz, laughing, liberalism, literature, marx brothers, musicals, noam chomsky, npr, peace, piano, politics, postmodernism, poststructuralism, radiohead, rat pack, socialism, sushi, the 80s, the outdoors, traveling, university of illinois, whiskey, Owoody allen, david mamet, aaron sorkin

I'd like to meet:

A Republican who voted for McGovern....

Music:

311, Alkaline Trio, Ani DiFranco, Bad Religion, Ben Folds, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, The Clash, Coltrane, The Cure, Elliott Smith, Elvis Costello (and sometimes the Attractions), Foo Fighters, Frank Sinatra, Get Up Kids, Goldfinger, Guster, Janis Joplin, Jets to Brazil, Journey Lisa Loeb, Metallica, Miles Davis, Misfits, Neil Young, Paul Westerberg, Ramones, Reel Big Fish, Rufus Wainwright, Saves the Day, Spoon, They Might Be Giants, Tom Waits, The Velvet Underground (most of the time I like to have Nico), Weezer, What Four, Wilco,

Movies:

The American President, American Splendor, Back to the Future, Bananas, Bubblegum Crisis, Bullets Over Broadway, Clerks, Clueless, Cowboy Bebop, Death to Smoochy, Diner, Fog of War, From Here to Eternity, Goodbye Lenin, Goodnight and Good Luck, The Graduate, Hannah and Her Sisters, Hellsing, Manhattan, Metropolis (Lang and the anime), Napoleon Dynamite, Oceans 11 (the original), Primary Colors, Spaceballs, Star Wars, State and Main, Strictly Ballroom, Trigun, The Untouchables

Television:

West Wing, Daily Show, Futurama, ATHF, Family Guy, Meet the Press, I'm including Radio shows in with the TV category, because none of these ever have Radio: Wait! Wait! Don't Tell Me!, This American Life, Prairie Home Companion, Any of those crazy Air America folks....

Books:

Berlin, Burroughs, Chabon, Delillo, Engels, Ferlinghetti, Gaiman, Hawthorne, Hegel, Kerouac, Kinkaid, Kipling, Lenin, Mailer, Mamet, Marx, Moore, Pinker, Stoker, Swift, Waugh, Welsh, Williams

Heroes:

Margie..duh!

My Blog

A Loud Plea to a Soft Spoken Man.....

Dear Lovie Smith,I understand your loyalty to your football club. No one can shame you for putting together a team with an unrivaled defense, a special teams with bite, and a running game that sports...
Posted by Carissa on Tue, 05 Dec 2006 09:55:00 PST

A terrible time to have a life....

Last year at this time life was banal. Not completely banal, mind you, but no where near as crazy as this year. Just when school is beginning to get completely shitty I get a social calendar that is...
Posted by Carissa on Tue, 31 Oct 2006 09:22:00 PST

Da Bears, Unfiltered Pall Mall Cigs, and the Illuminati

First off, go bears. I applaud your defensive effort, your exposed secondary, and your amazing Monday Night Football skills. Secondly, did you all know that Pall Mall cigarettes can be traced to the...
Posted by Carissa on Thu, 19 Oct 2006 03:48:00 PST

This is the abridged friends version...

Possibly I've fucked up so many times in my life I somehow deserve these twisted things. I tend not to believe that. In many ways I really have come to believe the idea that just one simple decision...
Posted by Carissa on Thu, 05 Oct 2006 08:40:00 PST

I love the Garden State...

There is something about weddings that make people entirely too open for my taste. Everyone seems to make best friends with everyone and then in a matter of twelve hours you are ripped from your new...
Posted by Carissa on Mon, 25 Sep 2006 09:22:00 PST

At the request of someone else.....

A posting of things written before the days of briefs, memos, and preliminary injunctions. A snippet of the actual writing:"She's sorry she couldn't make it." The girl says as she averts her eyes to...
Posted by Carissa on Wed, 13 Sep 2006 10:26:00 PST

Any takers out there for some Chicago culture?

I know I grew up making music, writing stories, and reading alot. And I also know that most of you think all of this stuff is a bunch of hooey and you say things to me like, "I don't get modern art" a...
Posted by Carissa on Thu, 07 Sep 2006 08:57:00 PST

Empty Bottle for all!

To understand the complete musical transformation I had last night you all should go to Ryan's blog (he's number one on my myspace friends) and read our conversation/interview about the wonderment of...
Posted by Carissa on Wed, 06 Sep 2006 10:21:00 PST

The things you learn on a daily basis...

Apparently, Bob Scanlan does post-Padres game updates in various locations in San Diego.. Now, I don't expect any of you to really keep up on mediocre pitcher stats, but scanlan used to be middle reli...
Posted by Carissa on Tue, 05 Sep 2006 02:59:00 PST

"She told me her name was Billie Jean, as she caused a scene..." Sound familiar?

I actually felt myself grow this weekend. Physically, mentally, emotionally. It hurt. Kind of like the arthritis in my knees. And no, I didn't cause any scenes....that I know of...It all started simpl...
Posted by Carissa on Tue, 05 Sep 2006 07:41:00 PST