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nikole

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About Me

i think i should have been born in 1947.

i like charles nelson riley too!

My Interests

that dog won't hunt, monsignor.

I'd like to meet:

the 60s and 70s. and fucking genuine people. it's the truth and it don't make a noise.

Music:

pulp, radiohead, sleeper, david bowie, patsy cline, nine inch nails, cursive, interpol, beck, the faint, murder by death, the hives, damon albarn, aimee mann, the strokes, the flaming lips, elastica, the white stripes, blur, the yeah yeah yeahs, smashing pumpkins, and motherfuckin' hair: the musical

Movies:

wes anderson, p.t. anderson, predator, clue, all that jazz, oldboy, scorsese, bill murray, buffalo 66, bladerunner, apocalypse now, pumpkin, tim burton (especially ed wood), kubrick, all about eve, natural born killers, 12 monkeys, tommy boy, addams family values, citizen kane, horror horror horror (especially the original halloween, the original dawn of the dead, and hellraiser)

Television:

futurama, king of the hill, the flight of the conchords, colbert report, reno 911, extras, entourage, top chef, family guy, project runway, cowboy bebop, dog bites man, joss whedon, the sarah silverman program, arrested development, monk, stella, millennium, south park, old star trek, old batman, static

Books:

clive barker and nathanael west

(also: the grapes of wrath, kafka, h.p. lovecraft, catch 22, dostoevsky, 1984, f. scott fitzgerald, jose chung, scary stories to tell in the dark 1-3)

Heroes:

you and your ass face

My Blog

i dont check my voicemail at work anymore

while sitting at my desk, i used to spend at least an hour or so sorting through all of the messages people left on my cell phone. some were hilariously outdated, like the one from my mom about b...
Posted by nikole on Wed, 24 Oct 2007 09:47:00 PST

how to make beef stroganoff

INGREDIENTS: 12 ounces sirloin steak, cut into thin strips 2 teaspoons vegetable oil 1 small onion, halved and sliced 8 ounces sliced mushrooms 1/2 cup sour cream 1/4 teaspoon dill weed 1/2 cu...
Posted by nikole on Thu, 13 Sep 2007 07:54:00 PST

tim gunn is my anti-drug

he's fabulous! and quite a dear.
Posted by nikole on Fri, 07 Sep 2007 07:11:00 PST

seasons in the sun

i think we developed a positive association with summer early in our lives, and it continued to develop through various schoolings. why wouldn't we have liked it? no alarm clocks, no school lunches (a...
Posted by nikole on Thu, 30 Aug 2007 06:53:00 PST

first aid spray and leafy greens

there's a freight elevator in my office building:it's much more ooky in person.
Posted by nikole on Wed, 29 Aug 2007 10:56:00 PST

ive decided to be "obnoxious"

so male animals are neutered. which removes their male urges and sexuality, and, going by the definition of the word, also any power they seemingly possessed. and when animals in general are made that...
Posted by nikole on Tue, 28 Aug 2007 08:01:00 PST

my life has come to fruition

because tonight i saw episodes 1-22 of r. kelly's trapped in the closet.as the box promised, there were new closets.
Posted by nikole on Wed, 22 Aug 2007 10:34:00 PST

i went to the suburbs and then i came back

i think the western suburbs are my favorite suburbs. the northwest suburbs are too interspersed with cornfields and random malls, the north suburbs... well i was once told by an impeccably dressed lit...
Posted by nikole on Mon, 06 Aug 2007 05:55:00 PST

i cannot decide if this is depressing or uplifting

http://postsecret.blogspot.com/  
Posted by nikole on Wed, 01 Aug 2007 10:33:00 PST

hooray (or not) for living in a bustling metropolis

so i just went to white hen specifically to buy planters sunflower seeds (because other kinds are horrible). they didn't have any. i am friendly with the cashiers (oh my), and so on my way out, with m...
Posted by nikole on Wed, 11 Jul 2007 08:31:00 PST