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Karissa

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About Me

grateful and opitimistic...and excited about a new year.

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My Interests

Music, dancing, acting, film, literature, art, camping, hiking

I'd like to meet:

People who enrich my life.

Music:

Jeff Buckley, Dolorean, Led Zeppelin, Spoon, The Arcade Fire, The Avett Brothers, Lovedrug, The Autumns, Radiohead, U2, Belle and Sebastian, Mae, Iron and Wine, Death Cab for Cutie, Postal Service, Okkervil River, Panda Bear, Pedro the Lion, The Beatles, Joni Mitchell, Orris, Sunny Day Real Estate, Ours, The Cure, Ferraby Lionheart, The National, St. Vincent, Coldplay, Weezer, Fire Theft, Jimmy Eat World, Denison Witmer, Onelinedrawing, Elbow, Johnny Cash, Sigur Ros, Bright Eyes, Two Thirty Eight, Travis, Granddaddy, The Jealous Sound, Pete Yorn, Wilco, My Morning Jacket, Sufjan Stevens, Nada Surf, Ryan Adams, Smashing Pumpkins, Kevin Devine, Ester Drang, Elliott Smith, Elliott, Spiritualized, Duncan Sheik, The Doves, Muse, Nick Drake, Travis, The Rapture, Jeremy Enigk, Mineral, Sleeping At Last, Ben Folds, Delegate, Gloria Record, Kings of Convenience, Miles Davis, Ben Lee, Damien Rice, Michael Pritzl/Violet Burning, Rilo Kiley, Jenny Lewis, Aqualung, Ambulance LTD, The Appleseed Cast, The Decemberists, Ed Harcourt, Owen, Stars, Midlake, Cat Power, Devendra Banhart, BRMC, Animal Collective, Eisley...

Movies:

Waking the Dead, Edward Scissorhands, Big Phish, Amelie, The Royal Tenanbaums, Rushmore, Elizabethtown, Office Space, A Mighty Wind, Waiting for Guffman, The Matrix, The Lord of the Rings, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Ararat, 28 Days Later, Best In Show, Moulin Rouge, Swing Kids, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Almost Famous, Vanilla Sky, The Quiet American, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Rattle and Hum, Billy Elliott, Saved, Naopleon Dynamite, Matchpoint, Capote, Little Miss Sunshine, Half Nelson, Children of Men, Pan's Labyrinth, Once, Superbad

Television:

South Park, Daily Show, Family Guy, Lost, Six Feet Under, Top Chef, Arrested Development, Scrubs

Books:

Franny and Zooey, The Alchemist, War and Peace, Jane Eyre, Gone to Earth, Pride and Predjudice, In the Skin of a Lion, History of the World in 10 1/2 chapters, Middlemarch, Life of Pi, 100 Years of Solitude, The Chronicles of Narnia, Lord of the Rings, The English Patient, poetry by W.H. Auden and William Blake, Wuthering Heights, Tess of the Durbervilles, Dream Brother, Huck Finn, The Giving Tree, Hey Nostradamus, anything by Douglas Coupland, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Harry Potter books, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, Lamb, Gilead, Breakfast of Champions, The Bell Jar, The Time Traveler's Wife, The Master and Margarita, Moon Palace, The Picture of Dorian Gray, The Namesake, Precious Bane...Currently reading: Midnight's Children (Rushdie), and The Life Of Milarepa

Heroes:

C.S. Lewis, Audrey Hepburn, Bono, Jeff Buckley, Thom Yorke, Anthony Hopkins, Jennifer Connelly, Joseph Campbell, Michael Ondaatje What U2 era fits you?
Boy / October / War era. You're all about the early 80s.
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My Blog

perspective

A good friend of mine almost died the other night.  Every time I think about it, I feel incredibely nauseous and overwhelmed.  Their house caught on fire, and was pretty badly burned, but mo...
Posted by Karissa on Wed, 23 Jan 2008 09:38:00 PST

catharsis

I just sat down and wrote a song for the first time in a long time.  I've been avoiding writing lately because I've just been too discouraged and overwhelmed to deal with any sort of creative pro...
Posted by Karissa on Wed, 28 Nov 2007 11:27:00 PST

remaining in the present

Denver was telling me the other day that I have everything I need in every moment.  And, he's totally right.  I've never been without what I need.  I may look to the future and constant...
Posted by Karissa on Tue, 25 Sep 2007 01:04:00 PST

Happiness is a thunderstorm

It's pouring outside right now, and it makes me so happy.  I love the rain!  It always leaves me feeling so soothed and content.  Aaaahhh...(that's a sigh of contentment, in case you di...
Posted by Karissa on Thu, 13 Sep 2007 12:10:00 PST

Moon Palace

I just finished reading Moon Palace by Paul Auster today.  What a beautiful novel!  I highly recommend that everyone go out and read it.  Really meaningful and absolutely brilliant!
Posted by Karissa on Thu, 30 Aug 2007 11:18:00 PST

travelin’

i want to travel.  i desperately want to travel, and i'm beginning to think that maybe that should be my main focus at this point in my life. 
Posted by Karissa on Sun, 19 Aug 2007 12:22:00 PST

The World's Shortest Fairytale

This is amazing!!!   Once upon a time, a guy asked a girl, "Will you marry me?" The girl said, "No" and she lived happily ever after and went shopping, drankmartinis with friends, always had a c...
Posted by Karissa on Mon, 02 Apr 2007 10:43:00 PST

Go West; Life is peaceful there...

Well, I've finally made my decision.  I'm moving to California.  I've thought about it in great depth, and I know for certain that that is where I want to be.  I love it there, and I ca...
Posted by Karissa on Wed, 14 Mar 2007 10:05:00 PST

inspiration from Joseph Campbell

Just thought i'd share a wonderful insight from the brilliant joseph Campbell.  I found it inspiring and incredibly true, and something I've been truly aspiring towards.  Hope it inspires yo...
Posted by Karissa on Wed, 07 Mar 2007 07:14:00 PST

my personality

The Picto-Personality TestYou are a person who is very calm and kind.  You go out of your way to help people who need your help.When alone, you like to spend your time doing something that will b...
Posted by Karissa on Fri, 06 Jan 2006 10:17:00 PST