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Ugly Betty

"If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you."-Oscar Wilde

About Me

I'm 23, a drinker of life and a thinker of many things. I overanalyze, overconsume, and am sometimes overwhelmed by my constant responsibilities and desires. I philosophize, metamorphisize, and have come to realize that I'm afraid of living a meaningless life. There are things I constantly practice to fullfill the quality of each day:1) I read. Whether it be a John Steinbeck or Kate Chopin novel, the daily newspaper, or a perplexing journal on Myspace, I don't feel at ease unless I've been educated by the thoughts of another being. We cannot let reading become an obsolete part of our history. 2) I sing, I play my keyboard, I listen to music. I'm not sure how great I am at creating music, but I enjoy both the ugliness and beauty of my secret inventions. I'm a creatve person, I have great perception for what I consider remarkable and unique. Others might disagree, but their approval doesn't matter. Only their opinion. I don't believe everyone should agree on how good or bad art is, but whether it is actual art in the first place. 3) I work on relationships with others. People like my family, my friends, and co-workers inspire me to become a better person. I don't use them as a tool to my success, but as evidence that I'm appreciated and capable of accomplishing something. Without relationships, we can become self-absorbed, silent, and devoid of happiness. It has been proven that love is healthy and the most fullfilling thing one can have in their lifetime.
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anyone who is mature enough to hold an intelligent conversation about something more than sex and tv (whatever happened to books people?!?) and as long as they have a fantastic sense of humor. Oh, and no carb diets. Carbs are in EVERYTHING people. Including tomatos and carrots! Being healthy is awesome, but come on, we all know these carb-erasing people are just dying for a sandwich. div style="width:419; background-color:rgb(216,233,237); text-align:center;" Which Character from Rent are you?
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Music:

Lately I've been into chick rock, which is Sarah Mclauglin, Alanis Morisette, Tori Amos, Rachel Yamagata, Fiona Apple, Aimee Man. I've always loved bands like System of a Down, Journey, Pearl Jam, and the Who. I like a lot of classic rock with lyrics of a political edge, like System of a Down, R.E.M, etc. Staind, Janis Joplin, Elton John, James Taylor, Carly Simon, Sixpence none the richer, and Stevie Wonder are some of my all time favorite orginial muscians. I can't really get into rap or country (unless its classic country like Pasty Cline, Johnny Cash or Hem) and I used to like Notoriou B.I.G and Grandmaster Flash. It honestly just depends on my mood. With the summer I enjoy R&B hits of mariah carey and new edition, I hunger for sixpence during the winter, and I dream of classic Jewel in the spring (not her recent slutty commercialized music.) Love Love LOVE Tenacious D (with Jack Black and Kyle Gass!) The Garden State soundtrack is the best soundtrack of all time. It's introduced me to a whole new genre of music. I also like Zero 7, Cold Play, Leah Andreone, The Craniberries, Prince, Iron and Wine. and I'm a huge dork about musicals.

Movies:

gawd....so many. Let's just see what I can come up with for today, and we'll leave it at that: Animal house, Little Shop of Horrors, Angus, Better Luck Tommorrow, Napolean Dynomite, Amelie, But I'm a cheerleader, Victor/Victoria, The Who's Tommy, Billy Madison, Tommy Boy, Hook, all three Back to the future movies, Sixteen Candles, Young Frankestein, Robin Hood:men in tights, Kill Bill volume 1 & 2, Rocky Horror Picture show, carrie, Life of David Gale, An American tale, Pulp Fiction, The mirror has two faces, What's up Doc? white oleander, saved, Suicide club, American Splendor, American Pie, American Beauty, The Women, Beaches, and umm...let's throw out one last one.....any movie with Faruza Balk (worst witch, return to oz, waterboy, the craft, Almost Famous) and ..shit what's his face...John C. Reily! (Chicago, The Anniversary party, Gangs in New York, Boogie nights, The hours The good girl, Days of thunder ). You know...that man does not get enough credit. He is one of the most amazing actors of our time. And he's been in every frickin' film that did well in the box office. I applaud him. and faruza balk! she's been acting since she was like 6. clap, clap for her too. let's not forget Paul Giamatti from Sideways, who should have been nominated for an Oscar but instead they picked Thomas Hayden Church ONLY because he cried and got naked. I love movies with christina Ricci (Prozac nation, Monster, Now and Then, Mermaids, Pumpkin, Opposite of Sex), Michelle Williams(United states of Leland, Prozac Nation, this british pal-sy movie) Ben Kingsly (Gandhi, House of sand And Fog, Tuck everlasting), Jennifer Connelly (labyrinth, Pollack, beautiful mind, House of sand and fog, don't see Dark water, it sucked ass) ....yeah, I need to stop, i just love movies in gerenal. Recently I saw Across the Universe,which was absolutely breathtaking. Little Children, 40 year old virgin, and Dreamgirls, though an eclectic group are some of my recent dvd favorites.

Television:

Openly admitted love:Heroes(who doesn't like comic book tv noir?), Project Runway, The Office (I officially like both the british AND the American version), Grey's Anatomy, and Ugly Betty. Classic Favorites: SNL (though often television's red-headed step-child, its still my favorite), Monty Python, Family Guy, Absolutely Fabulous, Friends, Sex and the City, 20/20, Hardball, some CSI. Guilty Pleasures: Dawson's Creek, America's Next Top Model, Real World, and (egads), Gossip Girl.

Books:

Anything by Albert Camus, Alice Walker, Toni Morrison, and post-modern/dystopic novels are the stuff literary dreams are made of. Speaking of which, they made a movie about the Handmaiden's tale. I love John Steinbeck's East of Eden and Grapes of Wrath. (I'm aiming to read Cannery Row next), White Oleander, Candy, Wicked, stories by Kate chopin, Circle of Friends. I like reading plays like "No exit", which thrives on the idea of existentialism. other stuff..hmm Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf? Plautus' The Menachmi, Marlowe's Dr. Faustaus, Shakespeare's A Midsummer night's dream, Richard III, Macbeth, Josephina Lopez's Real Women have Curves. What else.... Catch 22 was hilarious and briliant. Brave New World is a provocative commentary on our culture. Some of my fun favorites are: Still Woodpecker, A hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy, Rush Limbaugh is a big fat idiot, The bell jar, Nine stories, Franny and zooey, Catcher in the Rye, pretty much anything else J.D Sallinger, Pablo Neruda and Yeats poetry.as a kid, i like reading Judy Blume books because she was notorious for writing about girls looking for their sexual identies during the sexual revolution. Mountains beyond Mountains is a great non-fiction book about a doctor who is committed to saving poverty-stricken countries that lack education, support, and funds for health benefits by caring for more than a million patients for free. I don't think I've read a non-fiction book that was more compelling, more honest, and inspiring than this book. I think we all seriously need to get back into reading before books they become obsolete. .. -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- START YOUTHINK.COM QUIZ RESULTS --
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Heroes:

i know this sounds cliche', but honestly, my mother is my hero. I owe a lot of who I am today to her. She may not be the most brilliant or the least neaurotic person I know, but she's the most caring and very devoted to family, even when they make her feel like crap. I strive to be the same kind of mother she is. another hero of mine, is thie 90 year old asian woman at my work who is tough for her age and doesn't take crap from no one. i want to be her when I'm 90.

My Blog

Once upon a time in So Co

So, I'm in South Carolina right visiting Jason an..he twosome are currently at the vet with their kitten, Nacho, while I make time to ponder a few things. Life here, for them, appears simple, quiet, a...
Posted by Ugly Betty on Sat, 05 Jul 2008 07:37:00 PST

ode to the pink box

That's right, pink box of delicious glistening fatty doughtnuts, I'm talking to you. I had a really shitty day yesterday. I learned that some boys are just really bad at communicating w...
Posted by Ugly Betty on Wed, 28 May 2008 01:18:00 PST

an existential question

My writing center advisor, Sandra, asked me a question last week, "What do you think the key to happiness is?" I told her that after living through a year of bad shit happening, I've learned to be op...
Posted by Ugly Betty on Wed, 23 Apr 2008 02:12:00 PST

Life so far, as we know it...

Since the new year started, I expected big things to happen. My bad luck 23rd year was over, I'm settled into my cred program, and most things were going well. Than the mother load happened and I had ...
Posted by Ugly Betty on Mon, 11 Feb 2008 04:08:00 PST

"I dont have a baby!"- Samantha

My title is funny and yet poignantly discusses where I am in my life. The quote stems from an episode of Sex and the City that focuses on babies and how one woman makes her single ...
Posted by Ugly Betty on Mon, 07 Jan 2008 12:04:00 PST

The Number 23

Okay, so Elena might think that I'm a big dork for talking about a silly pop culture movie that we watched last night,  but I was really fascinated about the numerological ideas presented in the ...
Posted by Ugly Betty on Tue, 07 Aug 2007 12:11:00 PST

Sigh

Sigh....I can breathe again.   Seriously, I have been waiting to breathe all semester. I wish had something profound to say after graduating: maybe what I've learned, experienced, and know to do ...
Posted by Ugly Betty on Mon, 07 May 2007 04:09:00 PST

just a thought

After a long....long...looooong weekend at the theatre, nothing makes a dreary sunday better than getting asked out at a library when you haven't put on make-up or washed your hair. :)...
Posted by Ugly Betty on Mon, 26 Feb 2007 12:18:00 PST

Now that I'm here

weeelll, I guess I oughta start the year off with a blog since this will probably be the only time I really have to write at my own leisure. Part of me wants to say everything and anything that's on m...
Posted by Ugly Betty on Sat, 06 Jan 2007 12:27:00 PST

A toast to the better year

So I'm here on RA duty tonight at school, trying to figure out what to do with myself. I've got The Who in my ears, a copy of Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights at my desk, and I can see my residents dr...
Posted by Ugly Betty on Sun, 27 Aug 2006 09:08:00 PST