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Katie

In Tennessee from May 11 - May 24...

About Me


"Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won’t either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes near, let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps, wasting their sweetness. Tell yourself you tasted as many as you could." - Louise Erdrich, from The Painted Drum.

My Interests

Skee-Ball.

I'd like to meet:


Anyone who loves the Ewok movies as much as I do.

Music:

SOME (emphasis on SOME) of what I listen to:

Alanis Morissette
Tori Amos
Fiona Apple
Aimee Mann
Ani DiFranco
Joni Mitchell
Lauryn Hill

Ryan Adams
Ryan Adams
Ryan Adams

Elliott Smith
Johnny Cash
Jack Johnson
Damien Rice
Wyclef Jean
Matt Costa
MC Lars

The Doors
The Mountain Goats
Rilo Kiley
The Decemberists
Flogging Molly
Against Me!
Ted Leo and the Pharmacists
The Fugees
Better Than Ezra
Gin Blossoms
Go Jimmy Go

Movies:

Kevin Smith films first and foremost. That man is a genius on so many levels.
I love quirky films and serious films and comedies and everything in between
Here are some Directors I like:
Kevin Smith
Sophia Coppola
Quentin Tarantino, even if liking him is cliche
Woody Allen, even if he's a pervert
Vincent Gallo, even if he's an asshole
Some of my favorite Movies:
Closer
Match Point
The Brown Bunny (that's right)
Buffalo 66
The Last Unicorn
The Dark Crystal
Chasing Amy
True Romance
Suicide Kings
The Magdalene Sisters
Frida
Garden State
The Life Aquatic
The Royal Tennenbaums
City of God
Dazed and Confused
Reality Bites
Whatever
Empire Records
Maria Full of Grace
Interview with the Vampire
Once Were Warriors
Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself
The Motorcycle Diaries
Four Sheets to the Wind
Oh, and I totally LOVE Christopher Walken films. He is such a bad ass.

Television:

THE TUDORS - I love this show (historical inaccuracies 'n all)

THE RICHES - I also love this show

CALIFORNICATION - who knew David Duchovny was so hot?

SEX AND THE CITY - If you've seen it, you know why it's amazing.

Aqua Teen Hunger Force, That 70s Show, The Simpsons, Flight of the Conchords, The L Word...

I am stuck in a stereotype, so I love sappy teen dramas...

Books:

I'm an English major, so...

Authors / Poets:
Louise Erdrich (my hands-down favorite)
Whitman
Thoreau
Robert Jordan
Jane Austen
Russel Banks
Milan Kundera
Sylvia Plath
Terry Goodkind
Maya Angelou

Some of my favorite books:
Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich
The Master Butcher's Singing Club by Louise Erdrich
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen (this book is amazing, if you read it correctly)
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
The Awakening by Kate Chopin
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers

And I just have to add... I think Maya Angelou is one of the bravest women writers ever. We should all applaud her courage in sharing her life story, specifically her childhood rape.

Heroes:

I admire people and qualities in people. I don't romanticize them or place them on imaginary pedestals. Well, I don't do it often, anyway.

My Blog

Blogging Where the Cool Kids Blog...

I decided I didn't like the opera dramatica afterall.  So here's the way I really want it to be said:I now blog where the cool kids blog.So, this is officially my last myspace blog.(You know, unt...
Posted by Katie on Sun, 11 May 2008 12:50:00 PST