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kate-astrophe!

the baddest of asses

About Me

photographer. writer. pool player. basket case. romantic. realist. in the know. out of the loop. agorophobic socialite. successful by my own standards, yours don't matter.

My Interests

~my baby girl
~buffalo, ny
~self improvement
~working for the man
~walking
~observing
~meat
~lurking
~payday
~photography
~no credit checks
~irony
~proofreading
~working.spacebars
~my ancient iMac
~boycotting the gravitational pull
~"borrowed" wireless connections (thanks neighbor!)
~not capitalizing
~coffee, free and otherwise
~touching
~cuddling
~kissing
~pesto
~grammar
~spelling
~drunken text messages
~fresh mozzarella
~shooting pool
~puns
~ellipsis...
~exclamation points!!!
~rockin' out
~spooning
~onomatopoeia
~alliteration
~Addict by Christian Dior
~National Public Radio
~buy 1 get 1 free Camel Lights
~putting on my dancing shoes
~garter belts
~fishnets
~razor blades
~scissors
~Timmy Ho's large double double
~texas hots with cheese
~strawberry milkshakes
~bubble baths
~tattoos
~sweet smells
~architecture
~whiskey
~good red wine
~scratch-off lottery tickets
~bingo
~indian food
~candlelight
~kicking ass
~taking names
~sweet sweet music

I'd like to meet:

nice folks.

Music:

~The Album Leaf
~And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead
~Arcade Fire
~Bach
~Bad Religion
~Bailter Space
~The Beatles
~Black Heart Procession
~Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
~Boo Radleys
~Broken Social Scene
~Built to Spill
~Burning Brides
~Chet Baker
~Cibo Matto
~Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
~Clinic
~Crass
~Dandy Warhols
~The Decemberists
~Earlimart
~Electric Eel Shock
~Enon
~Erase Errata
~Eric's Trip
~The Faint
~Faith No More
~Flux of Pink Indians
~The Frame Up
~Franz Ferdinand
~Gomez
~Grandaddy
~Guided by Voices
~Hawksley Workman
~Hum
~Hot Hot Heat
~Interpol
~Jane's Addiction
~Jurassic 5
~The Kinks
~Leonard Cohen
~Magnetic Fields
~Marty Robbins
~Mercury Rev
~Metric
~Mogwai
~Murder City Devils
~Muse
~My Bloody Valentine
~Neil Diamond
~Neutral Milk Hotel
~Nick Cave
~Pavement
~Pinback
~Pink Floyd
~The Pixies
~Polvo
~Postal Service
~Rolling Stones
~Rudimentary Peni
~Sebadoh
~The Shins
~Sharks Keep Moving
~Sloan
~Snowpatrol
~Sonic Youth
~Sparklehorse
~Spiritualized
~STAY DOWN
~Stone Roses
~Subhumans
~Suede
~Sunny Day Real Estate
~Superchunk
~Swervedriver
~Syd Barrett
~Tom Waits
~Tribe Called Quest
~The Unicorns
~Vivaldi (so much fun to play)
~VNV Nation
~Wagner ("Vaahgner"- i'm a sucker for The Ring Cycle)
~The Who

Movies:

~Boondock Saints
~The House of Yes
~Dans ma peau
~Metropolis
~The Ice Storm
~Ôdishon
~Dead Man
~eXistenZ
~Motorcycle Diaries
~The Cell
~Oldboy
~The Red Violin
~The Sweet Hereafter
~Once Were Warriors
~The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover
~Pi
~Requiem For a Dream
~The Fifth Element
~Tank Girl
~The Triplets Of Belleville
~Cannibal: The Musical
~Run Lola Run
~Romeo is Bleeding
~Ghost Dog: Way of the Samurai
~Four Rooms
~Heathers
~Tomb Raider (aaah Angelina)
~Se7en
~Stigmata
~Dogma
~The Matrix (only the first. the others can suck it)
~The Usual Suspects
~The Professional
~El Mariachi
~Desperado
~Once Upon a Time in Mexico

Television:

I keep my TV in my closet.

Books:

~Oh the Places You'll Go (Dr. Seuss)
~Roald Dahl (more the adult work than the childrens' books, though i like those too)
~A Series of Unfortunate Events (Lemony Snicket)
~Farenheit 451
~Geek Love
~The DaVinci Code
~Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
~The Giving Tree
~Women (Bukowski)
~ Jane Eyre
~The Jeeves and Wooster series (P.G. Wodehouse)
~assorted paperback mystery stories- Agatha Christie et al
~Bunnicula
~The Hours
~Chuck Palahniuk
~David Sedaris

Heroes:

My one-eyed Pug, Snarla

My Blog

results of latest photoshoot contained within...

all photos were taken by Mr. Chris Sciuto. there's more but we'll start with these. ...
Posted by kate-astrophe! on Fri, 17 Mar 2006 09:50:00 PST

digits!

i am once again part of the modern technological collective. yes, it's true, i have a phone. a cellular phone. ooh! which means i can communicate with you loverly humans sans interweb. so...
Posted by kate-astrophe! on Mon, 05 Dec 2005 12:56:00 PST

it's a kate-astrophic christmas!

and as such, i figured it was time for my christmas wishlist. 1. a new cellphone. the internet is my only form of communication with the outside world now that my carrier pigeons have died, my tin ...
Posted by kate-astrophe! on Sun, 04 Dec 2005 07:28:00 PST

cheating (as defined by me)

how many relationships (i use the term loosely in this case) have you been in where either you or the other party has ended up hurt or offended by the actions of the other in regard to the opposite se...
Posted by kate-astrophe! on Fri, 02 Dec 2005 02:34:00 PST

short list of annoyances

1. guys that honk at me while i'm walking- have you ever gotten a date by honking at her from your 1987 rusted out pick up truck? do you really think it's gonna happen with me? i'm sorry you haven't...
Posted by kate-astrophe! on Tue, 29 Nov 2005 09:25:00 PST

nice guys finish last

whoever came up with this saying was a complete and utter nitwit. and the people that keep perpetuating the myth aren't much better. nice guys don't finish last, doormats do. guys with so little self...
Posted by kate-astrophe! on Sat, 19 Nov 2005 07:43:00 PST

bare flames trifecta

they're not quite finshed yet but here's a preview. these three were done for my own enjoyment and hopefully yours. so enjoy, dammit! www.myspace.com/bareflames ...
Posted by kate-astrophe! on Wed, 16 Nov 2005 12:26:00 PST

no subject

We were both standing In your mother's living room Sweating up a storm in that Terrible month of june And the sweat rolled down your cheek And into your mouth I knew this must've been a dream '...
Posted by kate-astrophe! on Wed, 16 Nov 2005 04:22:00 PST

belle and bowie

so, you're 7 years old and life on mars by david bowie comes on the radio. what do you do? you grab your david bowie songbook and sing along! ...
Posted by kate-astrophe! on Mon, 14 Nov 2005 03:48:00 PST

new photos contained within

hello everybody! this is viktor. we just met yesterday. he is quite fond of hanging around my fire escape. viktor is pehaps the finest specimen of gentleman cat one could hope to meet and also my most...
Posted by kate-astrophe! on Mon, 31 Oct 2005 01:53:00 PST