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Lindsay

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About Me

How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than [twenty-five] years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?

My Interests

Comfy pants, hoedowns, nerdly pursuits, knitting, cleaning the lint trap, Statistically Improbable Phrases, puttering, writing in cursive, madcap capers, harebrained schemes, convenient snack foods, napping, the Kennedys, singing rabbits, dogs with eyebrows, buttonmaking, The Quote Book. I like shuffling cards and playing board games. Interspecies friendship kills me. Are you kidding me with cats, dogs, monkeys, gerbils, etc. getting along?! I enjoy Wikipedia. Oh, and music. That pretty much covers it.

Music:

Fred Neil, Jon Brion, Andrew Bird, Nilsson, Jill Sobule, Mike Andrews, Nick Lowe, the Band, Gene Clark, Nellie McKay, Richard Thompson, Bob Dylan, Bowie, the Kinks, Big Star, Goldenboy, Tim Hardin, the Ditty Bops, T. Rex, Fiona Apple, Tom Brosseau, Beatles, George Harrison, Dave Van Ronk, Bert Jansch, Slim Gaillard, Girls Guitar Club of Greater Los Angeles, the Hedwig and the Angry Inch soundtrack, Townes Van Zandt, Grant-Lee Phillips/Grant Lee Buffalo, Joanna Newsom, Elvis Costello, Jenny Lewis, Randy Newman, Rufus Wainwright, the Byrds, Love, The Breakups. I cannot stress the following enough: Elliott Smith!

Movies:

Hedwig and the Angry Inch, All About Eve, Breakfast at Tiffany's, His Girl Friday, Magnolia, Bringing Up Baby, It Happened One Night, The Thin Man, My Man Godfrey, Spellbound, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Godfather I and II, A Room with a View, Chinatown, Dig!, Newsies (just give it a chance!), Meet Me in St. Louis, You Can't Take It With You, The Last Waltz, Steel Magnolias, Bowling For Columbine, Holiday, Swing Time, Duck Soup, Fried Green Tomatoes, Amelie, The Hours, Robin Hood (Disney), Boogie Nights, The Third Man, Don't Look Back, The Elephant Man, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Little Mermaid, Roman Holiday, The Hudsucker Proxy, Casablanca, Russia: Land of the Tsars, TintheC, The Men Who Killed Kennedy. If it involves Eddie Izzard I am probably a fan of it. I mostly liked The Good German and it was the first movie I mostly liked in AGES! Yay George Clooney! And yay Cate Blanchett's makeup artist, hairstylist and costume designer!

Television:

Gilmore Girls (RIP), The Dick Van Dyke Show, Arrested Development, The Office, NewsRadio, Almost Live, Mr. Show, America's Next Top Model, The Cosby Show, Designing Women, Standards of Perfection: Show Cats, American Experience.

Books:

The Great Gatsby, Franny and Zooey, Cat's Cradle, Of Human Bondage, My Antonia, If on a Winter's Night a Traveler, A Confederacy of Dunces, The Chronicles of Narnia, Carry On Jeeves, Thank You Jeeves, Raise High the Roof Beam Carpenters, Living Well is the Best Revenge, The Master and Margarita, Picasso at the Lapin Agile And Other Plays, The Bell Jar, Angels in America, The Floating Opera, Lolita, The Sirens of Titan, The Pursuit of Love, Love in a Cold Climate, To Kill a Mockingbird, A Prayer for Owen Meany, archy and mehitabel, Dancing With Cats, Why Cats Paint, Mr. Tennessee Williams.

Heroes:

MEEKINS! and all other heroes in the fight against poor customer service.

My Blog

Words & Phrases My Apartment Maintenance Man Can Say

* "I check"  * "Warehouse" (the source of all materials needed to fix anything) * "Manager" * "Bang" (said while indicating a car accident with gestures, in the course of ex...
Posted by Lindsay on Fri, 07 Sep 2007 12:28:00 PST

July Quotes and KNUT!

  A:  "It makes me want to vomit when I smell vomit." B:  "That's why you don't smell carpet!" -7/1   A:  "God!!" B:  "What?" A:  "There's nothing worse than back f...
Posted by Lindsay on Sat, 04 Aug 2007 06:15:00 PST

I Am Officially Old

Here's how I felt:when I received in the mail, this very evening, an invitation to the nuptials of a child I used. to. babysit.It's a good thing I already like Jeopardy, crossword puzzles and knitting...
Posted by Lindsay on Sat, 14 Jul 2007 09:25:00 PST

June Quotes and What Makes America Great (as if it needed a reason!!)

I'm proud to be an American because, in America, you can get a crudely-rendered painting of a Shih-Tzu using an American flag for a blanket. And for so many other reasons (imagery to come!!)."There's ...
Posted by Lindsay on Thu, 05 Jul 2007 06:07:00 PST

The Onion Talks About Munchos!!

Are you kidding me?!!: FDA Declares Munchos To Be Good Source Of Disodium Guanylate December 9, 1998 | Issue 34"19 Cut-and-pasteFDA Declares Munchos To Be Good Source Of Disodium Guanylate.oni...
Posted by Lindsay on Fri, 29 Jun 2007 03:16:00 PST

May Quotes/Handsomely Outfitted Guinea Pigs

"So I'm realizing that small children are the vessels for my subconscious doubts and fears."-5/1Outraged Coworker: "What is bouncing this building?!?" -5/1"Come and talk to me, I'm in a bad neighbor...
Posted by Lindsay on Sat, 02 Jun 2007 09:42:00 PST

April Quotes, Hamsters Eating...Y'Know.

"I don't like it when people are needy and then tell me I'm awesome."-4/4Receptionist at the Braille Institute on phone: "I'm sorry, what was your name again?"Masaki: "Masaki."Receptionist: (laughter)...
Posted by Lindsay on Fri, 18 May 2007 12:37:00 PST

March Quotes. And More Importantly, Piglympics!!

 Re. woodworking book:"Awesome!&it talks all about wood!"  -3/3 "Did I tell you that?&last night was our 50th anniversary, that's why we had to shoot Abraham Lincoln."       -3/3 "God!&do you ever thi...
Posted by Lindsay on Tue, 01 May 2007 04:58:00 PST

Not That There's Anything Wrong With That

Okay, all one or two of you who will read this.  I am sure you, or both of you, and I have already had this conversation.  But just in case we haven't... You know how eeeeeeveryone thin...
Posted by Lindsay on Wed, 02 May 2007 05:17:00 PST

The stars are telling me...WHAT?

My horoscope for today reads: Your dreams are trying to provide you with some important insight about a real-life dilemma, so pay attention to recurring images, and take note of the cast of character...
Posted by Lindsay on Thu, 12 Apr 2007 11:34:00 PST