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Shannon

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About Me

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About Me:



Joyful, and often, obnoxiously so.


Who I'd like to meet:

People who suffer from bursts of joy; someone to help me master the xylophone and accordian; people who are true rockstars, in a most delightful and unironic way.


My Interests

Reading, Contemplating Art and theater (ooh la la), Music!, Fantasizing about running away, Puzzles, Wandering and Exploring, Adventures! Competition, Trivial Pursuit, Movies, Learning new things...

Protect your freedom!

I'd like to meet:


People who suffer from bursts of joy; someone to help me master the xylophone and accordian; people who are true rockstars, in a most delightful and unironic way.


Music:

In no particular order...Jeff Buckley, Ella Fitzgerald, Tori Amos, Sufjan Stevens, The Beatles, The Decemberists, Arcade Fire, Nada Surf, Magnetic Fields, Echo and the Bunnymen, Blur, Kaiser Chiefs, The Smiths, Suede, Joshua Bell, Death Cab, The Buzzcocks, Bright Eyes, Simon and Garfunkle, Erasure, Oasis, Clap your Hands..., Maximo Park, The Clash , Andrew Bird, Broken Social Scene, Kelly Clarkson, The Faint, Tom Waits, CocoRosie, Bob Dylan, Muse, Wilco, Rilo Kiley, Jose Gonzalez, Stars, Elliot Smith, Belle & Sebastian, Spoon, Devandra Barnhart, New Pornographers, Billie Holiday, Antony and the Johnsons, Radiohead, The Dears, The Rapture, Ghostland Observatory, Voxtrot, The Hold Steady, Ray Lamontague, The Turtles, The Flaming Lips, The Bangles, Devotchka, The Clientele,Page France,Loney, Dear, A million billion, Grizzly Bear, Brendan Benson, Iron and Wine, Of Montreal, Bishop Allen, The Mountain Goats, The Ordinary Boys, The Only Ones, The Queers, Squeeze, Gogol Bordello, Afghan Whigs, Neko Case, Metric, Band of Horses, The Guillemots, Hot Chip,....... .. And now because you are so curious about what I'm currently listening to.....(last fm rocks my world).....

Movies:

Love me if you dare, Houseboat, Dancer in the Dark, Beetle Juice, Strictly Ballroom, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Overboard, Wizard of Oz, Harold and Maude, Love Actually, Moulin Rouge, Pretty Woman, Legally Blond, Requiem for a Dream, Say Anything, Pretty in Pink, Four Rooms, Fat Girl, The Apartment, Eternal Sunshine, Adaptation, Being John Malcovich, Shaun of the Dead, Romancing the Stone, War of the Roses, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Grandma's Boy, Old School, Little Miss Sunshine, ... Dorkumentries!

Television:

Lost, BSG, The Office, ANTM, Weeds, The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, Six Feet Under, My So Called Life, Shirley Ghostman, Jeopardy, Twin Peaks, Ugly Betty, Freaks and Geeks, Big Love.

Heroes:

My parents.

My Blog

At least I wasn't *standing* in the alley!

For some unknown reason today went from any other mildly irritating simply because it is a Monday, to crappy day extraordinaire. And yet, lest you fear that your dearest bloggerator is in despair, let...
Posted by Shannon on Tue, 22 May 2007 04:32:00 PST

Oh so...

The past week: Double plus good: 1. Unexpected phone calls from people who care. 2. When someone you love is happy. Gloriously, deleriously happy. Even if that means forever being nauseaous in her p...
Posted by Shannon on Sat, 05 May 2007 05:12:00 PST

Hello my name is...

The gimmick for tonight's party involved loads of those stickers that say.. "Hello, My name is...." These girls are crazy for their stickers and sharpie markers. The first of several that I would spo...
Posted by Shannon on Sat, 28 Apr 2007 11:25:00 PST

You are imperfect

Today in the mailbox...the latest New School Bulletin, with about 12,00,385,284 classes I want to take to get the smartzsomething from Clariol reminding me that I should totally be dying my hair red a...
Posted by Shannon on Fri, 13 Apr 2007 10:24:00 PST

Girl brains aren't built for such things....

A great deal of focus these days has been on physics and quantum mechanics. Because it is plenty easy to just believe in God and not wonder and question. This all makes me miss John and the plans we h...
Posted by Shannon on Thu, 12 Apr 2007 09:49:00 PST

The Tragedy of Our Modern Condition

I often find myself wandering around. Sometimes this wandering is directed and pointed. I am often late, rushing, en route. From time to time, the wandering is grounded solely in a desire to get out ...
Posted by Shannon on Sun, 08 Apr 2007 11:40:00 PST

The future is prisons and math.

This blog will be evenly divided between utter negativity and totally pollyana-like glee. Let's start with the negativity: This sums things up pretty nicely: ..">EYES OF HATRED CURRENTLY BEING DIRECTE...
Posted by Shannon on Wed, 04 Apr 2007 10:29:00 PST

Your mom loves my tshirt.

So some of you recall my LOVE for threadless.com and how devestated I am that I can not find my friggin awesome girl blowing her butterflies out the side of her head shirt. Well... just when I was th...
Posted by Shannon on Fri, 09 Mar 2007 01:38:00 PST

When all the city lights blind your eyes tonight.. are you feeling better now?

Here is where I confusingly and ramblingly accumulate the previous 10 days. Why 10 you ask? Well, why not? What you got all used to my multiple posts a day? Geesh. You see what happens? Anyway: Peopl...
Posted by Shannon on Sun, 04 Mar 2007 02:14:00 PST

I'll say it again, the nerd-y, geek-y, dork-y boys.. WIN

This turned up in my recent rumblings about the interwebs. I wish I had written it. I've had this conversation time and again. Without question there are few things sexier than a guy that is clever, w...
Posted by Shannon on Wed, 21 Feb 2007 06:42:00 PST