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Marlena

How can the devil get in when a girl is so full of the Holy Sperit that it's spoutin' out of her nos

About Me

I like wearing suspenders, eating cheese, and listening to Polka music.I edited my profile with Thomas Myspace Editor V4.4 (www.strikefile.com/myspace)

My Interests

Anatomical science and Neurobiology, baking, banjos, bourbon (even though I don't drink it), carnivorous plants, the circus, daguerreotypes, Dia de los Muertos, embroidery, fancy moustaches, furniture, hats, haunted houses, hillbilly, interior design, Jo Ley Antiques, Kentucky, Marshmallow Peeps, outhouses, outsider art, paint, puppies, robots, tacky religious figurines, trains, washboards.

I'd like to meet:

Some blue eyed, silver tongued devil who knows how to play a banjo. People who like Irish whiskey and Italian food. Gypsies, carnies, and rail riders.

Music:

Batmobile, Bauhaus, Beirut, Bessie Smith, Big Maybelle Smith, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Cab Calloway, Charley Patton, The Cramps, Da Mudcats, David "Honeyboy" Edwards, Dean Martin, Firewater, Geeshie Wiley, Gene Autrey, Gitogito Hustler, Go Cat Go!, Gogol Bordello, Hambone, Hank Williams I, Howlin' Wolf, Huddie Ledbetter, Jack Teagarden, Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny O and the Jerks, Jo Stafford, KMFDM, Kokomo Arnold, Macabre, Ma Rainey, Marty Robbins, Memphis Minnie, Merle Travis, Mildred Bailey, Moran Lee Boggs, Muddy Waters, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Old Line Skiffle Combo, Pokey La Farge, Robert Johnson, Skip James, Slim Harpo, Sonny Boy Williamson I, Taj Mahal, Th' Legendary Shack Shakers, Tom Waits, X.

Movies:

28 Days Later, Art School Confidential, Bad Santa, Boondock Saints, Cecil B. Demented, Crumb, Faster Pussycat, Kill...Kill!, Fargo, Fight Club, Freeway, Garden State, Ghostworld, Heathers, Idle Hands, Kill Bill I&II, Little Shop of Horrors, Lolita, My Boyfriend Is Back, O Brother Where Art Thou?, Peewee's Big Adventure, The Professional, Pulp Fiction, Reefer Madness, Resevoir Dogs, Serial Mom, Star Wars IV-VI, True Romance, Zombie Honeymoon.

Television:

The Adventures of Pete and Pete, The Beverly Hillbillies, Carnivale, Everyday Italian, Gilmore Girls, Good Eats, Heroes, Jack Of All Trades, My Name is Earl, Mystery Science Theatre 3k, Nip Tuck, Pee-wee's Playhouse, Pushing Daisies, Seinfeld, Twin Peaks, The Venture Brothers, Veronica Mars.

Books:

Capote, Dostoyevsky, Fitzgerald, Tolstoy, and Weizel.

Heroes:

Steve Buscemi and Johnny Eck.

My Blog

Plastic surgery and pasta...

Do not mix.  Ever tried eating lasagna while watching an episode of Nip/Tuck?  It's a bad idea.
Posted by Marlena on Mon, 28 Jan 2008 11:04:00 PST

Bad day.

 The sim card in my cell phone somehow managed to dislodge itself in the middle of the night, (as it sat on my nightstand, perfectly undisturbed) therefore disabling the 8 a.m. alarm I had set.&n...
Posted by Marlena on Fri, 04 Jan 2008 11:33:00 PST

The flea market.

Saturday's flea market yielded some pretty awesome junk:Four Russian/Chinese propaganda postersSpire Christian Comics Hansi, the girl who loved the swastika from 1976A pair of wooden shoesAll for less...
Posted by Marlena on Wed, 02 Jan 2008 03:57:00 PST

Home, again.

I sign the paperwork and pay the deposit for my apartment tomorrow, and I have never been more excited about writing a $650 check in my entire life.  Living with my mother for these past three mo...
Posted by Marlena on Mon, 25 Jun 2007 06:28:00 PST

Roller rage.

Last night, I had a dream that I was walking down a sidewalk in New Albany, Indiana with my aunt Janet. While crossing a driveway, we were nearly backed into by some jerkwad in a Toyota Camry.  T...
Posted by Marlena on Wed, 13 Jun 2007 10:07:00 PST

This old old old house. (Pictures!)

Bryan and I drove to Springfield this afternoon to see the Elizabeth Madox Roberts house, and the house and the town were more beautiful than I could have ever imagined.  This is the view of the ...
Posted by Marlena on Mon, 02 Apr 2007 05:09:00 PST

Springfield?

I think I have found the town for me, and even better, the house for me.  I had been looking for a home in Butchertown because it's the one  decent neighborhood in Louisville where the price...
Posted by Marlena on Sat, 31 Mar 2007 07:33:00 PST

Better than I know myself.

I took this online test thingy and this is what it gave me: trait snapshot:secretive, organized, clean, rarely worries, solitary, high self control, dislikes large parties, prefers organized to unpre...
Posted by Marlena on Sun, 07 Jan 2007 03:21:00 PST

Don't worry, you aren't going to die.

I just assumed that I had walking pneumonia because the hospital released me after a few hours, but it turns out that I had (or still have) a less severe case of your basic pneumonia...which is unfort...
Posted by Marlena on Mon, 27 Nov 2006 02:17:00 PST

Pumpkin. (Pictures!)

I wasn't crazy about how these photos turned out, but I figured that I'd post them anyway.I don't know why I make a jack-o-lantern every year, I HATE HATE HATE the smell and texture of pumpkin guts.I ...
Posted by Marlena on Mon, 30 Oct 2006 03:04:00 PST