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Shanimal

smile like you mean it... and do.

About Me

Here goes nothing: I am a passionate person. I want to travel the world, and experience what it means to be in the shoes of every walk of life. I like to take pictures, paint, write and do anything creative to express my absortion and perspective of the world. And appreciate people willing to do the same. To be confident enough to be vulnerable I believe to be a great virtue. I would love write songs to rock people's world! & play a cello. & sing. Maybe break into a jig now & then. I like to design things. buildings. ideas. great things. draw them and then file them away in a dusty drawer. I like to cook, mostly just for people I care about. Mostly just because they say it's good. My cooking ambitions are to make/bake & cook with the elegance and simplicity of creme brule & the taste explosion of a sour skittle... wanna come over for dinner? Nature at it's finest and worst has been my master mentor, first rendering in me a sense of proportion, and then a sense of duty and comfort. I choose to live a conscious life & hope to make a difference for the world, it's environment, & it's future generations (Isn't this what we're supposed to do?) Don't worry, I'm not a "hippy". I'm just a person with values. And I know you are too. My real name is Reagan Alexis Ellena (meaning leader of the great). My life goal is to be influential. My nickname is shanimal, I'm all in or all out. Some call me Big Fish. Mostly I just like to make people smile! I'm sort of embarrassed to have this account (and write all this out)....If you're reading this because I know you...I probably would like to say "Que aunda, way?"(disclaimer:don't repeat this to a native Spanish speaker to sound funny) Or maybe that you smell bad...you might just have to ask me....

My Interests

... rock climbing & hiking. standing in awe at the oceans, mountains & deserts. going spearfishing with my sweetie, Andrew. & Real sports like wakeboarding, snowboarding, surfing, swimming & dancing. Sunsets, & sunrises. people... interesting people. feeling alone while being with people. I want to see the world, yep the whole thing... & understand culture by seeing all culture... yoga, hot yoga. & Long cold walks bundled in a warm jacket. laughing until i can hardly hold my pee... life's irony... hot tea in silence. Health and the body... Driving past a McDonalds and seeing old people through the window makes me cry.

I'd like to meet:

Yo Mamma! No, seriously. I'd probably like her...if I like YOU!

Music:

All music...(general answer, option A.) Bonnie Prince Billy & Fawn Fables, Coldplay, Interpol, The Pixies, Seed of Wonder, Pink Floyd (mainly the fish bowl song), Ted the Block, Jack Johnson, Joanna Newsome -"and the media's all we percieve", Magnolia Electric company, Jon Swift, Dirty Three, Mason Jennings, Modest Mouse, Radiohead, Paul Simon "Graceland", Strawberry wine (yeah! country), Hotel California...Music from when I was a kid... "I really like your peaches want to shake your tree"..... keep 'em coming!

Movies:

The Days of Heaven, great movie. Any Quentin Tarantino. Ladyhawk. Princess bride. Willow. Life Aquatic. Run Lola run. The Notebook, for all those girls who aren't afraid to cry, this is a must see. Meet the Parents almost made me pee... Borat did.

Television:


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Books:

Pretty much any Vonnegut (RIP Vonnegut), When Technology Fails (sounds nerdy, but definitely not), Book of Formulas, Memoirs of A Geisha, The Notebook, Jack London & Karoak, Wild Fermentation, John Jeavons "How to Grow more Vegetables* (and fruits, nuts berries, grains and other crops) than you ever thought possible on less land than you can imagine..." in multiple languages. this list is endless...

Heroes:


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My Blog

Dogtown

In looking down, I don't recognize the hand that writes this. Freckles and curvatures are familiar landmarks on weathered skin. The transformation and alienation I have experienced with my own life be...
Posted by Shanimal on Wed, 29 Aug 2007 10:14:00 PST

Sleepless

I sit and sip hot chocolate in the silence and dark of the night. Slowly sipping on the dark rich liquid to the technological pulsating white light of the half open computer screen. Nothing around me ...
Posted by Shanimal on Fri, 26 Jan 2007 11:03:00 PST