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Dixie Cyanide

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About Me

My name (yes, it is in fact my real name, before you ask) is Dixie. I'm not so good about talking about myself, so suffice it to say that I am short, incredibly happy about 93% of the time, love kittens, like to eat sushi more than is good for me, am a gamer-geek like no one's business, but in a cute way (I like to think), and love sentences that are entirely too long. I have an amazing fiance named Franklin, he's in the Marine Corps. I miss him terribly! As my favorite bands, movies, TV shows, and random crap to do are listed right beside this box, I don't feel the need to list them all here as well, since I despise overdone redundancy. Music makes me happiest, I love to dance all over the place, including at my coffee shop, where I work as a barista. I am a romantic at heart, which is a good thing, because if I were a romantic in, say, my spleen, that would be a bit odd. I quote movies/books a lot, most of which people don't get, so they smile and nod gently at me, as if to say, "Sure thing, Dixie, we'll humor you because we love you, but that's as far as it goes." I also believe that romance is not dead.I used to hang out with a lot of punk rockers, so I can be a bit in-your-face, and I sometimes curse too much, but I'm working on that one. For the most part, however, I'm just a friendly, outgoing girl who enjoys long walks on the beach before going home to play World of Warcraft. Something about that sentence sounds off, but I think I'll leave it for now.---------------- Yay for my awesome fiance! *Love!* Oh, and buy me stuff for Christmas. Or for the fact that I'm getting married.

My Interests

Music of all sorts, art, painting, classic monster movies, (some) anime, books and more books, dancing, singing, computers, gaming (table top and online), sparkly things, European history, particularly British renaissance/medieval, because I grew up in the SCA with my mom), fairy tales, certain clubs, driving with my music too loud, driving a long ways to see concerts, meeting incredibly awesome people, "geek chic", collecting DVDs, karaoke, speaking Japanese, speaking a tiny bit of the following: German/French/Italian/ASL, musicals, theatre in general, actually going on dates (real dates, not sitting at someone's apartment dates, although those can be fun...yay tangent!), CXS fairies, stompy boots that make me tall, fun hair colors, (some) body modifications, fake dreadlocks, fencing, kittens, bats, zombies in general, zombie movies, and a bunch of other stuff that you most likely won't read.

I'd like to meet:

Honestly, I've met a lot of the people on my "want to meet" list (thank you Dragon*Con!) and all the others are dead. Unless I'm forgetting some, which I probably am, as it is late, and I'm a bit tired. Oh! David Bowie. Yes.

Music:

A few to nibble on, if you want the meat of this answer, you'll have to talk to me about it. The Cruxshadows, David Bowie, Ego Likeness, older Cure, The Decemberists, Regina Spektor, Abney Park, The Dresden Dolls, Flogging Molly, Wolfsheim, VNV Nation, Joan Jett, My Chemical Romance, T. Rex, The Last Dance, Voltaire, Rasputina, Ayria, The Clash, The Ramones, Goldfrapp, Depeche Mode, Broadway, Alice Cooper, Angelspit, and, well, a whole lot of others...

Movies:

*sigh* This one is almost as hard as 'Music'. Velvet Goldmine, Amelie, Shaun of the Dead, Phantom of the Opera (all of them), Battle Royale, The Boondock Saints, Equilibrium, SLC Punk, Run Lola Run, every zombie movie ever, same for Hitchcock (but especially 'Rope', 'Psycho', and 'Vertigo'), Rent, everything by Hayao Miyazaki, musicals and romantic comedies, A Very Long Engagement, horror movies I can make fun of, at least silently, The Princess Bride, pre-1980 post-apocalyptic movies, Susperia, Nosferatu, Dellamorte Dellamore, Labyrinth, The Dark Crystal, 80s teen movies, Disney movies with happy endings, Mel Brooks stuff (Young Frankenstein!), and, well, more. I'm sure I left out one or more of my favorites.

Television:

Buffy, Firefly, Heroes, Dr. Who, Kitchen Nightmares, talent shows like SYTYCD?, once again (some) anime, but honestly, I mostly watch movies and/or my computer screen.

Books:

Oh gods, here it goes again... Anything and everything by : Neil Gaiman, Orson Scott Card, William Gibson, Phillip K. Dick, Neal Stephenson, Terry Pratchett, Robin McKinley, Poppy Z. Brite, Robert Heinlein, and Laurell K. Hamilton. I also love classics (Dickens, Bronte, etc.), poetry (mostly pre-1920-ish, and, of course, Poe), most cyberpunk, some sci-fi, some fantasy, Dante's 'Inferno', the plays of Shakespeare, 'The Odyssey' and 'The Iliad', 'Memoirs of a Geisha', philosophy books, books written for younger people than I, books about everything. Essentially, I read about 5 to 8 books a week, I've tried everything. Please, feel free to make recommendations! I appreciate them!

Heroes:

Is a REALLY good TV show. REALLY. I have a slight Mohinder crush, and I think Peter and Isaac are hawt. Plus, Hiro Nakamura is the best character ever on television.

My Blog

Animazement 2007.

This weekend, bitches.Come on out to see me in costume, which hasn't happened in, oh, about 5 years.(probably drunken) Rukia FTW.
Posted by Dixie Cyanide on Thu, 24 May 2007 11:43:00 PST

To clarify the last blog...

I was rather intoxicated, and I think my words came out wrong.  :pMy birthday was awesome, I danced a lot and hung out with some folks I hadn't seen in a while.  I think the final count was ...
Posted by Dixie Cyanide on Fri, 06 Apr 2007 03:07:00 PST

Birthday!

Amd I'm drunk. And Jared is cool.  So there.Whee!DixieI'm going to regret all of this tomorrow.No inhibitions = no good.
Posted by Dixie Cyanide on Tue, 03 Apr 2007 12:42:00 PST

Happy Birthday to me?

Well, it is now officially my birthday.  Yay, I suppose.If anyone cares I'll be at Champions on Monday night from 9ish to 12ish, then I'll be at Legends from 12ish to 2 or 3.  Jared is drivi...
Posted by Dixie Cyanide on Mon, 02 Apr 2007 09:29:00 PST

An apology...

For my previous blog and the hateful things it said.  It's been deleted, and I don't believe I wrote that.  It was self-indulgent and silly.I'm going to attempt to go to bed now.I'm especial...
Posted by Dixie Cyanide on Thu, 29 Mar 2007 10:08:00 PST

Random updates.

"Sweeney Todd" was excellent.  I was skeptical of seeing a high school production of this, even if it was my old high school, which is renowned for its performing arts programs.  However, th...
Posted by Dixie Cyanide on Sat, 24 Mar 2007 08:58:00 PST

I don't know if I'll last.

I get to see Eric in less than 48 hours...I hope I make it.  In other news : I get my (free) GothGlam haircut tomorrow, I still have no idea what they're going to do to me, so if it looks awful, ...
Posted by Dixie Cyanide on Sat, 17 Mar 2007 11:27:00 PST

Just a note to say...

...that I have had an excellent evening, listening to "Beloved" on repeat, smiling a lot, writing long e-mails, and laughing my arse off at badtattoos_4, the best LJ community ever.  The best one...
Posted by Dixie Cyanide on Tue, 13 Mar 2007 11:59:00 PST

Helen

I had forgotten how much I utterly love this song.  I've been listening to it on repeat for about 4 plays now, and felt like posting.  It has a lot of meaning to me, on several levels. ...
Posted by Dixie Cyanide on Fri, 09 Mar 2007 11:53:00 PST

I'm getting excited..

About the VNV show already.  Check out my new VF playlist, it makes me happy, except they had no Wolfsheim.  :(~D
Posted by Dixie Cyanide on Fri, 09 Mar 2007 10:26:00 PST