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Gulla

Find significance in subjective experience rather than objective achievement

About Me


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My full name is Guðlaug Hermannsdóttir and no american has been able to pronounce it correctly. There's only one other person who bears the exact same name and she is my grandmother. My name means bright as god and I don't even believe in god. I'm an Ace Face. If you know what that means I'll marry you. My favorite color is the combination of green and purple. I've lived in three countries apart from my own. I moved from my parents when I was fifteen, and out of the country when I was seventeen. I haven't been able to linger in one place since, and I'm still not sure if that's a problem. Stockholm is my favorite city, Paris is the runner-up. I have a love-hate relationship with America, but I always end up going back. My first paid job was growing plants for my grandfather, along with my cousin, when I was eleven years old. My best job was being a camp counselor and co-editor of the camp newspaper. My ideal profession would be an astronomer. I've recently developed a shoe fetish and finally I feel like a woman. I'm slowly becoming a vegetarian, without any extra efforts. I feel fulfilled. My biggest dream is to win a known film award, or at least be nominated. My favorite saying is "sometimes you just have to roll with it". I've owned a magic dress for ten years and it works every time. I love rain, making lists and when the Ikea catalog comes out in August. I own seven pairs of Converse shoes. I've seen every single Vin Diesel movie. I'd rather travel by train than plane. My stepmom is three years younger than I. My husband is the real life Seth Cohen. My favorite smell is cute-boy armpit smell. Things keep getting better. If I could buy one item right now it'd be a scooter. I'd like to invent a machine that records dreams, and that includes day-dreams. I like sitting up front in movie theaters, 4th row is ideal. I want to get lost in a labyrinth. It was years until I realized that a ton of stones is not heavier than a ton of cotton. Don't get me started on a death-penalty debate unless you're ready to loose. I dont think it's necessary to treat other people the way you'd like to be treated because they might not have the same taste. I want to form a 60s/70s revival cult and move to the country-side. Who's with me?
Paris Park Life.
I made this.
Alexander Kapranos is the sex.
My live revolves around..
.. traveling to unseen places..
.. and experimenting with new activities.
Television was created for this..
..and this.
Substitute for life.

My Interests


movies
astronomy
traveling
nostalgia
dancing
making lists
late 60s - early 70s
browsing through my Atlas
modism
dandyism
ebonics
books
serial killers
theme parties
amusement parks
summer camps
comic books
board games
arcades
making mix-cds
looking through old photos
crafts
cooking
shoes
bass-playing
riding my bike
concerts & festivals
mini-golf
vampires
animals
trees
quantum physics
riding at the back of pick-up trucks
absolut ads

I'd like to meet:


Mods, beatniks and those who got the swing.

My Friend Space
I have these friends.

Two Headed Boy

Mon Fille Chic

Fröken Fräken

Hanna Lebowski

Tinnfríður Jóna

Absolut Adventurist

Little Miss Wanderlust

Totally

Marenopolis

My Swedish Chipmunk

Farmer Rosie

Sven Svenson

Jennifer Juniper

Melissa's Olive

Princess Zelda

Captain Comic Nerd

Hepcat

Fellow Roadtripper

Anchorwoman

My Special Agent

View All of My Friends

Music:


soul & motown
60s and 70s rock 'n' roll
jazz
hip hop

Pixies
The Smiths
Joy Division
Pulp
Blur
The Kinks
Franz Ferdinand
The Zombies
The Knife
Yo La Tengo
Snoop Dogg
50 cent
The Spencer Davis Group
The Who
Stevie Wonder
Suburban Kids with Biblical Names
Supertramp
E.L.O.
The Shins
The Bees
The Cure
Jeff Buckley
Johnny Cash
Serge Gainsbourg
Led Zeppelin
Suede
Kings of Convenience
The Modern Lovers
Brigitte Bardot
Hot Chip
The Whitest Boy Alive
Belle & Sebastian
Depeche Mode
Beck

Movies:


Dirty Dancing
The Shawshank Redemption
Le Fabuleux destin d'Amelie Poulain
Donnie Darko
Fight Club
Requiem for a Dream
Me and you and everyone we know
Junebug
The Deer Hunter
The Talented Mr. Ripley
A Clockwork Orange
The Breakfast Club
Vera Drake
The Matrix
Tillsammans
The Graduate
The Dreamers
Edward Scissorhands
Spiderman 1 & 2
Seven
Gerry
Brokeback Mountain
The Weather Man
Living in Oblivion
Hustle and Flow
Little Miss Sunshine
The Royal Tenenbaums
Juno
The Cell
Natural Born Killers
12 Monkeys
Kill Bill
Pulp Fiction
The Life Aquatic
Babe
Back to the Future
Vuxna Manniskor
The Big Lebowski
Zoolander
Annie Hall
Quadrophenia
24 hour party people
Pi
Purple Rain
The Nightmare before Christmas
Elephant
Pleasantville
Tron
Billy Elliot
Planet of the Apes
Before Sunrise
Before Sunset
Garden State
Napoleon Dynamite
I Broken Flowers
Shooting Fish
Bonnie and Clyde
Magnolia
Easy Rider
Queen of the Damned
Blow
Velvet Goldmine
xXx
Directors:
Alfred Hitchcock
Stanley Kubric
Mike Leigh
Darren Aronofsky
Tim Burton
Quentin Tarantino
Wes Anderson
Gus Van Sant
Richard Linklater
Todd Solondz
Woody Allen
Ang Lee
Kevin Smith
David Lynch
The Coen Brothers
David Fincher
Peter Jackson
Michael Mann
M. Night Shyamalan
Christopher Nolan
Anthony Minghella
Richard Kelly
Paul Thomas Anderson
Lukas Moodysson

Television:


Twin Peaks
Freaks and Geeks
The OC
Scrubs
Spin City
X-files
North and South
Northern Exposure
The Office
Jeeves and Wooster
Curb your Enthusiasm
Seinfeld
Sex and the City
That 70's Show
My So-Called Life
Malcolm in the Middle
So you think you can dance?
Infomercials

Books:


-American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
-Fight Club and Choke by Chuck Palahniuk
-The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
-On the Road by Jack Kerouac
-Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
-Perfume by Patrick Suskind
-About a Boy by Nick Hornby
-From Pieces to Weight - 50 cent's biography
-Easy Riders, Raging Bulls by Peter Biskind
-The Hipster Handbook
-My Life Among the Serial Killers by Dr. Helen Morrison

Comics

-Lucky Luke by Morris & Goscinny
-Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson
-Fables by Bill Willingham
-Johnny the Homicidal Maniac by Jhonen Vasquez
-Blue Monday and Scooter Girl by Chynna Clugston-Major
-Ghost World by Daniel Clowes
-Sandman by Neil Gaiman
-Lucifer by Mike Carey
-Everything by Jason
-Spiderman by Stan Lee

Heroes:



Special Agent Dale Cooper
Patrick Swayze
Oscar Wilde
50 cent
Vin Diesel
Jack Skellington
Johnny Maniac

My Blog

Reporting from USA

Below is my annual report from the United States. This is an ongoing cultural research project and will be updated as needed. I hope it will be useful in other parts of the world, and help people navi...
Posted by Gulla on Wed, 28 Nov 2007 08:35:00 PST

Published

I just got published in an american magazine for the first time. The Switch is a pretty hip Portland based magazine and by far my favorite reading material in these parts. Here's the original text and...
Posted by Gulla on Sun, 19 Aug 2007 04:03:00 PST

Swayze dancing

I took a day off from work a little while ago to run some errands in Brunswick, the next town over from mine. I had not anticipated the amazing event that occurred to me during the day and when I came...
Posted by Gulla on Sat, 02 Jun 2007 09:00:00 PST

Bingo

An article which I wrote has just been published in The Reykjavik Grapevine, the biggest english news publication in Iceland. Here's the text I wrote, followed by a link to the story as it appears onl...
Posted by Gulla on Fri, 06 Apr 2007 12:27:00 PST

Flashback

I could probably say that I was a pretty regular teenager. My boy crushes changed frequently, I listened to loud music in my room, wore too much make-up and clothes that didn't suit me. I was into ast...
Posted by Gulla on Fri, 06 Apr 2007 12:24:00 PST

I feel like I win when I loose.

We're in Sweden, and the year is 1974. Seventeen year old Björn Borg has just won the Italian Open, followed by a victory at the French Open two weeks later. The internationally acclaimed Ingmar Bergm...
Posted by Gulla on Fri, 06 Apr 2007 12:23:00 PST

Spiderman

"Spider-Man, Spider-Man, Does whatever a spider can. Spins a web, any size. Catches thieves- just like flies. Look out! Here comes the Spider-Man. Is he strong? Listen bud. He's got radioactive blood...
Posted by Gulla on Mon, 08 Jan 2007 09:40:00 PST

Kubric

Stanley Kubric had the most ideal life I can imagine. Born in The Bronx and raised by a loving family, his father got him interested in photography at an early age, which developed into an employment ...
Posted by Gulla on Mon, 08 Jan 2007 09:39:00 PST

Favorites.

There's no secret I love making lists and listing the things high on my interest scale. When you meet a person for the first time, you would usually inquire about her name, profession and then one of ...
Posted by Gulla on Thu, 09 Nov 2006 01:17:00 PST

I always thought itd be better to be a fake somebody than a real nobody

The following is a recapitulation of my favorite scene in a film ever. Tom Ripley has found fulfillment in Italy with Dickie Greenleaf and Marge Sherwood and is kind of in love with Dickie and the lif...
Posted by Gulla on Thu, 09 Nov 2006 01:16:00 PST