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Charissa

extremely honest with strangers

About Me

She swam into that bottle like a fish back to its home

My Interests

my fixed gear bicycle. vespas. especially vespas that might someday run. typewriters. old sewing machines. drinking rather heavily. members of fictional girl gangs. my fucking awesome dog Emma. books. sing-a-longs. letters. zines. fancy fridays (now saucy saturdays) the Bar Set Killers. sewing things to other things to make pictures, then making them into bags and stuff. stoles that are made of whole foxes (minks, really anything small and furry) with the head and legs still attached. crazy hats. bakelite. toby's tofu pate. warm days. headscarves. pink shoes. shoes in general. knee socks or wool socks, no other kinds of socks. fishnet tights. polka dots. violent polka dancing. old buttons. guitar. running. screen printing. laughter. honesty. coffee. photography. dotty-dots. cigarettes.

I'd like to meet:

someone who can teach me how to do *everything*

Music:

Awesome Animal Ambulance, Erik Petersen, the Devil Makes Three, Stiff Little Fingers, the Beltones, the Bouncing Souls, the Meteors, Spitboy, Submission Hold, Johnny Cash, Willy Mason, Dolly Parton, Bladder Bladder Bladder, Blatz, This Bike is a Pipe Bomb, Assembly of God, Operation, the Reverend Horton Heat, My Womb is a Shithouse,The Amazing Crowns, the Pixies, the Ducky Boys, Powersolo, the Cramps, Los Crudos, A.P.P.L.E., Pinkerton Thugs, Blitz, Against Me!, Zombina and the Skeletones, Totalitar, the Deadbillys, All Girl Summer Fun Band, Discount. Oh No! Oh My! The Sea and Cake, the Rezillos, Sharks Keep Moving, Pretty Girls Make Graves. Deerhoof. Get Him Eat Him. Strawberry Switchblade. John Vanderslice. Camera Obscura. the Old Crow Medicine Show. the Ditty Bops. Now, look at that list and I guarantee that at least some of the bands will make your ears bleed. Deal.

Movies:

Who Framed Roger Rabbit? I heart Huckabees. Good-Bye Lenin. Suicide Kings. Boondock Saints. The Big Lebowski. De-Lovely. How to Draw a Bunny. Night of the Living Dead. Russian Silent Films. Marie Antoinette.

Television:

Okay, I'll admit it. I have been watching Sex and the City and enjoying it.

Books:

Rise up Singing. Confessions of Zeno, Italo Svevo. Bend Sinister, Nabokov. Austerlitz, Sebald. The God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy. Anna Karenina and Resurrection, Tolstoy. A Sand County Almanac, Aldo Leopold. all Vonnegut. Krik? Krak!, Edwidge Danticat, Raise High the Roof Beam Carpenters and Seymour an Introduction, JD Salinger, the Chainbreaker zine, Americas Best Nonrequired Reading, a Fool's Progress and Down the River, Ed Abbey.

Heroes:

My Father. Every single one of my good friends.

My Blog

Note:

    Drunk running in heels will really fuck up your weekend.  I am totally crippled right now because of it.  Now I have to make a visit to student health to see if I broke my...
Posted by Charissa on Sun, 08 Apr 2007 02:33:00 PST

3 things that I love about this week

    1.  Being called a dumb cunt by random old coffee shop guy because I wouldn't   take his gospel of quitting smoking and how it affects the "dopa."    2.&nbs...
Posted by Charissa on Thu, 15 Mar 2007 04:19:00 PST

Fair warning:

    I'm going fucking crazy again.  If I get drunk and am a bitch, I'm sorry.If I don't talk to anyone for weeks I am really sorry.Eventually I will manage to get the fuck over it....
Posted by Charissa on Mon, 19 Feb 2007 08:04:00 PST

I woke up happy today.

This good mood, it is confusing.  I went to class and then to the coffeeshop and sat in the sun smoking cigarettes.  I bought a steak and some fancy cheese and batch brewed soda.  I wen...
Posted by Charissa on Tue, 06 Feb 2007 10:29:00 PST

funniest work story, ever.

I walked out to the deck to help some customers and one of them asked me to take a picture of them.  I agreed, and after some minor fucking up with the ancient digital camera, I theoretically got...
Posted by Charissa on Wed, 09 Aug 2006 10:59:00 PST

screen printing. or screen dripping emulsion in the broom closet?

I was just in my roommates bedroom making a screen with questionable mesh and a staple gun that made the lights go out a little every time we put in a staple.  Toes against unfinished wood, ideas...
Posted by Charissa on Mon, 08 May 2006 11:35:00 PST

Another one!

    While I am showing off my wares, I can't resist showing you this one too:(and again with the toes...)It is a messenger  bag and it's not done, but I can finish it really quickl...
Posted by Charissa on Wed, 19 Apr 2006 09:38:00 PST

I finished something!

    This something has been sitting on my table waiting for one seam to be finished....  for a month.Look at it!(and my toes, apparently.)Now, the question is "is anyone in need of...
Posted by Charissa on Wed, 19 Apr 2006 09:31:00 PST

Trees? Trees!

There was this freaky "hello spring" wind and slush storm this week.  The power was out all over town; after I went out to smoke I needed a towel to dry off.  The day after when I was riding...
Posted by Charissa on Mon, 27 Mar 2006 08:22:00 PST

Why being a waitress rules....

Today, I was cleaning out the pockets of one of my pairs of pants to do laundry and I felt a dollar.  I said, out loud, "yay, a dollar!"And when I pulled it out it was fifty-five fucking dollars....
Posted by Charissa on Fri, 03 Feb 2006 08:59:00 PST