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Liz

Everything was beautiful. Nothing hurt.

About Me

I'm a generally nice person who enjoys the company of other generally nice people. I dislike drama and people who make things more complicated than they need to be. A quirky sense of humor, honesty, loyalty, creativity, open-mindedness, intelligence and the ability to consume copious amounts of coffee are traits I admire in myself and in others. I love living my happy little life to the fullest and all the wonderful people who help make said life so happy.

My Interests

Writing (for work and play), editing, my kick ass friends, coffee, reading, sleeping late, volunteer work, watching movies, pondering things, my oh-so evil kitty Vlad, my oh-so sweet kitty Nisa, good conversation, running, being me, carving pumpkins, tattoos, being outdoors, 2-series Volvos, bragging rights, hot baths, inside jokes, alliteration, reading The Onion, drinking PBR on my front porch, star gazing, playing darts, singing loudly in the privacy of my car, crossword puzzles, meeting new folks, Yahtzee, aquariums, voting, rooting for the underdog, playing Mortal Kombat, old Atari games, lawn gnomes, yoga, Target, stupid bets, architecture, learning new things, Woodchuck Cider, getting a good bargain, Dachshunds, rocks, eating tater tots at The Vortex, tugboats, taking silly pics of myself and my friends and pets, sushi, laughing, Halloween...and last but certainly not least...my Wifey!

I'd like to meet:

People who know me. People who used to know me. People who have similar interests and would like to know me. If you have a shirtless picture of yourself in your profile, I probably don't want to know you.

Music:

The Cure, The Pixies, Modest Mouse, Portishead, The Smiths, Joy Division, Sonic Youth, Nine Inch Nails, Depeche Mode, The Mountain Goats, Flaming Lips, Social D, The Rev. Horton Heat, Tool, Tori Amos, Radiohead, The Killers, Kristin Hersh, Bob Marley, The Police, Fleetwood Mac, David Bowie, Smashing Pumpkins, Lots of '80s new wave and hair bands and one-hit wonders(I can't help myself...it's an addiction/affliction)

Movies:

Edward Scissorhands, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Beetlejuice (okay, pretty much anything by Tim Burton except Planet of the Apes...the TV show freaked me out as a kid), Donnie Darko, Zoolander, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (original only, none of this remake crap), Heat, Audition, Snatch, Old Boy, Supersize Me, An Inconvenient Truth, The Breakfast Club, Pulp Fiction, Goodfellas, The Departed, The Serpent and the Rainbow, Capote, Requiem for a Dream, Raising Arizona, Shaun of the Dead, The Usual Suspects, Lost in Translation, The Professional, Anchorman, American Beauty, Office Space, lots of horror movies (B grade and otherwise), oh hell - lots of other movies too .. height="350" width="425" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="http://www..fi/images/.." ..

Television:

Law & Order (any variety), Lost, Battlestar Gallactica, Project Runway, Conan, The Daily Show, Curb Your Enthusiasm, 30 Days, The First 48, Dirty Jobs, Aqua Teen, Family Guy, The Venture Brothers, nature documentaries, pretty much anything on Discovery or TLC

Books:

Kurt Vonnegut, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Franz Kafka, Joyce Carol Oates, Flannery O'Connor, T.S. Eliot, Ecology of a Cracker Childhood, The Stranger, The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy, The Lovely Bones, Affluenza, Fast Food Nation, The Culture of Fear, non-fiction about environmental issues, sociology, writing or anything else that piques my interest

Heroes:

I admire lots of different people for lots of different reasons.

My Blog

Beautiful Things

He told me a story of his past, concluding with "It was a beautiful time, but short-lived.""Most beautiful things are short-lived," I said.Recalling this exchange now, my words feel false. It is not t...
Posted by Liz on Mon, 05 Feb 2007 10:32:00 PST

What I like about you

I question many things in life (what fun would it be if I didn't?), but one thing that will forever remain unquestioned in my life is my unwavering love and admiration for my friends. At this point yo...
Posted by Liz on Wed, 24 Jan 2007 11:36:00 PST

I've been f-ing tagged - again!

TAG! You're it!So the rules are, once you've been tagged, you have to write a blog with 6 weird things/habits,/thoughts, etc. about yourself. At the end you need to choose 5  people to be tagged ...
Posted by Liz on Mon, 15 Jan 2007 10:14:00 PST

Willful

Pictures of you,tongue pressed to my cheek.Grinning.Wild hair twisted this way and that.The intricacies of false loveboiled down to snapshot simplicity.Sitting on cold tile,two sapphires,one diamond -...
Posted by Liz on Fri, 29 Dec 2006 02:24:00 PST

On Friends and Courage

There's a line from a Modest Mouse song that I love that goes, "If it takes shit to make bliss, then I feel pretty blissfully." So true. So true.According to the Chinese calendar, 2006 is the Year of ...
Posted by Liz on Sun, 17 Dec 2006 11:43:00 PST

I've been f-ing tagged

if you get tagged you must post a blog telling 6 strange or unkown things or habits about yourself. then tag 5 people and tell them to go to your blog. they in turn must do the same and so forth and s...
Posted by Liz on Sun, 19 Mar 2006 03:32:00 PST