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Colleen

GObama!

About Me

Welcome to a bright, shiny, new America, folks! Jump on in. The water's fine. ;)ATTENTION ANIME FANS: WHILE I ADORE AND APPRECIATE ALL OF YOU, THERE IS JUST NO WAY I CAN RESPOND TO ALL OF MY MYSPACE MESSAGES AND EMAILS. I READ THEM ALL, SO YOU CAN WRITE ANYTIME YOU'D LIKE, BUT PLEASE DON'T THINK I'M A WANKER IF I DON'T WRITE YOU BACK. :) ATTENTION STRANGE MEN: I AM NOT INTERESTED IN DATING YOU. PLEASE DON'T HIT ON ME.

My Interests

Learning. Anything. Recently, I learned some sign language, some stuff about WWI, some stuff about US politics, and how to draw with the right side of my brain (whatever that means). I still want to study piano, japanese, cooking, and MORE sign language. I play cartoon characters for a living, so my life is basically one big hobby. Why not add 10 more?

I'd like to meet:

Jon Stewart and Steven Colbert... in a kiddy tub full of mind jello. Hawt.

Music:

Ani DiFranco, Gregory and the Hawk, Frank Sinatra, The Beatles, Jason Mraz, Lily Allen, Keren Ann, Dar Williams, Death Cab for Cutie, Guster, John Mayer, The Streets, Ben Folds, Diana Krall, The Postal Service, Feist, Belle and Sebastian, Imogen Heap, Frou Frou, Ratatat, Emily Haines, Kate Nash, The White Stripes, The Decemberists, Of Montreal, Gnarls Barkley, Metric, Nirvana, The Killers, U2, Bob Dylan, Scissor Sisters, Louis Armstrong, Dean Martin, Glen Hansard&Marketa Irglova, Gorillaz, Guns N' Roses, Poison, Meat Loaf, Pearl Jam, Mika, Paolo Nutini, Simone Cristicchi, Phoenix, Santana, Tenacious D, ... blah blah blah.

Movies:

American Beauty, Big Lebowski, Ghostbusters, French Kiss, Dark Crystal, Bandits, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Memento, I Heart Huckabees, Fight Club, 40 Year Old Virgin, Real Genius, Adaptation, Waiting For Guffman, Napoleon Dynamite, Groundhog Day, How to Marry a Millionaire, Gigi, Kill Bill, Stardust, Brick, Mary Poppins, Iron Man.

Television:

West Wing, Lost, Gilmore Girls, Friends, Deadwood, Alias, 24, Weeds, Will and Grace, Gray's Anatomy, House, Arrested Development, The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, How I Met Your Mother, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia.

Books:

Ender's Game (whole series), The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (whole series), Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenence, Still Life With Woodpecker, The Fountainhead, Game of Thrones (whole series), Memoirs of a Geisha, 13 Clocks, The Eight, The Wonderful 'O', Phantoms in the Brain, Tales of a Female Nomad, The Monk Downstairs, Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell, anything by Christopher Moore, Life of Pi, The Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat, Unbearable Lightness of Being, The Historian, Handmaid's Tale, She Who Remembers, Clan of the Cave Bear, The Witching Hour, Watchers, Siddhartha, Catch 22, Stardust, The Book of Lost Things, Water For Elephants... Oh my god. I have to stop.

Heroes:

Gandhi, Ani DiFranco, She-ra, Norman Borlaug (the guy who won the Nobel Peace Prize for tinkering with wheat grains) That guy was cool. Also SONNY STRAIT! My creative guru. So proud of you, Raf!

My Blog

Barack Obama at the Roast of Representative Rahm Emanuel

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHX-g1FtaMs I'm so in love!...
Posted by Colleen on Sun, 09 Nov 2008 02:06:00 PST

Make it count.

Here's the sitch.I know I'm probably preaching to the choir here, but just in case there's anyone over the age of 18 out there who hasn't really sat down and considered the ramifications of this elect...
Posted by Colleen on Sat, 04 Oct 2008 02:30:00 PST

The Desiderata

Look what my sister just showed me... The DesiderataGo placidly amid the noise and the haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence.As far as possible, without surrender, be on good terms wi...
Posted by Colleen on Thu, 19 Jun 2008 04:18:00 PST

captcha THIS

I have decided that I will no longer be annoyed by those stupid captcha things that show up everytime I want to post something. From now on, I will look for the hidden meaning in them. UYN4K8R... Wha...
Posted by Colleen on Fri, 01 Feb 2008 10:47:00 PST

A quote without the cheese is just some words.

You know... I very rarely put actual quotes in my header because they all seem so trite. But this "A goal without a plan is just a wish" thing is hard for me to kick. Honestly, I stole it from my sis...
Posted by Colleen on Wed, 18 Jul 2007 10:08:00 PST

ILike2Learn.com

So I found this cool site-- and by 'cool' I mean 'utterly and completely without any pretence to cool.' It's ILike2Learn.com, a site set up to help people (ostensibly children, but what the fuck) lea...
Posted by Colleen on Tue, 19 Jun 2007 09:09:00 PST

Musings about sex

Gotcha! Not that kind of sex. I'm talkin' gender. Pervs. Ever notice how certain things make you feel very gender-specific? Like when a guy opens a door for me- I feel very feminine. Or when my nails ...
Posted by Colleen on Fri, 01 Jun 2007 10:55:00 PST

Why do I like Shakira?

I hate pop music. Okay. That's a lie. But I don't love pop music. I rarely listen to it, in fact. But when I hear Shakira, I shamefully turn it up. Bitch can MOVE, man. And the songs are just as pump...
Posted by Colleen on Wed, 09 May 2007 10:53:00 PST

deal or no deal

I am sad. I wrote a blog (titled Deal or No Deal) and the myspace demons erased it. My blog is a sock in the dryer of myspace. I leave this memorial in its place to remind you of the brilliance of whi...
Posted by Colleen on Fri, 27 Apr 2007 09:33:00 PST

Making scents

Dude. What's up with the awesome new array of deodorant scents available now? I am currently enjoying Vanilla Chai underarms. I have it on good authority they smell like vanilla wafers. What's next? C...
Posted by Colleen on Tue, 17 Apr 2007 10:43:00 PST