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Echo

Stand absolved behind your electric chair

About Me

I'm not a tramp...I just played one in Cabaret...don't mind the fold line...Photo by Greg Hoff. I'm a big fat boring poser....that speaks spanish...that's about it. Here's this survey that everyone I know has done, and I'm sheep...so what the heck:
TELL ME ABOUT YOURSELF - The Survey
Name: Echo Schmecko
Birthday: Gets more depressing every year
Birthplace: A big fat dirt hole north of Vegas
Current Location: see above
Eye Color: Brown
Hair Color: Brown-ish
Height: 5'8"
Right Handed or Left Handed: Right
Your Heritage: Heinz 57
The Shoes You Wore Today: I don't wear shoes...I'm preparing for the future, I just need a little more time in the kitchen
Your Weakness: Jeff Buckley
Your Fears: People that are TOO perky
Your Perfect Pizza: The kind that won't make you fat, but that still tastes like it will make you fat
Goal You Would Like To Achieve This Year: Run 4 miles without dying
Your Most Overused Phrase On an instant messenger: hmmm....
Thoughts First Waking Up: My thoughts don't kick in until after I've run and eaten..sorry
Your Best Physical Feature: Eyes
Your Bedtime: Whenever I finish watching Oz
Your Most Missed Memory: MY MISSION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Pepsi or Coke: Dr. Pepper
MacDonalds or Burger King: McDonald's Fries, Bk burgers
Single or Group Dates: Depends on how much you like the person. If I really like him - single....If I'm just being nice - Group
Lipton Ice Tea or Nestea: pass, thanx
Chocolate or Vanilla: Chocolate...mmmm...
Cappuccino or Coffee: pass again
Do you Smoke: blech..nope
Do you Swear: to tell the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help me God?
Do you Sing: yup
Do you Shower Daily: yup
Have you Been in Love: Loaded question
Do you want to go to College: I'm in college
Do you want to get Married: AAHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Do you belive in yourself: More than I believe in Santa
Do you get Motion Sickness: nope...unless we're in one of those spinny strawberry things...then look out.
Do you think you are Attractive: Sometimes.
Are you a Health Freak: Psht..no
Do you get along with your Parents: yup
Do you like Thunderstorms: I LIVE for thunderstorms. Thunderstorms accompanied by Jeff Buckley and/or Van Morrison
Do you play an Instrument: Piano
In the past month have you Drank Alcohol: no
In the past month have you Smoked: no
In the past month have you been on Drugs: as prescribed by my doc..sip
In the past month have you gone on a Date: Is this question specifically posed to rub salt in my wound or something?
In the past month have you gone to a Mall: Sadly, yes. I detest the mall.
In the past month have you eaten a box of Oreos: Sadly, no. I adore Oreos.
In the past month have you eaten Sushi: Yup!
In the past month have you been on Stage: yep
In the past month have you been Dumped: nope - the only perk to not having been on a date in the past month (...or 18)
In the past month have you gone Skinny Dipping: Gosh no. I wouldn't even subject fish to that kind of torture.
In the past month have you Stolen Anything: no
Ever been Drunk: no
Ever been called a Tease: numerosas veces
Ever been Beaten up: uhhh...sort of...
Ever Shoplifted: not really
How do you want to Die: with a good conscience
What do you want to be when you Grow Up: A kid
What country would you most like to Visit: Italy
In a Boy/Girl..
Favourite Eye Color: It's not the color, it's the fire...
Favourite Hair Color: dark
Short or Long Hair: ach! Both. Some dudes look hot with the whole long hair thing, although I love a clean cut man in a suit, too.
Height: Honestly? I don't really care, as long as he doesn't get all pissy when I wear heels
Weight: doesn't matter as long as he isn't...like...frail
Best Clothing Style: Clothes that fit.
Number of Drugs I have taken: none
Number of CDs I own: It would take too long to count, but I would estimate 350+
Number of Piercings: 7 ... but only 2 that I currently use
Number of Tattoos: none sucka
Number of things in my Past I Regret: this is probably the most idiotic question I've ever come across. Why number that crap? Just deal with it and put it the freak away. It's important to have regrets, that's how we learn, but if we're actually keeping track of the number....I would call that a substantial problem...
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My Interests

Music, Movies, History, reading...this is a really broad topic, I have lots of interests, just ask

I'd like to meet:

Aw, man, this guy...too bad God hates me so much...Dude...this guy too...YOWZA!

Books:

Latest read: The Piano Tuner by Daniel Mason. Ooh, a magical magical book. I didn't realize that people still wrote such beautiful prose. His style can be difficult to follow, especially when people have conversations, but still wonderful. It gave me the most beautiful dreams, and my new obsession:

Heroes:

Jeff Buckley, Quentin Tarantino, Alfred Molina, John Cusack, Mike Patton, Robert DeNiro, Edward Norton (thanx for that Kara) My Ma and Pops, Jimmy Gnecco, Shara Worden (if you don't know who she is....you should!), Elliott Smith, Van Morrison, Robert Page, Eric Clapton, John Coltrane, Muddy Waters, Ella Fitzgerald, Nina Simone, Jimi Hendrix, Kiri Te Kanawa, and infinitely more

My Blog

Clouds full of ashes....

eons of pain on curved shoulders lead to desperate measures in times the same looking up for a single drop from the heavens too bad today there's soot for rain glimmer of a sugar sprinkled memory wash...
Posted by Echo on Mon, 05 May 2008 08:12:00 PST

Matchbox

Feeling a little like an old matchbox. Old...no, vintage.  That's cooler Empty. The smell of stale sulfur lingering like an old friend you just want to leave. You know, the one. They used to igni...
Posted by Echo on Tue, 22 Apr 2008 04:20:00 PST

I may not be old...but I’m definitely not young anymore...

Every Friday, I attend a class at TMCC called "Musical Theater Dance Styles."  It's a wonderful class, taught by a ridiculously talented dancer and gifted teacher, and is generally an enjoyable e...
Posted by Echo on Sat, 12 Apr 2008 05:49:00 PST

I wish I wrote this blog!

This is a blog written by one of my greatest friends ever.  Her name is Robynn Garfield (better known to those who read my mission blogs as Sister or Hermana Meiners), and she is the funniest per...
Posted by Echo on Wed, 09 Apr 2008 07:39:00 PST

Types, Puberty, and Traditional Beauty

So, whilst digging through the mountain of random crap stacked up around my computer, I came across this paper I wrote my senior year in high school.  If I remember correctly, it was an assignmen...
Posted by Echo on Mon, 10 Mar 2008 03:28:00 PST

A little happiness for an early morning

7 years after I first found it, this song still inspires me. Gunshot Glitter - Jeff Buckley   Don't you wanna let go of your heart Or you resist the beds of bliss Fortune makes fools of us all M...
Posted by Echo on Tue, 04 Mar 2008 08:10:00 PST

Mission Journal Pt.2 - Initiation into the field ;-)

Before we get started, just a quick reminder: Some things have been edited to protect things that might be personal to the people I love, also to make doctrinally specific things a little easier to un...
Posted by Echo on Sat, 02 Feb 2008 03:08:00 PST

Read my diary! MTC ADVENTURES!!

I've been thinking about this for a long time, and I finally decided to do it.  I'm going to post some of the journal entries from my mission journal in blogs.   I want to share my miss...
Posted by Echo on Sun, 27 Jan 2008 08:54:00 PST

Wow.

This is a post that I sent out earlier this morning.   I  decided to make it a blog, so that it doesn't get lost the great myspace post shuffle.  Be aware:  It's a little angr...
Posted by Echo on Wed, 23 Jan 2008 08:25:00 PST

Gardening a relationship 101 (a work in progress)

The seeds of our misfortune, Thrive tho' they might today need not grow to overtake us and choke our love away. no longer let our water fall down on those evil seeds but turn our backs upon them The&n...
Posted by Echo on Sun, 20 Jan 2008 09:26:00 PST