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Chawna

I am here for Friends and Networking

About Me

About me, Hmmmm...well, I am in the process of becoming rational idealist. What's rational idealism? I hope the term doesn't already exist because I am entertaining my own definition of it, in which I am shaping my ideals around reality in a way that doesn't compromise my most sacred beliefs, with my ability to exist happily in this crazy world. This is a work in progress that I have by no means mastered, but that 's the fun in it. About me? Urban Mystic, forgotten poet, wandering artist, believer and lover of life. Full moment potential but lost in the abstract. Love the creativity and spontaneity of everything. Can't stay contained in my skin, overflow, movement.......................

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My Interests

Oh God, there are so many. Music and dancing, Drum n Bass head, devour breakbeats, Concious Hip Hop, lot's of lovely ladies and anything with soul and intelligence. I wish I could just dance all day long, but we know how priorities run. Love art, everyone elses, my own--jewlery, drawing, painting, writing. Love snowboarding, hiking, skydiving. I cherish the precious moments spent with the people I love more than anything else. Hanging out with kids and learning their secrets of enjoyment. I love to Travel!!! Eternal student, obsessive gardener when I can stay put in one place long enough. Love to read and contemplate. I could go on and on as I am a jack of all trades, master of none, I love to explore and hope I never stop. ..

I'd like to meet:

Anyone who loves good conversation, intelligent rapturings and lots of fun..

Music:

Which genre to start with? Let's go with the Hip Hop first--K-os, Solilaquists of Sound, Living Legends, Grouch, Eligh, Scarub, Glue, Adeem, Blackalicious, Micheal Franti and Spearhead, Lyrics Born and Latyrx, Sage Francis, Sole Doseone, Anticon, 3 Melancholy Gypsies, Source Unknown, Sizemix, DJ Shadow, DJ Food, Gel, Anticon, Zion I, Ugly Duckling, Adeem,Mr. Lif, Lifesavas, Del, Saul Williams, Bus Driver, Old Goodie Mob, and old Outcast, old Cee-Lo, The Roots, you get the picture. Techno--DJ Endo, Diesel Boy, Wally, Ming and FS, Simply Jeff, Black Sun Empire, Dom and Roland, Bad Company, Dara, Phantom 45, Aphrodite, Juno Reactor, Oakenfold, Buddha Bar etc. Anything with Nasty, dark bass lines to provide that healthy outlet for my alter ego.Aske,Eyrika Badu, Jill Scott, Nora Jones, Ben Harper, Jack Johnson, Madeline Peyroux, India Arie, Sontiago, Dave Mattews, Don Mclean, Coldplay, Portishead, Pink Martini, Ill Lit, Nina Simone, Ella Fitzgerald, Cirque du Soleil, Pink Floyd, Bob Marley, Jewel, Zap Mama, Mila Jovavich (Yeah she sings) Massive Attack, Thievery Corporation, Krueder and Dorfmeister, Dido, The Cure, The list continues...

Movies:

Weatherly Hillclimb in MR2 Turbo



HILLHO.COM MR2 turbo in SCCA hillclimb rally...and almost stuffs it! Nice jump at top! Very technical course: at turn 3 is the "wall"..has to be taken on outside..it's just to "steep"!

New England Hillclimb Arlo Cota STI Launch

THIS CRAZY RACER IS MY DAD!!!

Saturday Practice. Arlo Cota launches the Benetton Colored STI hard. It seems that to be a frontrunner in this series that a hard launch is absolutely necessary, much to the chagrin of my drivetrain. Arlo is one of the best. Arlo is the owner of Williston Vt's Auto Sporthttp://www.importedcarcenter.com/ Pi, Waking Life, I *Huckabees, Baraka, Boondock Saints, Donnie Darko,Clerks, all Cirque du Soliel, Scratch, Office Space, Chocolat, Like Water for Chocolate, Fifth Element, Lord of the Rings, Labrynth, Willow, Dark Crystal, Never Ending Story, Goonies, What's Eating Gilbert Grape, Return to Oz

Television:

Lost, Simpsons, Family Guy, the Daily Show, Project Runway

Books:

Working in a book store while you're in school is a masochistic torture that sometimes leads to a short circuit in the brain. My favorite book of all time is Cat's Cradle by Vonnegut, 1984, Desert Queen--if anyone else has read this or even knows who Gertrude Bell is, give me a shout out. Drinking Coffee Elsewhere, Giovanni's Room, The Human Stain, Lolita, I am a Strange Loop, The Rebel Sell, The Lover by Duras, The Importance of Being Earnest, Way of the Peaceful Warrior, Celestine Prophecy, (Sorry Shakes, I know I'm a terrible disappointment to you) The Virtue of Selfishness and Anthem by Rand, Harry Potter, Fear and Trembling, Conversations with God, Chaos by James Gleik, Jasmine by Bahrati Mukherjee, The Giver, Wrinkle in Time, Mists of Avalon, The Vagabond, The Almond, Brave New World, We, Ecotopia, Jane Eyre, Animals Speak, Silent Spring, Rumi-Hidden Music, anything by Rumi, Anything by my favorite poet and author, Octavio Paz, Sylvia Plath, Tennyson, Wordsworth, Ginsburg, Kerouac, Burroughs, Marge Piercy, Annie Dillard, Isabella Rosetti, John Donne, The Bronte's, Herman Hesse, TS Eliot, Timothy Freke, Pride and Prejudice, Candide, Roussou's Confession's, Rameau's Nephew by Diderot (I have a soft spot for the Enlightenment) Clockwork Orange, Illusions, The Bone People, Alice in Wonderland

Heroes:

Adeem, Gertrude Bell, Martin Luther King Jr and Martin Luther, Saul Williams, Alice Paul, My Mom, Banksy

My Blog

UhOh there she goes

  Light curves off your hips, the sweet bending of silver skin. Abstract words manifest a masterpiece of sound. Rain rhythm beats it's patterns off my body and I am flesh. Lost in half a dre...
Posted by Chawna on Wed, 10 May 2006 09:45:00 PST

Tangent

Been thinking a lot about feminism lately and what it means to be a woman in this culture. I'm taking a class that we're studying women and ambition in the novel and it's been really intense. On the f...
Posted by Chawna on Fri, 05 May 2006 08:15:00 PST

Genius in unexpectd places

I guess reading a psychology book isn't really that unexpected of a place to find genius, this is really good. One thing about me, I get really inspired when I find something amazing and I just want s...
Posted by Chawna on Fri, 14 Apr 2006 11:05:00 PST

Found this today, thought it perfect considering the "missing link" fish that surfaced (haha)

Diderot: If you're worried by the question " which came first, the hen or the egg ", it's because you suppose that animals were originally the same as they are now. What madness! We can no more tell w...
Posted by Chawna on Sun, 09 Apr 2006 10:10:00 PST

Act of God

I just witnessed an act of God: I left 4 ice cream sandwichs in my jacket pocket for 6 hours--feared the worst--miraculously, no mess, perfect condition, a little freezy freezy and enjoy in the mornin...
Posted by Chawna on Sun, 09 Apr 2006 09:21:00 PST