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Meagan

I am here for Friends and Networking

About Me

5 foot 4 and rising

My Interests

Architecture and French female pop singers of the 1960s. Old airports. Typewriters. Texas. The Space Program. Hip-hop culture of the late 1970s. Wraparound porches and/or sunglasses. Chrome Fenders. Hairdos. Pinball. Match Game. The Boston Red Sox. Beekeeping. Licorice. Bill Belichick. People who don't apologize for liking Prince.

I'd like to meet:

Sexy Farfisa organs

Music:

Spring Chicken playlist 4/1/08: "Circus Lady," The Beard. "Roman Shoulder," Kathy and the Landlines. "(One More of These and) I'm Flying," Paul Wilt. "Violet Underpants," Sitar Heroes. "Sternum Police," Kuul. "(I'm Gonna Train My Cougar to Eat) Republicans," The Heyduke Lives. "Earwax Wiggle," The Hipbones. "Black Snake the Ripper," The Four Honkies. "Stephanie's Golden Handbrake," The Pimiento Circuit. "Zipping (Down the 405)," The Paul Wilt Orchestra.

Movies:

Suburbia, the one by Penelope Spheeris. Don't Look Back. Decline of Western Civilization, pt. 1. Gimme Shelter. A Bout de Souffle. Hiroshima Mon Amour. Ciao, Manhattan. Paris, Texas. Texasville. The Last Picture Show. Hard Day's Night. Help! Rude Boy. Repo Man. Being There. Harold and Maude. Broadcast News. Badlands. Performance. Notorious. Goldfinger. Rushmore. Darling. The Hustler. The Man Who Fell to Earth. The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner. Days of Heaven. Smithereens. Shampoo. The Girl Can't Help It. High Art. Mystery Train. Mean Streets. American Splendor. The Big Lebowski. Nashville. Bad News Bears. Buckaroo Banzai. Top Pix: The Last Waltz, BARBARELLA, Rock and Roll High School, Five Easy Pieces, anything by Cassavetes and/or starring Gena Rowlands

Television:

WKRP in Cincinnati, What's Happening!!, The Odd Couple, Twin Peaks, X-Files, Happy Days, Simpsons, ATHF, MST3K, VH-1 Classic, Charlie Rose, Dick Cavett, The Adventures of Pete and Pete

Books:

Take yer pick from these folks: Flannery O'Connor, Kerouac, Ray Bradbury, Berke Breathed, Joan Didion, Sam Shepard, Stanley Booth, Poe Ballantine, Jim Carroll, Hunter S Thompson, Larry McMurtry, Anne Sexton, Eileen Myles, Patti Smith, Jackie Sheeler, Francesca Lia Block, Bill Watterson, John Irving, Tom Robbins, Aaron McGruder, Lorrie Moore, Walter Tevis, Bobbie Ann Mason, Camille Paglia, Carson McCullers, Lester Bangs, Charles Schultz, JD Salinger, Frank O'Hara, Annie Proulx, Kurt Vonnegut, Walt Whitman, Allen Ginsberg, Bob Hart, Breece DJ Pancake, Madeleine L'Engle, S.E. Hinton, Laura Ingalls Wilder. Or, nerd out on this: my 'read' shelf:

Heroes:

Jimmy Carter, Molly Ivins, and my grandmas.

My Blog

All my exes go to X shows.

Okay, I'm a little pressed for time, but I have to say yet another word about a band I love, the Los Angeleno punk-rock(abilly) group called X.  Yes, I have waxed rhapsodic many times about them ...
Posted by Meagan on Mon, 26 May 2008 07:31:00 PST

Lou, Take Two.

I'm still hung up on the whole Lou Reed Experience, and I've spent the last week or so intermittently picking it apart and trying to decipher just what's so hot about this guy, in between doing other ...
Posted by Meagan on Sat, 03 May 2008 12:04:00 PST

I’m sticking with Lou.

So, I walked over to the Paramount Theatre last night and saw Lou Reed live for the first time.  I realize that I haven't written anything here since February, and I suppose I could take this opp...
Posted by Meagan on Sat, 26 Apr 2008 09:46:00 PST

The Overdog.

Rooting for the winner is not my thing.  Growing up in Atlanta, rooting for the Braves in the Dale Murphy years (before the regrettable Tomahawk Chop, when the bleachers were home to the even mor...
Posted by Meagan on Mon, 04 Feb 2008 10:13:00 PST

The Lost Generation

I suppose there's some kind of irony at work when a half-done entry about digital media and how it might change our relationship to art gets zapped when my newfangled wi-fi thingy goes out.  In l...
Posted by Meagan on Fri, 01 Feb 2008 11:06:00 PST

First we take your blood pressure. Then we take Berlin.

I hate going to the doctor.  The thought of even a routine checkup makes me break out in a sweat.  But of all the horrible things that can happen to one in the confines of a medical establis...
Posted by Meagan on Sat, 19 Jan 2008 11:07:00 PST

A candy-colored clown they call the...snowbo?

It's that time of year again - the time when I bitch and moan about how crappy the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade is getting.  I mean, at least they still have that turkey, and Kermit, ...
Posted by Meagan on Fri, 23 Nov 2007 10:15:00 PST

Death trap, suicide rap, etc.

So in about a month it'll be officially 5 years, half a decade, that I've been living here in Asbury, and slightly longer that I've been hanging around just for kicks in The Armpit State, as...
Posted by Meagan on Thu, 11 Oct 2007 06:49:00 PST

Another Foggy Notion...

I was incredibly lazy back then, or maybe it was just such a small school that everything naturally became very incestuous.  At any rate, it never seemed like I had enough time.  I picture a...
Posted by Meagan on Thu, 27 Sep 2007 11:55:00 PST

Now it’s just getting silly.

I keep seeing this Amstel Light beer ad.  And it keeps reminding me of that scene in the movie Princess Bride, where Wallace Shawn proclaims, for the umpteenth time, that something is "inconceiva...
Posted by Meagan on Mon, 17 Sep 2007 12:22:00 PST