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Shena

I am here for Friends and Networking

About Me

I'm not enigmatic at all, mostly because I have a frightening lack of conversational filters. I am pretty sure it's charming.

My Interests

Things that are other things (futons, for example. Also, some robots). Chocolates sold by elegant elderly ladies with difficult-to-place European accents. Comics.

Music:

Cosi Fan Tutte, Katamari Damacy and We Love Katamari soundtracks, Kylie Minogue, k.d. lang, Robbie Williams, The Flaming Lips, alacartoona, The Producers Original Broadway Cast Recording, Enya, Kanye West, Wilco, Guster, Jack Johnson, Frou Frou, Etro Anime, Poe, Danny Elfman, Sophie Ellis-Bextor, OK Go, Britney Spears, Eartha Kitt, showtunes, anything by Puccini

Movies:

Blade Runner, original Star Wars, LXG (it was whimsical!), 2046, No Such Thing, Lost in Translation, The Rundown, Kitchen Stories, Robot Stories, Moonstruck, The Iron Giant, Pitch Black, Alien, Aliens, Terminator 2, The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill, Primer, Avalon, Shortbus, Tristam Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story, The Princess Bride, Transformers: The Movie (animated - I fear the new one), Avalon, Grizzly Man, any film by Buster Keaton

Television:

Arrested Development, Home Movies, Band of Brothers, Deadwood, La Femme Nikita, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Battlestar Galactica, America's Next Top Model, Project Runway, The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr., The Prisoner, The Tick (animated), Star Trek: Original Series, Star Trek: Next Generation (what? I didn't like Voyager or Enterprise), Extras, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Doctor Who

Books:

A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge, anything Star Wars by Timothy Zahn, The Little Prince by Antoine Saint-Exupery, The Final Reflection by John Ford, House of Leaves by Mark Danielowski, Godel Escher Bach by Douglas Hoffsteder, anything by Neal Stephenson, William Gibson, Neil Gaiman or Terry Pratchett - I know that some of these author names may be spelled incorrectly. We must all hope that I shall fix them as time goes by. Anything by Isaac Asimov. Comics. I read a damn lot of comics - artsy, superhero, don't care. I love them all so very, very much.

Heroes:

Gandhi, Batman, Tyra Banks

My Blog

OMG Blog!

My basement has had a slight water incursion problem (only during very heavy rain), and I’ve entertained a number of fix possibilities, but have always been stymied by the fact that it’s a...
Posted by Shena on Thu, 10 Apr 2008 07:20:00 PST

and I’m back

Today, I woke up early and shoveled the driveway, to avoid a return to "driveway of ice and doom" (which hung on for weeks past the last snow storm. My driveway, it gets no sun). Because of this, I ...
Posted by Shena on Thu, 17 Jan 2008 08:04:00 PST

Sorry, no more gothblogging...ever, ever again

Oh my. This is my 101th post to the MySpace blog! Bizarre. It's like I should have had a tiny MySpace party or something. Oh well.I was busy with gothblogging for a while, and then I was *pissed* ...
Posted by Shena on Tue, 18 Dec 2007 08:24:00 PST

gothblogging the goth blog: part seven

Winter's chill embrace has wrapped itself around me and my heart is a vast ice field.  I feel nothing and I embrace the void.  Without further ado.-The Lady of Things ForgottenThe morning of...
Posted by Shena on Mon, 10 Dec 2007 06:55:00 PST

gothblogging the goth blog: part six

Winter's icy mantle has kept me from my duties for long enough! Goth Blog: Part Six-The Lady of Things ForgottenThe villain wakes to the harsh touchof glaring lightpale skin shrinks from unfeeling ray...
Posted by Shena on Sun, 09 Dec 2007 08:24:00 PST

gothblogging the goth blog: part five

Today is dismal, gray and cold. The weather brings a spark to my frigid heart and I gaze out upon the wasteland with as much joy as I can muster. My sweet, sad pilgrim continues his long journey thr...
Posted by Shena on Fri, 07 Dec 2007 09:59:00 PST

gothblogging the goth blog: part four

As I continue to follow the saga of the faithless Thorn and the pale pilgrim, my soul breaks with his as I see the fruitless pursuit of unattainable love. I raise a glass of non-alcoholic mead to his...
Posted by Shena on Thu, 06 Dec 2007 09:58:00 PST

gothblogging the goth blog: part three

My delay in returning to my vigil was unavoidable, as I had been neglecting Persephone (my true companion and familiar, a ten-year-old Himalayan, though we disagree on some minor issues. She's far to...
Posted by Shena on Wed, 05 Dec 2007 12:06:00 PST

gothblogging the goth blog: part two

Once again I return to my vigil, patiently watching the progress of our pale pilgrim as he struggles with the night. Goth Blog: Part Two His toils bring to mind my own recent challenges, which both s...
Posted by Shena on Tue, 04 Dec 2007 09:32:00 PST

Decisions

I want to do a goth homage poetry week to support Isley in his goth-blogging, but I'm not sure I have it in me. I'm going to eat this scalding hot beef, mushroom and barley soup (no beef is visible, ...
Posted by Shena on Mon, 03 Dec 2007 11:29:00 PST