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bananarama strannigan

Live every week like its shark week.

About Me

Brian Wilson said it best: "I guess I just wasn't made for these times."

My Interests

lol cats,
krumping,
the thriving Oregon cheese industry,
all J.D. Salinger's stories that are locked up in a safe deposit box somewhere.

I'd like to meet:


Music:

cash,
dylan,
young,
patsy,
tweedy,
neko case,
brmc,
sufjan,
cold war kids,
jose gonzalez,
rolling stones,
joanna newsom,
marvin gaye,
beck,
denison witmer,
recent spins: st. vincent, feist, illinois, gray kid, amy millan, camera obscura, beirut, lovedrug, decemberists, and more joanna newsom than any one person should listen to.

Movies:

Rushmore, Almost Famous, Edward Scissorhands, Waiting for Guffman, High Fidelity, Children of Men, The Scinece of Sleep. documentaries: Spellbound, Lost Boys of Sudan, Dog Town and Z Boys, Grizzly Man, etc.

Television:

Arrested Development, The Office(British first, then American), LOST, 30 Rock.
Various other crap television programming I can't seem to escape: America's Next Top Model, Big Love, The OC, Project Runway, etc.

Books:

Franny and Zooey, Catcher in the Rye, Animal Farm, The Pleasure of my Company, Traveling Mercies, Lord of the Rings, any biography on Johnny Cash, The Great Divorce, Until We Have Faces.

Heroes:

Johnny Cash and Jesus.

My Blog

It appears I'm "it".

Ok. Not my usual steeze to play a game of blog tag...BUT...I was tagged by Jess and I gotta do what I gotta do. So, kids. here it is. Here's how you play, once you've been tagged. You have to write a ...
Posted by Stranny Pants on Fri, 27 Apr 2007 04:25:00 PST

sxsw!

All I gotta say is, I gotta help plan this lil beaut' of a party -- and, in the words of Buster Bluth: "This party is gonna be OFF THE HOOK." Really, I can't believe how nicely this all came together....
Posted by Stranny Pants on Sat, 24 Feb 2007 04:07:00 PST

kittied!

Meet the newest addition to our household. Her name is Penelope. I am a cat owner. I am happy. I am complete. I think I am going to make her a myspace (and put 300 pictures of her up). Yes, I think I ...
Posted by Stranny Pants on Fri, 19 Jan 2007 09:56:00 PST

top albums of 2006

I've been thinking it over, and here's what I've come up with (in no particular order): 1. Thom Yorke "The Eraser"2. Cold War Kids "Robbers and Cowards" 3. The Appleseed Cast "Peregrine" 4. Amy Millan...
Posted by Stranny Pants on Thu, 07 Dec 2006 03:43:00 PST

the essential christmas albums

1. The Vince Guraldi trio - Charlie Brown Christmas 2. Sufjan Stevens - Hark! Songs for Christmas 3. Christmas with Johnny Cash 4. Nat King Cole - The Christmas Song 5. Amy Grant - A Christmas alb...
Posted by Stranny Pants on Thu, 01 Dec 2005 11:05:00 PST

memories.

oh my gosh. popped in Slick Shoes "Rusty" for the first time in 5 years (or so). This was the album of my youth. my band wrote a tribute song to slick shoes. we called it sticky boots because we wer...
Posted by Stranny Pants on Thu, 03 Nov 2005 04:01:00 PST

sticks and stones

will break my bones. and so will the sidewalk, for that matter. last night I was alking briskly home (from my car which was parked rather far away) in the dark, with purse and laptop in hand. I tr...
Posted by Stranny Pants on Tue, 11 Oct 2005 02:03:00 PST

a celebration of fall

yesterday I bought my first cappuccino of the season. and today I am wearing my favorite red sweatshirt with white hearts on it. and I might just make my famous pumpkin chocolate chip muffins. ...
Posted by Stranny Pants on Thu, 15 Sep 2005 10:07:00 PST

a whole new world.

I got offered a job as Products Manager at Sidecho Records today. And I think I am going to take it. I will be in Orange County a whole lot - so that should make all my OC friends happy. No more work...
Posted by Stranny Pants on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

To the Lactose Intolerant of America

Dear LI(o)A - I am sorry for you. I like to eat mozzarella cheese all day. In the form of cheese sticks, cheese toast, or maybe grated onto a pizza or some minestrone soup. In conclusion, I am...
Posted by Stranny Pants on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST