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Kari

Ain't it just like the night to play tricks when you're tryin' to be so quiet? We sit here stranded,

About Me

I'm currently in school studying for my MLIS. I also work in a bookstore and at a museum of norwegian cultural history. I live in the center of Oslo. My interests are many; literature, art, traveling, and of course music. As you can see by my profile, I'm very passionate about music. I love traveling around the world, but my favorite place to be is New York City. In fact I'm working on getting an internship at a library there. What else...let me see... I like working out and staying in shape, I love beer and red wine, irish pubs, Elvis Presley, sushi, and meeting new people on myspace. And I love 43things.com. If you've never heard of it, go check it out. It's a great tool for achieving your goals/dreams.
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Basics:
Name: Kari
Birthplace: Lærdal, Norway
Current Location: Oslo
Eye Color: Blue
Hair Color: Red
Height: 5.7
Heritage: Norwegian
Piercings: Ears
Tattoos: Not yet
Favourite:
Website: yelp.com, 43things.com
Band/Artist: Bob Dylan
Song: Blind Willie Mctell, Ballad of a thin man
Movie: Edward Scissorhands, Dead Man
Disney Movie: Pirates of the Carribean
TV show: Queer as folk
Color: Red
Food: Sushi
Drink (alcoholic): Beer
Store: Victoria's Secret, Kitson, Macy's, Bloomingdale's, Bebe
Clothing Brand: Vidler and Nixon, Nanette Lepore
Shoe Brand: Christian Louboutin
Favorite restaurant: Geisha House, LA
Season: Fall
Month: November
Favorite club/bar: Sky Bar (LA), Cutting Room (NYC)
Make-Up Item: Mascara, Eyeliner
Board game: Trivial Pursuit
Least favorite person: Bill O'Reilly
This or That
Sunny or rainy: Sunny
Chocolate or vanilla: Chocolate
Fruit or veggie: Fruit
Night or day: Night
Phone or in person: In person
Looks or personality: Both
Coffee or tea: Coffee
Hot or cold: Cold
Your:
Goal for this year: Save up lots of money
Most missed memory: The roadtrip that I took with my friend last summer
Best physical feature: My hair, my eyes, my nose...?
First thought waking up: Coffee!
Sesame street alter ego: Abby Cadabby
Fairytale alter ego: Jack Skellington?
Worst crime: Always falling for the bad guy
Greatest ambition: Live in New York and own a book café
Greatest fear: Death
Darkest secret: do you really think I would share it with all the people at Myspace?
Favorite subject: Music
Do You:
Smoke: Not anymore
Drink: Yes
Shower daily: Of course
Like thunderstorms: I'm afraid of thunderstorms
Dance in the rain: It's not something I do on a regular basis, but it has been known to happen
Sing: Yes
Play an instrument: Guitar, piano. But not very good
Get along with your parents: Definitely
Believe in fate: No
Believe in love at first sight: Unfortunately I don't, but I wish I did
Can You:
Sew: Yes
Cook: I don't like cooking
Speak another language: English, spanish, some french, norwegian
Dance: Sure
Sing: All the time
Touch your nose with your tongue: No
Whistle: I'm not very good at it
Curl your tongue: Yes
Have You Ever:
Been Drunk: I was more or less drunk for four years straight
Been Stoned/High: Yes
Eaten Sushi: It's my favorite
Been in Love: Yes, a few times
Skipped school: I skipped school all of the time. I was hardly ever there.
Sent someone a love letter: When I was a kid I once sent a love letter to Jon Bon Jovi! LOL
Stolen something: Yes, I stole like a raven (Norwegian expression) when I was younger
Cried yourself to sleep: Not that I can remember
Other Questions:
What annoys you most in a person? Ignorance,prejudice
Are you right or left handed? Right handed
Name three things you can't live without: Music, literature, water
What is the color of your room? White
Do you have any siblings? A brother and a sister
Do you have any pets? I had a dog, and I loved her very very much.
Would you kill someone you hate for a million dollars? No
What is you middle name? Børsheim
What are you nicknames? Campari, Karicita, Kiamia
Are you for or against gay marriage? I'm for gay marriage. You should be allowed to marry the one you love. No matter what your sexual orientation is. This shouldn't even be an issue anymore. It's 2008 for christ's sake!
Do you have a crush on anyone? Yes, a major one
Are you afraid of the dark? Sometimes
How do you want to die? While I'm asleep
What is the largest amount of popsicles that you have eaten in one day? 5
What is the last law you’ve broken? it wouldn't be very wise to write about it here now, would it?
What attracts you in another person:
Hair color: Dark
Eye color: either light blue or brown like chocolate
Height Height doesn't matter much to me
Weight Slim and fit
Most important physical feature: Strong arms
Biggest turn-off Ignorance
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My Interests

Things I like:- Libraries - New York City - Woody Allen - Lou Reed - Tim Burton and Danny Elfman - Black Laces - Baudelaire - Paris - London - Neodada/assemblage - Depeche Mode - Prague - Kafka
Best song written about love and betrayal: Famous blue raincoat, Leonard Cohen
Favourite album at this present time: The age of the understatement - The Last Shadow Puppets, Jukebox - Cat Power, Micah P Hinson and the gospel of progress - Micah P Hinson, Raising Sand - Robert Plant and Alison Krauss, No more shall we part - Nick Cave, After the gold rush - Neil Young, Dirty - Sonic Youth, Blood on The Tracks - Bob Dylan, Blonde on Blonde - Bob Dylan,Another side of Bob Dylan - Bob Dylan, Desire - Bob Dylan, Dry - PJ Harvey, To Bring You My Love - PJ Harvey, When The Pawn - Fiona Apple, New Skin For The Old Ceremony - Leonard Cohen, The Future - Leonard Cohen, Music For The Masses - Depeche Mode, Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars - David Bowie,Either/or - Elliot Smith, The Velvet Underground and Nico - The Velvet Underground. 9 - Damien Rice, The greatest - Cat Power
Quotes that I like: " Il me semble que je serais toujours bien là où je ne suis pas." - Charles Baudelaire"There were three of us this morning I'm the only one this evening but I must go on; the frontiers are my prison.Oh, the wind, the wind is blowing, through the graves the wind is blowing, freedom soon will come; then we'll come from the shadows."-Cohen

I'd like to meet:

Popeye Squirm, Truman Peyote, Your little squarrel Petey the Wheatstraw,Peggy Day, A parrot that talks.

Music:

Bonnie Prince Billy, The last shadow puppets, King Crimson, Micah P Hinson, Beatles, TV on the radio, Depeche Mode, The Shins, Johnny Cash, Aveo, Pete Seeger, In the Country, Morten Qvenild, Muddy Waters, David Bowie, Mike Patton, Jay Brannan, Lovage, Foo Fighters, Bobby Bare Jr, Regina Spector, Morphine, Hole, Blonde Redhead, Hank Williams, Mercury Rev, Siouxsie and The Banshees, Neil Young, Susanna and the magical orchestra, The Postal Service, Neko Case, Bjork, Alice In Chains, Primal Scream, T Rex (Electric Warrior), Arcade Fire, Mudhoney, Tom Waits, Big Bang, PJ Harvey, Fugazi, Amon Tobin, Tim Buckley, Faith No More, The Byrds, Leonard Cohen, The Clash, Indochine, Nick Drake, Pixies, Nick Cave, Tool, Velvet Underground, Pravda, The Modern Lovers, Stereo Total, Fiona Apple, Pearl Jam, Tom Petty, Death Cab For Cutie, Vic Chesnutt, Steve Reynolds,The Perishers, Dead Kennedys, Hot Hot Heat, The Kinks, Cat Power, Elvis Presley in the 50s (Sun Recordings), Nine Inch Nails, Violent Femmes, Donovan, Jane's Addiction, Gram Parsons, The Flying Burrito Brothers, The Who, Blue Dog Pict, Blondie, At The Drive In, Mark Lanegan, Built to Spill, Screaming Trees, Cary Brothers, The Kills, Alison Krauss, Serge Gainsbourg, Aqualung, Morissey, Cisco Houston, Captain Beefheart, Iggy and the Stooges, Scott Walker and The Walker Brothers, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Devendra Banhart, David Gray, System of a Down, Antony And The Johnsons, Smashing Pumpkins, Pavement, Slipknot, Melissa Auf Der Maur, Elliott Smith, Bob Dylan, Stereophonics, Tom Mcrae, Richie Havens, Cocteau Twins, Dinosaur Jr, The Bangles, Damien Rice, Bobbby Bare, Stone Temple Pilots, Joan As Policewoman, Turin Brakes(The optimist EP), Teenage Fanclub, Kate Bush, Wolfmother, Jane Birkin, Woody Guthrie, Rufus Wainright, Ryan Adams, Travelling Wilburries, Dire Straits, Springsteen in the 1970s (Asbury Park), The Meat Purveyors, Myself, Placebo, Iron and Wine, New Pornographers, Ramones, Calexico, Phoenix, The Raconteurs, Franz Ferdinand, Blind Melon, Josh Rouse, dEUS, Kings of Leon, Joshua Radin, Sufjan Stevens, The Doors , Richard Hawley, Imogen Heap, A Girl Called Eddy, Ray Lamontagne, The Rolling Stones

Movies:

I'm not there, Sweeney Todd, Coffee and Cigarettes, Great Expectations, Shortbus, O brother where art thou, Dead Man, Naked Lunch, Casablanca, Streetcar named Desire, Edward Scissorhands, Donnie Darko, Rhinoceros Eyes, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Choking Man, Forrest Gump, Most Woody Allen films, Velvet Goldmine, Singing In The Rain, Sleepy Hollow, Big Fish, Hedwig and the Angry Inch etc. Most of Jim Jarmusch's films. Asia Argento I love James Dean. Espescially East of Eden and Rebel Without a Cause Favourite actors: Gale Harold, Steve Buschemi, Audrey Hepburn, Tim Roth, John Malkovich, Johnny Depp, Kevin Spacey, Bill Murray, Cate Blanchett, Marlon Brando, Kate Winslett, Michael Pitt, Claire Danes, Meryl Streep, Jeremy Irons, Alfred Molina, Julianne Moore, Michael Madsen, Paul Bettany, Blythe Danner, Katharine Hepburn, Vincent Gallo, Gabriel García Bernal, Elizabeth Taylor, Christopher Walken, Julie Delpy, Anne Bancroft, Peter O Toole etc

Television:

I don't watch much television, but there are some quality shows that I like. Queer as folk was in my opinion the bravest and most important show in television - history.It is dearly missed by people around the whole world. The characters of that show will always stay in my heart. I love Six feet under and Deadwood. I just recently discovered a french tv-series called Clara Sheller, and I highly recommend it. I've always had a thing for english television, like The line of beauty, Poirot and Foyle's War... And of course The Office! (NOT the american version). I love the madness of Little Britain. Here's a clip from the legendary "Queer as folk":

Books:

Franz Kafka - The Castle, Oscar Wilde - The picture of Dorian Grey, Charles Baudelaire-Les fleurs du mal, Truman Capote - Breakfast at Tiffanys, Bukowski - Post Office and Factotum, Stephen J. Walton - Den teksta versjonen, Carlos Fuentes - La muerte de Artemio Cruz, Los Años con Laura Díaz, Paul Auster - The New York Trilogy, Brooklyn Follies, Leonard Cohen - Beautiful Losers, Neil Gaiman- American Gods, Neverwhere and Coraline, Jack Kerouac - On The Road, Miguel de Cervantes - Don Quijote, Jens Bjørneboe - Bestialitetens Historie, William Burroughs - Naked Lunch, Truman Capote - In Cold Blood, J.D Salinger - Franny and Zoey, John Steinbeck - East of Eden and Grapes of Wrath, Gabriel García Márquez - Crónica de una muerte anunciada, Cien años en soledad, Plato - Symposium, Juan Rulfo - Pedro Páramo y El Llano en llamas, Bob Dylan - Tarantula y casi todo lo que ha hecho en música....Tennessee Williams - The glass menagerie, Streetcar named desire, Suddenly last summer, Orpheus descending, Cat on a hot tin roof, Moise and the world of reason, JT Leroy. Ken Kesey, Arthur Miller. A whole variety of genres.

Heroes:

Peete Seeger, Robert Rauschenberg, Bob Dylan, Allen Ginsberg, John Cage, Jasper Johns, Allan Kaprow, Marcel Duchamp, Joseph Kosuth, Robert Smith, Frank Black, Kim Gordon, Thurston Moore, PJ Harvey...+ Everyone that I love and care about, and that love me.

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Posted by Kari on Tue, 30 Jan 2007 02:05:00 PST