Katie La Chingada [STANLEY CUP CHAMP!]

About Me

This Blog Isn't About Cheeseburgers (Well, It Kinda Is)

My Interests

Cats, cats with wings, presidential trivia, Daniel Plainview, awkward moments, people watching, lurking, empty buildings in Detroit, sleeping, my tattoos.

I'd like to meet:

Bruce Campbell, Union organizers, Joseph Cornell, Andrew Jackson, Boudica, Sylvia Plath, Josh Homme, Dave Grohl, and of course, Jack White.

Music:

THE WHITE STRIPES.

A lot of traditional American folk music, especially based out of the Appalachain area and the Mississippi Delta area.

Anything that's funky and/or heavy.

Movies:

THE WINTER GUEST.

Television:

The Sopranos.

LA Ink.
Detroit Animal Cops.
Project Runway.
Bad Girls Club.
Rock of Love.
Entourage.
Sex and the City.
South Park.
Reno 911.
The Simpsons.

Books:

Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
The Heart is Decietful Above All Things by J.T. LeRoy
Sarah by LeRoy
Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung by Lester Bangs
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Dracula by Bram Stroker
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
Fear and Loathing on the 1972 Campaign Trail by Thompson
The Rum Diaries by Thompson
The Curse of the Lono by Thompson
High Fidelity by Nick Hornby
About a Boy by Hornby
Fargo Rock City by Chuck Klosterman
The Harry Potter Series by J.K. Rowling
The Lord of the Rings trilogy by J.R.R. Tolkein
The Weetzie Bat series by Francesca Lia Block
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
Prozac Nation by Elizabeth Wurtzel
Wasted by Mayra Hornbacher
Everything We Had by various Vietnam veterans
Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Utopia Parkway: The Life and Work of Joseph Cornell by Deborah Solomon
Reservation Blues by Sherman Alexie
Also, poetry by Sylvia Plath, Eaven Boland, Anne Bradstreet, Edgar Allan Poe, John Keats, William Ginsberg, e e cummings, and plenty-o-others.

Heroes:

Evelyn Krames.
April 11, 1909-May 15, 2007.
The frail bird can soar into her own universe now.

My Blog

I...I have a blog.

I actually have a real blog now so you can stop looking at these, which I hiiighly doubt you did in the first place. Why, why do I have a blog, you may ask? Well, narcissism. ...
Posted by Katie La Chingada [STANLEY CUP CHAMP!] on Fri, 08 Feb 2008 08:22:00 PST

Art

My photo teacher told me this during our last critique: "There are a lot of people who dress artsy and act artsy, but they don't create art." So true. The end....
Posted by Katie La Chingada [STANLEY CUP CHAMP!] on Wed, 23 Jan 2008 08:22:00 PST

Completely Absurd.

Do you realize...that I'm not going to end this sentance with a Flaming Lips lyric, although I thought about it because I'm so bored and wired that I might as well listen to such dotty music? I'...
Posted by Katie La Chingada [STANLEY CUP CHAMP!] on Fri, 18 Jan 2008 09:53:00 PST

Narcissism Runs Rampant

Are yeh reading this bulllllsheet, kiddos? What's wrong with your hair? Why does it look like a vinyl polygon? I guess that's the "thing" these days. Even the kids on the outsk...
Posted by Katie La Chingada [STANLEY CUP CHAMP!] on Thu, 29 Nov 2007 06:56:00 PST