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Violet

I am here for Friends and Networking

About Me

I love Pablo Francisco :}

My phone bill is directly proportional to the status of my social "life"

My Interests

Art, music, TV, books, traveling (whenever possible), driving, long walks on the beach? (hehe), shopping (when my budget permits it), good food, herbs, Sumatra and Arabica, computers, badminton, chick lit, any other mind-numbing shizznit, Art Deco & Art Nouveau, The Roaring Twenties, The Crazy Eighties and Makeuppppppppppppppppppppppppp! (blushes & bronzers)

I'd like to meet:

Alberto Vargas, Neil Gaiman, Fabio (ooooh yeah :) lol), Manet, Degas, Dali, Frank Gehry, Van Gogh, Salinger, Dream, Kevyn Aucoin, Stéphane Grappelli, Ludovic Navarre, Rocco Navigato, George Barbier, Edward Burra, Bernard Villemot, Edward Gorey and Freddie Mercury!

Music:

Jazz (and variations thereof), lounge, house, blues, bossa nova (and a bit of everything else, even some country). Almost anything by St. Germain, Stéphane Grappelli, Lester Young, Joe Williams, Joss Stone, Eydie Gormé, Van Morrison, Lisa Ono, Keely Smith, Queen, Amy Winehouse, Stacey Kent, Nat King Cole, Bobby Darin, Blossom Dearie, k.d. Lang, Harry Connick Jr., Michael Bublé, Sting, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Julie London, Stan Getz, Erik Satie, John Coltrane, Miles Davis (my fave is Flamenco Sketches from Kind of Blue), Otis Redding, Sam Cooke, Renee Olstead, Billie Holiday, Taylor Hicks, Stevie Nicks, Ella Fitzgerald... Hed Kandi, Amos Lee, Madonna, Gwen, Snoop, Usher, The Peas, Radiohead, U2, Third Eye Blind (hehe), Coldplay (hehehehehe), Cake... Dublex Inc, Jazzamor, Bjork, Pepe Deluxe, De-Phazz, Goldfrapp, Plej, Vert, Koop, Alif Tree, Millenia Nova, Barrio Jazz Gang, The Dining Rooms, Mazzy Star, Kruder and Dorfmeister, Yonderboi, Hallucinogen (Posford)..... *buzz*

Movies:

Most of the works of (oops, I must've dropped these): Kevin Smith, Quentin Tarantino, Tim Burton, Martin Scorsese.. M Night Shyamalan's Lady in the Water and Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange (not so much the violence, though), Woody Allen's Match Point, The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, Big Fish, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, The Royal Tenenbaums, Election, High Fidelity, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Goodfellas, A Series of Unfortunate Events, Lost in Translation, The Incredibles, Old School, Fight Club, Malena, Gattaca, The Shining, Great Expectations, Serendipity, Clueless, Punch Drunk Love, Spanglish, Rashomon, The Ring (Japanese), Silence of the Lambs (with Jodie Foster), Harold and Kumar, When Harry Met Sally, Breakfast at Tiffany's, chick flicks...

Television:

Family Guy, Law and Order, MAD TV, The Sopranos, The Simpsons, House MD, some Discovery Channel specials, Forensic Files, Body Of Evidence, Psychic Detectives, American Idol, Prison Break, Project Runway, Crank Yankers, Oprah, Drawn Together, Adult Swim, American Dad, Arrested Development, Hey Arnold, As Told By Ginger, Dr. Katz and other Comedy Central shows, plus reruns of Frasier, Seinfeld, Sex and the City, Daria, Southpark (just not the toilet humor stuff), Ren and Stimpy, Asian soaps (hehe) and Will and Grace :)

Books:

Almost anything by: Elinor Lipman, JD Salinger, Linda Howard, Neil Gaiman, Margaret Atwood, Sophie Kinsella. The Unbearable Lightness of Being, The Beginner's Book of Dreams, Dancing Girls, Of Human Bondage, She's Come Undone, A Couple of Kooks, Crazy in Alabama, Like Water for Chocolate, Denise Duhamel's poetry, The Fountainhead (some parts) yadda yadda yaDUH...

Heroes:

Captain Hero, Pablo Francisco's Captain Sex Blocker & Zeebarf.com's Anal Assassin!! :)

My Blog

Hoes before Bros

(because the world is much too small and I'm getting paranoid)
Posted by Violet on Sat, 25 Aug 2007 07:55:00 PST

More Than Meets the Eye

Just saw the Transformers (in true Violet fashion--which basically means "late"), and I enjoyed it. Lots of thoughts kept running through my head...1) In uni (my course) we were taught many things..di...
Posted by Violet on Sat, 21 Jul 2007 03:26:00 PST

Swelltown.com

Yay my net worth has gone up to 37.85% overnight.. SHINE, IT'S ON!!! LLKirsten Drunkst (as Perez would say): you've brought me very little publicity. Shame on you! My strategy: I read Perez daily. lol...
Posted by Violet on Thu, 19 Jul 2007 09:10:00 PST

Hot Or Not Or...

A Pterodactyl? ...
Posted by Violet on Tue, 17 Jul 2007 06:46:00 PST

With negative energy...

Why destroy when you can create?...
Posted by Violet on Sat, 14 Jul 2007 10:55:00 PST

Which female stock character are you?

I've been contributing to Wiki's List of Female Stock Characters. I think it could be lengthened further.. I'm considering starting a List of Male Stock Characters...Somewhere in the list should be th...
Posted by Violet on Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:49:00 PST

Products products products

Seriously, what substance would any sane male have to be on to wear this tie?...
Posted by Violet on Sat, 07 Jul 2007 10:08:00 PST

If there's a greatboyfriends.com...

there should also be a lousyboyfriends.com for (repeat-offending) cheater-boyfriends that should be avoided at all costs!! ...
Posted by Violet on Thu, 05 Jul 2007 09:29:00 PST

SM: At the Forefront of Civilization

"Parañaque was founded in 1572 by Spanish missionaries as Palayag. After its establishment, the town fell under the authority of the Augustinians, beginning with Fr. Diego de Espinar in 1580.During th...
Posted by Violet on Wed, 04 Jul 2007 08:44:00 PST

While He Is One and Twenty

It's a little bizarre talking to my ex on Yahoo Messenger... After the mandatory hi, hello, how are you, he asked if I have a boyfriend now. I said I haven't been dating and on the rare occasions that...
Posted by Violet on Thu, 28 Jun 2007 02:25:00 PST