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karina

I am here for Friends and Networking

About Me

OK HERES THE DEAL: IM NOT GONNA FRIEND YOU IF I DONT KNOW YOU. I AM NOT A MYSPACE TRADING CARD. THAT SAID, ENJOY.
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if you can understand that, you can understand me.also, my flickr . and [3000 miles][2 pictures] .

My Interests

[+]art faggotry as a lifestyle[+]photography[+]theatre[+]art history and theory
[+]dancing[+]DECADENCE[+] collage[+]fucking your mom[+]drooling over beautiful women[+]twinkling stars
[+]purple and grey[+]chillin with my homies[+]
conversating[+]reading[+]geopolitics[+]centrism[+]philosophy
[+]finding your own path in life[+]getting shitfaced[+]trashy fabulousity[+]
pushing the envelope[+]having a potty mouth[+]keeping people on
their toes[+]i heart tits and ass[+]body mods[+]dancing my ass of at
the club[+]fashion[+]clothing alteration[+]bringing beauty to
everyone i know[+]glitter[+]makeup[+] feely things[+]fast cars
[+]swords and daggers[+]anime[+]pirates[+]polkadots[+]pinstripes
[+ ]3rd wave feminism[+]fabulous beasts who entertain me[+]
pornography[+]exhibitionism[+]

I'd like to meet:

fellow soldiers of decadence and people who dont just spout the party line. those from los angeles or new jersey need not apply.

Music:

i listen to alot of music. trying to name every musician that i love or like or have been influenced by is a futile endevour indeed. in that vein...

What I'm Really Into Right Now:
(likely updated when im exceedingly bored)
.Wire.
.Delta 5.
.Orange Juice.
.Bauhaus.
.The Buzzcocks.
.M.I.A.
.The Adverts.
.Nas.
.999.
.The Thompson Twins.
.Edie Sedgwick.
.The Violent Femmes.
.Manu Chao.
.Desmond Dekker.
.Tom Waits.
.Magazine.
.Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds.
.Black Future.
.The Streets.
.Vladimir Vysotsky.
.The Slits.
.Edith Piaf.
.Dethklok.
.Gang of Four.
.Tones on Tail.
.Prince.
.France Gall.
.Gogol Bordello.
.Dead Prez.
.UK Subs.
.Heirogyphics.
.Stevie Wonder.
.Pere Ubu.
.The Stooges.
.Portishead.
.T-Rex.
.Roxy Music.
.The Psychedelic Furs.
.Metric.
.The Prodigy.
.Franz Ferdinand.
.The Ramones.
.Depeche Mode.
.New Order.
.The Smiths.
.The Undertones.

Top Ten of All Time:
(in no particular order)
.Siouxie and the Banshees.
.The Talking Heads.
.Joy Division.
.David Bowie.
.The Velvet Underground.
.Rachmanninoff.
.Mozart.
.WuTang.
.Nine Inch Nails.
.Billie Holiday.

Movies:

[+]Gregg Araki[+]John Waters[+]Labyrinth[+]Velvet Goldmine[+]Mommie Dearest[+]West Side Story[+]Anchorman[+]Persepolis[+]Tim Burton
[+]Darren Arronofsky[+]Quentin Tarantino[+]Children of Men[+]Super Troopers[+]Beerfest[+]The Science of Sleep[+]Kevin Smith[+]Trainspotting
[+]The Rules of Attraction[+]Murder by Death[+]Airheads
[+]John Hughes[+]SLC Punk[+]Eytan Fox[+]Interview with the Vampire[+]The Hunger
[+]Hedwig[+]Stanley Kubrick[+]Run Lola Run[+]13 days
[+]LotR[+]Guy Ritchie[+]Titus Andronicus[+]Seven[+]The Usual Suspects
[+]Ghost World[+]Woody Allen[+]Christopher Guest[+]Mel Brooks[+]
[+]Clue[+]Spun[+]Godard[+]Fellini[+]Spike Jonze[+]Donnie Darko
[+]Rocky Horror[+]Newsies[+]My Fair Lady[+]Hair[+]Baz Lurhman
[+]Failsafe[+]Ma Vie en Rose[+]but im a cheeleader
The Princess Bride[+]Priscilla, Queen of the Desert[+]
the list goes on and on and on and on...

Television:

Heroes.Law and Order.BBC World News. Queer as Folk.Frontline.
Weeds.Metalocalypse.Penn and Teller's Bullshit.The Office.Good Eats.
The Iron Chef.French and Saunders.Politically Incorrect/Real Time.Ab Fab.
Oz.Def Poetry Jam.Carnivale.Greg The Bunny.SeaLab.
ATHF.The Colbert Report.Rome.Paula's Home Cooking.Drawn Together.Family Guy.
Dead Like Me.Monty Python's Flying Circus.
The Young Ones.Cowboy Bebop.Serial Experiments
Lain.Kenshin.Escaflowne.The Simpsons.Dinner for Five.

Books:

[+]Bukowski[+]Camus[+]Kerouac[+]
[+]Please Kill Me[+]Vonnegut[+]Orwell[+]
[+]Crime and Punishment[+]Hegel[+]Brecht[+]
[+]Bogosian[+]Easton-Ellis[+]Kushner[+]Zinn[+]
[+]Neitzche[+]Tolkein[+]Sidhartha[+]Plath[+] Chekhov[+]
[+]Kafka[+]Burroughs [+]Rip it up and Start Again[+]Arthur Miller[+]
[+]Frank Miller[+]Allen Moore[+]JTHM[+]Olesha[+] Kharms[+]
[+]Strindberg[+]Anne Rice[+]Gogol[+]Brave New World[+ ]Goethe[+>

My Blog

in case you missed my status update...

today, I got this letter in the mail:I GOT INTO SAIC!!! my top school!! RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!i havent been this happy in a REALLY long time.so, to all my chicagoland compatriots: I’l...
Posted by karina on Tue, 08 Apr 2008 03:42:00 PST

books -- not for burning

i spent all weekend cleaning and fixing up my apt so it actually looks like people live here. im taking a cue from alli and letting you fine individuals have first pick of the stuff im either gonna do...
Posted by karina on Tue, 11 Mar 2008 01:51:00 PST

today, i was a rockstar...

today was definitly one of the best days ever.i woke up at 5AM to do the written part of my oral presentation which i had to do for my phil of beauty class at 12:15. it was on the first section of heg...
Posted by karina on Wed, 28 Nov 2007 03:22:00 PST

all i want is some fucking stuffing

i am currently sitting in my living room alone at 630 on thanksgiving drinking a bottle of cheap wine to the head. my parents kinda flaked on me, i dont get along with bill's parents, so my only optio...
Posted by karina on Thu, 22 Nov 2007 03:50:00 PST

hegel vs.neitzsche, and heidegger the bullshit "artist"

so if you dont know allready, i love hegel. in my existentialism + phenomenology class, my professor (my favourite prof at BC) has taken to calling me the staunch hegelian. which is kinda awesome...
Posted by karina on Thu, 26 Apr 2007 02:03:00 PST

naive nostalgic pseudo-wisdom

so last week i was walking down 5th ave in brooklyn, and i passed this group of 8-10 year olds with skateboards chilling in the street. as i walked by, i heard one of them say "youre supposed to live ...
Posted by karina on Wed, 25 Apr 2007 10:25:00 PST

Discovered by the Germans in 1904, they named it San Diego, which of course means a whale's vag

so lets see.im having the rockinest time ever. the day i got here, em and i drove around, went to the supermarket, drank wine, and watched a fantastic film called killer drag queens on dope starring t...
Posted by karina on Wed, 04 Apr 2007 01:35:00 PST

i dont know what to write here...sorry.

its funny when different areas and relations in your life are so very awkwardly  placed. how you can be immensely happy in one relm of your life and completely miserable and frustrated in another...
Posted by karina on Fri, 16 Feb 2007 12:40:00 PST

an ode to henry chinaski

ham on rye is so fuckin good.oh henry.if only you knew how much i understand you.i'd kiss your scars and let you drink me under the table just to make you smile.your words help heal the scars no one c...
Posted by karina on Tue, 16 Jan 2007 09:28:00 PST

IF YOU CONCIDER YOURSELF MY FRIEND, YOU SHOULD PROLLY READ THIS

now that ive gotten your attention:after much thought, soul searching, and brain-wracking i can finally say that i feel free.to explain, most of my life i have been terrified of being alone. i constan...
Posted by karina on Sat, 06 Jan 2007 03:17:00 PST