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Karen

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About Me

I'm usually found hanging out with my mates - dancing, drinking, & having a good time!!
I also write for culture/listings paper The Skinny (www.skinnymag.co.uk), mostly for the Beats section, have also written the occasional article for Sounds/Theatre/Comedy/Dance, so let me know if you're putting on anything exciting and I'll come review it!!
(here's a tip... free booze = good reviews, ha ha!!)
I also write for the STV website (www.stv.tv/out), A]and Soundfreak (www.soundfreak.co.uk) so check it oot eh!
I'm trying to get some cash together to go travelling - don't care where, but wanna see some of the world before I get too old & landed with kids/mortgage/responsibilities!!
I like: crisps, nail varish, Bill Hicks, wine, whales, dreaming, sunflowers, eating, sleeping, thunderstorms, my pet gerbils, surprises, red indians, amazing wildlife programmes, my mates
I dislike: bad manners, liars, having to work 9-5 to earn a decent crust, meatheads, negative people
Your Personality Is Like Ecstasy
You're usually feeling the love for the world around you - you want to hug everyone.
And while you're usually content to sit back and view the world with wonder...
Sometimes you're world becomes very overwhelming and a little scary. What Drug Is Your Personality Like?
You Are 76% Open Minded
You are so open minded that your brain may have fallen out!
Well, not really. But you may be confused on where you stand.
You don't have a judgemental bone in your body, and you're very accepting.
You enjoy the best of every life philosophy, even if you sometimes contradict yourself. How Open Minded Are You?
TELL ME ABOUT YOURSELF - The Survey
Name: Karen
Birthday: 23 August
Birthplace: Edinburgh
Current Location: Edinburgh
Eye Color: Blue
Hair Color: Dark Brown
Height: 5ft 7 (ish?)
Right Handed or Left Handed: Right
Your Heritage: Sottish all the way!!!
The Shoes You Wore Today: Pink & orange trainers
Your Weakness: Booze
Your Fears: spiders, wasps/bees, people i love dying
Your Perfect Pizza: Pepperoni with loadsa red onions, tomatoes & extra cheese
Goal You Would Like To Achieve This Year: To be debt free!!
Your Most Overused Phrase On an instant messenger: cool
Thoughts First Waking Up: Shit
Your Best Physical Feature: Eyes
Your Bedtime: 11pm on school nights
Your Most Missed Memory: ??
Pepsi or Coke: Full fat COKE - MMMmmm (with vodka if poss)
MacDonalds or Burger King: McDonalds
Single or Group Dates: Single
Lipton Ice Tea or Nestea: Yuck
Chocolate or Vanilla: Vanilla
Cappuccino or Coffee: Yuck
Do you Smoke: No
Do you Swear: Yes
Do you Sing: Only to myself!!
Do you Shower Daily: Yes
Have you Been in Love: Yes
Do you want to go to College: Been to uni already!!
Do you want to get Married: Maybe
Do you belive in yourself: Yes
Do you get Motion Sickness: No
Do you think you are Attractive: I think i'm ok
Are you a Health Freak: No
Do you get along with your Parents: Yes
Do you like Thunderstorms: Yes
Do you play an Instrument: No
In the past month have you Drank Alcohol: Yes
In the past month have you Smoked: No
In the past month have you been on Drugs: Maybe...;)
In the past month have you gone on a Date: Nope
In the past month have you gone to a Mall: Nope
In the past month have you eaten a box of Oreos: Don't like buscuits
In the past month have you eaten Sushi: Yes - for the very first time
In the past month have you been on Stage: No
In the past month have you been Dumped: No
In the past month have you gone Skinny Dipping: Not the past month - too cold in Scotland!
In the past month have you Stolen Anything: No
Ever been Drunk: Many times
Ever been called a Tease: Yes
Ever been Beaten up: No
Ever Shoplifted: Yes
How do you want to Die: In my sleep when im an old granny
What do you want to be when you Grow Up: Happy
What country would you most like to Visit: Anywhere exotic & colourful
In a Boy/Girl..
Favourite Eye Color: Green
Favourite Hair Color: Dark
Short or Long Hair: Short/Medium
Height: 6 ft
Weight: Not too fat or too skinny
Best Clothing Style: Eclectic
Number of Drugs I have taken: Im not telling
Number of CDs I own: 150 (ish)
Number of Piercings: Only my ears!!
Number of Tattoos: 0
Number of things in my Past I Regret: 1 (not having lived in another country - yet!)
CREATE YOUR OWN! - or - GET PAID TO TAKE SURVEYS!
The Keys to Your Heart
You are attracted to those who are unbridled, untrammeled, and free.
In love, you feel the most alive when your lover is creative and never lets you feel bored.
You'd like to your lover to think you are loyal and faithful... that you'll never change.
You would be forced to break up with someone who was emotional, moody, and difficult to please.
Your ideal relationship is open. Both of you can talk about everything... no secrets.
Your risk of cheating is zero. You care about society and morality. You would never break a commitment.
You think of marriage as something precious. You'll treasure marriage and treat it as sacred.
In this moment, you think of love as something you thirst for. You'll do anything for love, but you won't fall for it easily. What Are The Keys To Your Heart?
Advanced Global Personality Test Results
Extraversion |||||||||| 33%
Stability |||||||||||||| 56%
Orderliness |||||||||||||| 60%
Accommodation |||||||||||||||||||| 83%
Interdependence |||||||||||| 43%
Intellectual |||||||||||| 43%
Mystical |||||||||||||||||| 76%
Artistic |||||||||||||||| 70%
Religious || 10%
Hedonism |||||||||||||||||||| 83%
Materialism |||||||||||| 43%
Narcissism |||||||||||||||| 63%
Adventurousness |||||||||||| 43%
Work ethic |||||||||||| 43%
Self absorbed |||||||||||||| 56%
Conflict seeking |||| 16%
Need to dominate || 10%
Romantic |||||||||||||||||||| 83%
Avoidant |||||||||||| 50%
Anti-authority |||||||||| 36%
Wealth |||||| 30%
Dependency |||||||||||||||| 70%
Change averse |||||||||||||||||| 76%
Cautiousness |||||||||||||||| 63%
Individuality |||||||||||||||||| 76%
Sexuality |||||||||||||||||||| 83%
Peter pan complex |||||||||||||| 56%
Physical security |||||||||||||||||||| 83%
Physical Fitness |||||||||| 37%
Histrionic |||||||||| 36%
Paranoia |||||||||||| 50%
Vanity |||||| 23%
Hypersensitivity |||||||||||||||||||| 90%
Female cliche |||||||||||||| 56% Take Free Advanced Global Personality Test
personality tests by similarminds.com
So, apparently i'm a hypersensitive, romantic, hedonistic, sexual individual!!!! Could be worse.....

My Interests

Clubbing, partying, gigs, music, movies, swimming, going to gym (never thought i'd ever hear myself saying that!), yogaART: picasso, van gogh, dali, klimt & cezanne(I know they might be obvious choices, but I like what I like!!)
Who Should Paint You: Salvador Dali
You're a complex, intense creature who displays many layers.
There's no way a traditional portrait could ever capture you! What Artist Should Paint Your Portrait?

I'd like to meet:

Sound, interesting people. David Attenborough, Johnny Depp, Dalai Lama, Billy Corgan, Marilyn Manson, Samuel L Jackson, Jack Nicholson, Billy Connolly

At least one of the fraggles

Music:

Many genres. Favourite bands include (to name but a few...) white stripes, arcade fire, smashing pumpkins,.. width="425" height="350" ..sigur ros, mogwai, yeah yeah yeahs, queens of the stone age, the strokes, the prodigy, james brown, bob marley, jimi hendrix, iggy pop, david bowie, faithless, roni size, jamiroquai, muse, joy division, stone roses, charlatans, REM, green day, soundgarden, rage against the machine, beck, nine inch nails, hole, courntey love, nirvana, foo fighters, the raconteurs, roots manuva, soulwax, queen, lenny kravitz, 2 many dj's, red hot chili peppers, the pixies, elvis, peaches, babes in toyland, the clash, inxs, ramones, sex pistols, etc etc

Movies:

fear & loathing, donnie darko, amalie, E.T. pulp fiction, scarface, taxi driver, human traffic, withnail & i, swingers, the life aquatic, the royal tenenbaums, edward scissorhands, beetlejuice, the nightmare before christmas, fight club, american history x, eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, shaun of the dead, american beauty, la haine, taxi, walk the line, transamerica, drop dead gorgeous, devil's advocate, king kong, interview with the vampire, meet the parents, hot fuzz, clockwork orange, zoolander, clerks pirates of the carribean Basically, anything directed by Tim Burton, Quentin Tarrantino or Kevin Smith, or starring Robert DeBiro, Al Pacino, simon Pegg or Johnny Depp

Television:

simpsons, family guy, peep show, only fools & horses,

Books:

memoirs of a geisha (arthur golden), fear & loathing in las vegas, hells angels (hutner s thompson), the lovely bones (alice sebold), freedom in exile (dalai lama's autobiography), addict (stephen smith), the time traveller's wife (audrey niffenegger), trainspotting, glue & porno (irvine welsh) ALL of the roald dahl books

Heroes:

Dalai Lama Johnny Depp (YUM) Billy Corgan The legendary Hunter S. Thompson Mr Bill Hicks

My Blog

Worried??

So i wake up this morning... feeling a tad hungover but that's nothing unusual... get up to go about my day when gem comes through & says i was shouting & screaming in my sleep!!! What the fuck?? I've...
Posted by Karen on Sun, 20 May 2007 02:15:00 PST

Betty Boop apparently.....

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Posted by Karen on Sat, 12 May 2007 09:30:00 PST

Birdsong in the morning...

I dunno if anyone else has been experiencing this problem of late, but for the past TWO WEEKS I've been woken up every morning between 3-5am by the sound of birds tweeting. This is starting to get unb...
Posted by Karen on Wed, 09 May 2007 02:19:00 PST

I NEED YOUR HELP

Right. I'm doing a 10km run for Cancer Research in May.I've got a bit to go yet, and am putting in a few extra hours in the gym to prepare, but i need your help/money to raise as much money as possibl...
Posted by Karen on Sun, 04 Feb 2007 10:35:00 PST

Party Pics!!!

Don't mess with BenzieMoff on the decks....CunnyVegas in actionGrace looks (understandably) worriedGav's tried & tested fruit compliments for the ladies.She smells of peaches....This one is more like ...
Posted by Karen on Sun, 04 Feb 2007 09:59:00 PST

New Year Resolutions 2007

In no particular order...1. Run 10km for charidee (i'll be looking for sponsors come May-time....)2. Be debt-free (apart from student loan) by 25th bday (so got until Aug.... Hhhhmmmm)3. Try and see m...
Posted by Karen on Sat, 30 Dec 2006 10:50:00 PST

RIP JB

I'm still in shock 2 days later.... the hardest working man in showbiz is dead!! And on Christmas Day aswell!I cannae believe it man.... had the chance to go see him in Glasgow a couple of months ago,...
Posted by Karen on Wed, 27 Dec 2006 03:51:00 PST

Sunburn....

Typical. It's the 10th (YES, THE TENTH!!) day of September, & im sunburnt.Not just a wee bit pink around the cheeks, but full-scale red arms, chest & neck!! Fuckin hell - i went for a walk with my dea...
Posted by Karen on Sun, 10 Sep 2006 02:35:00 PST

Pigeon...

Ive just eaten PIGEON for the very first time.... what can i say?? YUM YUM YYYYYYUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM!! tasted lovely (& surprisingly nothing like chicken). I'd highly recommend to any...
Posted by Karen on Sun, 20 Aug 2006 02:55:00 PST