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Aspen

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About Me

Presently, school rules my life. I am a pre-art therapy student and really love it. I am very happily married and thankful for everything I have and everything I don't have. I like to paint and draw and do video journals. I figure I will be glad I did it when I am an old granny. I got a whole lotta junk in my trunk, and proud of it. I am addicted to many things including collecting vinyl, bakelite, owls, This American Life, postsecret.com, vintage clothes, B-rate movies, BUST magazine, COPS, and Bonanza. I put honey and milk in my tea and believe rosemary makes everything better. I like to sew and embroider and glue stuff together. I make fun jewelry out of shrinky-dink paper. I'd like to learn how to knit. I live a large portion of my life inside my own head. The current state of American pop culture makes me ill. I have a special place in my heart for 80's metal. Hey, it's what I grew up on, so shut up. I really dig the Rockabilly scene and vintage clothing is my uncontrolable weakness. I am an avid people-watcher and fascinated by human behavior...somewhat of a voyeur, but not in a perverted way. No wonder I am an art/psychology major. I sure enjoy a stiff drink now and then, but I did manage to give up coffee. I'm off the sauce! I am a total packrat and have a really hard time getting rid of anything...ever.

My Interests

My husband, Midnight Mystery Bike Ride, video journals, my amazing family, Last Thursday, art and music, love and chaos, all things Crispin Hellion Glover, milk and honey, rosemary and potatoes, This American Life, www.postsecret.com, reading and napping, writing letters and poetry, I know it's dorky but I like to exercise, shopping 2nd hand because retail is for suckers, eBay, random acts of surprising beauty of the soul, making lists, talking myself into things, potty humor, laughing so hard it goes past hurt and back to feeling good, FINISHING MY DEGREE, bakelite and wool, Red Bull and vodka, American Spirits, pondering the whereabouts of Alex Winter, adoring Paul Reubens and Crispin Glover.

I'd like to meet:

Freaks and geeks, silly squirrels and modest mice.

Music:

I love me some Bob Log III, Hank III, Glass Candy, The Knife, Pixies, Pavement, Prince, Quintron, B-52's, Evergreen, Talking Heads, Blonde Readhead, Broadcast, Sebadoh, Otis Redding, Michael Jackson (yes, I love him, and I don't care what anyone else says), Cat Power, Wanda Jackson, Unwound, Lard, Enon, Nation Of Ulysses, Magnetic Fields, The Make Up, Liars, DFL, Black Flag, Whirlwind Heat, Les Savy Fav, Brainiac, old Smashing Pumpkins, Syd Barret, Art Tatum, Charles Mingus, Postal Service, Violent Femmes, Modest Mouse, June of 44, !!!, Songs Ohia, My Morning Jacket, Death Cab For Cutie, Miles Davis,Band Of Horses, Six Finger Sattelite, Jeff Buckley, Thelonious Monk, Reverend Horton Heat, Neutral Milk Hotel, Cramps, Joy Division, King Missile, Cure, The Black Eyes, The Black Keys, Fugazi, Hank Williams, GTR LKR, Jesus Lizard, FEDERATION X, Tom Waits, Le Tigre, Stevie Wonder, Stereo Total, The Misfits, Bjork, OpIvy, early The Rapture, Motorhead, old Metallica and GNR, the older R.E.M. albums, Ramones, Elvis Costello, Billie Holiday, James, Social Distortion, Parliament Funkadelic, Babes In Toyland, 7 Year Bitch, The Gits, Iron + Wine, Will Oldham, Johnny Cash, Bouncing Souls, Built To Spill, Sonic Youth, Morphine, Peaches and too many others to even REALLY get started. Did I already say Tortoise? Oh, and Mr. Airplane Man. Moist Boyz.

Movies:

Assault Of The Killer Bimbos, The Devil And Daniel Johnston, Lost Boys, Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind, Shag, Love And A .45, Secretary, Hate, The Piano, Kissed, Down By Law, Hideous Kinky, Stevie, Jesus' Son, American Beauty, Holy Smoke, Lost In Translation, Bubble Boy, The Big Labowski, Spirited Away, Smoke Signals, Ghost World, Valley Girl, Earth Girls Are Easy, Fight Club, Death To Smoochy, Pee Wee's Big Adventure, Big Top Pee Wee, Serenity, B-rate horror flicks and silly 80's movies. I also still have a soft spot in my heart for those 80's children's fantasy films like Labrynth, Legend, Dark Crystal, and The Never Ending Story.

Television:

Deadwood, Firefly, Red Dwarf, Six Feet Under, Medium, Pee-Wee's Playhouse, The Office, and I freakin' LOVE Bonanza. That's right, I said it. I also have an uncontrolable and unexplainable fascination with COPS. It's way out of hand.

Books:

She's Come Undone, Jesus' Son, Griffin And Sabine, The Beet Queen, Cunt, Me Talk Pretty One Day (pretty much anything by Sedaris), Cabal, Please Kill Me, The Halloween Tree, I Know This Much Is True, Running With Scissors, Weaveworld, Bukowski stuff, and Crispin's picture books.

Heroes:

My parents, my beautiful and ballsy sister, Elizabeth Layton, Daniel Johnston, Shel Silverstein, Paul Reubens, Crispin Hellion Glover, Clive Barker, Henry Rollins, John Merrick. People with integrity and kindness and a sense of humor.

My Blog

Saint Jack

My lovely sister wrote a lovely blog about our grandfather who recently passed away and I wish I could write something as good.  Like she said, he was one of the last true gentlemen, and the...
Posted by Aspen on Wed, 11 Jul 2007 01:47:00 PST

so not funny

May I just say for the record that rape jokes are NOT fucking funny?!?  I am so damn sick of seeing "casual" references and rape-related jokes on t.v., in movies, and hearing them at parties.&nbs...
Posted by Aspen on Thu, 22 Mar 2007 09:06:00 PST

There's a big hairy man in my room!

So last weekend my hubby and I made the long trek to Pullman, Washington to visit my momma.  She just got a rockin' new job as director of finacial aid in Bellingham, so this was her last weekend...
Posted by Aspen on Wed, 25 Oct 2006 12:03:00 PST

Blessed by scars and wine

  Wine is good.  I love wine.  I am in a weird mood tonight and not ready to go to bed yet.  I feel the need to write.  I have been thinking about what an awesome and bizarre ...
Posted by Aspen on Wed, 11 Oct 2006 10:48:00 PST

Ladies' night is the best night (BALLS!)

  Thank you so much to all the lovely ladies who took part in tonight's Ladies' Night!  I had a really good time.  I have never really had many close girl friends, not sure why.  B...
Posted by Aspen on Fri, 07 Jul 2006 01:05:00 PST

Trashy John and my married vagina

  I haven't been able to post what I'm reading/watching/listening to on my blogs lately and that sucks.  Has anyone else been having this problem?   The latest characters I've encounte...
Posted by Aspen on Sat, 01 Jul 2006 08:33:00 PST

Saint Charles B.

Friggin' A, it's hot.  This  is nothing compared to the summers in DC, but it's still damn hot.  Just a couple of thoughts I want to type out before I forget them  like the pud tha...
Posted by Aspen on Mon, 26 Jun 2006 01:33:00 PST

10 days

  For those of you who don't know, I'm getting married in 10 days.  Wow, 10 days.  It's been in the works for over a year and now suddenly it's right around the corner.  I am so ha...
Posted by Aspen on Thu, 01 Jun 2006 12:09:00 PST

karaoke gives you herpes

A couple of weeks ago I went out and did the karaoke thing with some people from work.  It was really fun!  The crowd was super into it and cheering and singing.  I'm not a big karaoke ...
Posted by Aspen on Fri, 24 Mar 2006 09:25:00 PST

ghost bowling shoes

  When we still lived in Olympia, we went out bowling with some people from my work.  It was really fun and I totally kicked all of their asses at bowling even though I had not been since I ...
Posted by Aspen on Thu, 09 Mar 2006 12:25:00 PST