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Rena

the fit hits the shan

About Me

I am the walrus. yes, I said it.
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My Interests

Wining and dining, spontanious music improvisation, choralling, general horsing around, nick nacks, other people, strange inscriptions, natural phenomena, attics, secret passages, religion, philosophical banter (pretention?), candy.

Music:

Tom Waits, The Beatles, The Who, Simon and Garfunkel, Leonard Cohen, Lauryn Hill, Sarah Vaughn, Benny Goodman, David Broza, Noah, Chopin, Joni Mitchel, Lily Frost, Debussy, Tori Amos, Bela Fleck and The Flecktones, Showtunes, Radiohead, Nirvana, Bill Evans, Gershwin, Janis Joplin, Geoffrey Oreyama, Glenn Miller Orchestra, Pink Floyd, Rufus Wainwright, anything sung by the muppets, Bright Eyes, Cake on Cake, Postal Service, Snow Patrol,Architecture in Helsinki, Jens Lekman, Regina Spektor, Bjork, Bizet, Edith Piaf, Abba, Queen, Conrad James, Jenny Owen Youngs, Aretha Franklin, The Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin.

Movies:

Amadeus, The Breakfast Club, Pump Up The Volume, Garden State, Crash, Wet Hot American Summer, Bliss (the Aussie one), Fried Green Tomatoes, Beaches, For The Boys, Dog Day Afternoon, Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf?, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971), Love! Valour! Compassion!, Swing Kids, Dead Poet's Society, Newsies, Bridges Over Madison County, Postcards From the Edge, The Neverending Story, Dirty Dancing, Home For The Holidays, The Ref, American Beauty, Magnolia, Marvin's Room, A League of Their Own, Field of Dreams, Reality Bites, Cradle Will Rock, The World According to Garp, Battle Royale (The first one), Encounterpoint, Igby Goes Down, Monty Python's The Meaning of Life, Sense and Sensibility, Eternal Sunshine for the Spotless Mind, Oliver, The Chronicles of Narnia, My Fair Lady, The Fisherking, Harold and Maude.

Television:

Kids in the Hall, Seinfeld, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Veronica Mars, Law and Order (ONLY the original), Freaks and Geeks, Degrassi (old school), Dead Like Me, My So-Called Life, South Park, Family Guy, Sex and the City, Weeds, Lost, Picket Fences,The Daily Show + Colbert Report, Frasier, What Not To Wear, General Hospital (i know, i know..)

Books:

Franny and Zooey, A Handmaid's Tale, Pride and Prejudice, The Great Gatsby, Peter Pan, The Philosophy of Literary Form, Wayside School is Falling Down, An Enemy of the People, How to Win Friends and Influence People, The Paperbag Princess, Tatterhood, The Eden Project, The Gay Science, Something to Pet the Cat About.

Heroes:

Danny Kaye, Jim Henson, Gene Wilder, Robert Munsch, Daniel MacIvor.

My Blog

honesty, honestly.

If you don't believe something exists, you won't be able to percieve it. crazy how that's true.  I guess i'm just looking for hope.  I want to be able to percieve the positive aspects in hum...
Posted by Rena on Tue, 07 Nov 2006 12:49:00 PST

life as a bird

did you ever wake up one morning and realise you've been in a coma? figuratively speaking. there are so many different degrees of being alive. a friend told me that when babies get over-stimulated the...
Posted by Rena on Sun, 15 Oct 2006 01:13:00 PST

H-O-P-E

H-O-P-E. the bus this morning, a bus that is usually full of boisterous noises, chatter, happy sounds, people sounds, was silent. dead silence, litterally. the silence was blaring loudly in my ea...
Posted by Rena on Thu, 14 Sep 2006 01:50:00 PST

play the tuba, in....

jesus. just when i think there could be nothing crazier than the present, the future arrives.  Hence- i am going to Cuba. tomorrow.  I'll be back in a week. i intend to read books, smoke num...
Posted by Rena on Sat, 26 Aug 2006 08:22:00 PST

urban hippie galore

I'm travelling the east coast right now.  it's amaaaazing...it's a maze....just perpetually saying yes. What a life..... i miss you, friends! I hope you're all having great summers. "It's all ab...
Posted by Rena on Mon, 17 Jul 2006 10:55:00 PST

off the island to another island

I'm leaving for NEWFOUNDLAND!!! hooorah!!  as hung over as i am right now, i am even more ecstatic!  i can't wait to have tea with some of the greatest artistic minds in the country. (i'm ta...
Posted by Rena on Mon, 26 Jun 2006 08:17:00 PST

pooring out the bucket

the weather's fine and I'm sipping wine. that's a lie. well, the denial has lifted. slowly. like a hot air balloon. this summer will be fun- i just need to wallow a little first. wah wah wah. waaah. c...
Posted by Rena on Thu, 25 May 2006 09:16:00 PST

trajic misconceptions

some thoughts today:     -There is no cure. There is only the now and the inevitable.   -And like all grand illusions you will hold it so tightly you could die.     ...
Posted by Rena on Mon, 10 Apr 2006 02:30:00 PST

mindless babble

People obsess, I obsess. I think my problem is self-perception. I need to just chill the fuck out and stop being such a drama-queen-twelve-year-old-massochistic-self-involved-self- depricating-idiot. t...
Posted by Rena on Wed, 15 Mar 2006 10:52:00 PST

The first of many juicy blogs...sweet....

So, life never ceases to amaze me.  The second I start thinking I have a handle on it it punches me in the face, yet again. hooray. I can't rely on anything, I don't trust anyone.  But I'm r...
Posted by Rena on Sat, 11 Mar 2006 09:19:00 PST