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Shannon

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About Me

I'm pretty much an open book... big fan of the honest brutal truth. Secrets and lies are too much to keep up with. My life mostly consists of my family, my store, my friends, and the Kerrville Folk Festival.My family is super cool, and really close! Some people call my parents hippies, so maybe they are. But they're more like the rockin' party 70's hippies, than the peace-and-love 60's variety. At any rate, Mom was an army brat and Dad was a Lubbock boy. They met at Texas Tech, fell in love, got married, had me, dropped out of college, and moved to San Antonio because Mom didn't want me to grow up in Lubbock (thank GOD!). My brother Kevin was born shortly after-ward, and my brother Trace some years later. My parents have never really liked to have "jobs", in the traditional sense. They opened a bar/ live music venue in San Antonio called Cibolo Creek Country Club when I was a kid, so I spent much of my child-hood there. Because of this, I know a lot about music and beer (two of my favorite things in the world, by the way)! But, the club went under because San Antonio doesn't (or didn't) support live music. So, both the house and the car got repossessed. That was an unpleasant time. We then moved to the country, to some land in Bulverde to start over. The owners of this land had been investors in the club, and as repayment on their investment, my folks agreed to build a house on their land, which we could live in (rent free) for a while. After a few years, the owners sold the property out from under us, and we were given two weeks notice to move out of the house my Dad was in the middle of building. Back to square one! With the little money they had, my parents bought a virgin piece of land (no water, no electricity) in the same school district so we wouldn't have to change schools. We lived in tents at first, and then in a little cabin my dad built out of salvage lumber with no power and no running water. We had an out-door screened building for a kitchen, and an out-side shower as well. After about a year we got the electricity all hooked up, but I didn't have indoor plumbing from 7th grade 'till I was a senior in high school. Imagine explaining THAT to your friends in middle school and high school! The house has since been expanded, and my little brother's friends call it the "Hippie Mansion". My dad is a sound engineer and musician. He works with James McMurtry most of the time, but he does some other stuff on the side too. He's in a couple of bands and he runs sound a Floores Country Store when he's not on the road with James. I own a denim boutique with my mom, and our store is on Comanche across the street from the lil HEB in San Marcos. Please come shop there! We're remodeling this cool old house and trying really hard to make it, PLUS we've got REALLY cool stuff for guys and girls! We opened the store with NO money, and my rent is perpetually late (kinda like me, but I'm really working on my punctuality)! I live in a cute little house near the river in San Marcos with may friends Autumn and Lenny. We have 2 cats and awesome neighbors!My friends totally ROCK!!! I love them all sooooooo much. They are so supportive and cool and fun! I honestly don't know what I would do without them. Nothing else I could say would do them justice, so I'll just stop there.The Kerrville Folk Fest (not to be confused with the folk LIFE festival) is my healing time. It is what I look forward to every year. It resets me. I've gone every year since I was 5, so this will be my 21st year. I am a veteran volunteer on the volunteer staff. I've worked in the VIP check-in station, and now I have worked up to the cushiest job on the ranch: backstage hospitality! Other than that I swim in the Medina river, listen to good (and sometimes bad) music, sing, smoke, drink lotsa beer, eat hippie food, and hang out with my friends with no worries for about three weeks. There are no TVs, most cell phones don't work, and internet time is seldom. I can't tell you much more about it. If you're curious to know more, you should just go. I'm camped with the loud kids on the tree-line in the lower meadow by the tipis if you want to find me!Hmmm... what else... I LOVE to sleep. I'm scared of roller-coasters, TERRIFIED of cockroaches, and I don't like scary movies. I'm a fabulous cook, but not a big cleaner. I wouldn't say I'm a TOTAL slob, but there is a good amount of clothes on the floor of my room and my bed never gets made. I lose my keys at least once a day. I go to the river more than once a week. I wear my heart on my sleeve, cause that seems like as good a place to keep it as any.So, there it is: More than you ever wanted to know about me... don't you feel productive after having read that? I know I feel productive after writing it!
Your Birthdate: September 8
Watch out Donald Trump! You've got a head for business and money.
You'll make it rich some day, even if you haven't figured out how yet.
A supreme individualist, you shouldn't get stuck in a corporate job.
Instead, make your own way - so that you can be the boss.
Your strength: Your undying determination
Your weakness: You require an opulent lifestyle
Your power color: Plum
Your power symbol: Dollar sign
Your power month: August What Does Your Birth Date Mean?
.. You scored as One Intellectual Individual
. You're a thinker. You see things from a very different prospective than the rest of the world, and probably find release and self-expression in music, painting, sculpting, or any other form of art. People see you as a deep person, full of knowledge that they don't understand. People are attracted to that, but there's a good chance you don't care.

One Intelectual Individual


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New Age Hippie


75%

Original Hippie


75%

Earth-Child


50%

Pothead


50%

Not a Hippie


25%
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My Interests

beer, good music, camping, art, fashion, Folk Fest, ceramics, pizza, magazines, ambitious people, cooking, costume jewelry, making eye contact with strangers, road trips, vintage cowboy boots, my kitty Oscar, dive bars, staying busy, toe nail polish, sewing, blue jeans, laying in the river, the greenbelt, scoring good shit at thrift stores, fire spinning, Maria's taco express, Baileys Irish cream...

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I'd like to meet:

Who wouldn't I like to meet?!

Music:

There are only 2 kinds of music: good music and bad music. I usually like good music, but sometimes I secretly am entertained by bad music

Movies:

The Royal Tennenbaums, Dazed and Confused, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Bottle Rocket, Empire Records, Ghostbusters, Back to the Future, Reservoir Dogs, Rushmore, Caddy Shack, Life of Brian, Clerks, Chasing Amy, Mallrats, Harry Potter, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Pulp Fiction, Snatch, Dancer in the Dark, Shaun of the Dead, Beyond Black Rock, Spinal Tap, The Usual Suspects, Fear and Loathing, Where the Buffalo Roam, Alice in Wonderland, Sliding Doors, Lock Stock, Punch Drunk Love, Pink Floyd: The Wall, A Mighty Wind, Kill Bill, The Lord of the Rings trilogy, the old Star Wars movies (I don't really dig the new ones so much), Donnie Darko, O Brother Where Art Thou, Shawshank Redemption...I guess a better way to do this would be to say that I like smart movies, hold the cheese please. I like funny movies if they're clever; I like scary movies if they have a plot worth paying attention to; I like action movies if they're original and artfully filmed; I like dramatic movies if it takes a little intelligence to follow; and I guess I'll put up with a little cheese in movies that are over 10 years old.

Television:

I have cured myself from Vh1 Celebreality. It took a 12 step program that involved not having tv for 6 months, but I kicked the habit. I hardly ever have time to watch tv, and whenever I sit down in front of one it's usually because I'm hanging out with Hunter. However, I am pretty obsessed with LOST! If you are too, here is a list of drinking rules to enhance your viewing pleasure: 1) Every time someone says "Lost" 2) When any character says "others" 3) Any time they show extras in the background of a shot 4) When any of the numbers 4, 8, 15, 16, 23, 42, or 108 appear, we drink for EACH number 5) When the rain machine turns on or off 6) Any time someone in the viewing audience says "Fuckin Sawyer" 7) Every time Claire says "My baby" 8) Every time Hurley says "Dude" 9) Every time Michael says "My son" or "My boy" 10) Every time Desmond says "Brother"

Books:

The classics, you know: Vogue, Harpers, Elle, WWD, InStyle... but I also like some more contemporary stuff like Vice, Feedback, Fader, and Nylon. HAHA... 1/2 joking! I really like Hunter S. Thompson, Kurt Vonnegut, George Orwell, JRR Tolkien, CS Lewis, Margaret Atwood, Tom Wolfe... I also love Dr. Seuss books! I think that one of the main reasons I want to have kids someday is so I can read them Dr. Seuss.

Heroes:

My parents, they're the coolest! Really, no sarcasm involved. I sincerely think that my mom and dad are the greatest people ever!

My Blog

It's expensive to be poor

Several of you have been asking me concerned questions about my store since I posted the bulletin about the possibility of it closing. Here's the deal: There are infinite costs related to opening and ...
Posted by Shannon on Wed, 21 Dec 2005 01:00:00 PST

Kinda sad

I don't really know why, but I just haven't been able to kick the sadness for the last few days. The weather has been beautiful, my store is ok, school is ok, I just bought a new computer, my lov...
Posted by Shannon on Tue, 18 Oct 2005 01:19:00 PST

School is cool

Ok, even though I hate school, this semester totally rocks! I get to intern for myself at my own store... does it get any easier!? Actually, it does: I'm the TA for another class that I'm taking. I co...
Posted by Shannon on Wed, 31 Aug 2005 08:21:00 PST

warm fuzzies

What an awesome day of charity and goodwill in Austin yesterday! 107.1 KGSR put on a GREAT day of music at Threadgills for a good cause! Guy Forsythe, Patrice Pike, Ruthie Foster, Carol...
Posted by Shannon on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Long festival = Long blog

Well, my annual rejuvination period is over again. I just got back from Kerrville and I'm feeling amazingly blessed to have had the experience another time. I can't really explain how wonder...
Posted by Shannon on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Folk Fest 101

Folk Fest 101 I'm in Kerrville at the Folk Fest until June 12th, and I would LOVE it if all of you would come visit me! If you love music and need a little relaxation, take a few days off and get your...
Posted by Shannon on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

So close I can taste it!

It's gonna be a hippy summer... Ok, so last summer will forever go down in history as the drunken glam summer. We partied like rockstars and loved every second of it, I think I'm still hung-over! A...
Posted by Shannon on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Rock the Casbah 18, the real story

OK, so Mel's party this weekend was groovy as usual... but I just have one question: Who invited all the nerds and high school kids? Seriously, I totally felt like I was at a high school dance when Th...
Posted by Shannon on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Ow, that's gonna bruise

I totally busted my ass in the hardware store last night! They were just about to close, so I was walking really fast in 4 inch heels and I had my jeans cuffed up so they wouldn't get wet from the rai...
Posted by Shannon on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

I think I'm slipping

I feel my usual control over emotional composure slipping away and, to tell the truth, I'm really scared. After a few years and a lot of lessons well learned, I thought that I had left the clumsy ways...
Posted by Shannon on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST