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lorichka

Why do you have an ass if you don't answer it?

About Me

Much like Wallace & Gromit, I'm just crackers about cheese.Read my VisualDNA ™ Get your own VisualDNA™Â© layoutsbykt surfourspace.com premade layouts surfourspace.com

My Interests

photography, writing sometimes, untrained singing, hardly working, reinvention, coffee

I'd like to meet:

Mario "Dancin' Fool" Lopez. And that guy. You know, the one who did the really cool thing that one time?Yeah, him.

Music:

Jason Mraz, Hanson, Josh Groban, Queen, Dierks Bentley, Rascal Flatts, Better Than Ezra, Sugarland, Brandi Carlile, Counting Crows, Coldplay, Simon and Garfunkel, Howie Day, Matchbox Twenty, Carbon Leaf, Bob Dylan, Bon Jovi, Death Cab for Cutie, Capercaille, The Postal Service, Snow Patrol, Travis, REM, Live, BNL, The Beatles, The Shins, Virginia Coalition, The Dixie Chicks, Damien Rice, Jamie Cullum, Nickel Creek, They Might Be Giants, Gogol Bordello, Lifehouse, Great Big Sea, Dashboard Confessional, James Blunt, Athlete, Elton John, Tom Petty, The Eagles, lots of musicals including RENT, Big River, Les Miserables, Wicked, Into the Woods

Movies:

Garden State, The Lord of the Rings, Romeo + Juliet, About a Boy, Memento, Equilibrium, The Talented Mr. Ripley, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Labyrinth, The Princess Bride, Legend, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Y Tu Mama Tambien, Dirty Dancing, Donnie Darko, The Shawshank Redemption, Batman Begins, Newsies, Serenity, Love Actually, RENT (but see it on Broadway, PLEASE), Good Night and Good Luck, Shaun of the Dead, 10 Things I Hate About You

Television:

Scrubs, Project Runway, Celebrity Poker Showdown, Grey's Anatomy, Entourage, The Office, Top Chef, Dancing with the Stars and a lot of shows that aren't on TV anymore - Firefly, Dawson's Creek, Boy Meets World. Heck, if it's out on DVD I'll watch it. Actually, TV on DVD has ruined TV for me forever. I like having it on demand. PR is the only one I watch on TV when it airs. Edit: Okay, PR is over for the season, so now I watch Top Chef. My cable box is stuck on Bravo.

Books:

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, The Once and Future King by T.H. White, Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card, The Lord of The Rings by JRR Tolkien, Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie, early stuff by Mercedes Lackey like Magic's Pawn - genre fiction represent, Les Miserables by Victor Hugo, Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer, American Gods by Neil Gaiman, Without You by Anthony Rapp, If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things, The Unthinkable Thoughts of Jacob Green by Joshua Braff, The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky, The Diary of Anne Frank, Dragon's Blood by Jane Yolen, Jacob Have I Loved by Katherine Patterson, Shakespeare - Yes all of his works, The 'Best American' Series is always fun, Literature might not get more interesting than Beowulf, I read a lot of poetry - E.E Cummings, Pablo Neruda, Robert Frost. I could go on, but I doubt that you're still reading this.

Heroes:

The Geico Gecko. Who doesn't want free pie and chips?

My Blog

up above the stars are clear and bright

Another day, another dollar, and I figure it's time for a blog post to mark the beginning of December. If all goes according to plan, I'm off to California on Thursday for a long weekend, and the rest...
Posted by lorichka on Wed, 06 Dec 2006 08:17:00 PST

bend over for destiny

This day is threatening to make my head explode. I don't even know what to say. Do you ever have those days where you look around and think 'Is this really my life'? Boo-urns. Blood Donation update: T...
Posted by lorichka on Mon, 20 Nov 2006 03:14:00 PST

I can never remember that line!

Man, today is gross. And my boss isn't here. I am so tempted to do the easy work, cut out early, make a pot of coffee and spend the rest of my evening playing Oblivion on my sister's computer until my...
Posted by lorichka on Wed, 08 Nov 2006 09:17:00 PST

Why I'm voting the way I am this election...

You know, beyond the fact that I actually believe in the candidates I've chosen."I Still Miss Republicans" - from Kung Fu Monkey "I don't call myself a Democrat -- I know this will anger some of my mo...
Posted by lorichka on Tue, 07 Nov 2006 06:55:00 PST

Do I smell facecake?

I just got three calls in a row on my cellphone from people whose names start with the letter 'J'. And not just in a row, I mean overlapping. It was really bizzarre. Seriously, if J were a number, I w...
Posted by lorichka on Mon, 06 Nov 2006 07:17:00 PST

Words, words, words...

So today marks day one of NaNoWriMo 2006. Have I mentioned that I'm doing this crazy thing? A 50,000 word novel in a month. No outlining, no rewriting, no clear idea of where I'm headed - just me and ...
Posted by lorichka on Thu, 02 Nov 2006 06:43:00 PST

the words of the prophets are written on the subway walls

The worst part about my writ being broken is having all these feelings and no way to put them into words. I want to talk about what a glorious day it was - what a glorious weekend, really - but from t...
Posted by lorichka on Mon, 04 Sep 2006 06:57:00 PST

letters to an ailing poet

Hmm. So last night was an experiment. I think my writ is rusty. It took me ages to bang something as short as that out, and it's pretty stilted and more than a little lame. I think I need to get back ...
Posted by lorichka on Fri, 01 Sep 2006 01:17:00 PST

Road Trippin'

Out of town until the 17th.Cold chillin'.Peace.
Posted by lorichka on Sun, 13 Aug 2006 08:29:00 PST

ATTENTION

This just in: it has recently been brought to our attention that we have inadvertently committed a grevious error in this profile. HANSON was left out of the user's favorite music! Not only were they ...
Posted by lorichka on Fri, 11 Aug 2006 08:49:00 PST