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Beccer

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About Me

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My Interests

Rollerskating, NYC, cooking, reading about cooking, enjoying the aftermath of cooking, enjoying the aftermath of others enjoying the aftermath of my cooking, The Annals of Medicine, mastering the art of enebriation sans the inevitable hangover, music in bars, finding shoes to fit my little feet, saying the word 'chi-cken' and 'pudding', and eBay.

I'd like to meet:

Anyone smaller than me.

Music:

Hi people. It's me. The girl with the rollerskates. I am about to give you my TOP 21 ROLLERSKATING SONGS OF ALL TIME!!! Holy shit! That's right. Put your ‘blades’ away, put down that board, dust off your Riedells, the white ones with the pom poms, whatever you gots, take this here mixtape and pop it into your Sony Sportsman as soon as you can say Chaka Khan!
1. The Breaks - Kurtis Blow – this the classic, definitive 70’s rollerskating song.
2. White Lines - Grandmaster Flash – everyone knows it, loves it and can recite the words, unless you lived under a rock in the 80s.
3. Doin' It - LL Cool J – Ladies love LL. Nuff said...
4. Skate Away - Dire Straits – This is my sleeper fave – everyone wants their MTV, but I wanna skateaway!
5. Do I Do - Stevie Wonder – This is a personal one, reminds me of skating with my dad.
6. Ring My Bell – Anita Ward – This is my mom, and the 70s, all wrapped up in one song.
7. Hey Mr. DJ – Zhané – just a great rollerskating classic – Zhané just sings for the skating crowd
8. On The Radio - Donna Summer – The theme song from Foxes, makes me wanna feather my hair and rollerskate
9. Around The World – Daft Punk – these guys have channeled the soul of rollerdisco.
10. Got To Be Real – Cheryl Lynn – I lived for this song when I was little, dunno why…
11. Can’t Get You Out Of My Head – Kylie Minogue – When they play this at Roxy, get the fuck out of my way!!!
12. Annie – Heartbeat – Noone who skates seems to know about Annie yet, but this is an instant roller classic.
13. I’m Gonna Love You Just A Little Bit More – Barry White – Partner skate oonlyyy…
14. Groovejet (If This Ain’t Love…) – Spiller – A little euro, a little disco…gimme room! A girl needs room!!!!
15. You’re Makin’ Me High – Toni Braxton – The only Toni Braxton song I like happens to be a rollerskating song…go figure.
16. Hung Up – Madonna – This instantly made me feel like skating the first time I heard it. Time goes by so slowly for those who wait...
17. Crazy In Love – Beyonce – IT’S MY GIRL! IT’S MY SONG!!!
18. Cease2Xist – Ladytron – This song channels old 70’s disco, whether it knows it or not.
19. Get Up (I Feel Like A) Sex Machine – James Brown – Beginners do yourselves a favor and GET OFF THE FLOOR for this one cos you're gonna get hurt!!!!!!!!
20. Beats To The Rhyme – Run DMC – Proof that it is possible to do the robot while rollerskating.
21. Can You Feel It - Michael Jackson - Okay, I know what you're thinking, MJ is a lunatic, but this song is a fantastic example of what good can come from going out of your mind.

Movies:

Secrets and Lies, Naked, Career Girls, All or Nothing, Annie Hall, Manhattan, Hannah and Her Sisters, Stardust Memories, Once, The Hunger, Crooklyn, Girl 6, The Color Purple, The New World, The Ice Storm, A History of Violence, Crazy Love, Marquis, Iron Man, Hellboy, Breakfast on Pluto, Secretary, Me Without You, Sixteen Candles, Pretty in Pink, The Blue Lagoon, Little Darlings, Sleepaway Camp, The Evil Dead, Trilogy of Terror, Lost in Translation, The Anniversary Party, 8 Women, Breathless, The Diving Bell and The Butterfly, anything else French, anything bad, good gay porn or naked Ewan McGregor movies (there's a lot of em- schwing!) I saw Brokeback Mountain 3X in the theater. Stranded on a desert island with a dvd player and 2 directors: Woody Allen and Mike Leigh.

Television:

Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations, America's Test Kitchen, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Dinner for Five with Jon Favreau, Veronica Mars (this is Christa's fault, natch), SATC (I thought I would need an intervention, but I'm good now...I always have Veronica to soothe my aches and pains), The Office, The Brini Maxwell Show, The French Chef, Lidia's Italian Table, Jaques and Julia (you could cut the sexual tension with a dull Wusthof!), Iron Chef, Space Ghost/Cartoon Planet, Robot Chicken, Little House, My So Called Life, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Antiques Roadshow.

Books:

The New Yorker, Saveur, Cook's Illustrated, Bust (especially the Justin Thoreaux issue), anything by Irvine Welsh, Anais Nin, Pete Hammill, C.S. Lewis, Nancy Friday, Nick Hornby, The Harry Potter phenomenon (duh) - thanks Jes for lifting the rock I was living under, David and Amy Sedaris (duh uhhhh), Valley of the Dolls, You Suck: A Love Story, The Little Old Man Who Could Not Read, The Golden Treasury of Children's Literature, The Monster at the End of This Book, Patriarchy and Globalization on a World Scale, RE: Search, Karen Finley, William S. Burroughs, Dean and Deluca cookbook, The French Chef cookbook, Nobu cookbook, The Frugal Gourmet Cooks Three Ancient Cuisines cookbook, my new recipe-card book that Jake's mom gave me last xmas.

Heroes:

Julia Child, Anthony Bourdain, Debbie Harry, Jello Biafra, Brini Maxwell and Mary Tyler Moore.

My Blog

Hope in a strange time...

So much change...Election day is two days away, my wisdom teeth came out, got very sick for a whole month, but I'm recovered, sticking to my diet and I gained enough weight back that you can't see the...
Posted by Beccer on Sun, 02 Nov 2008 08:36:00 PST

The thing of the matter...

The thing of the matter is this - there's good news and there's bad news...The bad news first. My job. It's not working out - I drive to LI three days a week, and each trip there and back is a mirac...
Posted by Beccer on Sun, 03 Aug 2008 04:43:00 PST

Fairway or the highway...

Jake and I went to Red Hook Fairway today...it was crowded like we expected but nowhere near the murderous chaos that is the one on the UWS. It's HUGE. And, they have everything. EVERYTHING. And i...
Posted by Beccer on Sun, 01 Jun 2008 04:25:00 PST

100 Calorie Microwave Popcorn is...

...my new favoritest thing ever. Thanks for reading.
Posted by Beccer on Sat, 31 May 2008 08:28:00 PST

Self-sabotage

If I'm going to try to remain a thin person, I should probably stop baking cupcakes. That is all.
Posted by Beccer on Tue, 20 May 2008 07:05:00 PST

Carbface

I used to have carbface.  If I ever get carbface again (round, bloated, multiple chins whilst 'smiling' the pain away), will someone please do me a favor and be brutally honest and effing TELL ME...
Posted by Beccer on Sun, 27 Apr 2008 11:23:00 PST

Its the end of su-gar as we know iiiit...I feeel fiiiine...

Don't know why I'm writing about this - as far as major life-events are concerned this is pretty insignificant but it has changed the way I live so I will share...I always feel it's best to talk about...
Posted by Beccer on Thu, 24 Apr 2008 05:17:00 PST

Honeymoon recap!

These were all taken from my camera so there are lots of pics of Jakey-poo doing things in front of things, but he has some too, and I'll forward those when he gets his online...The first four days we...
Posted by Beccer on Mon, 29 Oct 2007 05:30:00 PST

Chapter two!

On the weekend of the five-year anniversary of my mother's passing, an amazing thing happened...Jake asked me to marry him and I said yes!  Momma's still looking out for me...He got on one knee a...
Posted by Beccer on Mon, 26 Mar 2007 08:02:00 PST

Top 10 weirdest things about me of all time!!!

1.  I  love onions. 2.  I have an incredible eyemakeup collection.  I love the eyemakeup.3.  I work in HR  Yeah...I know.4.  My favorite TV show growing up was Littl...
Posted by Beccer on Mon, 31 Jul 2006 06:51:00 PST