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Carly Stardust

Like a fork in the microwave, I snap, crackle and pop!

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

someone who can loan me a bicycle, or someone who can repair my time machine. yes, i know it's hard to find the parts...

Music:

I am continually searching for my soundtrack... and along the way have found so much music I love, including (but not limited to) jazz, bluegrass, classical, hip hop, rock, soul, funk, experimental and even stuff from various musicals. Here's a sample: Bjork, The Beatles, Jeff Buckley, Postal Service, Death Cab for Cutie, Janis Joplin, Pavement, Spoon, Blonde Redhead, The Stones, Grandaddy, The Roots, Billie Holliday, The Doors, David Bowie, Blackalicious, The Shins, Jamiroquai, Pretty Girls Make Graves, Iron & Wine, Portishead, Led Zeplin, The Spooks, People Under the Stairs, The Cure, Mogwai, Paul Simon, Simon and Garfunkel, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Atmosphere, Built to Spill, The Kinks, Interpol, The Violent Femmes, CCR, Radiohead, Blondie, Gang Starr, Black Star, The Pixies, The Police, Air, Sigur Ros, Bright Eyes, Harry Neilson, The Velvet Underground, Elliot Smith, Jedi Mind Tricks, Jimi Hendrix, Destroyer, The New Pornographers, Silkworm, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Fiona Apple, Company Flow, Jane's Addiction, Dave Brubeck, Joy Division.

Movies:

Waking Life, The Royal Tenenbaums, American Beauty, The English Patient, Quitting, Y Tu Mama Tambien, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Requiem for a Dream, Amelie, The Shining, Run Lola Run, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Endless Summer II, Edward Scissorhands, Stealing Beauty, Pulp Fiction, The Princess Bride, the Wallace and Grommitt short films, Moulin Rouge, William Shakespeare's Romeo+Juliet, Legends of the Fall, A Clockwork Orange, The Life Aquatic, Labrynth (I fell in love with David at a very young age thanks to this film!), Willow, Waiting for Guffman, Great Expectations, Best in Show, Drop Dead Gorgeous, Donnie Darko, Clueless, Vanilla Sky, Dogtown and Z-Boys, American History X, Fight Club, The Virgin Suicides, Sliding Doors

Television:

too much tv makes carly a dull girl...but i dig shows on adult swim, the discovery channel, the history channel, national geographic, animal planet and IFC.

Books:

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, Sidhartha, Sophie's Choice, stuff by Edward Gorey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Great Expectations, Paradise Lost, and other faves, although I don't read as much as I would like these days - "these days i seem to think a lot about the things that i forgot to do"

My Blog

How hip-hop soothed the savage baby.

This morning I was picked up by my brother and his wife in their green suv to make the five hour drive into Kansas to visit our grandparents.   My mother came too, as did my 5 mont...
Posted by Carly Stardust on Sun, 25 Mar 2007 11:46:00 PST

yes, i have cheated.

i have been encouraged to report that already i have fallen victim to tempation and smoked a couple of ciggies since posting that last blog. oh nicotine, how you tease.
Posted by Carly Stardust on Sat, 20 Jan 2007 02:10:00 PST

ok, maybe for real this time...

I have been sick with a particularly ravenous cold for about a week now. Luckily, as of today, I am feeling much better, and more myself again, and hope to be fully recovered in a few days. This ...
Posted by Carly Stardust on Wed, 17 Jan 2007 10:06:00 PST

lacertilian- of or relating to lizards

i'm having a thrilling time watching the scripps national spelling bee on espn.A-C-C-O-U-C-H-E-M-E-N-TL-A-C-E-R-T-I-L-I-A-NS-U-I-V-E-Z Z-E-B-U  - ex. in a sentence: "Yasmine used to ride on her fa...
Posted by Carly Stardust on Thu, 01 Jun 2006 11:23:00 PST

today sparkles

what a fabulously fresh afternoon!  the grass so inviting.  even through the layer of this smudgey window pane, the fluffy green stuff outside is begging for me to skip and trip across it, d...
Posted by Carly Stardust on Tue, 04 Apr 2006 10:47:00 PST