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Shellz

What doesn't kill us makes us strAnger.

About Me

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My Interests

Good beer, literature, spilling onto paper, musing, singing off key(occasionally in a karyoke setting), dives, collecting random Shellies (we're taking over the globe), tinkering with cameras, checking out new territory and new food, working with charcoal, meaningless laughter, ashtanga yoga, voting for Obama,(etc.)

I'd like to meet:

Leonard Cohen, Milan Kundera, Chelsea Handler, Tatiana Gutsu, Stewie Griffin, Bjork, Joaquin Pheonix,Inga Musica, Aeon Flux, and many, many others...

Shellz's team players
Shellz has a motley crew

Danny Boy

Bruce Almighty

Stationary's best friend

My favorite online stare-down opponent

The Greatest Alexander yet mmmwahahaha

Prax

Yo mama.... oh wait

Your friendly neighborhood super hero

El Sr. Epithet

La Majorette

Mugz

La Contessa di Lancastoria

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Music:

Leonard Cohen, Catpower, Ween, Bjork, Portis Head, Varuca Salt, Tom Waits, C Bruni, The Killers, Morcheeba, Fleetwood Mac, Johnny Cash, The Cure, Abba, The Dead Milkmen, Poe, The Shins, The Hives, Modest Mouse, The Ramones, The Pixies, Joan Jett, Screaming Trees, Elefant, The Willowz, K's Choice and many, many, many others.... I'd like to note that I STRONGLY DISLIKE LINKIN PARK... ..

Movies:

Amelie, Tank Girl, Pulp Fiction, Rushmore, The Royal Tennenbaums, Buffalo 66, Fight Club, The Last Unicorn, Goonies, Gia, I HEART Huckabees, Rules of Attraction, Vampire Hunter D I and II, Fox Fire, Edward Scissorhands, Freeway, The House of Yes, Donnie Darko, The Godfather I and II (not III), Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Me and You and Everyone We Know, The Life Aquatic, Clockwork Orange, Waiting, FF7 the movie.... there are plenty more but you get the general idea.

Television:

Replaced with collections of shows on DVD. Liquid Television in general, Cowboy Bebop, Arrested Development, Coupling, Family Guy, It's Always Sunny in Philidelphia, Seinfeld, Scrubs, The Simpsons, etc.. I must boast seperately of my entire Aeon Flux collection..........and I want to make it perfectly clear (those who know me can attest to this) that I have been a tried and true Aeon junkie way before they ever came around to making a movie or even discussing it (I have an unhealthy obsession- was even Aeon for Halloween in 2004)...

Books:

Anything by Milan Kundera, Tolstoy's short stories, (I suppose that I enjoyed Anna Karenina as well), Kafka, Murakami, Pushkin all together but especially Eugene Onegin, every work I've read of Dostoevesky's, A Hero of Our Time by Mikhail Lermontov, Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas by Tom Robbins, Orwell, The Cigarette Girl by Carol Wolper, a few things from Frank E. Peretti, Jaques the Fatalist and his Master by Diderot, Greek and Celtic Mythology, Poetry books (i.e. favs Poe, Nash, Hafiz, Rumi, Countee Cullen, Charles Bukowski and the latest love-Rainer Maria Rilke), Bios from time to time on those I idolize or despise, Psycho- analysis focused how2s..... really a number of things with substance... this could take all night

Heroes:

Marla Ruzicka, Tank Girl, Beatrix Kiddo, Chelsea Handler, Ferris Beuller, Aeon Flux, Jem, and the grinch for stealing Christmas (not in that order)* * * Baobabs

My Blog

I cant recall the last time I wrote something that rhymed... it brings me back

Stale Mate     The first move is yours by your own election; you take two strides in my direction. After a moment of measured deliberation I snugly mirror your steps in their spatial relat...
Posted by Shellz on Thu, 16 Oct 2008 06:06:00 PST

A word to the wanton

I just stumbled upon this in one of my journals (written months and months ago) and on a whim, decided to label and post it today.   Bozo: the laughable, passive aggressive, narcissistic clown &n...
Posted by Shellz on Wed, 26 Sep 2007 11:08:00 PST

Not just another manic Monday...

My Thursday technically began at midnight when I had finished watching Supersize Me for the first time.  I spent ten minutes reflecting on what I had recently viewed, I set the alarm on...
Posted by Shellz on Fri, 01 Jun 2007 06:32:00 PST

Mom- look at what I did when I should have been studying...

For my 26th birthday, both my super awesome mom and my uber cool brother joined forces and presented me with my very own digital camera with it's own special memory card.  Thi...
Posted by Shellz on Thu, 05 Oct 2006 10:37:00 PST

ennui

The probability of a person preserving a common thread, let alone faith in humanity rapidly diminishes with the unrelenting re-emergence of the hopeless, unfeeling, parasitic masses.  It see...
Posted by Shellz on Thu, 17 Aug 2006 11:35:00 PST

We have a winner

So I finally watched the movie "Waiting" lastnight...  If anyone has seen it and is wondering, the answer is yes- that's what waiting tables in a chachey restaurant is really like..... except for...
Posted by Shellz on Tue, 30 May 2006 10:42:00 PST

Good to be back.... I was just joking

    I feel like I left more than my sun glasses and stilettos in Ireland.... some sweet old lass in Killarney just may have taken a piece of MY SOUL.       ...
Posted by Shellz on Wed, 29 Mar 2006 07:38:00 PST

Eire

So I leave for Ireland tomorrow....  talk about exciting.  I'll obviously be there through the week of St. Patty's Day and I wanted to make note of it here on My Space with hopes to&nbs...
Posted by Shellz on Tue, 14 Mar 2006 08:29:00 PST

I need a blog.... and a hug

  I'm retiring from my four-year profession as Seat Warming Law Firm Bitch.  It's practically the end of an era.  I suppose that there is a time and a place for everything though..........
Posted by Shellz on Sat, 25 Feb 2006 10:21:00 PST