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Holly

Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.

About Me


I'm half Irish, Welsh, and the rest is a jumble of other Northern European typical blonde crap (Swedish, German, etc).
I'm really blonde. Yes, it is natural.
I drive like Mario Andretti.
I'm an Orthodox Christian.
I spent four years as a guitar major in a performing arts school. Unfortunately, it completely destroyed my love to actually play guitar. I played the bagpipes at some point too.
A while back, I went through Germany, Austria, and the Czech Republic and drank more vodka than water, got lost in a Prague ghetto, rafted on the Danube with random Germans I didn't even know, watched the World Cup, my transatlantic flight nearly crashed on the way there, and had latkes in a cafe covered in disturbing photography (which I didn't notice until after I had ordered) among other things.
Next on the list: Ireland, UK, Serbia, Russia, Bosnia, Iceland, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Egypt, China, and Japan.

My Interests


Orthodox Christianity, committing petty larceny with Nathan! (...not really), wearing boots, having misadventures spanning 4 states, talking to strangers, nature, causing panic at international airport security checkpoints, military science, being as politically incorrect as possible, travelling, moral standards, Mullein tea, TEAAAAAAAAAAAAAA I love tea, vitamin water, vodka, whiskey, the Southwest, pretty sunsets, social rule breaking, finding my roots, supermoto, moving to states I know next to nothing about, freezing rain, rockabilly, Icons, WWII, Russian language, Bodhrán, cowboy boots, History, Political Science, getting around the law, Pre-Raphaelite art, hibiscus, snow, anything and everything Germanic, Wes Anderson movies, human rights violations, nuclear disasters, Church Slavonic, Germany, Czech Republic, Ukraine, balalaika, freaking Nathan out with my BM roar, anything and everything Slavic, snow, making Frau Hughes go nuts and threaten to sell me to sex traffickers in the eastern bloc, crackhouse Rolfs Vogelhochzeit songs, Palestine, current events, Tommy Tiernan,(by now you aren't reading anyway so I can put anything), Government, mashed potatoes, fur blankets, red meat, lingerie, darkwash Levi's fresh out of the dryer, American Apparel, ridiculously long german words, not Mormons, Aikens-isms, .....etc etc etc
Mr. Aikens;
" I don't demean anyone that doesn't ask to be demeant "
"If I were in Ghana I would be riding a water buffalo and there wouldn't be any damn automobile insurance "
RIP Aikens.
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Andi - "Im Andi, I'm from Korca and in my spare time I like to rob liquor stores and shag crackwhores"
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Bridget - " You're a lifesaver Holly, You are candy!"
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Nathan - " hello hello old chap"
Nathan - " there's never a bad batch. There's never a batch of Aids or a batch of bee stings"
Nathan - "I need to buy a bunch of ugly fabric to make an ugly dress, to make my daughter look like a peasant!"
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Waldo - "I'mma hook you guys up *takes $60 off check*"
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Gnome: "I went actually to like take a nap, but it wasn't a nap, I just passed out"
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Bridget: Who else is Vegetarian?
Me: Adolf Hitler *laugh*
Bridget: Fuck you
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Bridget: "Where shalt thou piss?"
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Kay: Talk to you later latina ass
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Mikhail Myagkov: 4 or 5 years down the road everyone in Kremlin will have one hand, who knows
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I'd like to meet:


No assholes, thanks. Anyone else.

Music:


Diskoteka Avaria, Fairouz, Dima Bilan, Natacha Atlas, Zdravko Colic, Marek Grechuta, Shahzoda, Amra Halebic, Orthodox Chants, Bojalar, Vladimir Vysotski, Romanyi Rota, Balkan Beatbox, Brass Menazeri, Emir Kusturica and the No Smoking Orchestra, Gogol Bordello, Haidouti, Ivan Milev, Klachnikov Guca Festival, Kokitche, Krauka, Kulinban, Ljubojna, Maummer Ketencoglu, Odjila, Ostblocket, Pjesn, Plechti, Popiche, Slonvoski Bal, Stara Musika, Stefce Stojkovski, Taraf de Haidouks, Vagaltschk, Dikanda, Ensemble Aznach, Sergey Rachmaninov, Ivan Rebroff, Sektor Gaza, Zemfira, Okean Elzi, Tayzax Project, Sasha Dith, Zoia Vitkovskaia, Belousov, Dmitrij Malikov, Gljukoza, Goriachyje Golovy, Ivri Lider, Krestianie, Maya Buskila, Nichya, Nieigrushki, Nimrod, Propaganda, Reflex, Regev, Ruki Vverh, Ruski Razmer, Shura, Sveta, The Angels of Life, Made in Ukraine, Variant K, Vladimir Cvetaev, Ahmet Kaya, Selda Bagcan, Ibrahim Tatlises, Davut Guloglu, Ebru Gundes, Mustafa Sandal, Gulben Ergen, Hande Yener, Hari Mata Hari, Salah Edin, Temnozor (the Obninsk one), Bathory, Behemoth, Burzum, Ulver, Hypocrisy, Vader, Amon Amarth, Eluveitie, Heol Telwen, Lumsk (Not including Troll album, that was total shit), The Transsylvanians, Thyrfing, Opeth, Tchaikovsky, Prokofiev, Jacques Brel, Paolo Conte, Silly Wizard, Loreena McKennitt, Ashley MacIsaac, Enya, Annbjorg Lien, Bergfolk, Bjork, Gjallarhorn, Varttina, Islandica, Garmarna, Valentina Ponomareva, Grupo Aymara, Black Lodge Singers, Kanenhi-io Singers, Kevin Locke, Lakota Hoksila, Mary Youngblood, Robbie Robertson, Tommy Wildcat, Ulali, Walela, Wahancanka, Xavier Quijas Yxayotl, Robert Mirabal, Delphine Tsinajinnie, Oceania, Pamyua, Keith Bear, Lakota Thunder, Sheila Chandra, Warda, Fairuz, Najwa Karam, Natacha Atlas, Niyaz, Claude Chalhoub, Amina Alaoui, Cheb Khaled, Latif El Idrissi, Mokhira, Hakim, Amr Diab, Khaled, Cheb Mami, Nawal El Zoughbi, Zaghareed, Tarkan, Salam Brothers, Yulduz, Osimira, Sander Lakatos, Zdob si zdub, Zap Mama, Rachid Taha, Knossos, Aleksey, Ozan, Devendra Banhart, Pete Yorn, Collide, The Vision Bleak, Covenant, Zeromancer, Wolfsheim, Audra, LCD Soundsystem, Blutengel, Rob Zombie, the Stereophonics, Egor & the Fuck Ups, Mumy Troll, Prokofiev, Tchaikovsky, Melnitsa, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Lily Allen, Madonna, Hank Williams Sr, Hank Williams Jr, Dixie Chicks, Allison Krauss, Trace Adkins, Craig Morgan, Dave Dudley, Clint Black, Dwight Yoakam, Jason Aldean, Brad Paisley, Lucinda Williams, the Andrews Sisters, Janusz Gniatkowski, Carolina Liar, George Strait, John Denver, Miranda Lambert, Kane Welch Kaplin, Loretta Lynn, Hank Williams III, Howlin' Wolf, R.L. Burnside, Lightnin' Hopkins, Patrick Steet, Guy Forsyth, The Tannahill Weavers, Silly Wizard, Seamus Connolly, Relativity, Noirin Ni Riain, Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh, Martin Mulhaire, Jack Coen, Mairead Mhic Dhonnocha, Maire Brennan, Iarla O Lionaird, Eileen Ivers, Deanta, the Chieftains, Capercaillie, Anthony Quigney, Aidan McMahon etc ...

Movies:


Death at a Funeral, In Bruges, Schindler's List, Without A Paddle, Eastern Promises, Outside Providence, The Darjeeling Limited, American History X, Stop-Loss, Rendition, Atonement, Breach, Love Actually, The Kingdom, Borat, Elizabethtown, Hero, Leila, Bend It Like Beckham, Behind Enemy Lines, Sweet Home Alabama, Blow, Merlin, The Mists of Avalon, Goodfellas, Casino, Cold Mountain, The Royal Tenenbaums, the Lord of the Rings trilogy, U571, Windtalkers, Into the West, and Angela's Ashes ..

Television:

Brain rot is not my style.
But these are;
Radio Free Europe
Al JazeeraNOT Al-Qaeda. So don't get confused.

Books:


The Bible
First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers by Loung Ung
The Lakota Way: Stories and Lessons for Living: Native American Wisdom on Ethics and Character by Joseph M. Marshall III
Ali and Nino: A Love Story by Kurban Said
Married to a Stranger by Nahid Rachlin
Voices from Chernobyl by Svetlana Alexievich (some of the most disgusting shit I've ever read)
"Angela's Ashes" by Frank McCourt

Heroes:


My grandparents.
"And don't think you're off the hook, voters, you're the ones who made this bed. Now you're the ones who are going to have to move over so a gay couple can sleep in it. Tomorrow you're all going to wake up in a brave new world, a world where the Constitution gets trampled by an army of terrorist clones, created in a stem-cell research lab run by homosexual doctors who sterilize their instruments over burning American flags. Where tax-and-spend Democrats take all your hard-earned money and use it to buy electric cars for National Public Radio, and teach evolution to illegal immigrants. Oh, and everybody's high! You know what, I've had it! You people don't deserve a Republican majority! I quit!"- Stephen Colbert
"Do you kiss your mother with that mouth? I'm out of here, DAMIEN!" - Mike Myers
Ray: If I'd grown up on a farm and was retarded, Bruges might impress me, but I didn't, so it doesn't.