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Sharleen

An uphill battle today is an anthill battle tomorrow. - the wit and wisdom of my friend, Phillip :-p

About Me



Sun Sign: Cancer
Sun 22° Cancer 53' Cancer Horoscope
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Moon Sign: Aries
Moon 16° Aries 48' Aries Horoscope
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Rising Sign: Capricorn
Ascendant 13° Capricorn 04' Capricorn Horoscope
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Consistently and persistently particular (control freak) about the important things like friends, love, family, and music; highly curious and passionate creature ... a hurricane in a candy shell. How I respond to you depends on you; I won't spend time on people who don't deserve it. ...most approachable person you've ever or never met.
hooray for gaudy, sparkly crap as if I don't have enough crap on here already! Heehehe :-p Your Life Path Number is 3 Your purpose in life is to express your unique self.
You are a creative and artistic person with an interesting view on life.
Witty and outgoing, you enjoy sharing your crazy ideas with anyone who will listen.
A total social butterfly, you're the life of any party.
In love, you inspire and enchant your partner. You are often an object of fantasy and desire.
While you are very talented, you sometimes lack the ambition to put your talents in play.
And while your wit carries you a long way, you occasionally use it to mask your true feelings.
Your natural abilities can bring you all the success in the world ... if you let them.
What Is Your Life Path Number?
Marshmallow Fluff --
[adjective]:
Fluffy to the touch
'How will you be defined in the dictionary?' at QuizGalaxy.com
Your Passion is Yellow
You're a total sexual shape-shifter. You possess a complex sex drive and are very adaptable. Of all the colors, you are the most likely to be bisexual. While you're the most passionate, you are also very open-minded. Cancer
You are shy and mysterious. Hotties are always trying to unlock your secrets and figure out what makes you so cool.
You have to have trust in your partner, so you’re not into randomly hooking up. You live to charm and flirt, but are loyal to a fault.You love the intimacy that comes with sex and you won’t take no for an answer when it comes to after-sex cuddling.
the Wit
(71% dark, 50% spontaneous, 15% vulgar)
your humor style:
CLEAN | COMPLEX | DARK
You like things edgy, subtle, and smart. I guess that means you're probably an intellectual, but don't take that to mean pretentious. You realize 'dumb' and 'slapstick' can be very witty--after all isn't that the Simpsons'/3 Stooges philosophy?--but rudeness for its own sake, 'gross-out' humor and most other things found in a fraternity leave you totally flat.
I guess you just have a more cerebral approach than most. You have the perfect mindset for a writer.
Your sense of humor takes the most thought to appreciate, but it's also the best, in my opinion.
You probably loved BBC's the Office.
People like you: Jon Stewart - Woody Allen - Ricky Gervais
The 3-Variable Funny Test!
My test tracked 3 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender: You scored higher than 91% on darkness
You scored higher than 17% on spontaneity
You scored higher than 5% on vulgarity
Link: The 3 Variable Funny Test written by jason_bateman on OkCupid
You Are Sunset
Even though you may still be young, you already feel like you've accomplished a lot of what you've wanted from life.
And you feel free to pave your own path now, and you're not even sure where it will take you.
Maybe you'll pursue higher education in a subject you enjoy - or travel the world for a few years.
Either way, you approach life with a relaxed, open attitude. And that will take you far! What Time Of Day Are You?
Your Birthdate: July 15th
You take life as it is, and you find happiness in a variety of things.
You tend to be close to family and friends. But it's hard to get into your inner circle.
Making the little things wonderful is important to you, and you probably have an inviting home.
You seek harmony with others, but occasionally you have a very stubborn streak.
Your strength: Your intense optimism
Your weakness: You shy away from exploring your talents
Your power color: Jade
Your power symbol: Flower
Your power month: June What Does Your Birth Date Mean?
"Do You Spend Too Much Time Doing Quizzes From Friends' Pages on MySpace? Well, Find Out Here"
haha. Just kidding :)

My Interests

I am addicted to games like:

and absolutely adore card games... especially Spades, BlackJack, Poker, and Forty-Fives .

I'm head-over-heels into nature and wildlife conservation. Where else are we going to go but Earth? This planet and its species are really the only one we've got right now, and it's so extraordinary that we really ought to wake up gracious and humbled that we have it at all: ASPCA / MSPCA , Nature Conservancy , WWF , Audubon Society (MA)

I like talking to eccentric people or bright people who can talk to anyone about anything or just think on their toes. I love swimming, boxing matches, gardening (anything in the earth... I appreciate how beautiful it is to cultivate and grow), sculpting, 3D stop motion, painting, appreciating 2D animation (fervent cartoon fanaticus giganticus) and graphic arts of others (mine leaves much to be desired but I do try sometimes), Wallace & Gromit and Wile E. Coyote, trouble-shooting/fixing things (either just around the house or at work) or pulling them apart in hopes of making them run more efficiently, studying Rodin (I loved visiting their exhibit and wrote a research paper about it when I was 15. As nice as their garden was, I'm still not completely satiated. :) I dream about seeing the Rodin museum in Paris at some point, but I haven't made any solid travel plans), enjoying myself,

(!!!)...
outdoorsying/ kayaking/ sailing/ canoeing/ backpacking/ hiking, cooking, chocolatiering (or just enjoying Munsons ! Which is difficult for me as I'm diabetic and their sugar-free stuff is about as lousy as everyone elses.' Theirs is a labor of love, though, and I recommend them all the time! Curse you, sweet tooth!), accounting, seeing live music, reading, cardsharking, collecting and drinking reds (pinot noir, mostly) and a few beaujolais, fierce and strange exploits, and probably a boatload of other things w/the "ing" extension that I've forgotten.

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I'd like to meet:

Members from all these off and on-stage incredibles :
Hothouse Flowers .I love Liam! What a voice on him. Like an angel! He's just gorgeous and his voice is way beyond my scope of words, I tend to think! They're easily one of the best bands you will ever see live. They don't have to be loud, wear costumes, or use any special lighting. lol. Not that this is bad because a show is a show... but, without props, they are what they are... :) amazing.

Super Furry Animals They have unbelievable stage presence & the costumes are always fun at every show, though... every year, every album, every time. Hands down. Very clever light shows, as well. They're cosmically ingenious & Gruff's also easy on the eyes. Haha - maybe I am a bit partial, though, because his b-day's a few days after mine. ;)Silliness aside, they're grade A. You may actually be utterly deaf by the time you get home from a Super Furry Animals show, but you won't care because it will be one the best rock shows of your life.

SFA: "It's Not The End of the World"

My Morning Jacket : They write some of the best modern rock love songs... and I am a total sucker for that. :) The guitarwork is fantastic... again, another incredible guitar band like all of them on my page truly are. I don't get envious very often at all and I am so envious! If I could play a fraction as well as some of these guys, I could die happy! ;) When all the other bands from all over the world were putting us to complete shame, My Morning Jacket was one of the two bands who, within the past 5-8 yrs, has put U.S. Rock back on the map as contenders.

The Doves : mesmerizing & captivating... like a first date with the person you thought you'd never get.
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+ love The Pogues (of course! do I even need a reason? ;)) Figured I may as well post a vid for the heck of it :) This and "In My Blue Heaven" get stuck in my head for days at a time. lol. Maddening! :)

+ Harvey Reid - I've already met him (well, just shook hands and had a chance to say hello) twice and he's really nice, but I'd like to meet him again! He puts on amazing shows. Been to three of them so far. I know, i know - You're thinking, "Who is that?" Trust me. You'd love him, too. He's a storyteller and can literally play anything with strings. Surreal! He plays these types of instruments I've never seen before or even knew existed. He's a character, for sure. Luckily for me, this area is local to him. I feel blessed such talent is in New England! I want to learn how to play guitar eventually (probably in the off-season when I move), and he's some great inspiration, for certain.

Would also love to run into Anthony Bourdain , world-class author & chef and now the very famous (or infamous, depending upon the episode) "No Reservations" host. He seems like a really intelligent, breezy, funny, stand-up guy who tells you the truth and not necessarily what you want to hear. I don't like sugar-coated people. So, he's grade A in my book. Not to mention the absolutely awesome chef part. Yeah, I mentioned that once or twice already. Yay, cooking. Haha :) During some point of every show, he mentions how lucky he is to have the job he does. I agree. It's a dream-come-true for most of us. His website isn't updated with new seminar/speaking tour listings yet! Ahck. Too bad.

It'd also be absolutely brilliant to meet some of my favorite sculptors (well, the living ones, of course. Haha :) LOL) like Nick Park from Aardmanand Pete Fowler of monsterism, among his manyother endeavors, I noticed! ... and adult-animators such as Adam Reed and MattThompson , who came up with the idea of SeaLab2021, a recycled version of SeaLab2020from 1972, mainly. Two people who could use the meager resources at hand to makesomething so enormously funny... just incredibly brilliant. Some tasteless people onthe web describe it as "not as funny as south park." Hmph. Well, we all know whatlosers those web people are. :-p Haha, wait a minute. I'm on the... Oh well, anyway, it's avery funny show and I have all their DVDs for good reason.

Sometime in my oh-so-far-from-ultramundane, sleepy existence, I'd also love to meet Billy Connolly . I know he's been a legend in the UK for at least a few centuries... I'm pretty sure there are Neolithic wall glyphs of what could pass for an ancient photograph of one of his live shows. My friend Ronan from Dublin first got me into all his comedic bits about six years ago... and he is perhaps the funniest person I've ever heard. Certainly, at least that I can think of... I love all of his material. He's so unrehearsed.

Realistically speaking, I dream on a smaller scale, too. You know... about all you unfamous bastards, like me. :) It'd be great to meet some regular folk, like me, who can (here's hoping!) hold big thoughts without a bucket... possibly other ENTP , like me ^again, or fp types. Well, you don't need a label or anything. Just have a melon on top of your shoulders.

I am certified:

32% addicted to Myspace
Are you addicted to MySpace? (custom contact table, ETC., got me pretty good on this quiz. ;) lol)

Music:



If you like any songs on my page, feel free to click here and check to see what i have uploaded. It varies now and then from normal to funny/corny stuff, but it's a pain in the keistah (painfully slow free site to upload things no matter how fast your connection speed) for the most part. lol. :) I try to put something new in there once a week, anyway.

Hothouse Flowers,
Hey, who let that madman Bono into this photo? ;)

The Tragically Hip,

Gruff Rhys (it's in Welsh, though- it's a fantastic video. LOVE it!),

Super Furry Animals ,

Pink Floyd,

The Who,

Fitzrovian Phonographic,

Gnarls Barkley,

The Soundtrack of Our Lives,

Band of Thieves,

Billy Idol,

My Morning Jacket,

Spiritualized,

Prince,

Iggy Pop & the Stooges,

The Doves,

Mark Sandman & Morphine (who are, sadly, no more),

Chris Isaak,

AC/DC,

Prong,

Pantera,

T.I.King,

The Coral,

Bone Thugs & Harmony,

The Chieftains,

Daft Punk,

50Cent,

ZZ Top,

Yeah Yeah Yeahs,

Ying Yang Twins,

The Verve/R.Ashcroft,

Cassius,

Crydamoure (whoare also, sadly, defunct),

Muddy Waters,

Roy Orbison,

Chuck Berry,

Mighty MightyBosstones,

Basement Jaxx,

Talking Heads,

Gorillaz,

Clinic,

Fire Theft/Jeremy Enigk,

Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers,

Van Morrison,

The Diggs,

Spoon,

TheChemical Brothers,

The Dubliners,

The Flaming Lips,

Grateful Dead,

Queens of the Stone Age,

Hall & Oates,

The Beach Boys,

Howlin' Wolf,

Gomez,

Interpol,

Warren Zevon,

Fisherspooner,

U2,

JimmyReed,

The Pogues,

Polyphonic Spree,

The Kinks,

The Clash,

Beastie Boys,

Earth, Wind, and Fire,

The Cult,

Koko Taylor,

Anita Baker,

Stardust,

Dropkick Murphys,

Orbital,

Belle & Sebastian,

The PostalService,

Sepultura,

The Charlatans,

Peter Bjorn and John,

Motorhead,

Donna Summers,

Sigur Ros,

The Crystal Method,

The Gossip,

The Waterboys,

N.W.A.,

Ice Cube,

Faith No More,

Johnny Cash,

Eric Clapton,

The Good, The Bad, & The Queen,

E.L.O,

George Michael,

And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of The Dead,

... andprobably the best guitar/stringed instrument player you've most likely never heardbefore named Harvey Reid , who just happens to bean absolute charismatic prodigy. I think he enjoys staying under the radar.

Movies:


8 1/2 Women,
The Departed, The Hunted, Lucky Number S7evn, The Manchurian Candidate, Hitchhikers' Guide to the Galaxy, Munich, Spaceballs, The Browning Version, The Full Monty, The 40 Year Old Virgin, The Imposters, Aeon Flux, Scarface, The Pink Panther (the original, of course!), Blazing Saddles, Three Amigos, Indiana Jones Trilogy, Crouching Tiger/Hidden Dragon, Ong-Bak: The Muay Thai Warrior, The Curse of the Golden Flower, Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Monsters Inc., The Kid Stays in the Picture, Derailed, Match Point, Mystic River, History of the World: Part I, Hero, Kung Fu Hustle, Murder on the Orient Express, House of Flying Daggers, Animal House, Bourne Supremacy & ID, Aardman DVDs/films (The Creature Comfort Series, A Grand Day Out, The Wrong Trousers, A Close Shave, Curse of the Wererabbit, Flushed Away w/Dreamworks, et. al.!), Snatch, Cool Hand Luke, The Deer Hunter, The Great Escape, El Laberinto del Fauno, The Flower of Evil, Objective: Burma, Sin City, 300, ANYTHING directed by Mel Brooks or with Leslie Nielsen in it (lol), Raging Bull, Ronin, The Ox(Nykvist), Hearts in Atlantis, Rashomon, Seven Samurai, Lawrence of Arabia, Layer Cake, Stripes, Planes Trains and Automobiles, Wet Hot American Summer, The Great Outdoors, Blues Brothers, CaddyShack, Psycho Beach Party, Three Stooges shorts...

Television:

DR.WHO(!!!)(the old and the new versions; YES, I am OLD enough to have watched Dr. Who and Creature Double Feature reruns on PBS and Boston's WLVI 56... lol), MST3K reruns, Farscape reruns, CHEAP SEATS reruns, Graham Norton, House, Anthony Bourdain/No Reservations, Alton Brown's show, Courage the Cowardly Dog, SeaLab2021, Samurai Jack, Big Love, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Extras, PSYCH, My War Diary, and, of course, BOXING! Soap, Benny Hill, and Police Squad, too... remember? ;)

Books:


I try to read anything and everything I can by Thich Nhat Hanh, W.G. Sebald, Sun Tzu, Dante, the Dalai Lama (Tenzin Gyatso I mean), Norman Mailer, Steinbeck, Richard Adams, Ray Bradbury (love Sci-fi), some Tolstoy (you know the big exception, heehe), Machiavelli,Dostoevsky, Sophocles, Chaucer, and Voltaire... most of the authors we were assigned to read in school I've been secretly reading (or trying to finish or forgetting to finish) since before I could probably understand what they were really all about. I used to sneak into the adult section in my hometown's library after school and sit in the alcoves upstairs or in the big leather chairs to read the books they wouldn't let me check out before I got my adult library card. I used to think of these trips more as some divine escape from reality rather than an understanding or learning experience. That's probably a very self-critical thing to admit and something my teachers probably would have frowned upon had they known my motives :-p

Heroes:

My Dad 1937-2000, Drew! :), my Grampy 1936-2007, and really... well... anyone else dedicated to inspiring harmony and getting things done without complaining half the day/night. :)

My Blog

"People generally in life will take what you give them."

What a shitty attitude! ... Pun intended. Scatalogical leaps and bounds of progress in the tp industry based upon a very pessimistic view of the human race, in my opinion. lol. Click here. ...
Posted by Sharleen on Sun, 22 Jul 2007 11:07:00 PST

Campfire/hearth cooking

Click here: The Magic of Fire
Posted by Sharleen on Sun, 22 Jul 2007 11:04:00 PST

is there anybody out there? :-o

Click here: "First Galaxies in Universe Spotted"...
Posted by Sharleen on Sun, 22 Jul 2007 10:57:00 PST

a little sunshine in your office workday

Click here: Forbe's Office Pranks Network+ WORKPLACE FITNESS PROGRAM How to Lose Weight at Work Without Doing Much. Here's a guide to calorie-burning activities and the number of calories per hour t...
Posted by Sharleen on Sun, 22 Jul 2007 10:51:00 PST

"Botanicalls"... unmitigated genius! :-D

Click here for video: "Hello, it's your plant calling!" ...
Posted by Sharleen on Sun, 22 Jul 2007 10:47:00 PST

I regret to say (re: Vegas)...

   I will miss having a fantastic time with a bunch of you in LV this year. I had an amazing time last summer and have been on the fence about going again. I scheduled that time slot away fr...
Posted by Sharleen on Sun, 17 Jun 2007 03:44:00 PST

Bourne again!

I am such a sucker for action movies. I look forward to another "Bourne" movie as much as I look forward (secretly) to new Bond movies The Bourne Ultimatum Still having no memory of who he really is o...
Posted by Sharleen on Sat, 16 Jun 2007 12:43:00 PST

Another silly vid

killed some time yesterday afternoon with Drew in the Blue Hills watching otters Click here for a complete waste of your time, heeheh. ...
Posted by Sharleen on Sat, 26 May 2007 01:15:00 PST

Thank you, Karen!!!

Furry Selection...for linking us and all the fantastic updates you bring to us; you're amazing! Click HERE for Karen's SFA myspace page [FANTASTIC!!!] & to join her lists on yahoo [again, BRILLIANT!!]...
Posted by Sharleen on Sat, 26 May 2007 12:35:00 PST

Clean & Green

Excellent nontoxic alternatives exist for those harsh chemical cleaners and many of them are already sitting on your kitchen shelf. Baking soda works well for cleaning glassware, especiall...
Posted by Sharleen on Sat, 19 May 2007 06:34:00 PST