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Kirsten

All your sanity and wits they will all vanish...

About Me

Layout Created at Mspremade.comA guest DJ (DJ Bishi) on KJCC weekly (Mondays) from 5:45 pm - 7 pm playing an assortment of music on The Spider Web. (KJCC - JAG Radio on live365.com) - REBROADCAST on Wednesdays from 10:15 to 11:30 Pacific Time.
http://www.live365.com/profiles/kjcc
DJ Spider and I LOVE doing interviews. So whether you are a local band (to San Francisco Bay Area) or traveling from far off lands, we want to know more about you, your band, and your music.
Any bands out there that would like to have their music played can send me a message and I will give you the information to send your music to the Music Director at KJCC.
I am in my thirties....I still have a lot to accomplish and a long way to go to accomplish it.
I keep a livejournal and have for 6 years - iceblink is my LiveJournal name. You can find out more about me there if you so desire.
My married name is Kraft, but I used to be Hubbard. Most people have known me over the years as Kitty.

My Interests

ambient, avantgarde, belly dancing, bhangra, dance, diversity, DJ, dream pop, dreams, edward gorey, eighties, ethereal, fireworks, glam, glitter, goth, honesty, hugging, humor, katamari damacy, kawaii, kindness, loyalty, madness, manaki tea house, maneki neko, mashups, massive attack, mc escher, michael parkes, mp3, music, no drama, npr, open mindedness, psychology, red hair, san francisco, satin, sensuality, shiny things, shoegaze, silk, sincerity, ska, sparkly things, strawberries, synthpop, tea forte, texture, tolerance, trip hop, turkish delight, we love katamari,

I'd like to meet:

I am looking for friends, I like chatting about a million things and I like meeting new people.I am interested in new music of all sorts. Good music is good music and goes beyond genre, so don't be afraid to friend me or send me your direction.

Music:

New Wave, Glam, Middle Eastern, Arabic, Belly Dancing, Ethereal, Indie Swirly, J-pop, K-pop, Euro Pop, Ambient, Dream Pop, Eighties, Goth, Darkwave, Ska, Trip Hop, non-traditional, sometimes just weird, and much more.

Favorite bands include The The, Madness, New Order, The Flir, The Smiths, Natacha Atlas, Massive Attack, The Chameleons, Dead Can Dance, Cocteau Twins, Depeche Mode, The Specials, Oingo Boing, OMD, and many many more. I have been exposed to so many great bands in the last year...but the ones listed are the bands of my youth.

Movies:

animation, anime, comedy, romantic comedy, drama, the princess bride, clueless, better off dead, real genius, documentary, the color purple, untamed heart, gleaming the cube, rock n' rule, strictly ballroom, asian films, house of flying daggers, red firecracker green firecracker, another country, brat pack of the 80's, velvet goldmine, hedwig and the angry inch,

Television:

Monk, House M.D., CSI, PBS, Masterpiece Theater, Fawlty Towers, Monty Python, Red Drawf, Mr. Bean, Black Adder, Numbers, Heroes

Books:

Diana Wynne Jones, Manga, Erin Hunter, Mary Stewart, LM Montgomery, Shel Silverstein, Maurice Sendak, A.A. Milne, Autobiographies, Biographies, Historical Fiction, Ray Bradbury, Kurt Vonneget Jr., Edward Gorey, many many Mangaka...but I don't want to slaughter any names.

Heroes:

Benjamin Franklin, Danny Elfman, Matt Johnson (The The), Mark Burgess (The Chameleons), Elizabeth Fraser (Cocteau Twins), Lisa Gerrard (Dead Can Dance), Eleanor Roosevelt, my mom and dad (for being more normal than my friends parents), Hello Kitty, any one who has the courage to be honest and be themselves.

My Blog

CD reviews and purchases

Well, I am back and I plan to be using my Memorial Day Weekend (U.S. holiday) to do some CD reviews. These are either purchases or gifts that I have received in the last couple of months.Look for revi...
Posted by Kirsten on Wed, 21 May 2008 03:22:00 PST

Home From England

I am home from my trip to England and I am happy to say I spent too much money buying music and went to a few places that are significant to me...musically speaking. I am actually in Redwood country i...
Posted by Kirsten on Sat, 10 May 2008 11:02:00 PST

Time has flown

I have been absent from blogging since September. (Well, duh? We can SEE that) First, the radio station had a lot of down time due to construction projects and unexpected delays. Then I went and had s...
Posted by Kirsten on Tue, 27 Nov 2007 11:56:00 PST

Mew Interview

I have transcribed 1/2 of the interview DJ Spider and I (DJ Bishi) did with Bo Madsen of Mew at the Filmore in San Francisco. I am going to post the first half, but there is a name I will add once I f...
Posted by Kirsten on Thu, 13 Sep 2007 10:45:00 PST

Last Night’s Show

Now I have the official word - the re-broadcast of the Spider and Bishi show will be on Wednesdays from 10:15 am to 11:30 am. Pacific Daylight Time (PST begins on November 4th this year). Here is the...
Posted by Kirsten on Tue, 11 Sep 2007 09:41:00 PST

Reminder of Show

Tonight is the beginning of my fall semester guest hosting on KJCC. DJ Spider and I (DJ Bishi) will be officially broadcasting from 5:45 to 7 pm. However, it is quite possible that we will start a li...
Posted by Kirsten on Mon, 10 Sep 2007 01:28:00 PST

The Radio Show is back

On Monday evenings, I will be co-hosting a radio show at a local community college (San Jose City College). http://www.live365.com/stations/kjcc  My show (which is the Spiderweb as hosting by D...
Posted by Kirsten on Wed, 05 Sep 2007 03:38:00 PST

MEW!

So, Mew re-released the album half the world is watching me.This album has earlier versions of songs released on Frengers (and that is pronounced frenjers my friends - per Bo) In addition to earlier v...
Posted by Kirsten on Wed, 22 Aug 2007 09:30:00 PST

Not Dead

Well, long time.... no posting. It has been summer break at the radio station, but fall is just around the corner. I FINALLY have the time to transcribe the MEW interview. I know it is long long lon...
Posted by Kirsten on Thu, 19 Jul 2007 11:03:00 PST

No show tonight

I was supposed to my weekly radio show tonight...but I have a bug, so no show.Last night I was lucky enough to go see The Cinematics at Slim's in San Francisco. They were an opening band, but soon eno...
Posted by Kirsten on Thu, 26 Apr 2007 06:37:00 PST