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karen

i'm secretly on your side

About Me

30 year-old student/layabout. closet anglophile. grammar anarchist. feminist. fledgling historian. all-around nerd.
if you want to know anything else, just ask me. no one reads this shit anyway, do they?
i have a blog. you can read it out here: http://sadgirlseven.blogspot.com.
if you want to chat with me, you can find me on aim as sadgirlseven.
yup. that's about it...

My Interests

stargazing, colin firth, weather underground, 60s leftist movements in general, nyc history, trains, blogging, scooters, pubs, jewelry-making, crocheting, travel, moz, body modification, john cusack, john hughes movies, art, art history, geeks, computers, making out, politics, music journalism, the big takeover mag, felt monsters, home recording, library science, research, urban planning, a nice berry-coloured lipstick, good free trade coffee, dream analysis, museums, "outdated" media (cassettes and vinyl), guinness, love, feminist and queer theory, postmodernity, kitchen dancing, my cats, london, bpal, scrabble-rousing, sephora, all things jane austen, wearing the pants, not wearing the pants

I'd like to meet:

honest people. drinking buddies. tour guides and fellow adventurers. pirates. misanthropic optimists.

Music:

of late:
bjork - volta
joan as police woman - real life
beans - tomorrow right now
the national - alligator, boxer
kenny burrell - midnight blue
wussy - left for dead
beirut - lon gisland ep
imogen heap - speak for yourself
shannon wright - let in the light

Movies:

say anything, high fidelity, basquiat, the shining, the weather underground, bridget jones' diary, sense and sensibility, human traffic, secretary, sex lies and videotape, american movie, some kind of wonderful, paris is burning, unzipped, elizabeth, born in flames, trees lounge, wings of desire, love actually, children of men, 1984. i also dig that doc on r crumb.

Television:

buffy, freaks and geeks, the office (uk, not that horrible american crap), the young ones, satc, firefly, west wing, project runway, random history channel stuff. the l word, pretty much anything on bravo.

Books:

the little prince - antoine de saint-exupery
high fidelity - nick hornby
the bell jar - sylvia plath
a million little pieces - james frey
fugitive days - bill ayers
the power of one - bryce courtenay
the amazing adventures of kavilier and clay - michael chabon
andromeda strain - michael crichton
fahrenheit 451 - ray bradbury
my antonia - willa cather
choke - chuck palahniuk
any pablo neruda
the rumi
blankets - craig thompson
neverwhere - neil gaiman
the handmaid's tale - margaret atwood
strange fruit - lillian smith

Heroes:

my mother. all the women on both sides of my family. bernadine dohrn. eddie izzard. stephen patrick morrissey. angela davis. fred hampton. bell hooks, eartha kitt. klaus nomi.

My Blog

the bow and the belt and the girl from the south

1. this song has always been in my top five favorite tori songs ever. 2. it gets me every time.3. i miss this version of tori. not so much with the bathing suits as tops, but just this era o...
Posted by karen on Thu, 30 Aug 2007 07:10:00 PST

yet another...

got this one from jilly.1. If your doctor said you were pregnant, what would you do?probably go get an abortion while they are still legal. i don't know. there would definitely be crying involved.2. D...
Posted by karen on Mon, 20 Aug 2007 11:29:00 PST

a not-so-worthy distraction

90 questions, i guess. got this from a friend.90. First off, what is your name?karen89. What did you do last night?helped my mother with her resume, fucked around online, went to bed.88. Do you have a...
Posted by karen on Thu, 16 Aug 2007 08:33:00 PST

ruins

what is it about thisthat keeps me aloftcircling and circlingin my little aeroplanewith the clouds above and belowsupersonic cold and drystiff as an arrowthe conversation loopbores me ambient chatter ...
Posted by karen on Wed, 25 Jul 2007 08:42:00 PST

flash light at yrself

a few years ago, i came across the poetry of d.a. levy online. most of his work is out of print, apparently, but recently, a collection came out called "the buddhist third class junkmail oracle: the a...
Posted by karen on Sun, 29 Apr 2007 09:39:00 PST

and something (relatively) new...

the cure for the sads:i swear to god, if this video doesn't put a smile on your face, you must be the devil... or dead....
Posted by karen on Tue, 26 Dec 2006 11:10:00 PST

music made before i was born

so thank you to guy garvey and his payola for hipping me to john martyn. check this shit out:i cannot believe his playing - both hands doing insane amounts of work. the song in this video - "i'd rathe...
Posted by karen on Tue, 26 Dec 2006 10:46:00 PST

why am i awake?

survey, 'cos i can't get back to sleep. doh. ganked from kristi.1. Are you in a relationship??why is this the first question? no, i'm not.2. If no, would you like to be?it depends. but mostly yes.3. H...
Posted by karen on Fri, 01 Dec 2006 04:18:00 PST

i never do these, but i'm procrastinating

ganked from milli. (but i won't post as a bulletin, yo.)Today, Did You --1. Talk to a boy/girl you like today?i like people in general, but no one that i LIKE like.2. Realise anything new?i don't thin...
Posted by karen on Wed, 29 Nov 2006 04:08:00 PST

things i have seen thus far

let's see. yesterday i saw a sign in front of dubois bookstore across from campus. it read: "dubois: famous for stapling stuff to your receipt." it actually made me chuckle. then i saw a sticker ...
Posted by karen on Tue, 28 Nov 2006 01:28:00 PST