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Karen

Just a kid from the Stupid Ages.

About Me

I'm a writer/grad student/jewelry-maker/know-it-all.

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Who the FRELL are you? A Farscape Personality Quiz.
Scorpy: You are Scorpius. No one can say you're not determined, and some may say you're obsessive-but you're simply goal-oriented. You're bad to the bone and proud of your evilness. You prefer to be in command, and could really use a facial.
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My Interests

My interests include, but are not limited to: The Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab, Lush, robots, the aesthetics of technology, rabbits, futurism (and retrofuturism), grammar, eschatology, crafting, kitties, sleeping (when I can), pop culture, lit crit, Tarot, astrology, hair dye and satire.

I'd like to meet:

Robots, Germans, readers, writers, bon vivants, miscreants, defrostees, man-machines, costumed nemeses, Neil Gaiman, Swisgaar Swisgelf, brainiacs.

Music:

I think I'm getting too old to keep up with music. Anyway, this is what I listen to when driving or writing: Turbonegro, Funker Vogt, Frontline Assembly, Morrissey, The Smiths, The Faint, Seabound, Duran Duran, Apoptygma Berzerk, VNV Nation, The Sisters of Mercy, Rasputina, The Tea Party, Leonard Cohen, Assemblage 23 and Siouxsie and the Banshees.

Movies:

Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Dangerous Liasons, Blade Runner, Mirrormask, Fire Walk With Me, Mulholland Drive, Blue Velvet, Audition, Enemy at the Gates, Less than Zero, Pretty in Pink, Robocop, Grosse Point Blank, Elizabeth, The Libertine, Star Wars (all but Episode 1), The Company of Wolves.

Television:

Futurama, The Simpsons, Arrested Development, The Venture Brothers, Project Runway, Lost (grudgingly), Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Metalocalypse, Rome, Carnivale, Dexter, Star Trek, Farscape. I could go on, but you get the picture: nerd.

Books:

Anything by Angela Carter or Neil Gaiman. Other authors I enjoy include: Jeanette Winterson, some A.S. Byatt, Tanith Lee, Camille Paglia, Margaret Atwood, Charlotte Bronte (and Emily), Philip K. Dick, William Gibson, Steve Almond, Lorrie Moore, David Sedaris, Paul Feig, Mary Roach, Kurt Vonnegut, Johnathan Lethem, Yukio Mishima, Vladimir Nabokov, Sylvia Plath, Oscar Wilde, E.A. Poe. I spend lots of time reading.

Heroes:

Angela Carter, Neil Gaiman, Eddie Izzard, Viggo Mortensen, Alice Munro, Fox Mulder, Aeon Flux, H.P. Lovecraft.