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DeManda Tension

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About Me

I'm mostly non-cranky and will speak when spoken to. I like to make drawings with ink. I once played bass in a band, name of the MegaHurts, but we are not so much active as a band right now...anyone need an uptight, math-loving bass player? I stay out late on work nights too often (though not as much as Mark does). I encourage my cats, Vlad and Nero, to oppress their kingdoms' populaces in a terrible fashion. I think White was cuter than Strunk.
MegaHurts link!
You Are 66% Evil
You are very evil. And you're too evil to care.
Those who love you probably also fear you. A lot. How Evil Are You?

My Interests

Art, Nerds, Artnerds, sleeping, toys, rawk music, your mom, things sartorial, comics (Y: The Last Man, Fables, and I just found out about Joann Sfar--Vampire Loves is extra super mega good!) grammar and punctuation, making out, fancy(ish) cooking, stripey socks, my cats, other people's cats, other people's stripey socks, parentheses (see: overuse of), drawing, Deth P. Sun, Franz Kline, Tara Donovan, Louise Bourgeois, Spite Art (a movement I'm planning ..ing myself), thrifting, red, giant squid, colossal squid, giant robot, esquire, Japanese fashion magazines, playing bass (needs improvement), math (often it doesn't love me back), spider goats, warm weather (if it's colder than 65 degrees, it's too freaking cold!), monsters, MONSTER TRUCKS! (they originated in Saint Louis, you know), prime numbers

Geeklife.com
Things I do not so much like: people who say "libarry" and "nucular" (which means I can't really watch network news so much these past few years), dippin' dots, raisins, misused apostrophes, front butt, John Updike, cold, lack of sleep, jam bands, single red roses, when the seam from my sock is touching the underside of my foot, the sound of nylon or those flicker-card thingees rubbing together.

I'd like to meet:

Anyone. Wait--anyone except fascists or religious crackpots. Unless you're funny~~~ Someone who can show me how to skateboard (I'm serious about that).

Music:

Headcoatees, Sons and Daughters, Thee Michelle Gun Elephant, Tom Waits, Sex Robots, Billy Childish stuff (mostly), Pixies, Tom Waits, Ghostland Observatory, Death From Above 1979, Girl Talk, Dengue Fever, Nina Hagen, Nina Simone, Epoxies, Phonocaptors, weird old Folkways recordings, Guitar Wolf, Tom Waits, Ghostface Killah, Detroit Cobras, Del, The Pubes, Bjork, MF Doom, Peaches, PJ Harvey, Charlie Feathers, Eartha Kitt, Murder City Devils, Dimmu Borgir, Social Distortion, Sonics, Groovie Ghoulies, Small Faces, Girlschool, Enon, Melt Banana, AC/DC, John Zorn (mostly), Phillip Glass, Butt, Gore Gore Girls, Dragonforce, Charlie Feathers, The Cramps, Tom Waits, The Agenda, Le Tigre, Apples in Stereo, Automatics (the Japanese ones), Morphine, Rah Digga, Blossom Dearie, Francoise Hardy, Bertrand Burgulat, The Gentleman Callers, Peggy Lee, Serge Gainesbourg, 3 Inches of Blood, Heart, Siouxie, April March, Demonics, Delmonas, Edith Piaf, Tom Waits, Eric Dolphy, Eric Hall...)(oh, yeah--and Tom Waits)

Movies:

err...I think my page is long enough as it is. I enjoy films.Top Five Worst Films: The Demi Moore version of "The Scarlet Letter", the Brando version of "The Isle if Dr. Moreau", "Lady in the Water", "The Devil's Advocate", and "The Frighteners"

Television:

Buffy, The Daily Show (though I do not have the cable), Invader Zim, America's Next Top Model, Project Runway, Deadwood, Battlestar Galactica

Books:

Currently making my way through Carson McCullers and re-visiting George MacDonald to see if he's as important to this-age me as he was to 12-year-old me--we'll see. I have liked Cintra Wilson, Ryu Murakami, Hubert Selby, Jr., Paul Auster, H.P. Lovecraft, Octavia Butler (most science fiction and fantasy, actually), Arundhati Roi, Emile Zola, A sprinkling of non-fiction to keep a balance, and more than a few comics

Heroes:

anyone who gets off their ass and gets some shit done (always a struggle for me)

My Blog

I complain way too much...

...so I will now wax rhapsodic about things and stuff: * I went camping last week! I saw a rattlesnake and I climbed Elephant Rocks and I caught tadpoles and frogs and I made fun of crawdads and I roa...
Posted by DeManda Tension on Mon, 30 Jul 2007 07:20:00 PST

I don't complain nearly enough...

...So shaddup and listen, you damned kids, I have some grumbliness to air out... *Nader is considering running again? WTF? I love ol' Uncle Ralph and all, don't get me wrong, but when is he going to l...
Posted by DeManda Tension on Mon, 16 Jul 2007 07:28:00 PST

I complain way too much...

...so here are some Pollyanna-type musings about the things that have put the zing in my zinnias lately:  *Imma be in Chicago in four days, where I will see friends, eat food, go to rawk shows, w...
Posted by DeManda Tension on Mon, 07 May 2007 07:41:00 PST

I don't complain cearly enough...

...so here we will find grumbling and snarkiness aplenty to make up for that oversight:* Dear [local arts organization whose name has been removed to keep me out of trouble]: You suck. You are all a b...
Posted by DeManda Tension on Thu, 22 Mar 2007 12:43:00 PST

I complain way too much...

...so here I go all optomistic-stylee: * It's no longer so cold that I'm instantly pissed off when I go outside. * I *do* have little tumbleweeds made out of my stray hairs--they roll around and do m...
Posted by DeManda Tension on Fri, 23 Feb 2007 11:59:00 PST

We now return to our regularly scheduled "I don't complain nearly enough..."

...here are some whiny whine-ings: * I hate being cold. * I would like the dude to finish my kitchen. * I need a haircut. * My skin is all dry and wonky. * Broke. * Not enough time to get stuff done....
Posted by DeManda Tension on Wed, 24 Jan 2007 01:22:00 PST

I don't complain nearly enough...

...This edition of "I don't complain nearly enough" has been pre-empted to bring you a very special installment of "I complain way too much", as I'm just in too good a mood to bitch and moan today: *...
Posted by DeManda Tension on Tue, 02 Jan 2007 12:13:00 PST

I complain way too much...

...here are some un-complain-y ruminations: * Tom Waits on Daily Show!* Snow day!* I ran, without any walk breaks, for a long time yesterday--I am totally a runner now!* Big skate party tomorrow!* !...
Posted by DeManda Tension on Fri, 01 Dec 2006 06:31:00 PST

I don't complain nearly enough...

...so here goes 'nuther rant: * My gym went bankrupt and locked its doors last week. Dadnabbit, now I have to find a new one. Any suggestions? * Too much smoky in the bars last night. I feel like cig...
Posted by DeManda Tension on Sun, 12 Nov 2006 09:33:00 PST

I complain way too much...

Things that remind me that I have plenty of stuff in my life that should be distracting me from my bitching: * I have, what has got to be, the most awesome group of friends in the history of awesome ...
Posted by DeManda Tension on Sun, 01 Oct 2006 09:55:00 PST