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the sLy Spinster

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About Me


Hardworking, urban Princess sLyeah.
I am a bookish broad who usually wears glasses. I used to love wearing them. Lately I’m rethinking it, wondering if my look is less like Hot for Teacher, more like Velma from Scooby Do.
When I'm missing you can always find me in my head. It’s a bad bad neighborhood and I shouldn’t ever go in it alone.
I’m striving for mediocrity. I would be happy if when I died someone said of me, “She always had such a clean house and her legs were never hairy.” Tasks like cooking and cleaning and your basic every day living feel like climbing Mount Everest. Cooking Pasta at this point might make me die of exhaustion.
By nature I am calm, but when I’m happy I jump up and down and clap my hands like a retard. When I’m out of my mind with joy I do my best impersonation of Daffy Duck in the “Hassan Chop” cartoon where he says, “It’s mine! It’s mine! It’s all mine.” Followed by “Woo hoo! Woo hoo! Woo hoo!” You’ll want to get out of my way at that point, as I’m close to wetting myself.
Saying the word “goody” is not beneath me. When with intellectuals at art openings, I am incapable of saying anything more descriptive than “COOL!” “EWWW!,” or “NEAT!”
Sometimes I dig furniture (especially mid-century, ‘50s or ‘60s designs) more than people. Furniture never let’s you down, unless you’re dealing with a step ladder. If I were a chair I'd be an Eero AarnioBall Chair. If I could be a Ball chair, or live in a world that felt like a Ball chair, or actually own a ball chair, I would die a happy girl. I am still mourning the loss of my giant orange dentist's chair (RIP, Buffy).
I am in search of distractions of all sizes, shapes and forms.

My Interests

50s pulp novel covers, alfred hitchcock, animals, art bell,audrey hepburn, babies, barbie,bauhaus, beehives ,bettie page,bill wilson,boys,camp and kitch,carpenters,cat fancy,cats,chick culture,child stars,coffee,danny elfman,dictionaries,divine,dr. seuss,edward norton,ero saarinen,feministas,fiction, fifties culture,fifties furniture,funny fat guys,furniture,geeks,henry and june,horror,,herman miller,html,hypocrites,jean seberg,john waters,Lisa Petrucci,men,mid-century design,mies van der rohe,miniature golf,new wave,nightmare ned,old movies,pbs as cable,,pin-up girls,provincetown,pulp fiction, punk rock,red-heads,russ meyer,sally mann,sewing,shag,sleep,smoking,social studies text book images,the betty ford clinic,,the fifties,the seventies,the sixties, tim burton,tinker bell, trailers,uno,vintage clothing and magazines,vivien leigh,vixens,wacky packages, xena re-runs

I'd like to meet:



This lady.

Check out her Myspace profile and her super amazing dolls at www.devoutdolls.com

My next distraction.

Someone who is, feels like or owns a Ball Chair

A Ricky to play with my Lucy.

A Darrin to my Samantha.

A brave bull fighter who can handle my taurus temper.

Edward Norton

Someone to scratch my back

Girls and boys who love telling stories.

Nick Cage circa Valley Girl. Jarvis Cocker.

The reincarnation of Cary Grant or Clark Gable

Outcasts, beautiful freaks, non-dangerous weirdos.

Anyone and everything related to furniture and mid-century fashion and design.

I would NOT like to meet any self-described "party animals." If you post some sort of survey result on your page that says you are "a totally insane drunk", same thing.

Music:

The Ramones, Green Day, Queen, Sparks, Weezer, The White Stripes, The Smiths, The Killers, The Cocteau Twins, Hank Williams, The Rocky Horror Picture, Show, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Rock Opera, Meatloaf, XTC, D-Generation, Oingo Boingo, The Misfits, Pulp, Aimee Mann, Avril Lavigne, Badly Drawn Boy, Old Britney Spears, Justin Timberlake, Journey, Bjork, The Sugar Cubes, The Cure, Johnny Cash, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis, Nina Simone, Standards, Leonard Cohen, Nick Drake, Coldplay, The Cramps, The Sisters of Mercy, The Jam, Nirvana, Hole, Run DMC and Old School Rap like Grand Master Flash, Classic Country (40s – 70s), Dr. Demento (Especially You Wanna Buy a Bunny), Eminem, Hall and Oats, Jeff Buckley, Jimmy Durante, Kimya Dawson, Joy Division, Lou Reed and the Velvet Underground, Mazzy Star, Peggy Lee, Pink Floyd (but I can’t let myself listen to them too much, because I get suicidal), Stereolab, Boards of Canada, Tribe Called Quest, Waitresses, Josie Cotton, CrackerI'm obsessed with listening to Pandora.com and loving the following favorites (click here to see.)

Movies:

Lars and the Real Girl, Breakfast at Tiffanys, Mommy Dearest, Ghost World, Beyond The Valley of the Dolls, Whose afraid of Virginia Wolf, Bad Santa, All Tarantino, Street Car Named Desire, Breathless, I Married a Monster from Outer Space, Fight Club, The Valley of the Dolls, The Apartment, Anything by Hitchcock, Looking for Mr. Goodbar, La Dolce Vita, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, The Bride of Frankenstein, Some Came Running, Kiss Me, Stupid!, Mostly old Woody Allen, Lolita

Television:

The Office, Big Love, Dirt, the Simpsons, Bewitched, Three's Company, Law & Order (all), King of the Hill, Roseanne, Chappelle Show, Mary Tyler Moore Show, Sabrina the Teenage Witch, The Sopranos, Six Feet Under, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Lavern & Shirley, Mr. Show, My So Called Life, Nip/Tuck

Books:

Lester Bangs, David Sedaris, Chuck Palahniuk, Best American Short Stories, Wally Lamb, Nick Hornby, Lorrie Moore, Sedaris, Tobias Wolf, Raymond Carver, Robert Coover, Augustin Burroughs, Milan Kundera, Edgar Allan Poe, Raymond Chandler, Ray Bradbury

Heroes:

Quentin Tarantino, Richard Pryor, Audrey Hepburn, David Sedaris, Dean Martin, my cat Hannah, Jerry Orbach, Chris Rock, Oscar Wilde, Jerry Seinfeld, Dorothy Parker, Freddie Mercury, me

My Blog

Now that’s using the old noodle!

(Groan. I know. I know.) http://www.explosm.net/db/files/Movies/daveshort2.swf...
Posted by the sLy Spinster on Sat, 16 Feb 2008 01:53:00 PST

Hairy Marys in Skinema

Someone has a fetish. http://aisselles.canalblog.com/
Posted by the sLy Spinster on Sat, 16 Feb 2008 01:51:00 PST

Tired of kiddies dressing as whores for halloween?

Beat the devil by dressing your little one in these non-pagan inspirations! http://www.catholichomeandgarden.com/Catholic_Children%27s_C ostumes.htm...
Posted by the sLy Spinster on Sat, 16 Feb 2008 01:47:00 PST

Is this for real?

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Posted by the sLy Spinster on Sat, 16 Feb 2008 01:01:00 PST

TRUST-WORTHY CAT-SITTER WANTED (stl)

St. Louis animal lovers,I am going on a two-week cruise and my boyfriend and I need someone to house and cat sit.We have five cats. Two of the tough cats pick on two of the timid little cats to the po...
Posted by the sLy Spinster on Sun, 10 Feb 2008 08:47:00 PST

MEOWULF

I like this one better. Do one! (Carol, I know you're down for it.)
Posted by the sLy Spinster on Sat, 05 Jan 2008 04:17:00 PST

B3ta Movie Challenge (Do it!)

I am a member of this cheeky UK Newsletter B3ta. It isn't work friendly, but I highly recommend it. They have this challenge: Take any movie, switch a letter and make a movie poster for it. For exampl...
Posted by the sLy Spinster on Fri, 04 Jan 2008 03:36:00 PST

I AM NOT A CAT PERSON

Or maybe I am.But I am also a dog person. A ferret freak. A bunny lover. A duckling fanatic. The list is endless and all encompassing. I love all animals and am very free with demonstrating that affec...
Posted by the sLy Spinster on Sun, 16 Dec 2007 02:00:00 PST

Muppet mania from YouTube

House of a Thousand MuppetsPulp MuppetsThe MuppetrixAlice Cooper and the Muppets - Schools OUtMore AliceMore Alice (You and Me, my favorite!)Debbie Harry and the Muppets - Call Me (my favorite)More Ha...
Posted by the sLy Spinster on Sun, 04 Nov 2007 12:29:00 PST

More outspoken kitties

Sleepy talking kittyOde to Tuscan Milk
Posted by the sLy Spinster on Sat, 27 Oct 2007 11:47:00 PST