RIP Irving Sheldon Karpe May 13, 1929-July 3, 2008

About Me

There is absolutely no way to describe myself in one paragraph, and I like it that way.

okay, I'll try one last time: long >enter color of the moment here< hair, green eyes, olive skin, freckles, short, curvy, (NOT FAT), girlie tomboy, music, movies, comic books, internet, art, zines, roadtrips, SAR-CAS-TIC, rugged, delicate, fun, smart, cool as hell, antisocial ex-cheerleader, linguist, classically trained opera singer, emo-indie-punk-folk, funk-jazz-reggae, randomly break out into family guy, simpsons, 80's rap, obscure music or movie quotes... conversations with myself about imagined scenarios, and no, you will have no idea what's going on, which is fine... neither do I. Expect the unexpected.
Oh yeah, and I've got a little girl, Abigail RosaLeigh, and a wonderful man, Jesse, to raise her with. I am very blessed... I had to go 10,000 miles away to find him in Jerusalem Hostel (Jerusalem, Israel), but it was well worth it to have them both in my life today. Very blessed =)
S Sophisticated
E Earthy
L Loving
E Entertaining
N Nerdy
A Astounding
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My Interests

Music, movies, the stage, shows, animals, sunrise, springtime skirts, caramel macchiatos, making art, comic books, piercings, summer picinics, late-night talks, debates, drunken poker, writing, passion, fun, coffee, tea, concerts, road trips, sushi, skiing, travel, languages, my faith, meditation, good books, and even better friends.

I'd like to meet:

I'm an interesting, intelligent, artistic and passionate person. I like to meet people who can appreciate and complement these features. I have a wry and sarcastic sense of humor, and I expect others get that about me. "Music is my life". If you know what I mean, then we're friends automatically.

Music:

Ani DiFranco
Bangles, The
Beatles, The
Benny Goodman
Billie Holiday
Boomkat
Bush
Cardigans
Coldplay
Corrs, The
Count Bassie
Counting Crows
Cranberries
Cure, The
Dead Susan
David Bowie
Doors, The
Duke Ellington
Ella Fitzgerald
Etta James
Far From Even
Fiona Apple
Fleetwood Mac
Foo Fighters
Fresh Batch
Green Day
Get Up Kids, The
Guster
James Taylor
Jason Mraz
Jewel
Jimmy Eat World
Jimi Hendrix
Jivemind
Johnny Lang
Joni Mitchell
Juliana Theory, The
Kinks, The
Led Zeppelin
Lenny Kravitz (so hot, want to touch the body)
Miles Davis
Modest Mouse
Moody Blues, The
Morrison
No Doubt
Obertones, The
Overdrives, The
Pavement
Placebo
Pink Floyd
Pixies, The
Radiohead
Rancid
REM
Robert Miles
Sarah Mclachlan
Save Ferris
Scooter
Self
Smashing Pumkins
Smiths, The
Soul Coughing
Teenage Girls, The
U2
Used, The
Unmarked Cars, The
Velvet Underground
Weakerthans, The
Weezer
Wilco
(more to be continued)

Movies:

8MM
10 Things I Hate About You
American History X
Believer, The
Benny and Joon
Boondock Saints
Breakfast Club, The
Chasing Amy
Crow, The
Cure, The
Dark Crystal
Dead Poets Society
Detroit Rock City
Donnie Darko
Empire Records
Enemy of the State
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Fight Club
Foxfire
Ghost and the Darkness, The
Goonies
Grosse Pointe Blank
Hackers
High Fidelity
Hook
James Bond
Keeping the Faith
Labyrinth
Last Unicorn, The
Legend
Legend of Bagger Vance, The
Life is Beautiful
Lord of the Rings, The
Newsies
Mallrats
Mask of Zorro, The
Meet Joe Black
Memento
Monty Python
Moulin Rouge
Office Space
Original Sin
Oxygen
Patch Adams
Princess Bride, The
Professional, The
Pushing Tin
Reality Bites
Requiem for a Dream
Return to Me
Rocky Horror Picture Show, The
Run Lola Run
Saint, The
Say Anything
Seven
Simon Birch
Sixteen Candles
SLC Punk
Snatch
Spaceballs
Star Wars
Stigmata
Suicide Kings
Trainspotting
What Dreams May Come
Willow
(more to be continued)
And anything with Angelina Jolie, Ed Norton, Val Kilmer, Robin Williams, Julia Stiles, Adrien Brody, John Cusack, Janeane Garofalo, Christopher Walken, Sean Patrick Flannery, Ewan McGregor ...

Television:

I do my best not to watch tv... but when I do, The Family Guy, Will and Grace, Friends, That 70s Show, Smallville, Space Ghost (coast to coast), Adult Swim, Trading Spaces, (more to be continued)

Heroes:

My mom for leaving my dad. She and I don't get along 99% of the time but she's all the hero I need.... although I wouldn't mind if that guy from smallville rescued me once in a while.
heh... and Quagmire... aaaaaaawlriiiight, giggity giggity, OH!

My Blog

the mommy survey: my first born...

Here you go mommies- a survey all about your first born! WAS YOUR FIRST PREGNANCY PLANNED? sort ofWERE YOU MARRIED AT THE TIME? noWHAT WERE YOUR REACTIONS? nervous, happy, worriedHOW OLD WERE YOU? 23H...
Posted by RIP Irving Sheldon Karpe May 13, 1929-July 3, 2008 on Fri, 13 Apr 2007 08:17:00 PST

Abigail RosaLeigh's Birth

Well, the first pictures are finally up... and while I have a moment, I figure I'll get some of the details down... Having waited nearly 2 weeks from her due date, I was admitted to the hospital for a...
Posted by RIP Irving Sheldon Karpe May 13, 1929-July 3, 2008 on Wed, 07 Mar 2007 11:22:00 PST

DANG, I'm grumpy... and overwhelmed, and anxious, and...

nervous... I'm sneezy, and dopey, not bashful or doc or happy (but not wholly unhappy)... but I'm sleepy and a bunch of other dwarf-ish like names...I'm due in something like 3 weeks and 5 days.. but ...
Posted by RIP Irving Sheldon Karpe May 13, 1929-July 3, 2008 on Thu, 18 Jan 2007 02:46:00 PST

Week 32

'By now, your baby probably weighs almost 4 pounds and is almost 17 inches long, taking up a lot of space in your uterus. He has tiny toenails now, and his fingernails have grown in, too......'....Yo...
Posted by RIP Irving Sheldon Karpe May 13, 1929-July 3, 2008 on Sat, 23 Dec 2006 02:40:00 PST

Preggy!

6 months, in fact... and now I have to come up with a girl name 'cause Jesse was wrong... we're having a grrrrrl... or at least that's what the last ultrasound looked like. If you know any good girl n...
Posted by RIP Irving Sheldon Karpe May 13, 1929-July 3, 2008 on Sun, 15 Oct 2006 11:54:00 PST

oy!

I haven't posted in more than 6 months, and I'm not about to fill everyone in on everything all at once... but I'll give a very brief overview... the main reasons I haven't posted a blog recently are:...
Posted by RIP Irving Sheldon Karpe May 13, 1929-July 3, 2008 on Thu, 31 Aug 2006 03:36:00 PST

off I go again

haven't been in egypt for a while.. Jesse and I are going back tonight to meet our australian for his birthday... if you have no idea what I'm talking about... good, I like it that way... if I don't p...
Posted by RIP Irving Sheldon Karpe May 13, 1929-July 3, 2008 on Sat, 04 Feb 2006 07:48:00 PST

Consider This My "AWAY MESSAGE"

For new arrivals... I leave for Israel Dec 15th with no definite date of return... don't be afraid to leave me messages, but don't be offended if they aren't returned immediately. For friends I didn't...
Posted by RIP Irving Sheldon Karpe May 13, 1929-July 3, 2008 on Wed, 14 Dec 2005 01:30:00 PST

emotional

Sometimes the heart's capacity to love is so overwhelming that it feels as if your soul is being rend assunder at the simplest of acts... a smile, a laugh, a tumble, a cry... my heart which lacked in ...
Posted by RIP Irving Sheldon Karpe May 13, 1929-July 3, 2008 on Tue, 06 Dec 2005 12:51:00 PST

Kol Nidrai, Rachmana, Love, Tears, Forgiveness, and all things

This night, to me, is one of the most telling of all in the jewish faith... I sang the cantorial part of a couple pieces, backed by the choral society in my schul this evening, and while I was entirel...
Posted by RIP Irving Sheldon Karpe May 13, 1929-July 3, 2008 on Thu, 13 Oct 2005 12:14:00 PST