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~AngstKatze~

Behind every door is a dream and a nightmare....

About Me

I am a social worker, grad student, military brat, desert rat, only-child, a survivor, open-minded, rational when I'm not anxious and anxious when I'm not rational, sometimes comfortably numb, soft but also hard, shower regularly, in need of a good laugh often, nurturing, searching agnostic, traveling sponge, Auslanderin in my own country, vegetarian but not nazi about it!, an animal lover and a gun lover, and balance-seeker. I burn easily and I live in the desert. However, chocolate and time can heal all wounds.... This profile was edited with Thomas' myspace editor™ V2.5

My Interests

human behavior, social work, social theory, community activism, community organization, public policy, non-profit organizations, mental health, developmental disabilities, my Scottish/German/French heritage, family geneology, ancestors, archeology, Der Vaterland, travel, alternative medicine, wing chun kung fu, acupressure massage, Chinese medicine and Acupuncture, Taoism, tatoos, skiing, camping, hiking, mountain biking, animal rights, domestic violence, white-collar crime, folklore, native cultures, natural disasters, spirituality, ghosts and ghost towns, music that bleeds or mends, philosophy, political theory and third parties, deviant groups and individuals, poetry, Victorian antiques, vintage clothing, gothic and lolita fashion, American prison riots, social and cultural revolutions, landscape and industrial photography, art history, yoga, dance, and friends and lovers with a conscience...which I am lucky to have....;)

Music:

Lush, Cocteaus, Cranes, Front 242, Siouxsie, Thelonious Monk, Pixies, riot girl, Fugazi, Sparta, Joy Division, Cure, DM, Recoil, Radiohead, Rachmaninov, flamenco, Swans and side projects, Projekt Pitchfork, Public Enemy, Covenant, Tori Amos, Cowboy Junkies, PJ Harvey, U2, Beasties, Apoptygma Bezerk, Xymox, Birthday Massacre, Club 8, Nick Cave, Billie Holiday, Cole Porter, Black Flag, Misfits, Ramones, Descendants, Exploited, Dropkick Murphys, Flogging Molly, The Smiths, The Clash, Morrisey, New Order, Man Or Astro-Man, I Synthesist, Pailhead, Ministry, Built To Spill, The Who, Nico, Velvet Underground, Duran Duran, Sonic Youth, Morphine, Fantomas, Galaxie 500, Magic Hour, Snog, Bauhaus, Tones on Tail, Love and Rockets, Die Toten Hosen, Rammstein, Drunkness, The Church, Legendary Pink Dots, Sundays, Bjork, The Specials, B-52s, Social Distortion, Nekromantix, Rev. Horton Heat, New Model Army, Agent Orange, INXS, The Drags, The Cramps, Kulturshock, Liz Phair, Battery, The Damned, XTC, X, VNV Nation, And One, Camoflage, Mesh, Nina Hagen, Bikini Kill, Tribe Called Quest, Assemblage 23, Information Society, Portished, Dead Can Dance, Massive Attack, goth, industrial, old punk, first wave ska and reggae, surf, brit pop, dark wave, EBM, trip hop, jazz standards, opera, classical guitar and piano, pretty much anything with heart....

Movies:

American Hist. X, Gladiator, Beetlejuice, The Shining, Handmaid's Tale, Trainspotting, Angels and Insects, Pulp Fiction, Donnie Darko, American Beauty, Kids, Shawshank Redemption, Heavenly Creatures, Psycho, The Mission, Boy's Don't Cry, Photographing Fairies, The Pillowbook, Pumpkin, Amelie', Big Fish, Harold and Maude, What's Eating Gilbert Grape?, Bladerunner, Star Wars, Serenity, Resident Evil, Sante Sangre, May, The Eye, Shower, Ma Vie en Rose, Cinema Paradiso, City of the Lost Children, Metropolis, The Hunger, Neverending Story, Monthy Python's The Meaning of Life, Braincandy, kung fu movies, Sleepy Hollow, Buffalo 66, Fast Cheap and Out of Control, The Devil's Backbone, Joderowski, Kurosawa, Dario Argenta, James Bond flix, Rear Window, Nightmare Before Christmas, Ninja Scroll, Cowboy Bebop, Watership Down, and on and on....

Television:

Kids In the Hall, old ER and X-Files, Farscape, Stargate, That 70's show, Free Speech TV, Sopranos, The Daily Show, oh...and I HATE REALITY TV SHOWS!

Books:

Even Cowgirls Get the Blues, Tao Teh Ching, The Web That Has No Weaver, Memoirs Of A Geisha, Generation X, Cat's Cradle, Story of O, The Plague, any Kafka, Beowulf, Plato's The Republic, Angela's Ashes, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Naked Lunch, The Thief Of Always, Communist Manifesto, the Bible, The Jungle, The Yellow Wallpaper, Do Andoids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Accordian Crimes, The Secret Garden, Diary of a Madman, The Doors of Perception, Lies My Teacher Told Me, The McDonaldization of Society, Albert Speer and his Search for Truth, Sudden Fiction, The Tao of Pooh, social theory, The Devil's Butchershop, and on and on....

Heroes:

my Dad, my .357, Anastasia Romanov... Cleopatra Maria Theresa of Hapsburg Jane Addams Franz Kafka and.... ancestors remembered....