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Cheryl

When things get too heavy, just call me helium, the lightest known gas to man.

About Me

nutty MyGen Profile Generator

My Interests

music, coffee (and the vessels by which I sip it), travel, photography, my girls, art, skiing, witty banter, making reservations under the name "Esmerelda", Pabst Blue Ribbon, shoes, reading, telling passive drivers to go to hell, random and not so random adventure, reading the sunday paper in bed, things that make me snicker, sushi, gin & tonics, yoga, punctuating sentences with "dammit"... n stuff.

I'd like to meet:

Nutty, nuttier, those who would like to be nutty but haven't quite found their inner-nut, those who like nuts...as well as: music listeners, music players, travelers, artists, readers, coffee drinkers, those who enjoy the occasional thumb wrestling match, people who enjoy synapses between their ears, people who aren't sure what synapses means and decide to look it up, whomever that woman who lives in the tippy top of the Smith Tower in Seattle, those who have notable to outstanding time management skills... just to name a few.

Music:

There is SO much... the following merely a sampling: Electric Callas, Wolfmother, Portishead, Nashville Pussy, QOTSA, Johnny Cash, Ziptye, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, BRMC, Etta James, Hellacopters, Pantera, Tomahawk, Nebula, Hendrix, Cramps, Turbonegro, "The Rev", Zeke, Cat Power, T-Rex, Heart, Fu Manchu, The Damned, Herb Alpert, Chignon/Robert Rodriguez, Pink Martini, Metallica, Scorpions, KMFDM, Gotan Project, KISS, Distillers, Eagles of Death Metal, Motley Crue, Spoon, Ween, Pat Benatar, The Kills, Dead Moon, PJ Harvey, Lou Reed, Drive By Truckers, Supersuckers, Sepultura, James Brown, Bowie, Murder City Devils, NIN, Bauhaus, Dead Kennedys, Goldfrapp, Zeke, G n R, Engelbert Humperdink, Circle Jerks, Subset, Morphine, Tenacious D, Motorhead, Amon Tobin, X, Ben Harper, Bikini Kill, Buena Vista Social Club, The Stills, Dresden Dolls, Body Count, Thin Lizzy, Nymphs, Au Pairs, Foetus, Winger, ACDC, Donnie & Marie, White Stripes, Muse, Black Keys, Iggy Pop, The Wipers, Pixies, Slayer, Ramones, New York Dolls, Doors, Dramarama, Radiohead, Pepe and the Bottle Blondes, Miles Davis, Al Green, Soundgarden, flamenco, Mozart, Chopin, Rachid Taha, really anything but modern country and severe rap.

Movies:

This Is Spinal Tap, Blue Velvet, Evil Dead, The Holy Grail, Pi, Y Tu Mama Tambien, Something About Mary, Trainspotting, American Movie, Big Lebowski, Dirty Love, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Napoleon Dynamite, Garden State, Waiting for Guffman, live concerts and documentaries

Television:

I've reinstated the TV fast (on and off)

Books:

plenty by the likes of Charles Bukowski, Anais Nin, William Burroughs, David Sedaris, Ernest Hemmingway, Anthony Bourdain, Martin Amis, Helen Gurley Brown, JD Salinger, Nick Bantock, Adam Gopnik, Jane Austen, EE Cummings, Dorothy Parker, Rabelais, DH Lawrence, Henry Miller, PJ O’Rourke, Augusten Burroughs, Jack Kerouac, Judy Blume, Rock and roll Bio's, coffee table books of photography, travel essays, etc.

Heroes:

my great grandmother

My Blog

Who the hell would name their kid Octavia?

My dear friend, Anne, is having a baby in June.  In preparation for her baby shower, I obtained a baby naming book - focused soley on what "not" to name your baby.   New parents: ...
Posted by Cheryl on Sun, 04 May 2008 10:06:00 PST

Jimi Hendrix Tour

Create your own groovy Jimi Hendrix experience in a tour of the groovy sites I found in Seattle... complete with soundtrack recommendations.  Check it out at Sugarbuzz Magazine - Jimi Hendrix Sea...
Posted by Cheryl on Wed, 16 May 2007 04:59:00 PST

The Head Cat - Live Review

The Head Cat - Live at El Corazon April 11, 2007 If you don't know who these cats are, you're in for a big surprise.  Check out my review for Sugarbuzz Magazine below, darlins. Sugarbuzz Magazine...
Posted by Cheryl on Thu, 26 Apr 2007 11:19:00 PST

23 Questions from "Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs"

Brilliant! Chuck Klosterman's "23 Questions I Ask Everybody I Meet In Order To Decide If I Can Really Love Them" from Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto 1. Let us assume you met a ru...
Posted by Cheryl on Wed, 11 Apr 2007 07:55:00 PST

Heavy Metal Parking Lot!

Its here - Heavy Metal Parking Lot circa 1986 Interviewer: What's your name?Graham: Graham, man, like "gram" of dope and shit.Interviewer: Where are you from?Graham: I'm from, fucking, the West Coast...
Posted by Cheryl on Tue, 20 Feb 2007 08:26:00 PST

The Top 10 Most Ridiculous Black Metal Pics of All Time

This time of year finds us musing over numerous top 10 lists... here is one to put a little chuckle in your black metal snarl. TOP 10 MOST RIDICULOUS BLACK METAL PICS OF ALL TIME Happy New Year!! ~Che...
Posted by Cheryl on Wed, 27 Dec 2006 02:55:00 PST

Endfest 15 - Live Review 2006

107.7 "The End"s  Endfest 15 Featuring:  The Subways, Eagles of Death Metal, Wolfmother, The Mars Volta, and the Red Hot Chili Peppers ... and a pee-pelting incident. Live @ White River Am...
Posted by Cheryl on Sat, 09 Sep 2006 03:51:00 PST

69 Charger plays Madrid - Live Review 2006

*3 masked ninja Spaniards* *The 3-piece kick-ass Dutch band* *2 beer-drinking American women* *1 sweaty rock club in Madrid* Its a punk rock melting pot!  Read about the 69 Charger sho...
Posted by Cheryl on Thu, 31 Aug 2006 11:50:00 PST

Masked monster rock band, Lordi, sweeps Eurovision 2006??

Um... Eurovision's 2006 Song Contest held in Anthens declared Finnish Horror Rock, Lordi, their song contest winner.  The artic circle hamlet of Rovaniemi, Lordi's homedown, will name a square af...
Posted by Cheryl on Fri, 25 Aug 2006 10:52:00 PST

Midnight Idols, Space Cretins, Mustard: Live Review 2006

Whew!  I've been a busy gal this summer.  The suitcase is unpacked and family dispersed... and I'm catching up with some writing.   The latest... 3 rockin Seattle bands Rock it an...
Posted by Cheryl on Mon, 14 Aug 2006 08:13:00 PST