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athena

A man waits a long time for a vision. Might go his whole lifetime and never get one. And along comes

About Me

Despite the fact that I'm terrible at returning phone calls and messages my friends still like me for some reason.

My Interests

reading books, anishinaabemowin, art(!), beadwork, being bad, being good, burritos, patios, powwows, comics, video games, coffee, rasslin, being with my familia, geeky sh*t, improv, politics, lacrosse, sleeping, getting in and out of trouble, mythology, decolonization, making people laugh, lucha libre, writing stuff down, dreaming, crank calling band offices, damned dirty apes, ifc

I'd like to meet:


Which John Cusack Are You?

Music:

Ben Harper, George Strait, Frank Sinatra, The Roots, Tupac, Northern Cree, Bear Creek, The Boyz, Cozad, Derek Miller, Snow Patrol, John Butler Trio, The Smiths, Jack Johnson, The Pharcyde, Prince, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Pearl Jam, Los Lonely Boys, Bobby Womack, Tori Amos, Al Green, Sam Cooke, DMB, Ryan Adams, Manic Street Preachers, Ozomatli, High Noon, Stevie Wonder, Amos Lee, Mary J. Blige, The Killers, George Leach, John Mayer, Common, GNR, Jimi Hendrix, Outkast, Robert Randolph, John Legend, Amy Winehouse

Movies:

Star Wars, The Godfather, Heat, Casino, Any Given Sunday, anything by Kevin Smith, Scarface, Boyz N The Hood, Friday, Anchorman, Old School, Kill Bill 1 & 2, Sin City, Pulp Fiction, Jackie Brown, Say Anything, Love Actually, The Birdcage, The Warriors, Predator, Con Air, Harry Potter, Whale Rider, American History X, Beautiful Girls, High Fidelity, Delirious, Almost Famous, Six Degrees of Separation, Thunderheart (:D), Gone With The Wind, Amadeus, Fox & the Hound, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Tombstone, Rocky, Goodfellas, Bull Durham, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Dazed & Confused, Lord of the Rings, The Breakfast Club, Stand By Me, The Longest Yard, Purple Rain, Good Will Hunting, Dreamgirls

Television:

House, Veronica Mars, Without A Trace, Miami Ink, My So Called Life, Dawson's Creek, Rescue Me, Family Guy, The Boondocks, 24, Clone High, Golden Girls, 90210, The OC, CSI, The Muppet Show, Y&R, Friday Night Lights, Newsradio

Books:

Tomson Highway, Hunter S. Thompson, Louise Erdrich, Sherman Alexie, Ian Ross, Calvin & Hobbes, Douglas Coupland, almost anything American PoliSci, Orson Scott Card, Neil Strauss, Chuck Klosterman, Giles Blunt, Eden Robinson, The Hagakure, Umberto Eco, Khaled Hosseini, Robert Munsch, Steven Covey, Bret Easton Ellis, James Patterson, Harlan Coben, Harper Lee, Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez, Megan McCafferty, Stephenie Meyer, James Ellroy, Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, James Earl Jones reads the Old Testament(TM), Taiaiake Alfred, Joseph Boyden, Stephen King, Toni Morrison, Salman Rushdie, N. Scott Momaday, Neil Gaiman

Heroes:

Gandhi, Che, George Strait

My Blog

bored like my sista :)

1. What does your MySpace quote mean?-its my favorite ndn movie quote2. Elaborate on your default photo:-my big head3. Who is the first person on your top 8?-d...
Posted by athena on Thu, 19 Jul 2007 05:44:00 PST

cherish bringin the funny

This girl is so funny. Behold..... ...
Posted by athena on Fri, 22 Jun 2007 10:23:00 PST

oh my god i've watched a lot of bad movies

SUPPOSEDLY if you've seen over 85 movies, you have no life.Mark the ones you've seen. There are 266 movies on this list. Copy this list and re-post it. Then, put x's next to the movies you've seen, ad...
Posted by athena on Wed, 04 Apr 2007 03:14:00 PST

tonite we say goodbye to a very special friend

So the OC ends tonite....which makes me sad but sometimes its better to end things when they don't completely suck. (That would be season 3....)It's been there for the best of times and worst of times...
Posted by athena on Thu, 22 Feb 2007 10:02:00 PST

don't bring a bigfoot in my house gus you're scaring the childrens

This whole weekend has to go down as one of the best in recent memory.. The shortlist goes as follows:-went to rama to hang out in the middle of a snowstorm (doh!) and had an awesome time. won lots o...
Posted by athena on Mon, 22 Jan 2007 03:57:00 PST

music is peter's life

Body: 1. Put your music player on shuffle. 2. Press forward for each question. 3. Use the song title as the answer to the question. No cheating! -----------------------------------------------------...
Posted by athena on Mon, 04 Dec 2006 01:18:00 PST

this one's for you des

Since I can't sleep.............1.You and Jesus go out to dinner - who pays?I'd like to think that Jesus and I were not out on a date (cuz that's just wierd) and split the check properly like all good...
Posted by athena on Thu, 02 Nov 2006 04:25:00 PST

the I-Test

yet another fine meme (courtesy of Jen Lancaster) I'M AMAZED& when people take the time to share positive thoughts rather than bitchin and moaningI DOUBT& I'll catch up on my sleep anytime soon I CAN'...
Posted by athena on Mon, 23 Oct 2006 04:53:00 PST