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lain of spades

21 years rockin' KnoxVegas, TN, United States

About Me


i am just lain. i'm a wonderful gal. i've always been an acquired taste, brash for some and charming for others. i'm notorious for my curiosity, so that means i'll ask you questions which sometimes make you uncomfortable. i'm a conglomeration of everyone i've ever known, which explains quite a few of my interests. that might make me a little unoriginal, but i'm okay with that; i am a nostalgic creature by heart. my honesty is brutal and candid, especially with myself. you should try me out because i'm not your cookie-cutter version of a girl...
it seems i am forever busy, but i don't really stress about it anymore. i'm just trying to figure it all out, like everyone else. i'm interested in teaching paleoanthropology, so i transferred from UT Martin to the main UT campus here in knoxville...among other reasons. my goal is to keep loving everything and roll with the punches, because i think everything will be quite alright in the end.
Advanced Global Personality Test Results
Extraversion |||||||||||||| 60%
Stability |||||||||||||||||||| 90%
Orderliness |||||||||||||||| 66%
Accommodation |||||||||||||||||||| 90%
Interdependence |||||||||||||||||||| 90%
Intellectual |||||||||||||||||||| 90%
Mystical |||||||||||||||||| 76%
Artistic |||||||||||||||||| 76%
Religious |||||||||||||||||||| 90%
Hedonism |||| 16%
Materialism || 10%
Narcissism |||||||||||| 43%
Adventurousness |||||||||||||||| 63%
Work ethic |||||||||||||||||||| 90%
Self absorbed || 10%
Conflict seeking || 10%
Need to dominate || 10%
Romantic |||||||||||||||||||| 90%
Avoidant |||||||||||| 50%
Anti-authority || 10%
Wealth |||||||||| 36%
Dependency |||||||||||||||||||| 83%
Change averse || 10%
Cautiousness |||||||||||||||||||| 90%
Individuality |||||||||||||||||||| 90%
Sexuality |||||||||||||||||||| 90%
Peter pan complex |||||||||| 36%
Physical security |||||||||||||||||| 76%
Physical Fitness |||||||||||||||||||| 84%
Histrionic || 10%
Paranoia |||||||||||||||||| 76%
Vanity || 10%
Hypersensitivity |||| 16%
Female cliche |||||||||| 36%♠ ♠ ♠ ♠ ♠ ♠ ♠ ♠ ♠ ♠ ♠ ♠ ♠ ♠ ♠ ♠ ♠ ♠ ♠ ♠ ♠ ♠ ♠ ♠
Shalaine --
[noun]:
A hard-core grave robber
'How will you be defined in the dictionary?' at QuizGalaxy.com..

My Interests

anything curious, as Alice from the Wonderland would say. i have a fascination with the appearance of playing cards. i enjoy incredible physical activity, a cozy bed, all sorts of games, movies, and books. i take most of my habits from the japanese and find myself enthralled by their culture. i enjoy a beautiful tale with as much sadness as happiness. i enjoy MORE the people who can create those tales. i am interested in people and connecting with them. i like flying kites, button string, a good laugh, all those timeless things. i also use to be an avid world of warcraft junkie on the malygos server, and if i get time i'll play again...go figure, eh? i like to play oblivion, spyro, rock band, most rpgs, atari, old school nintendo, psp...like me and my katamari, etc. i've played every game system known, and my favorites are still atari and nintendo and any playstation. i'm not that fond of the wii or xbox as much. i like to change my appearance as much as i can, simply because i can, and because i think it's important i'm loved for my personality and not my looks...since they can change literally overnight. i think that covers it all now. cheers!

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I'd like to meet:

i love people who dream. i have the habit of trying to help people reach their dreams, or at least wanting to support them heartily. i like confident people that make me laugh and tell me wonderful stories. i like people similar to myself, but can inspire me by just being REAL. people with life experience yet a whimsical quality catch my eye...those with imagination to create have always charmed me. i make friends for life and i am dogged in my constant love for those friends. i would like to meet anyone who has ever spent time in another's shoes.

Music:

my favorite band is Nine Inch Nails; play me just a tiny clip, even if NIN is with Manson or Bowie or just instrumental, and i'll know immediately who it is and what song it is...with mostly the base line. i have trouble listening to NIN these days, however, because it makes me really comfortable and sleepy...and that's not good, say, when you are driving. ;P
Bayside (what amazing lyrics!)
Say Anything (eloquent)

...and in no particular order:
Tool
A Perfect Circle
Violent Femmes
The Decemberists
The Plain White T's
REM
Weezer
U2
Radiohead
Soul Asylum
The Red Hot Chili Peppers
Sting
Everclear
No Doubt, the 90's stuff, not this new stuff
Goo Goo Dolls
Sublime
The Clash
The Sex Pistols
Stone Temple Pilots
Pearl Jam
Cake
Sins of Thy Beloved
Jag Panzer
Billy Idol
The Killers
Alanis Morissette
My Morning Jacket
The Ramones
Gin Blossoms
Cold Play
Dave Matthews Band
Alkaline Trio
Ricky Lee Jones
Amy Winehouse
Lily Allen
Nicleback
Cursive
Incubus
Tonic
Deftones
Blue October
Rollins Band
Fuel
Dream Theater
The Bloodhound Gang
Bad Religion
and on and on and on...it really could take all day. i mostly listen to genres and lyrics. i love early 80's rock, and i adore the alternative movement of the 90's. i only really like 70's punk, but i'll give some of the new stuff a whirl. my favorite rock is industrial; i like emo only if the lyrics are for a more mature crowd...rather than super whiney. recently, i've been getting into indie because i still play the flute...i have to appreciate the interesting sounds of a more harmonic genre. i only like rap that you play at parties, willie nelson is the extent of my country, and i'll listen to techno but i won't love it unless it's more industrial.
whew! as you can see, i love me some music!

Movies:

i think my number one favorite movie is Stardust. there's been a lot of movies that have come out that i really adore, so i'll just break it down and then give you a list like everything else that won't cover it all. i like irony. it's my favorite type of humor, so any movie with irony. give me a movie about something from a comic book and i'm there...and i won't even bitch too much about continuity, since i'm just happy they got the idea out there. i like sad movies, but not really chick flicks as much *yawn*. i think the worst movie ever made was Ghost Dog. bleh.
Milo and Otis,
Sin City,
Fight Club,
The Lord of the Rings Trilogy,
old Star Wars...the new are great but not my favorites,
A Clockwork Orange,
Cannibal the Musical,
Evil Dead I and II,
Army of Darkness,
House of Flying Daggers,
Hero,
lain:serial experiments,
Haibane Renmei,
King Kong (new),
all films by Tim Burton...especially Sleepy Hollow and Edward Scissorhands,
Reservoir Dogs,
all films by Sam Rami,
Troma films,
Vanilla Sky,
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind,
Inuyasha...only on DVD set in Japanese,
The Phantom of the Opera,
Animal House,
A Beautiful Mind,
Cowboy Bebob...only episodes on DVD set in Japanese not the movie as much,
All zombie movies (frightens the hell out of me),
Donnie Darko,
Drop Dead Fred,
The Shining (older),
Misty Munday Sisters,
Mad Max,
Memento,
The Labyrinth,
anything by Henson,
Spiderman I and II,
Equilibrium,
American Psycho,
Leon the Professional,
High Tension (oh, god, the sounds in this film!),
Dark City,
The First Matrix,
Hamlet (Mel Gibson),
Anything with Helena Bonham Carter,
Johnny Depp,
Takeshi Kaneshiro,
Zhang Ziyi,
The Pink Flamingos with Divine and Eddie the Egg Lady,
American Beauty,
Superman Returns,
High Fidelity,
Memoirs of a Geisha,
Secretary,
The Punisher,
so many more!

Television:

Most anime as long as it is not bastardized by english...my flaw is that i also love hentai, The Colbert Report, The Daily Show, Futurama, Dave Chappell Show, Discovery Channel Specials, Shin Chan, Robot Chicken, any stand up comedian, George Lopez, South Park, TCM specials, Dead Like Me, Family Guy, Drawn Together, CSI, other random things...i didn't use to like watching television, but long days at work have cured that. i can't stand any type of reality tv show...at all, nor can i tolerate the news, and i stopped watching mTV when they stopped having rock music videos. bastards...i miss pop-up videos from vh1, for sure.
I AM A HUGE, HUGE FAN OF FRIENDS, i just can't help it.

Books:

The Fountainhead (my life in literature),
ANYTHING by Neil Gaiman,
Alan Moore,
Hunter S. Thompson,
Chuck Palanhuik,
H.P. Lovecraft,
Terry Prachett,
Robert Jordan,
Brian Jacques,
Frank Miller,
Garth Ennis,
Jake Brown,
Dr. Seuss,
Drew Hampton,
Frank Herbert,
J.R.R. Tolkein,
Stephen Jay Gould,
Kurt Vonnegut,
Anne McCafferty,
William Blake,
Wesley Austin Kinslow,
Mattie Davenport,
George Orwell,
The Grapes of Wrath,
The Jungle (Upton Sinclair),
The Origin of Species (even though it is pretty boring),
Great Expectations,
Watership Down,
Life on the Mississippi,
The Heart of Darkness,
Notre Dame de Paris,
Lolita,
To Kill a Mockingbird,
Dr. Bill Bass,
Jane Eyre,
Shakespeare,
John Milton,
Steinbeck,
Jack London,
Arthur Conan Doyle,
Plato,
Jules Verne,
Charles Dickens,
Edgar Allen Poe,
Frankenstein,
Last of the Mohicans,
Nathaniel Hawthorne,
Vanity Fair,
Wuthering Heights,
Richard E. Leakey,
any comic book I can get my hands on
.....................Hundreds more...
i work here now:
http://mckaybooks.com

Heroes:

my very close friends. my life is for you, always has been. i can never forget you or let you go. i will always love you and wish only to make you proud to have known me.

My Blog

she works hard for the money...

ok, here's an update. i've been so frustrated lately because i've been all over town, putting in applications EVERYWHERE. i've been offered shitty pay or not called back at all. hell, i could take the...
Posted by lain of spades on Thu, 17 Apr 2008 03:16:00 PST

hamptons and wolves

so, i don't know if i woke myself with the musings that are to follow, how happy i was in my dream, my heartburn, my cat making herself painfully comfortable upon my body, or my throbbing legs. yet i ...
Posted by lain of spades on Sat, 12 Apr 2008 01:19:00 PST

Dr. Bill Bass

dr. bill bass.creator of ’the facility’, given the name ’the body farm’ here in knoxville, tn. bill bass was the department head for over 20 years in the antropology department...
Posted by lain of spades on Fri, 28 Mar 2008 10:54:00 PST

my studies...if you’ve the time, enjoy!

these are some of the things that i’ve been using as external media sources in my sociological and anthropological studies. yes, i’ve watched them many, many times. i wanted to put them in...
Posted by lain of spades on Wed, 26 Mar 2008 11:04:00 PST

firefly

so, i just finished getting to watch firefly finally. i know, i know...i live under a rock, it can’t be helped...i just get to be patient and wait for everything to have been out for forever bef...
Posted by lain of spades on Mon, 24 Mar 2008 06:03:00 PST

i miss you

you'll park far away at this time of year. when you get to the glass doors, they'll open inward. despite whatever you might see along the asiles, keep walking. stay on the path. if you remember nothin...
Posted by lain of spades on Thu, 28 Feb 2008 01:14:00 PST

the ride’s been wild, and we haven’t yet reached the top...

this will be shorter than usual...i don't have much time and i'm exhausted. so, for those that didn't know, i only stayed half the time at my dig. that really got me down, but i was completely miserab...
Posted by lain of spades on Thu, 23 Aug 2007 09:19:00 PST

WoW geology project videos from YouTube

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Posted by lain of spades on Thu, 26 Apr 2007 12:06:00 PST

and i take the first step of a million more, and i make mistakes i've never made before...

welcome back. i say that to myself. i think i am starting to be glad to be back from knoxville. of course, i cannot wait to begin my new life in that city. knoxville was absolutely spectacular. there ...
Posted by lain of spades on Wed, 28 Mar 2007 02:39:00 PST

well, you know

did you expect it all to stop at the wave of your hand?like the sun's just gonna drop,if it's night you demand.well, in the dark we're just air,so the house might dissolve.Once we're gone,whose gonna ...
Posted by lain of spades on Wed, 31 Jan 2007 08:50:00 PST