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Momma Rick

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My Interests

Music, photography, my dogs (and cats), travel, water, Museums, Halloween, gardening, politics, spiders, hanging out with little kids, hating George Bush and the Republican party.

I'd like to meet:

Interesting people who know stuff and other closeted nerds. People who like to draw pictures... (please do)..

Music:

The Beatles are truly the best band in the world, Flaming lips, Pavement, Yo La Tengo, The Replacements, Janes Addiction, GBV, Bowie, Breeders, T-Rex, Bright Eyes, Spoon, Veruca Salt, Wilco, 360's, Grandaddy, BRMC, Air, Nick Drake, Elliot Smith, Love, Miles Davis, Bad 80's Pop, Velvet Underground, A.C. Newman, Sebedoh, My Bloody Valentine, Gorillaz, Sparklehorse, Depeche Mode, Stereolab, Lemonheads, Sufjan Stevens, Jeff Buckley, Scissor Sisters, Big Star, Mercury Rev, Iggy and the Stooges, Ella Fitsgerald, Beach Boys, Neutral Milk Hotel, Pixies, Radiohead, Sparklehorse, Prince and the Revolution, Built to Spill, Cheap Trick, Polyphonic Spree, "The Swing Years and Beyond" on KUOW, Dinosaur Jr, Soundtrack of our Lives, Elvis Costello, The Shins, Belle and Sebastian, Sonic Youth..

Movies:

The Red Balloon, The 5000 Fingers of Dr T, McCabe& Mrs Miller, Return to Oz, The House of Yes, Little Darlings, Metropolis, Wizard of Oz, Eat Drink Man Woman, Peter Greenaway films, Jules and Jim, Henry Fool, Wes Anderson films, The Man Who Fell to Earth, To Die For, Bob Roberts, This Is Spinal Tap, Amalie, Run Lola Run, The Princess Bride, Flirting, Ma Vie en Rose, Invasion of the Bee Girls, Son of the Shark, Heavenly Creatures, Iron Giant, The Outsiders, Being John Malkovich, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Star Wars, Zoolander, Waking Ned Devine, Welcome to the Doll House, anything with a young Goldie Hawn, The Ice Storm, Napoleon Dynamite, The Madness of King George, Clueless, Spirited Away, Roger and Me, Lost in Translation, Woody Allen Films, Naked Lunch, Baji on the Beach, My Life as a Dog, cheesy 70's pseudo porn, Il Postine, Best in Show, High Fidelity, Twin Falls Idaho...

Television:

That's My Bush, Mash, The Office, Family Guy, Daily Show, Pete ane Pete, The State, Washington Week in Review, Beat the Geeks, Sifl and Ollie, Sesame Street, Father Ted, DS9, Bewitched, Arrested Development, Frontline, The Monkees, Battle Bots, Wonder Woman, Simpsons, Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom, Freaks and Geeks, Let's Bowl, Zoom, Next Generation, South Park, Colbert Report.. Why do they always cancel my favorite shows???

Books:

David Sedaris, Roald Dahl, Gary Trudeau, Iva Pekarova, Jane Austin, Tom Robbins, Madeline L'Engle, Ursula Le Guinn, Judy Blume, Ray Bradbury, Harper Lee, S.E Hinton, Willa Cather, Michael Moore, Bebe Moore Campbell, Issac Asimof, Nicholson Baker, Samuel Clemmins, Pearl Buck, Linda Barry, Sherry S.Tepper, Carolyn Keene, Mary Dorian Russel, Al Frankin...

Heroes:

Elvis, Hieronynus Bosch, the color orange, Gary Trudeau, and Wonder Woman

My Blog

sippy cup of wine..

Once in a while, as I am experiencing yet another totally unpected moment (RE calamity) within my new role of Mommy, I think- this would make a great blog, what an odd little story- I should totally s...
Posted by Momma Rick on Mon, 19 May 2008 01:32:00 PST

Pee on Demand

-an apology to everyone who dislikes the cliche of the potty training story, I can't help myself..I got peed on the other day, Brian got tagged last Saturday- it's all part of the wonderful world of p...
Posted by Momma Rick on Sat, 19 Apr 2008 11:17:00 PST

Late night babble

OK, so I lied in the last Blog about finding more MySpace time- I'm still getting the hang of this whole parentinthood thing.. I feel like I should have it all together by now, balancing the whole ho...
Posted by Momma Rick on Thu, 17 Apr 2008 12:30:00 PST

I’ve got two eyes..

1,2, and they’re both the same size.. 1,2.. This is some of the music that plays in my head recently. We watch about 30 minutes of TV a night, at this point it’s either two SpongeBobs (w...
Posted by Momma Rick on Sat, 15 Mar 2008 11:29:00 PST

Where am I??

I have ceased to exist for a time. I'm a news junkie, but get no news- no NPR, no daily paper reading, I'm lucky if we watch two daily shows a week. (and in a freaking election year!) I love music,...
Posted by Momma Rick on Fri, 08 Feb 2008 10:33:00 PST

The little strangers

..that live in my house are not so strange to me anymore. It's been 11 days as parents, and I have to admit, we've made mistakes- but the learning curve is pretty steep, and I hope thet we're catchin...
Posted by Momma Rick on Fri, 01 Feb 2008 12:13:00 PST

7 1/2 hours

from now the kids are going to wake up.. if I'm lucky. What will probably happen (if one evening in a hotel and last night at home is any indicator) is that I will have bizarre but vivid dreams until...
Posted by Momma Rick on Tue, 22 Jan 2008 11:27:00 PST

Baby Shower..

OK, so they aren't babies, but they're going to be OUR babies! Brian and I were selected on January 8th to be parents of a two little girls, Rose- 3 and Lizzie- almost two. It's all moving so fast r...
Posted by Momma Rick on Tue, 15 Jan 2008 12:22:00 PST

Fancyland

Yeah, I'm in a super georgeous hotel in Portland right now- The Heathman, one of the "best" in the world according to some magazines (rooms are a bit loud and stuffy but what did the old railroad baro...
Posted by Momma Rick on Sun, 23 Dec 2007 08:46:00 PST

R.I.P. Croc

This makes me so very sad, the death of the cool old Belltown. We had some good times there huh?Seattle's Crocodile Cafe closesBy JOHN MARSHALLP-I REPORTERCrocodile Cafe, R.I.P.Saturday night, the Be...
Posted by Momma Rick on Thu, 20 Dec 2007 05:36:00 PST