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About Me

I'm a hypochondriac, a work-a-holic, a perfectionist, a terrible speller, a worrier, a dork and often a loser. Yet I like myself quite a bit - so this may make me a narcissist.

I'm a feminist and hold really liberal views of things, though I'm not much for politics. I can often be found attempting to eat vegetarian or even vegan, though I usually fail when an In-N-Out is in sight.

I can also talk your ear off about sex ual health and sex education and women's rights (aka sex).

I know a lot about things most people don't want to know about, and I don't mind sharing.

I smile a lot, I talk a lot, I'm impulsive, and I love to travel. I like to tell stories and I often repeat myself. I work hard, but love taking it easy. I'm laid back, smart, and passionate.

I'm a photographer who has little sense of danger when my camera is in my hands.

Little facts about me. Really.

My Interests

visiting cities
road-trippin'
getting tattoos
getting ice cream
being by the ocean
being outside
backpacking
taking pictures
being in the darkroom
dancing
singing
listening to music
buying flowers
sitting by an open window while it rains reading a book
reading in general
re-reading things I wrote
sharing a smile/joke
driving with the windows down and the radio up
working in cool places or with cool people
taking a cold shower when it's hot out
taking a warm bubble bath when its cold
being open minded
taking crazy trips last minute to see a concert
going to operas
making art even when I dont know how
going out to dinner and ordering something new/different
finding good music
listening
learning...(list goes on indefinantly)

I'd like to meet:

Someone to go with me to random concert trips, random road trips, random adventures. More people I can learn from, more friends, more people to photograph, more people like me, more people different from me...you get the picture...

Music:

Top Favorites at the Moment
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Jack Johnson
Johnny Cash
30 Seconds to Mars
Panic! at the Disco
Maritime
Judah Johnson
Son, Ambulance
Deathcab for Cutie
BjÃ¶rk
Radiohead
Portishead
Billie Holiday
Elefant
Piebald
Rachel's
Emilianna Torrini
Rufus Wainwright.

I also love Jazz, Movie Soundtracks/Scores, and Opera.

Movies:

Movies I Own
Aladdin
American Beauty
Benny & Joon
Big Fish
The Birdcage
Bridget Jones's Diary
Bruce Almighty
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Chicago
Crazy/Beautiful
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Finding Neverland
Fun with Dick and Jane
Harold and Maude
Igby Goes Down
The Incredibles
Jarhead
Kinsey
Lord of War
Memoirs of a Geisha
Mr. & Mrs. Smith
Pi
Requiem for a Dream
A Series of Unfortunate Events
The Virgin Suicides
When Harry Met Sally

Other Movies I love
Secretary
In America
The Pirates of the Caribbean
Edward Scissorhands
The Shining
The Way We Were
A Very Long Engagement
Amalie
Born into Brothels
Rize
Any Documentaries
The Jacket
American Psycho

Television:

CSI:, House M.D., Project Runway, Miami Ink, oh, and Undeclaired - though it's not on TV anymore (sad!!) And in all actuality I don't watch TV regularly. I don't own a TV. Fun!

Books:

Novels

Shopgirl
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
Middlesex
Lolita
The Time Traveler's Wife
Shutterbabe
House of Leaves
Lost in Translation
Running with Scissors
The Phantom Tollbooth
The Virgin Suicides
The Great Gatsby
1984
Harry Potter
The Red Tent
The Unberable Lightness of Being
Memoirs of a Geisha

Photo Books & etc.

Girl Culture, Lauren Greenfield
Revelations, Diane Arbus
Twilight, Gregory Crewdson
20 Years of Style, Paper Magazine (I worked on this book!)
In Focus, National Geographic Greatist Portraits

Heroes:

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My Blog

disconnect and self-distruct one bullet at a time

If you want to know more about me, here are some things to google. These are things that I think about, a lot. Interpret however you see fit: Lucinda Devlin, photographerKaren Greenlee, necrophileAnd ...
Posted by Kristen on Sun, 03 Aug 2008 01:55:00 PST

...but you fuck so good Im on top of it

This is fucking hysterical. No, seriously:read meAnd, if you don't feel like reading the damn thing, here's a link to her reading it out loud (it gets better after the first minute, promise):hear me...
Posted by Kristen on Sat, 28 Jun 2008 09:37:00 PST

Its been a while

Some things that have been on my mind lately: http://councilbluffsfutbolclub.blogspot.com/2007/09/nation-o f-wimps.html http://flickr.com/photos/77367764@N00/sets/72157602199008819 / http://hmsx.sfsu.ed...
Posted by Kristen on Tue, 02 Oct 2007 10:53:00 PST

me gustas tu

I'm not ready to go home. Home seems to be here now. Mary and I went to Ocean Beach today - I feel so calm in this place, especially calm for living in a city. I'm more relaxed here than I've ever bee...
Posted by Kristen on Wed, 07 Feb 2007 01:19:00 PST

Words are very unnecessary

So here goes in San Francisco. So far, so awesome. I'm a happy camper - granted a little on the very broke side of things but it's part of the adventure. New Years in Vegas was awesome. Friends came o...
Posted by Kristen on Wed, 10 Jan 2007 04:43:00 PST

mouthing words that I cannot possibly understand, again.

20 pages done. Yayness. Unedited but that's what David should expect.And in five days I'll be on my way to San Diego. Fucking right! Then to Las Vegas, then maybe to northern California, then back to ...
Posted by Kristen on Sun, 10 Dec 2006 11:29:00 PST

tell me why you lied and what it is you do to keep your eyes all shiny

Obsessed with new songHave now 12 pages written for thesisHave artist statements that I'm really happy with up, ready to reveiw. I'm acutally really really excited about senior reveiw. Call me crazy.....
Posted by Kristen on Wed, 06 Dec 2006 08:23:00 PST

And it's raining icepicks on your steel shore

So. I'm finished with my senior review (and by that I mean I still have to write an artist statement and actually talk with my senior review committee on Friday. Yippy....)I've got 10 pages written fo...
Posted by Kristen on Tue, 05 Dec 2006 06:51:00 PST

c-o-n-s-t-e-l-l-a-t-i-o-n

The strangest thing:I was browsing around on Facebook and found a group about my high school AP Economics teacher.Trying to figure out more, as the reasons for this group sounded a little weird, I fin...
Posted by Kristen on Tue, 28 Nov 2006 10:14:00 PST

Real soon we'll take this all the way down

I've been thinking (really I should have been doing homework, a lot of homework. Lots of projects that are not any closer to being done as of tonight....and....okay, okay, back to the main point..) la...
Posted by Kristen on Mon, 27 Nov 2006 06:54:00 PST