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overfed long haired leaping gnome

Once in a while you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.

About Me

"For alarmingly large chunks of an average day, I am a moron." -Nick Hornby.

My Interests



music, live music (rothbury, wheatland, the machine shop), laughter, books, coffee, road trips, good beer (bell's best brown ale, guiness), camping, poetry, hand drums, tights, games (trivial pursuit, monopoly, chess, euchre), mud puddles, equality, guitars, nature, the color orange, travel, coffee, things that smell good (mud, fresh cut grass, clarisse), beer, rain, libraries, family, faeries, the earth, singing, brains, trees, nice handwriting, walking, running, maps and atlases, watches, colors, cooking, oceans, rivers, lakes, ponds, bugs
Things that suck ass: George W. Bush, vehicles that beep when they back up, growing up, driving in the snow, the smell of banana peels, skin in winter, drains that won't drain, hangovers, jobs, Hummers, cheap beer, shopping.

I'd like to meet:


Music:

classic rock, folk rock, jam bands, metal, electronic, blues, bluegrass, fiddles, guitars, hand drums, flutes. Little bits of everything I didn't list.Simon and Garfunkel, Sublime, Clutch, Primus, Bob Dylan, Led Zepplin, Neil Diamond, Patty Griffin, Seth Bernard and Daisy May, Modest Mouse, Dave Matthews Band, Tom Petty, the Foo Fighters, Otep, Dashboard Confessional, Weezer, Willy Nelson, Teagan and Sarah, the Doors, The Grateful Dead, the Talking Heads, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Stone Temple Pilots, Nirvana, AC/DC, the Beatles, the Tragically Hip, the White Stripes

Movies:

The Usual Suspects, Reservoir Dogs, Peewee's Big Adventure, Zoolander, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, American Beauty, Bad Santa, Blow, Crash, Donnie Darko, Match Point, Momento, Dude Where's My Car, The Ref, Love Actually, I Heart Huckabees, Lilja 4-Ever, Clerks, The Princess Bride, An Affair to Remember, Little Miss Sunshine, everything Coen Brothers

Television:

Whatever who I'm with is watching.

Books:

The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
Song of Solomon and Beloved, both by Toni Morrison
Fall on Your Knees by Anne Marie MacDonald
She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb
Anthem by Ayn Rand
The Stephanie Plum series by Janet Evanovich
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
Little Children by Tom Perrotta
Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
Resistance and The Weight of Water both by Anita Shreve
The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
Franny and Zooey and The Catcher in the Rye both by J.D. Salinger
The Robber Bride by Margaret Atwood
Five Quarters of the Orange by Joanne Harris
Songs in Ordinary Time by Mary McGarry Morris
Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
About a Boy and A Long Way Down by Nick Hornby
You Remind Me Of You by Eireann Corrigan
The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
Favorite authors-Toni Morrison, Edgar Allen Poe, Margaret Atwood, Anita Shreve, Elizabeth Berg, Chris Bohjalian, Amy Tan, David Sedaris, and Raymond Carver.

Heroes:

Peter Gibbons.
My mamma.
Ben Franklin

My Blog

Show List

Myspace will not allow me to just edit my original list.  Bastards.   Givensix Velvet Revolver Lenny Kravitz Down Kid Rock Foo Fighters Saliva/Drowning Pool Red Seether/Breaking Benjamin/Thr...
Posted by overfed long haired leaping gnome on Sat, 19 Apr 2008 02:30:00 PST

Maybe you just dont understand how important list making is to girls!

Time to keep track of 2008 books.  As you can see, I've been in a brainless book mood lately. 1. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire~JK Rowling 2. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix~JK Row...
Posted by overfed long haired leaping gnome on Tue, 01 Apr 2008 05:22:00 PST

Chocolate, Tom Sellek, and other interesting things.

Just a few things I've been collecting to share. How beautiful is this caterpiller?  Prettier than me, I must say.     These babies are chocolates.  Could you actually eat one of ...
Posted by overfed long haired leaping gnome on Tue, 29 Jul 2008 12:59:00 PST

Things to love about my new place of residence.

The recycling center is at the end of the street. I only have to walk through Dodge Park to get to Jake and Emily's. There is a back yard with a fence and a vegetable garden. I have two bedrooms. Ther...
Posted by overfed long haired leaping gnome on Fri, 25 Jul 2008 04:20:00 PST

cagefighting

is awesome.  BLOOD and knockouts and shit.  LOVE it.  If you ever get the chance, you must go, even if you think it wouldn't be your thing.
Posted by overfed long haired leaping gnome on Wed, 07 May 2008 06:56:00 PST

Things and shit.

I just put $400 into my car.  It sucks.  But, now my car drives like it should.  Turned out my car was so far out of alignment that I was driving on the inside edge of my driver tire an...
Posted by overfed long haired leaping gnome on Wed, 07 May 2008 04:30:00 PST

Let’s Go Pistons!

That Reggie Evans looks like he belongs on a fucking Geico commercial.  
Posted by overfed long haired leaping gnome on Sat, 26 Apr 2008 06:11:00 PST

oochy.

I was running after a ball today and I slipped on the gravel and on my keister.  You know, falling is kind of fun.
Posted by overfed long haired leaping gnome on Sun, 06 Apr 2008 12:01:00 PST

Im walkin on sunshine.

Gorgeous day today.  Sucks I can’t get ahold of Jake so we can kick around the soccer ball in the park.  I did go for a walk by myself, though. Almost four full days of not smoking.&nb...
Posted by overfed long haired leaping gnome on Thu, 03 Apr 2008 04:04:00 PST

Its a secret GIRL list, and YOU cant see it!!!

Okay, our mission failed, but we’ve learned a lot. Primarily that girls do not have balls.   I am a girl.  Therefore, I make lists.  So, I’m going to keep a list of excelle...
Posted by overfed long haired leaping gnome on Tue, 01 Apr 2008 05:00:00 PST