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Francine

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About Me

I had a little monkey and I sent him to the country and fed him on gingerbread, along came a choo-choo and knocked my monkey coo-coo and now my monkey's dead...poor little monkey...

My Interests

I'm highly neurotic - my interests change by the minute.

I'd like to meet:

Rasputin, Nietzsche, Goya, Wittgenstein, Vladimir Nabokov, Gwen Stefani, and Trent Reznor

Music:

Nine Inch Nails, Tool, Nirvana, Marilyn Manson, VNV Nation, Funker Vogt, Nitzer Ebb, The Cure, Depeche Mode, Miss Kitten, Wumpscut, Icon of Coil, Velvet Acid Christ, Fisherspooner, Prince, Gwen Stefani, Garbage, No Doubt, Mindless Self Indulgence, Rob Zombie, The Faint, Peaches, Wolfsheim, Moby, Front 242, Erasure, New Order, The Raveonettes, Assemblage 23, Beborn Beton, Pennywise, Bad Religion, Neko Case, K-OS, Dresden Dolls, Chemical Brothers, Toto, The Crystal Method, etc. etc.

Movies:

The Nightmare Before Christmas,Secretary, 28 Days Later, Natural Born Killers, Stand By Me, Blood and Donuts, Saint Ralph, The Downfall, Ichii The Killer, Irreversible, March of the Penguins, Old Boy, Whispering Corridors, Equilibrium, Baise-Moi, Cannibal Holocaust, Full Metal Jacket, Clockwork Orange, The Machinist, Inside Deep Throat, I Spit on your Grave, Das Boot, Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room, Dirty Pretty Things, Primer, Gozu, Cure, Audition, Jeux D'enfants, Amelie, Napoleon Dynamite, Anchorman, Heathers, Haute Tension, The Corpse Bride, Battle Royale, New Jack City, Edward Scissorhands, The Last House on the Left, Layer Cake, An Inconvenient Truth

Television:

Addicted to the weather channel. Curb your Enthusiasm, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, CSI (mainly Miami), Oz,Sex and the City, The Wire, Canada/America's Next Top Model, Laguna Beach (addict!), The Hills (because its real no matter what my friends say!).

Books:

"Cocaine", "Reefer Madness", "Guns, Germs and Steel", "The I hate Corporate America Reader", "A Short History on Nearly Everything", "The World is Flat", "Fast Food Nation", "Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs", "Signature Killers", just about anything Nietzsche, "Lolita", "No Logo", "Branded", "Culture Jam", "Downsize This!', "Revolutionizing the Sciences", "Chiva", "The Making of the Atomic Bomb", "The Working Poor in America"

Heroes:

Shera: Princess of Power, Elisaurus,Kimber and the rest of the Holograms from Jem, Rainbow Brite, my friends (because heroes are there for you) and Jay because I like playing his damsel in distress.

My Blog

Let's face it...

Without the threat of death there is no reason to live at all. I just want all the ugliness to go away.
Posted by Francine on Fri, 20 Oct 2006 10:57:00 PST

On the road again....

If you've read any of my previous blog entries you'll notice a common theme. That of me being sick or complaining of some ailment and struggling with a doctor yadda yadda yadda. During this whole time...
Posted by Francine on Sun, 17 Sep 2006 11:46:00 PST

There is Whiskey in the Jar - OH!

It's about a little man. Maybe a pirate. Yeah a pirate. A pirate with a pistol not a sword because this is an extraordinary pirate. He's tiny, like those elves in that fairy tale about the shoeman. An...
Posted by Francine on Wed, 09 Aug 2006 08:24:00 PST

Canada's Next Top Model

In the past few months I've experienced a range of emotions that would probably merit a blog moreso than the topic I chose to talk about today. I went through a period of watching no television to wa...
Posted by Francine on Thu, 20 Jul 2006 05:58:00 PST

The minute that you're born, you begin to die...

As some of you know, I'm diabetic. The problem is, I'm recently diagnosed and hate my general practitioner. There are a number of reasons. Her hours are incredibly inconvenient. Booking an appointment...
Posted by Francine on Wed, 17 May 2006 10:40:00 PST

What my birthday means...

Your Birthdate: January 12http://images.blogthings.com/whatdoesyourbirthdatemeanquiz /birthday.jpg" height="100" width="100">You're a dynamic, charismatic person who's possibly headed for fame.You tend...
Posted by Francine on Mon, 20 Mar 2006 08:54:00 PST

Baby Nicholas' Baptism

After weeks of anticipation, my loving boyfriend escorted me to my second and youngest nephew's baptism. I wasn't nervous per se, despite this being the first time he was going to meet my family and e...
Posted by Francine on Tue, 14 Mar 2006 10:45:00 PST

Date night

It's such an overused statement but I'm going to say it anyways - THANK GOD ITS FRIDAY. For the most part, the week went by considerably fast. I just find myself more and more anxious for weekends to...
Posted by Francine on Fri, 17 Feb 2006 12:56:00 PST

Valentines - So Sweet

Ususally I'm single on Valentine's Day. I know it's lame to fall into the whole being depressed because you have no one routine. But every year that's what happens. The previous two years weren't so b...
Posted by Francine on Tue, 14 Feb 2006 09:33:00 PST

It's my BIRTHDAY BITCHES!

Don't you just hate the politics of birthday celebrations? I simply want a bunch of my friends together to drink with and enjoy their company as I don't get to see a lot of them that often. But in b...
Posted by Francine on Tue, 10 Jan 2006 01:52:00 PST