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About Me:
I'm a number of things. I'm a working class artist and writer, after a fashion. I'm a frequent fighter of the Religious Reich, a sometime TV watcher, a devout Pagan, a hungerer for the non-mainstream, a Witch, a polite but firm iconoclast, a glamour-bomber, an occasional angry revolutionary, a skeptic of the quotidian, an avid reader, someone who feels politeness, manners, and good grammar and punctuation have a necessary place next to frequent swearing (all four I encourage heartily), and a staunch member of the immoral minority. Probably more stuff than that, too. I've got a colorful little circle of friends, some of whom you can meet right here, and not just the ones inside my head. Mine is a life driven by intuition, pragmatism, and survival. My life may not be much, but I call it home.

My art can be found here and on MySpace here and the LJ comm for it (should you be interested) is sare_zamberlan. I have been sucked into both Facebook and Twitter.

FRIENDING POLICY
Forgive me for being a bit of a dick, but I don't friend everyone. If you never comment my journal (or only comment an entry that refers to you specifically or to one of those "compliment memes"), I'm not interested. Also, if you never comment back my comments on your entries, that's annoying and a real deal-breaker.

If we have something in common other than just our choice in TV shows, that's a definite plus. Millions of people watch the shows I squee over and yet my f-list stays comfortably under fifty.

If you are under eighteen, I'm sorry, I'm not comfortable friending you. I've known some damn smart, mature people under eighteen (and some immature assholes who are well over eighteen), but call me old fashioned, I'm not comfortable with people that young in my journal. Given what I post, it probably violates several child protection laws and I'm sorta not cool with that. I harbor no illusions that no one lies about their age (such as me in my clever, clever faux birth year-- or is it faux? Hmmmm) and/or that people under eighteen will be shocked and scarred for life by what I post (or that people over eighteen won't), but as I said, legality and if you're gonna lie, srsly? This is what you're going to lie about? I try and make at least some of my entries of general interest, but honestly. Not all my entries are friend-locked, obviously, and I feel flattered that you want to watch and read my journal, but understand that I'm not going to friend you back simply because you friended me. If you'd like a big f-list, power to you, but I try and keep my f-list relevant to me; I'm pretentious that way.

My Music:
Al Jolson; the Beatles; Beck; Ben Selvin and his orchestra; Bikini Kill; Billie Holiday; Blondie; Bob Dylan; Bratmobile; Cab Calloway; Cake; Chuck Berry; the Coasters; Crash Test Dummies; Creedence Clearwater Revival; Cyndi Lauper; the Dead Kennedys; Dean Martin; Depeche Mode; the Dresden Dolls; Dolly Parton; Donovan; the Doors; Ella Fitzgerald; Everclear; Fatboy Slim; Fiona Apple; Gene Austin; Grand Master Flash and the Furious Five; Heavens to Betsey; Helen Kane; the Indigo Girls; Irving Aaronson and his Commanders; Jack off Jill; Janis Joplin; Jimi Hendrix; John Denver; John Lennon; Julie Ruin; Keely Smith; the Kingston Trio; the Kinks; L7; Le Tigre(okay, anything Kathleen Hanna has ever done); Led Zepplin; Louis Prima; Madonna; Mary Prankster; Maurice Chevalier; Mirah; Peggy Lee; Pink Floyd; Placebo; Princess Superstar; Queen; Rasputina; Ravi Shenkar; Red Hot Chili Peppers; Regina Spektor; early Rolling Stones; Rosemary Clooney; Roxette; Rudy Valli; Sam Cooke; Simon and Garfunkle; Sleater-Kinney; the Smashing Pumpkins; Sophie Tucker; Sublime; the Talking Heads; Ted Weems and his orchestra; Tom Petty; the Village People; Weezer; THE GODDESS LIVES IN OUR VEINS: TORI AMOS; jazz from the 1910s thru the 1950s; the Riot Grrrl movement; punk; blue grass; early hip hop; trip hop; folk; industrial and gothic; Indian sitar... Oh, and the one album in the world I can't live without?






My TV:
Cold Case Files; American Justice; The Oblongs; The Simpsons [pre 2000 only with VERY rare exceptions], Arrested Development; Venture Brothers; Exit 57; Strangers with Candy; The Daily Show with Jon Stewart; MST3K; The Colbert Report; King of the Hill; The Critic; Futurama; The Kids in the Hall; All in the Family; SOAP; Seinfeld



My Film:
Addams Family Values; A Dirty Shame; Alice in Wonderland; A Night at the Opera; A Streetcar Named Desire; A Trip to the Moon [1902 version]; Better Than Chocolate; Blazing Saddles; Boogie Nights; Bonnie and Clyde; Borat: Cultural Learnings of America to Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan; Breakfast at Tiffany's; Bringing Up Baby; Bugsy Malone; Bus Stop; But I'm a Cheerleader; Chicago [2002 version]; Corpse Bride; Dr.Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb; Duck Soup; Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind; Female Trouble; Ferris Bueller's Day Off; Forest Gump; From Hell; Girl Shy; Godspell; Good Will Hunting; Gypsy [1962 version]; Hairspray [1988 version]; Heavenly Creatures; If These Walls Could Talk 2; It[1929 version]; It Happened One Night; Juno; Mommie Dearest; Moulin Rouge; My Man Godfrey; Network; Office Space; Pecker; Pink Flamingos; Polyester; Return to Oz; Rushmore; Safety Last; Serial Mom; Seven Years Bad Luck; Six Degrees of Separation; Slums of Beverly Hills; Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs [1937 Disney version]; Strangers with Candy; Stranger Than Fiction; Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story; Taxi Driver; The Addams Family; The Adventures of Robin Hood [1974 Disney version]; The Doors; The Freshman [1925 version]; The Graduate; The Great Dictator; The Nightmare Before Christmas; The Wizard of Oz; Tipping the Velvet; To Kill a Mockingbird; Tootsie; WALL·E; Welcome to the Dollhouse; What's Eating Gilbert Grape?; Who Framed Roger Rabbit?; Wristcutters: A Love Story [also almost anything with Marilyn Monroe, or by John Waters, or with Clara Bow, or a Silent comedy, or by Georges Melies]



My Books:
A Man Without a Country; She's Come Undone; Persepolis; Myrtle of Willendorf, Breakfast of Champions; The Revolution of Little Girls; Cheaper by the Dozen; Ain't Nobody's Business if You Do: the Absurdity of Consensual Crimes in Free Society; Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs; White Oleander; American History Whitewashed; Shock Value; The Missing Piece; Crackpot; Where the Sidewalk Ends; Hip:a History; Change of Life; CUNT: a Declaration of Independence; any Bloom County collection; Backroads; Brain Droppings; Napalm and Silly Putty; A People's History of the United States; In the Land of Winter; I Know This Much is True; The Prophet; The American Poster:1945 to 1975; Reviving Ophelia; Collected Cartoons of the New Yorker; The Sandman [entire series]; Girl Interrupted; The Lovely Bones; The Woman's Room; The Collected Onion [any volume]; America the Book: A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction; The MAUS series; 50 Facts that Should Change the World;Collected Poems of Emily Dickenson; Areas of My Expertise; Runnin' Wild: the Life and Times of Clara Bow; Me Talk Pretty One Day; Holidays on Ice; Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim; Naked; Forever Barbie: the Unauthorized Biography of a Real Doll; Evolutionary Witchcraft; Fall on Your Knees; Hey Dollface; The Heart of a Witch; and hundreds more I'm forgetting.....








My Heroes:
My aunt Mary, Holly Golightly from Breakfast at Tiffany's, Amy Sedaris, and Herbert Kornfeld

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