Linda
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Linda Napikoski
- Pulaski Bridge, Brooklyn, New York, US
- Last Login: 10/9/2009
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Music Player
Interests
General
Languages, creativity, Cuba, postcards, the Pulitzer Prizes, hiking, running, softball, not being on Long Island, yoga, cats, peace, documentaries, gymnastics, the Oscars, karaoke, being from Out West, enchiladas.Music
Indigo Girls, Bob Dylan, R.E.M., The Wonder Stuff, Sinead O'Connor, Sigur Ros. Everything on those Putumayo compilations. Lots of girls with guitars, such as Erin McKeown, Patty Griffin, Tift Merritt, Mary-Chapin Carpenter, Melissa Etheridge, Melissa Ferrick, Lucinda Williams. I miss the days of 80s alternative and new wave. I adored Love and Rockets, Depeche Mode, The Cure, Robyn Hitchcok n the Egyptians, Siouxsie, Erasure, OMD... Let's see, what else? Alexi Murdoch, Simon and Garfunkel, Pearl Jam, Toad the Wet Sprocket, Cat Stevens, Pink Floyd, James, Shakira, The Mamas and the Papas, Habib Koite, Massive Attack, U2, Edna Swap, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Sinead Lohan. More, more, more... I like music.Movies
Taxi to the Dark Side, After Life, Lost in Translation, Hotel Rwanda, The Hours, Dead Poets Society, Born Into Brothels, Life Is Beautiful, Casablanca, Clue, Flatliners, Stone Reader, Black Hawk Down, Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Kinky Boots, War/Dance.Television
As little as possible. Baseball games, Lost, The Soup.Books
As many as possible. Voltaire. Tolstoy. Jon Krakauer. Margaret Atwood. Virginia Woolf. The Botany of Desire by Michael Pollan, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard, The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen, Skinny Legs and All by Tom Robbins, What Should I Do With My Life? by Po Bronson, The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, The Cities Book by Lonely Planet, America: The Book by The Daily Show and Jon Stewart, Lust for Life by Irving Stone. Transcendentalists. Dostoevesky. Terry Tempest Williams, Elizabeth Berg, Edward Abbey, Nelson DeMille, Anna Quindlen, Barbara Kingsolver. Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer. Lamb by Christopher Moore. I also have an obsession with Pulitzer Prize-winning books. And I think there should be a section on here for favorite magazines. My favorites are Entertainment Weekly, The New Yorker, and almost any magazine about independent music or writing.Heroes
Those who speak the truth.
Details
- Status: In a Relationship
- Here for: Networking, Friends
- Hometown: Phoenix/Joseph City/Casper, depends on my mood
- Zodiac Sign: Taurus
- Children: Someday
- Smoke / Drink: No / Yes
- Education: College graduate
- Occupation: words words words
Schools
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Hofstra University
- Hempstead, NY
- Graduated: N/A
- Degree: In Progress
- Major: Law
2006 to Present -
University Of Southern California
- Los Angeles, CA
- Graduated: 1998
- Student status: Alumni
- Degree: Bachelor's Degree
- Major: Journalism and English
- Clubs: KSCR, The Daily Trojan, "Aaron's Kids," Womyn's Rap
1995 to 1997 -
Arizona State University-Main Campus
- Tempe, AZ
- Graduated: N/A
- Student status: Alumni
- Major: English
- Minor: finding myself
- Clubs: Q: What's the difference between an alcoholic and a poet?
A: A pen.
1994 to 1995 -
Brigham Young University
- Provo, UT
- Graduated: N/A
- Student status: Alumni
- Degree: None
- Major: changed daily. often, English.
- Minor: French
- Clubs: thinking for myself. behavioral probation. the "Refuge Radicals." University Chorale, Animal Action, random Honors activities, Ski Club...
1992 to 1994 -
Barry Goldwater High School
- Phoenix, AZ
- Graduated: 1992
- Student status: Alumni
- Degree: High School Diploma
- Major: AP Honors college prep stuff
- Minor: friends
- Clubs: National Honor Society, Thespian Troupe, Literary Magazine, Student Government, Mock Trial, Academic Bowl, Key Club, Marching Band, French & Spanish Club, German Club, FBLA, Speech & Debate Club... umm...there may have been more.
1988 to 1992
Blurbs
About me:
1. I like to write.2. I am anti-war.
3. I still want Hillary Clinton to be the next president.
http://lindanapikoski.blogspot.com
"I am a poster girl with no poster,
I am 32 flavors and then some,
and I'm beyond your peripheral vision,
so you might want to turn your head..."
--ani difranco
Political Spectrum Quiz
http://www.gotoquiz.com/politics/political-spectru...
My Political Views
I am a center-left social libertarian
Left: 2.93, Libertarian: 3.53
Political Spectrum Quiz
My Foreign Policy Views
Score: -7.37
My Culture War Stance
Score: -8.46
Who I'd like to meet:
"SOMEONE WHO CAN TAKE AS MUCH AS I GIVE."(said amy ray in "blood and fire")
Comments
Nov 8 2008 11:13 PM
Lets bitch about the world together
Oct 5 2008 10:54 PM
Sep 3 2008 7:22 PM
Sep 1 2008 2:53 PM
Long time, no talk!!
How have you been and what have you been up to??
Hope all is well!
Aug 16 2008 1:53 PM
Aug 12 2008 12:49 AM
Jul 26 2008 5:00 AM
Had a blast at the beer garden tonight!
Jul 10 2008 4:32 AM
Jun 18 2008 12:49 AM
Jun 16 2008 9:19 AM
Tragic!
May 29 2008 7:02 AM
Hey Linda, I just bought you as my PET!
Click here to find out how much I think you're WORTH!
Ok, kinda strange....
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May 14 2008 3:07 AM
Happy birthday, gal! Sorry I couldn't be there to celebrate with you.
May 14 2008 12:17 AM
The best thing you've ever done for me/Is to help me take my life less seriously, it's only life after all
May 13 2008 6:16 PM
May 9 2008 10:59 AM
so hope you have a great time and you get to eat some cake!!
May 4 2008 8:46 PM
{Hugs}
May 1 2008 10:46 PM
Tis the season to raise a pole and cover it in ribbons.
Happy May Day!
Apr 2 2008 2:03 AM
Mar 31 2008 3:04 AM
Mar 30 2008 8:52 PM
Mar 21 2008 1:34 PM
Mar 18 2008 2:49 PM
Feb 24 2008 2:43 AM
Feb 16 2008 1:40 AM
:-)
Feb 14 2008 5:56 PM
Next Wednesday, the 20th, we are presenting a work in progress at Dixon Place on the lower east side on Bowery at 8:00. YOU SHOULD COME!!!!