Things I like:
- Libraries
- New York City
- Woody Allen
- Old Manual Typewriters
- Jim Jarmusch
- Lou Reed
- Tim Burton and Danny Elfman
- Black lace
- Independent bookstores
- Baudelaire
- Paris
- Édouard Manet
- London
- Traveling
- Neodada/assemblage
- Paul Auster
- Prague
- Kafka
- Second hand stores
- Theatre
- Writing
- Dreaming
- Doing exercise
- Latin America
Best song written about love and betrayal:
Famous blue raincoat, Leonard Cohen
What fascinates me:
Bob Dylan's "Rolling Thunder Revue" 1975, The movie "Blue Velvet", Cat Power's voice and songwriting, New York Public Library, Chelsea Hotel, Imogen Heap's magical, musical universe, John Cameron Mitchell's movies, Johnny Depp's acting, Barack Obama's presidency, Jim Jarmusch's movies, Bill Murray's strange, laid back charisma, Paul Auster's writing, Nina Simone's music, The Hotel Café in West Hollywood
Quotes that I like:
"There is a black river.It passes by my window.And late at night all dolled up like christ I walk the water between the piers." - Antony and the Johnsons
Debbie Novotny in Queer as folk: "You know, there were people, when they found out that Michael was gay, who said, and did, the cruelest things. Friends, neighbors, family. My own goddamn sister wouldn't even let her kids come over here. She was afraid Michael was going to molest them or something. Because that's the way people are. They're ignorant and they're scared. And there's nothing you can do, except educate 'em or shoot 'em. Me, I joined PFLAG, 'cause I figured it was more practical than shooting 'em."
"Why don't the Gideons leave condoms in the drawer? Bibles don't save many people anymore" - Jay Brannan
Music
Bonnie Prince Billy, The last shadow puppets, King Crimson, Micah P Hinson, Catherine Feeny, Beatles, TV on the radio, Depeche Mode, Emiliana Torrini, The Shins, Rachel Yamagata, Johnny Cash, Sarah Lee Guthrie, Glen Hansard, Markéta Irglová, Pete Seeger, In the Country, Morten Qvenild, Muddy Waters, David Bowie, Mike Patton, Jay Brannan, Lovage, Foo Fighters, Bobby Bare Jr, Regina Spector, Morphine, Hole, Blonde Redhead, Hank Williams, Mercury Rev, Siouxsie and The Banshees, Schuyler Fisk, Neil Young, Susanna and the magical orchestra, The Postal Service, Neko Case, Bjork, Alain Bashung, Alice In Chains, Primal Scream, T Rex, Arcade Fire, Mudhoney, Tom Waits, Meiko, Big Bang, PJ Harvey, Fugazi, Amon Tobin, Tim Buckley, Faith No More, The Byrds, Leonard Cohen, The Clash, Indochine, Nick Drake, Pixies, Nick Cave, Tool, Velvet Underground, Pravda, The Modern Lovers, Stereo Total, Fiona Apple, Pearl Jam, Tom Petty, Death Cab For Cutie, Vic Chesnutt, Steve Reynolds,The Perishers, Dead Kennedys, Hot Hot Heat, The Kinks, Cat Power, Elvis Presley in the 50s (Sun Recordings), Nine Inch Nails, Violent Femmes, Donovan, Cary Brothers, Jane's Addiction, Gram Parsons, The Flying Burrito Brothers, The Who, Blue Dog Pict, Blondie, At The Drive In, Mark Lanegan, Built to Spill, Screaming Trees, Cary Brothers, The Kills, Alison Krauss, Serge Gainsbourg, Aqualung, Morissey, Captain Beefheart, Iggy and the Stooges, Scott Walker, The Walker Brothers, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Devendra Banhart, David Gray, System of a Down, Antony And The Johnsons, Smashing Pumpkins, Pavement, Slipknot, Brian Wright, Melissa Auf Der Maur, Elliott Smith, Bob Dylan, Stereophonics, Tom Mcrae, Richie Havens, Cocteau Twins, Dinosaur Jr, The Bangles, Jim Bianco, Damien Rice, Bobbby Bare, Stone Temple Pilots, Joan As Policewoman, Turin Brakes(The optimist EP), Teenage Fanclub, Kate Bush, Wolfmother, Jane Birkin, Woody Guthrie, Rufus Wainright, Ryan Adams, Greg Laswell, Travelling Wilburries, Dire Straits, Springsteen in the 1970s (Asbury Park), The Meat Purveyors, Myself, Placebo, Iron and Wine, New Pornographers, Ramones, Calexico, Phoenix, The Raconteurs, Franz Ferdinand, Blind Melon, Josh Rouse, dEUS, Kings of Leon, Joshua Radin, Sufjan Stevens, The Doors , Richard Hawley, Imogen Heap, A Girl Called Eddy, Ray Lamontagne, The Rolling Stones
Movies
500 days of summer, Milk, Burn after reading, Revolutionary Road, Total Eclipse, Once, Blue Velvet, I'm not there, Holding Trevor, Sweeney Todd, Blue in the face, Coffee and Cigarettes, Great Expectations, Shortbus, Sex and death 101, The Dark Knight, Ping Pong Playa, O brother where art thou, Dead Man, Being John Malcovich, Naked Lunch, Casablanca, Streetcar named Desire, Edward Scissorhands, Donnie Darko, Rhinoceros Eyes, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Choking Man, Forrest Gump, Most Woody Allen films, Velvet Goldmine, Singing In The Rain, Sleepy Hollow, Big Fish, Hedwig and the Angry Inch etc. Most of Jim Jarmusch's films. Asia Argento is hot. And I love her movies to;-). I love James Dean. Espescially East of Eden and Rebel Without a Cause! Favourite actors: Freddie Jones, Michael Pitt, Steve Buschemi, Audrey Hepburn, Tim Roth, Alan Cumming, John Malkovich, Lauren Ambrose, Dame Judi Dench, Kyle MacLachlan, Heath Ledger,Michael C Hall, Ian Mcshane, Johnny Depp, Kevin Spacey, Bill Murray, Cate Blanchett, Marlon Brando, Kate Winslett, Claire Danes, Meryl Streep, Jeremy Irons, Scott Lowell, Alfred Molina, Julianne Moore, Michael Madsen, Paul Bettany, Blythe Danner, Katharine Hepburn, Sean Penn, Gale Harold, Vincent Gallo, Gabriel García Bernal, Elizabeth Taylor, Christopher Walken, Julie Delpy, Anne Bancroft, Peter O Toole etc.
Here's a trailer for one of my all time favourite movies: It's called Shortbus and it's directed by the incredible John Cameron Mitchell!
Television
Life on Mars (US) is my favourite show right now. It's so intelligent and funny. Queer as folk was in my opinion one of the bravest and most important shows in television-history.It is dearly missed by people around the whole world. The characters of that show will always stay in my heart. It's one of those shows that can make you laugh, cry, yell at the screen... all within one episode. I love Six feet under and Deadwood.Frasier was a good show. I've always had a thing for english television, like The line of beauty, Poirot and Foyle's War... And of course The Office!(NOT the american version, allthough I have a lot of respect for Steve Carell. He's a funny guy.) I love british comedy. Like Dylan Moran, Bill Bailey, Ricky Gervais, John Cleese, Rowan Atkinson, Graham Norton and Russel Brand. Black Books is one of the best comedy shows ever. And I love the madness of Little Britain. I also love Will and Grace. Because of that New York feeling. And of course CSI and Criminal Minds! I also love The Mentalist. Simon Baker is yummie...
Books
Franz Kafka - The Castle, Oscar Wilde - The picture of Dorian Gray, Charles Baudelaire-Les fleurs du mal, Truman Capote - Breakfast at Tiffanys, Chelsea Cain - Heartsick, Bukowski - Post Office and Factotum, John Fante - The road to Los Angeles, Haruki Murakami - Kafka on the shore, Carlos Fuentes - La muerte de Artemio Cruz, Los Años con Laura Díaz, James Lee Burke - The Tin Roof Blowdown, Paul Auster - The New York Trilogy, Brooklyn Follies, The Invention of Solitude, Leonard Cohen - Beautiful Losers, Neil Gaiman- American Gods, Neverwhere and Coraline, Jack Kerouac - On The Road, Miguel de Cervantes - Don Quijote, Jens Bjørneboe - Bestialitetens Historie, William Burroughs - Naked Lunch, Truman Capote - In Cold Blood, J.D Salinger - Franny and Zoey, John Steinbeck - East of Eden and Grapes of Wrath, Gabriel García Márquez - Crónica de una muerte anunciada, Cien años en soledad, Plato - Symposium, Juan Rulfo - Pedro Páramo y El Llano en llamas, Bob Dylan - Tarantula, Tennessee Williams - The glass menagerie, Streetcar named desire, Suddenly last summer, Orpheus descending, Cat on a hot tin roof, Moise and the world of reason. JT Leroy. Henrik Ibsen, Ken Kesey, Arthur Miller. Markus Zusak - The Book Thief. As you can see I like a whole variety of genres.
Heroes
Neil Giuliano, Keith Olbermann, Harvey Milk, Peete Seeger, Robert Rauschenberg, Bob Dylan, Allen Ginsberg, Lou Reed, John Cage, Jasper Johns, Allan Kaprow, Marcel Duchamp, Joseph Kosuth, Robert Smith, Frank Black, Kim Gordon, Thurston Moore, PJ Harvey...Michelle Obama!...Because she's such a strong and intelligent woman. And her husband of course;-). He's definitely a hero of mine!
+ Everyone that I love and care about, and that love me.
About me:
Here's Arcade Fire performing "Wake up" with the legendary David Bowie:
I've added a survey with a whole bunch of questions so that you can get to know me a little better.
*The Ultimate About Me Survey*:
Basics:
Name:
Kari
Birthplace:
Lærdal, Norway
Current location:
Oslo, Norway
Eye color:
Blue
Hair Color:
Red
Height:
5'7
Heritage:
Norwegian
Piercings:
Ears
Tattoos:
Not yet
Favorite:
Band/Singer:
Bob Dylan, Fiona Apple, PJ Harvey, Pixies, My Morning Jacket, The Arcade Fire, Micah P Hinson, Bonnie "Prince" Billy, Cat Power, Fleet Foxes
Song:
Ballad of a thin man, Blind Willie Mctell
Genre of Music:
I believe that there are at least a few good artists in every genre. I don't like to limit myself when it comes to music.I love discovering new music, and that's partly why I'm such an avid "Myspacer".
Dearest possesion:
My Remington Noiseless 6 typewriter
Bar/club:
Sky Bar, Hotel Café, Largo (LA), The Cutting Room, Joe's Pub (NYC), Mono, Litteraturhuset, Lorry (Oslo), Garage (Bergen)
Restaurant:
Geisha House
Favorite websites:
yelp.com,43things.com, surfthechannel.com
Color(s):
Red
TV show(s):
Black Books, Life on Mars, Queer as folk (US), Six feet under, Criminal Minds, CSI, Foyle's War, Poirot, The Office (UK), Frasier.
Talkshow:
Graham Norton, John Stewart, David Letterman, Jonathan Ross.
Movie(s):
Once, Dead Man, Lost in translation, Blue Velvet, Shortbus, Donnie Darko, Forrest Gump, Capote.
Food:
Sushi, most japanese food. Seafood
Store:
Bebe, Kitson, Zara, Macy's
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Drink:
Beer, Perrier, Wine, Tequila
Clothing Brand:
Nanette Lepore., Because it's classy but yet laid back.
Shoe Brand:
Christian Louboutin. WOW! It's pure sex.
Animal:
Dogs
Pizza topping:
None. I'm not particularly fond of pizza
Season:
Fall
Month:
October
Flower:
Roses
This or That:
Sunny or rainy:
Sunny
Chocolate or vanilla:
Chocolate
Fruit or veggie:
Veggie
Night or day:
Night
Sour or sweet:
Sweet
Love or money:
Both
Phone or in person:
In person
Poor & happy or rich & miserable:
Poor and happy
Looks or personality:
Both
Coffee or tea:
Coffee
Hot or cold:
Cold
Your:
Goal for this year:
Save up lots of money.Figure out whether I should move to Bergen or stay here.
Goal for next year:
Save up lots of money. Finish my education. Attend the GLAAD awards
Best physical feature:
My nose, my hair, my eyes
First thought waking up:
Coffe! NOW!
Future:
Do you wanna get married:
Maybe someday
Do you wanna have kids:
We'll have to see what happens
What do you want to be:
I already am something
Do You:
Do you think you are good looking:
Well.... yes;-)
Other Questions:
Can you whistle:
Yes
Right or left handed:
Right handed
Biggest fear:
Death
3 things you can't live without:
Music, water, friends
Color of your room:
White
Siblings:
A brother and a sister
Pets:
I had a beautiful dog.
For or against gay marriage:
I'm for gay marriage.This shouldn't even be an issue anymore. It's 2009 for christ's sake! Gay marriage was just legalised here in Norway a few months ago. It was about time! Finally the norwegian government understands what the canadians have known for a long time. Marriage is about comitting to the person that you love. And genitalia was just Gods way of acessorizing. (I stole that line from "Debbie Novotny" in Queer as folk!) LOL. I'm so dissapointed about proposition 8.When Obama won the election, for a moment my faith in the human race was restored. But then I heard that prop 8 passed and that homosexuals have lost their right to marry in California. And now I just lost that regained faith. I have a lot of good things to say about Barack Obama. But I'm really dissapointed in him for choosing Rick Warren for the invocation...
Thoughts on abortion:
Sometimes it's for the best
If you could be anywhere right now where would you be:
New York City, USA or San Miguel de Allende, México
Least favorite person:
Bill O'Reilly. He must be the most ridiculous and pathetic human being to walk this earth!!! And Sarah "Bible Spice" Palin of course, but fortunately she's not a threat anymore! And I strongly dislike Tony Perkins and Sean Hannity!!!!!!!
Sesame Street alter ego:
Abby Cadabby
Fairytale alter ego:
Jack Skellington?
Worst crime:
Always falling for the bad guy
Greatest dream/ambition:
I have several! Here are some of them:Own a book-café in Brooklyn, Write a book and get published,Live and work as a journalist in New York City.
Darkest secret:
do you really think I would share it with all the people at Myspace?
Do You:
Smoke:
Not anymore
Drink:
Yes
Like thunderstorms:
I'm afraid of thunderstorms
Dance in the rain:
It has happened once or twice
Play an instrument:
Guitar, piano. But not very good
Get along with your parents:
Definitely
Believe in fate:
No
Believe in love at first sight:
Actually I think I do:-)
Can You:
Sew:
Yes
Cook:
I don't like cooking. But I love to eat the food my friends cook for me;.-)
Speak another language:
English, spanish, some french, norwegian
Dance:
Sure
Sing:
All the time
Touch your nose with your tongue:
No
Whistle:
I'm not very good at it
Curl your tongue:
Yes
Have You Ever:
Been Drunk:
I was more or less drunk for four years straight
Been Stoned/High:
Yes
Eaten Sushi:
It's my favorite
Been in Love:
Yes, a few times
Skipped school:
I skipped school all of the time. I was hardly ever there.
Sent someone a love letter:
When I was a kid I once sent a love letter to Jon Bon Jovi! LOL
Stolen something:
Yes, I stole like a raven (Norwegian expression) when I was younger
Cried yourself to sleep:
Not that I can remember
Other Questions:
What annoys you most in a person?
Ignorance,prejudice, bigotry
Would you kill someone you hate for a million dollars?
No
What are you nicknames?
Campari, Karicita, Kiamia
How do you want to die?
While I'm asleep
What is the largest amount of popsicles that you have eaten in one day?
5
What is the last law you’ve broken?
it wouldn't be very wise to write about it here now, would it?
Who I'd like to meet: Popeye Squirm, Truman Peyote, Your little squarrel Petey the Wheatstraw,Peggy Day, A parrot that talks, Queen Jane Approximately, Nettie Moore, Mr. Tambourine Man, Johanna, The Girl From The North Country, Lily, Rosemary And The Jack Of Hearts, Hollis Brown, Blind Willie Mctell, Ramona.
Howdy Kari! Hope all is well in Oslo! I can't wait to play there & meet my friends face to face! Hope you're enjoying my music & take care! James Hunnicutt
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