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Colleen.

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  • Colleen Nika

  • 100 / Female
  • nyc, New York, US
  • Last Login: 11/1/2009

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Interests

  • General

    ..Market Culture effects. Syllogisms. Logical fallacies. Disabling morons. Smirks. Denying myself convenience. Going ghost-hunting with Girls Aloud. Whipping up a black cherry ganache with Alison Goldfrapp. Models. Haute couture. Beautiful uglies and ugly beautifuls. High fashion. Avant-garde design. Soundscapes. Rustling chains. Transcending bioevolutionary purpose. Anti-trends. Technology that actually progresses - not mollifies - mankind. Anagrams. Pretending to possess magical powers. Slick production values. Analyzing music, film, and literature in whatever context I see fit. Hating what you love & loving what you hate. Finding depth in childhood revelations. Defending the defenseless; protecting the weak from bullies (this includes protecting unfairly mistreated acts from elitist pigs). Soviet montage theory. Unnerving company with my appearance. Seriously considering seemingly ridiculous philosophical concerns (examples: the Xeroxed Brain Argument; The Evil Demon Argument). Hume's problem of induction (and his admission of its indefensibility). Confidently maintaining that Lockean epistemology > Cartesian certainty. Descartes' testicular fortitude and tenacity. Experimenting with my mind & body. Measuring & assigning numerical values. Sedarisms. The mad ones. When mainstream and indie musicians cover each other's songs. The work ethic & time-management skills that I lack. Damon Albarn's multimedia ambitions. Championing one life-saving genre or movement of music at a time. Paint-by-numbers psych-blues. Pursuing stuffy, non-commodifiable majors & valuing the original role of higher learning. Defending unfashionable views. Supporting Jentina. Being a traitor to my generation. Making lists of "interests". Musicians over the age of 35.

  • Music

    ..franz ferdinand, girls aloud, bauhaus, blur, m.i.a., goldfrapp, the velvet underground, joy division, radiohead, yeah yeah yeahs, st. etienne, david bowie, garbage, echo & the bunnymen, jesus and mary chain, arcade fire, blonde redhead, madonna, sonic youth, elbow, the kills, and the horrors pop up more often than not these days. i refuse to be held accountable for incohesive tastes. i defend my right to listen to what suits me at any given time, which reflects my general attitude towards most things in life. just let me do my thing & i'll let you do yours.

  • Movies

    ..Movie Checklist:
    ..Control..
    ..Juno..
    ..Atonement..
    El Orfanato

  • Television

    ..Ovation Network, clandestine fashion coverage, vintage music videos & rock docs, and, of course, Seinfeld.

  • Books

    ..Iconoclasm, please.

  • Heroes

    ..
    All Around : Shirley Manson

    Fashion & Lifestyle Inspiration : Alison Goldfrapp

    For Overcoming Hideous Obstacles With Grace & Dignity : Kylie Minogue

    Intellectual Stimulants : Derrida, Heidegger, Descartes, Locke, Hume, Kant, Plath, Burroughs, Keats, Wordsworth, Goethe, The Shelleys, Baudrillard, Kerouac, Ginsberg, Balzac, Salinger, Orwell, Huxley, Burgess, Milton, Thoreau, Sartre, Nietzsche, Camus, Nabokov, Chekhov, and Situationist International all have influenced me.

    The Arts : Francis Bacon, Ian Curtis, Bauhaus (the band & art movement), Blur, Edward Gorey, Vivienne Westwood, Alexander McQueen, John Galliano, de Kooning, Luis Bunuel, Salvador Dali, Jean-Luc Godard, The Residents, R. Stevie Moore, German Expressionists, Siouxsie Sioux, Dada, Pop Art, and postmodern art forms, Banksy, M.I.A., Madonna, Mark Romanek, Remedios Vero, Chris Cunningham, Anton Corbijn, and Michel Gondry.

    We need more people like : Tony Wilson & John Peel (both RIP), Damon Albarn, Anton Newcombe, Tom Wolfe.

Blurbs

About me:

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HALT!
Please consider reading my profile before you decide to attempt a friend request.
Thank you. Most people are terrified to approach me, but this isn't my fault. I won't bite, and if I do, you'll enjoy it.
I believe in celebrating sublimity, not necessarily beauty. I'm drawn to subjects of a dichotomic nature; I love contrast, conflict, and dissonance. I juggle between creating & analyzing things of aesthetic merit. I respect & understand both my defensive & offensive sides. I'm an anomaly & this frustrates some, because I refuse to be categorized. My 5 principal interests: music, fashion, philosophy, literature, and visual arts. I'm not a dilettante; I'm focused & serious about my passions, and I plan to spend my life studying them. I have an extremely limited amount of tolerance for trendy people and those who do not seek out and develop their own talents and skills. I don't have much interest in propagating anyone else's agenda. As is said about me, Life is my runway and I strut down it to the stomp of the schaffel beat.

I address all of these disciplines on a rotating basis, developing each a little further each time I am called to them. There's nothing about me a good Blur album or Prada colorblocking palette won't cure. Don't expect whatever common ground we share to be the one I dwell upon most often. I am well-rounded in my intellectual & creative achievements, ambitious in my pursuits, and have not rescinded my childlike belief in autonomy & self-directed cultivation of one's own métier. Therefore, I am certainly doomed.
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Who I'd like to meet:

Nuclear Wintour, Alison Mosshart, and Damon Albarn. I've met everyone else I admire & it turns out they are human after all.