Carsten
20 years old
Winisk, Ontario
Male
About
I'm Carsten. I was born in the Ballard neighborhood of Seattle, WA in 1989. My parents bestowed upon me the name "Carsten" in honor of my great-grandfather Carsten Strandoo, a Norwegian immigrant. I grew up there and on Queen Anne Hill (also in Seattle) and attended Little Friends Preschool and later Seattle Country Day School until I completed grade three.
At that time, a great change came unto my life. My parents gently transplanted my brother, sister, and I, pulling up our tender roots from the soil of our beloved Seattle and put us back into the earth in our new home of Anacortes. The sea breeze, plentiful forests, and abundant wildlife, along with some help from the public education system, nurtured me and helped me grow until I became a legal adult and high school graduate in June of 2007. At this time, the public education system ceased to be a part of my upbringing.
After high school, I wandered aimlessly, mourning the loss of this great resource to my intellectual growth. To fill the large but bizarrely shaped hole that its absence left in my heart, I took up a career in the painting business. I still hold this job after approximately two and a half weeks of employment. It is risky work: so far I have been bitten by bees, forced to work on narrow ledges 40 feet from the good sweet earth, and treated with an attitude of general unfriendliness by a certain Ron Blazingham. In the time I spend away from the high rooftops and sticky paintbrushes that represent my toils, I do my best to constitute one fourth of the band Well Done Dragon (with Mike Ferrario, Stephen Steen, and Bri Hobbs) and operate a decisively nonproductive clothing brand known as c60.
In the fall, I am headed to Poughkeepsie, NY to attend Vassar College. Don't ask me what my goals are or "what I want to do" because if you do, my reply will be "learn shit".
Before I die, I want to read a lot of books, raise children, own a house, and travel the world on horseback/bicycleback.
Recent plays (1,151)
- ♫ Viking Moses! - Part 2
- ♫ Viking Moses! - Part 1
- ♫ sublime frequencies - Than Shin Ley Ye Khan (Saing Saing Maw)
- ♫ The Smiths - Every Day is like Sundays
- ♫ The Smiths - Cemetry Gates
- ♫ The Rolling Stones - Ride On, Baby
- ♫ The Beach Boys - Fun, Fun, Fun
- ♫ The Beach Boys - Surfin' U.S.A.
- ♫ The Beach Boys - Barbara Ann
- ♫ Beach House - Apple Orchard
Movies
Trainspotting, Rushmore, A Clockwork Orange, Blood Diamond, I Heart Huckabees, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Les Choristes, The Gods Must Be Crazy, Apocalypse Now, The Prestige, The Motorcycle Diaries, Bottle Rocket, The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou, The Royal Tenenbaums, The Hunger, Amores Perros, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Fight Club, Space Jam, The Triplets of Belleville, Yellow Submarine, Cry Freedom, Do The Right Thing.
Music
David Bowie, Neutral Milk Hotel, 50 Cent (in complete and utter seriousness), Mirah, Karl Blau, Mt. Eerie/The Microphones, The Arcade Fire, Sparklehorse, The Blow, Built To Spill, Belle and Sebastian, Beck, Olivia Tremor Control, Gorillaz, TV on the Radio, The Velvet Underground/Lou Reed, The Go! Team, The Flaming Lips, Natalie Portman's Shaved Head, Architecture in Helsinki, Jay-Z, Handel, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Jurassic 5, De La Soul, Elliott Smith, Deltron, Giant Sand, Grandaddy, Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass, Irving, International Falls, Lady Sovereign, Girl Talk, Of Montreal, Outkast, Pavement, The Raveonettes, RJD2, The Rentals, Thanksgiving, The Unicorns.
Books
The Series of Unfortunate Events Series, Harry Potter, Shogun, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime, The Awakening, The Great Gatsby, Travels With Charley, Kon Tiki, the No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency Series, Crime and Punishment, Tales of the Unexpected, In Dubious Battle, To Kill A Mockingbird, Reservation Blues, Walden, Heart of Darkness, The Adrian Mole Diaries.
Rob Roy, Oct 11, 2007:
yo. did you ever finish your solo project page?
Rob Roy, Sep 19, 2007:
unfortunately I dont have any straight on photos of that building because of the way its built. But when you say that's the type of photo you're going for, what particular attribute are you referring to?
mandiii, Sep 18, 2007:
hah. no. thanks for the add though.
Rob Roy, Sep 18, 2007:
carsten, wanna join my art collective? Its art that revolves around antlers
Brita+Kirsten, Aug 30, 2007:
yo! we will for sure send you some letters and presents so watch your mailbox!
so hows life? has anything crazy gone on in poughkeepsie? isnt that by the hudson river? maybe not, i have no idea but it sounds like it would be. you should find it and paint some landscapes and then send them to us, haha. -k
Rob Roy, Aug 29, 2007:
My life has been nuts lately! Life in the city is craze-yo gritty here, its the black tar heroin capital of the coast so there's all of these junkie punk kids that run the streets at night. its kind of scary sometimes, but mostly its just pathetic. I went to the artistery the other day and saw white fang. They ruled my face off.
Brita+Kirsten, Aug 29, 2007:
carsten! hows college? have you started yet? or explored new york yet? im pretty sure that we want to visit new york someday.
whats your address? we could send you awesome letters
-kirsten
Rob Roy, Aug 25, 2007:
carsten! are you moved in yet?
Brita+Kirsten, Jul 30, 2007:
yeahhh! that would be so awesome. kirsten and i have mountain bikes that we ride around kirkland. we should really do that sometime. i dont have your sweater, i cleaned my car immaculatly after the anacortes excursion because it got gross. keep us updated on the bike gang!-brita
Brita+Kirsten, Jul 30, 2007:
carsten! recently i realized that i had a towel with "anders" embroidered on it. im going to assume it belongs to you/yourfamily...-brita