Garnet
26 years old
Chicago
Female
About
I'm a writer/artist/renegade chef/interior design student/blogger/restless urban gypsy living in the exquisite city of Chicago. I recently moved back after a flying under the radar/hiatus for nearly a year. Miss me?
I adore Jameson, but my true liquid love is Chartreuse. My permanently favourite colour is purple, but my current obsession is lime green. Or teal. I'm an insomniac with a severe caffeine dependency (which I express by brewing intoxicating pots of espresso with my shiny art deco espresso pot) and one of the few people I know who still reads books.. you know, the antique kind constructed with paper and ink. I have naturally auburn hair and I could without question kick your ass, Iron Chef style. I'm secretly in love with race horse jockey Rafael Bejarano. Shhh... don't tell anyone. Music + Machines = Less-than-three
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Aug 4, 2008
Manic Monday?
I woke up for class today with an unshakable feeling foreboding. Yesterday? This was the Golden Hour (which is the opposite of the Violet Hour); today? Stormy, sepia, and everything felt wrong from the moment I woke up and my foot hit the floor. (Normally I adore …
Aug 2, 2008
The carousel plays the same ol' tune.
I'm starting to lose track of days again and for once it's not due to Monsieur Alcohol.
I've spent the past week? Two weeks? Something like that, catching up with school projects. Two art classes and one math; it's a LOT of work. On top of all that, my loan is on …
Jul 27, 2008
Guess what I've been doing all evening?
Drawing 36 faces for my Rapid Viz class. Although apparently I can't count.. because I did 46. Oops. -_-'
I numbered them, so if you want to guess who they are this could get pretty entertaining. Some are random, but many are from old photograph books from WWII and …
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I like these things ::
alcohol, cats, robots, cyberpunk, Jameson, futurism, japan, ancient history, technology, sushi, thoroughbred horse racing, papillons, cyberculture, origami, lip gloss, culinary arts, caffeine, sci-fi, classic movies, chrome fingernail polish, murder mysteries, russia, cupcakes, piracy, film noir, spy novels, cherry milkshakes, springtime, chinatown, sunsets, Thai food, double entendres, beer, nancy drew, mint chocolate, carousels, stargazer lilies, chartruese, morocco, mojitos, randomness, peacock feathers, the Dalai Lama, Robert Ben Garant, Rafael Bejarano
I do this stuff ::
drinking, dancing, cooking, writing, reading, interior decorating, urban exploration, sudoku puzzles, photography, fashion deconstrution, gardening, knitting, yoga, pilates, recycling, social engineering, betting on ponies, enjoying insomnia, writing haikus, swimming
Things I stick in my ears ::
16 volt, acid horse, acumen nation, amon tobin, akino arai, ali project, andrey kiritchenk, android lust, aphex twin, atari teenage riot, autechre, anemone, basement jaxx, bile, björk, boards of canada, ayumi hamasaki, the brilliant green, celldweller, billy idol, beethoven, benny benassi, bit-meddler, caroline, cevin key, the chemical brothers, chemlab, chris connelly, coil, clock dva, crystal method, curve, cyberaktif, daft punk, depeche mode, die form, die warzau, dj? acucrack, combichrist, doubting thomas, the dresden dolls, einsturzende neubauten, eurythmics, the faint, fatboy slim, fear factory, download, fiona apple, duran duran, foetus, four tet, front line assembly, front242, frou frou, gary numan, grendel, eugene, gwen stefani, ha10gen, hanin elias, hanzel und gretyl, hate dept., gravity kills, ikue mori, feindflug, imogen heap, felix da housecat, iron lung corp., johnny cash, kidneythieves, klute/klutæ, kmfdm, free dominguez, knifehandchop, hocico, kraftwerk, ladytron, laibach, lamb, lard, lily allen, joy division, the kovenant, leætherstrip, lords of acid, malkit singh, maria callas, massive attack, massonix, matmos, meat beat manifesto, meister, micronaut, milky-chu, mindless self indulgence, ministry, mira calix, miss kittin, mogwai, morning musume, mortiis, mozart, múm, mussolini headkick, my life with the thrill kill kult, my ruin, namie amuro, new order, nick cave & the bad seeds, nitzer ebb, olivia, onitsuka chihiro, pailhead, patsy cline, peaches, pig, pigface, pizzicato five, plaid, platEAU, portishead, predella avant, prince, prodigy, psychopomps, psychotica, psykosonik, PTP, puffy amiyumi, pzycho bitch, rasputina, revolting cocks, rihanna, ruby, rx, samael, s.e.s., sheep on drugs, shiina ringo, singine, sister machine gun, skinny puppy, slick idiot, sneaker pimps, snog, static-x, steril, swamp terrorists, tatu, tchaikovsky, tech n9ne, tenacious d, tokyo ghetto pussy, tommy february6, tommy heavenly6, tomosaka rie, tom waits, tricky, tweaker, utabi, utada hikaru, vanessa mae, venetian snares, vernian process, wiseblood, :wumpscut:, xenocanon, yellow magic orchestra, y-luk-o
Movies ::
2046, The African Queen, Aliens Trilogy, Amelie, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Appleseed, Appleseed, Anchorman, An Ideal Husband, Apocolypta, Arsenic & Old Lace, The Aviator, Battle Royale, Beetlejuice, Being John Malkovich, The Big Sleep, Bladerunner, Blue Velvet, Brain Candy, Breakfast At Tiffany's, Butterfield 8, Casablanca, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Cell, Charade, Children of Men, City of Lost Children, Cleopatra, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Dangerous Beauty, Dark City, The Dark Crystal, Dead Poets Society, Desperate Living, Donnie Darko, Doom Generation, Dune, Edward Scissorhands, Elizabeth, Evil Dead trilogy, eXistenZ, Fantasia, The Fifth Element, The Fifth Element, Finding Wonderland, From Hell, Gaslight, Gattaca, Gosford Park, House of Flying Daggers, Hackers, Heathers, High Heels and Low Lifes, How To Marry A Millionaire, The Illusionist, The Hours, The Illusionist, Ichi the Killer, The Island, Indiscreet, I Robot, Jacob's Ladder, Jawbreaker, Kamikaze Girls, Johnny Mnemonic, Judge Dredd, Key Largo, Kiki's Delivery Service, Kill Bill Vol. 1 & 2, Labyrinth, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, Lost Highway, The Maltese Falcon, Mary Poppins, Memoirs of a Geisha, Metropolis, MIRRORMASK, The Notebook, Party Monster, Notorious, Penny Serenade, The Prestige, Perfect Blue, Princess Mononoke, Proof, Quills, Rent, Resident Evil 1 & 2, Run Lola Run, The Ring, Ringu, Robocop, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Roman Holiday, Sabrina, Serenity, The Seven Year Itch, Shiri, The Skeleton Key, Some Like It Hot, Starship Troopers, Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, Snatch, Star Wars, Strange Days, Tank Girl, Stargate, The Thin Man movies, The Thirteenth Floor, V for Vendetta, Hunter D: Bloodlust, Vanity Fair, Waterworld, What Dreams May Come, Zathura: A Space Adventure
TV ::
Reno 911!, Passions, Mythbusters, Miami Ink, LA Ink, LA Ink, What Not To Wear, How It's Made, Ghost Whisperer, Numb3rs, Desperate Housewives, Brothers & Sisters, NCIS, Medium, Law & Order: SVU, 30 Rock, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Robot Chicken, Sealab2021, Witch Hunter Robin, Ghost in the Shell: SAC, Max Headroom, I Love Lucy, Bewitched, I Dream of Jeannie, Jeopardy!, Adult Swim, Food Network, The History Channel, TCM, AMC, The Discovery Channel, TLC, HGTV
OMG! BOOKS! ::
120 Days of Sodom, 1984, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, American Gods, Anansi Boys, An Ideal Husband, Animal Farm, A Rebours [Against Nature], Aztec, Beautiful Losers, Blade of the Immortal [manga], Brave New World, Burning Chrome, The Celestine Prophecy, Coldheart Canyon, Chobits [manga], Cryptonomicon, The Da Vinci Code, Day By Night, Diary of a Drug Fiend, Don't Bite the Sun, Drinking Sapphire Wine, The Diamond Age, The Egyptian, The Electric Forest, Faustus, Fernande, Ghost in the Shell [manga], Good Omens, The Grapes of Wrath, Grimm's Fairy Tales, Hamlet, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy [ALL], Idoru, The Iliad, The Importance of Being Earnest, Lady Chatterley's Lover, Medea, Memoirs of a Geisha, Mona Lisa Overdrive, the entire Nancy Drew series, Neuromancer, Neverwhere, The Odyssey, Of Mice and Men, Othello, the entire OZ series, Pattern Recognition, Philosophy in the Bedroom, The Picture of Dorian Gray, The Remarkable Rocket, Satyricon, The Secret Books of Paradys [Vol. I-IV], Snow Crash, Stardust, Starship Troopers, St. Fire, Through the Lookingglass, Venus In Furs, White Noise
Teh Interweb ::
technorati, boingboing, livejournal, slashdot, del.icio.us, digg, MAKE, etsy, penny arcade, diesel sweeties, haiku circus, vg cats, wikipedia, nationstates, green is sexy, lol bots, icanhascheezburger
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Tophe, Aug 14, 2007:
Hello Betty Crocker :P
KuraFire, Aug 14, 2007:
Heya ;)
Aum, Jul 27, 2007:
Hello!
You have wonderful taste.
Nikola's Photography, May 19, 2007:
Found you via Anansi Boys... still reading books too.... just droped to say hello...