By Beauty Damned

What Was It Like For You?

My friend Frannie Banannie posted this in a bulletin on myspace and I had to steal it:

1. What High School did you attend?
Santa Monica High School; Ashland High School

2. What year was it? Ummm. I dunno. 92 to 95? I think.

3. What were your favorite band(s) or artist(s)?
I listened to an inordinate amount of David Bowie, Pink Floyd, Bootsy Collins, Ween and Sublime during my teen years. And I was completely addicted to the Natural Born Killers soundtrack.

4. What was your favorite outfit?
I wore a lot of stupid shit. I had lots of favorite outfits. Most of them would probably not be remotely appropriate now.

5. What was up with your hair?
Oh god. Don't even ask. Until the age of 14 I had beautiful long hair. Then my hair got chopped off by some overzealous stylist. My dad referred to it intermittently as both "Rod Stewart" and "Trailer Trash." Thank god I recovered. It was black for a couple years, and has been pretty natural since then.

6. Who was your best friend(s)?
When I went to SaMo High my best friend was Laura. Crazy bitch. In Ashland my closest friends were Kathleen Culla, Emily Fraser, Darcie Pelsor, Jenni Dotson, Caitlin Curtis, Dawn Long, Ahdi Lieberman, Christy Hugo, Celeste Huetter, Jess Young, Chelsea Lord... There were a lot of awesome girls in Ashland. Most of the dudes didn't quite measure up.

7. What did you do after school?
The real question is what was I doing DURING school. What wasn't I doing, before, during and after?

8. Where did you work?
A bed & breakfast, Soopkich'n, and at my dad's law office.

9. Did you take the bus?
No. The only time I've ever been in a school bus is at a Greatful Dead concert, or in Ashland, where they were being lived in and they were permeated by the smells of ganja (yay!) and patchouli (nay :o(.

10. Who did you have a crush on?
Aiaiai. Everybody. I won't mention any names for their sake.

11. Did you have a girlfriend/boyfriend and who?
I had lots of boyfriends. But the most serious one was Patrick, who I dated from 13 to 16.

12. Did you fight with your parents?
Drama for your mama. I was out of control.

13. Did you ever get detention?
I had detention EVERY SINGLE DAY in L.A. and was often summoned to Saturday School as well, but when I moved to Oregon they didn't have any such thing and I was free to be a delinquent with sheer abandon.

14. Favorite Subject?
Art and English. I had SUCH a crush on my Art teacher. (!!!)

16. Who did you have a CELEBRITY crush on?
Tom Cruise, Keifer Sutherland, Johnny Depp, Matthew Broderick, Lou Diamond Phillips, David Bowie...man there were so many hotties out there.

17. Did you smoke cigarettes?
Unfortunately, yes. The biggest mistake I made in high school was taking up smoking.

18. Did you lug all of your books around in your backpack all day?
Haha! What books? Oh, you mean those dusty old things that sat in my locker with titles like "The People's History of the United States"? Yeah...fuck that shitass propaganda.

19. Best event ever?
It's hard to say. For the most part, it was all good times back in those days.

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