karentronier

DUE TO SOME VERY PERSONAL CIRCUMSTANCES I WILL NO LONGER BE SWAPPING. I AM SORRY FOR ANY INCONVENIENCE THIS CAUSES ANYONE

I am a young woman from Salt Lake City, Utah. I have lived here most of my life except for a short stint living in the Caribbean while volunteering for Planned Parenthood. Currently I am a student of Literature, and I would like to eventually get my Library Sciences degree so I can spend my days surrounded by dusty old books and chastising small children (I kid). I recently married my best friend and longterm boyfriend; we have two four legged children, our dogs Max and Abner. I have an obsession with anything and everything vintage or antique. I love old movies, music, clothes, architecture, books et cetera. This obsession leads me to spending many hours perusing thrift stores, garage and estate sales. I love the thrill of finding a hidden treasure (or at least they are treasures to me). I love living near the mountains and I take opportunities to be outdoors as often as I can, preferably with friends or family. As with my other old fashioned interests I love snail mail and I have many pen pals; one of my pen pals directed me to swap-bot and I am excited to get started! My other loves include: Travel, Postcards, Tea, Wine, Gardening, Cooking, Crafting, Reading, Film, Adventure...

It's hard for me to pin down a certain genre that I love the most and my tastes are all over the place. I love music, I need music...

The Beatles, Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan, Joanna Newsom, Billy Holiday, Josephine Baker, Nina Simone, Simon and Garfunkel, The Mamas and the Papas, Cat Stevens, Neko Case, Jolie Holland, Be Good Tanyas, Skip James, Beirut, The Decemberists, Two Gallants, Morrissey, Old Crow Medicine Show, Cliff Edwards, Peggy Lee, Duke Ellington, Modest Mouse, Melanie, Magnetic Fields, Jens Lekman, The Kinks, The Rolling Stones, Loretta Lynn, Patsy Cline, Leonard Cohen, Judy Garland, Frightened Rabbit, DeVotchKa, Beach House, Dolly Parton....

My all time favorite book is "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole, hands down.

Other favorites include: "Rebecca"(Daphne DuMaurier), "White Teeth"(Zadie Smith), "Wuthering Heights"(Emily Bronte), "Sense and Sensibility"(Jane Austen), "Something Wicked This Way Comes"(Ray Bradbury), "Night Shift"(Stephen King), "Their Eyes Were Watching God"(Zora Neale Hurston), "Nine Stories"(J.D. Salinger), "I Capture The Castle"(Dodie Smith), "Autobiography of My Mother"(Jamaica Kincaid)....

I love, love, love Horror films! I love the unknown and even though I am easily scared I will still watch them every chance I get. My Favorites are:

Carnival of Souls (filmed in my hometown in 1962), Night of the Living Dead (1968), "The Shining"(1980), "Burnt Offerings" (1976), "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre"(1974), "Halloween"(1978), "Diabolique"(1955), "The Vanishing"(1988), "The Univited"(2009), "The Ruins"(2008), "Dawn of the Dead"(2004), "Night Tide"(1963), "Them"(2007), "Donnie Darko"(2001), "Repulsion"(1965), "Black Christmas"

I love film in general. Some of my all time favorites are:

"Harold and Maude"(1971), "Rushmore"(1998), "The Big Lebowski"(1998), "Brokeback Mountain"(2005 - Heath Ledger was in my opinion the most attractive man to ever live), "Grey Gardens"(1975), "Vicky Christina Barcelona"(2008), "Away We Go"(2009), "Badlands"(1973), "A Place in the Sun"(1951), "The Wizard of Oz"(1939), "Play Misty for Me"(1971), "The Last Picture Show"(1971), "Baby Doll"(1956), "Clueless"(1995), "Wet Hot American Summer"(2001), "Forgetting Sarah Marshall"(2008)

I am very picky about TV these shows are my favorites:

The Golden Girls, Mad Men, The Office, I Love Lucy, Freaks and Geeks, The Wonder Years, and Arrested Development

Postcards, Letters, Vintage Magazines and Books, Bitch Magazine, BUST Magazine, Lush Products (especially their Karma scent), Handkerchiefs and Silk Scarves, Cigar Boxes, Handmade Items, Ephemera of all kinds, Stationary, Records, Mismatched China, Antique Photographs and Daguerreotypes, New Orleans, San Fransisco, Paris, Jelly Beans, Gummy Candy, Chocolate, Wizard of Oz and Alice in Wonderland doo dads, Tea, Alfred Hitchcock, Feminism, Dogs, Blythe Dolls, Papaya Art Stationary (http://www.papayaart.com), Halloween, Flamingos, Toucans, Elephants, The 1950's, The 1960's, The 1970's, Mermaids, Gnomes, Vintage Volkswagen

Overly cutesy pictures of Cats, Hello Kitty, Diddle Stationary, Precious Moments, Anything with a religious theme, Anne Geddes