Kayte Blakeslee

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Location Northampton, Massachussetts, United States
Introduction I am from: -two obnoxious (but sometimes loveable) younger brothers -a doting British grandmother -team carpools across CT, 10 p.m. and 5 a.m. practices, ice rinks year round, and tournaments every holiday -3 elementary schools in one year -late nights in summer, impromptu sleepovers and driving to nowhere under the stars -New England weather, fall foliage, snow days, and white Christmases I am: -a singer -a hockey player -an initially shy person -eclectic -eccentric -a proud queer member of the LGBT alphabet soup -a dreamer -a hopeless romantic -an aspiring engineer But most of all, and most important, I am ME
Interests ice hockey, singing, theater, writing, drawing, playing guitar, going on random adventures
Favorite Movies Lord of the Rings, Silence of the Lambs, Miracle, DEBS, Rocky Horror Picture Show, Brokeback Mountain, Hamlet (the one with Kate Winslet), Blair Witch Project, Let the Right One In, Heathers, Wedding Crashers, Sweeney Todd, Spirited Away, V for Vendetta, Rent, Pirates of the Caribbean, Victor/Victoria, Harry Potter, The Princess Bride, Stand By Me, Amityville Horror, Breakfast Club, Memoirs of a Geisha, Moulin Rouge, Queen of the Damned, Interview with the Vampire, Titanic, The Village, Braveheart, Silent Hill, Little Miss Sunshine, Happy Gilmore, 8 Crazy Nights, The Ringer, School of Rock, Star Wars, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, The Terminal, Day After Tomorrow, Another Gay Movie, Big Fish, Lion King 1 and 2, Death Note, Bedknobs and Broomsticks, Howl's Moving Castle, the really old Wonderworks Chronicles of Narnia, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Nightmare Before Christmas, Corpse Bride, Angels And Demons, Secret Garden, and many many others.
Favorite Music Cake, Winterpills, Lemon Demon, Within Temptation, Green Day, Flogging Molly, My Chemical Romance, Linkin Park, Eiffel 65, She Wants Revenge, Neko Case, Death Cab for Cutie, Eminem, Nightwish, The Beatles, Beach Boys, The Proclaimers, Ben Lee, Maria Taylor, Freezepop, Hinder, Hawthorne Heights, Gorillaz, Emilie Autumn, System of a Down, Shinedown, Simon and Garfunkel, Landon Pigg, Cold, Three Days Grace, Blink-182, Nirvana, Riddlin' Kids, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Rilo Kiley, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Harry Chapin, AC/DC, Shania Twain, Deerhoof, Mogwai, Matthew Dear, Gui Boratto, John Denver, Simple Plan, Good Charlotte, White Stripes, American Hi-Fi, Bowling For Soup, Metallica, Coldplay, U2, Rise Against, Three Doors Down, Sugarcult, Lifehouse, James Blunt, Weird Al Yankovic, The Verve, The All-American Rejects, Billy Joel, Elefant, Eminem, Avril Levigne, Rammstein, Relient K, Efterklang, Apparat, and others. Favorite Musicals: Rent, Wicked, Phantom of the Opera, Curtains, Sweeney Todd, Godspell, Grease, My Fair Lady, Footloose, Secret Garden, Les Miserables, Once On This Island, Fiddler On The Roof, Oliver, Chess, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Pippin, Hairspray, Chicago, and a bunch of others. Favorite Classical/Choral Composers: Faure, Debussy, more to come Just about anything and everything; I'm very eclectic. Hit the shuffle on my mp3 player, and you go from Broadway to techno to 60's to rock to movie soundtracks to indie to rap to country to choral etc.
Favorite Books Anything Anne Rice (that is, anything before the Jesus books), anything by Tolkien, any of the Doctor Who or Torchwood novels, just about anything by Poe, The Legend of Drizzt series by R.A. Salvatore, Anthem by Ayn Rand, Harry Potter, The Lovely Bones, the Twilight series by Stephanie Meyer, the Bloody Jack series by LA Meyer, Deliver Us From Evie, V for Vendetta, Boy Meets Boy, the Rainbow Boys Trilogy, the Geography Club series by Brent Hartinger, Angels and Demons, Auntie Mame, The Westing Game, Memoirs of a Geisha, The Giver, Gathering Blue, The Phantom Tollbooth, A Child Called 'It', Emma, Frankenstein, Hamlet, and more that I can't remember. Manga: Fruits Basket, The Cain Saga and Godchild, Vampire Knight, Fake, Gorgeous Carat, Until the Full Moon, Eerie Queerie, Loveless, Pretty Face, Vampire Knight, Negima, and if I can find someone to borrow them from, Death Note

If you were a pirate, how would you avoid laughing when saying 'poop deck'?

I probably wouldn't be able to not laugh. I would just avoid having to say poop deck.