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James hates cougars

blood on the sidewalk

About Me

I enjoy riding public transportation during rush hour, running up broken escalators, and playing drinking games to C-SPAN.

My Interests

Dive bars, using my outdoor voice indoors, gesticulating, tattoos, laughing at pornography, arrogant insecurity, blatant irony, using my outdoor voice indoors, German, Spanish, braille, cheap beer, secular humanism, politics, sociology, queer theory, tofu, NPR, C-SPAN, world domination

I'd like to meet:

Anyone who likes warm days, going to bad dance parties, being obnoxious in public, and climbing things that shouldn't be climbed.

Music:

Bikini Kill, Sleater-Kinney, K.D. Lang, Editors, The Faint, Ani DiFranco, Dolly Parton, Melissa Etheridge, Melissa Ferrick, Indigo Girls, Placebo, Dar Williams, Interpol, Kimya Dawson, Bratmobile, DFA 1979, Johnny Cash, VHS or Beta, Lily Allen, Joanna Newsom, Le Tigre, Ladytron, Neutral Milk Hotel, New Order, She Wants Revenge, Die Toten Hosen, The Knife, Adventures of Jet, Antigone Rising, Tracy Chapman, Joan Baez, Joy Divison, Leslie Hall, We Are Scientists

Movies:

Amélie, Aimée und Jaguar, Der Krieger und die Kaiserin, Motorcycle Diaries, If These Walls Could Talk, Dancer in the Dark, The House of Yes, Psycho Beach Party

Television:

The Ellen DeGeneres Show, Paula's Home Cooking, The Parkers

Books:

What's the Matter with Kansas by Thomas Frank, The Dialectic of Sex by Shulamith Firestone, Nathan der Weise by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Heroes:

Franklin D. Roosevelt, Wangari Maathai