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Heather

if matrix were here, he'd laugh too

About Me

Surrounded by boxes and bags of stuff in our new, improved permanent apartment. I can't wait to actually have everything moved from storage, unpacked and to have my own plates again!

An academic who still manages to have fun and a life beyond books. I'm writing my dissertation about media coverage of the Boston Red Sox. Talk to me long enough, and I'm sure I'll mention it.

http://www.yourbestguess.com/hmuse

I got this layout from whateverlife.com. ..

My Interests

Procrastinating while dissertating, Pop culture, Media theory, The Cats (Walker and Linus), Yoga, Breaking news, Red Sox games, Phillies games, Rock and/or roll music, Montreal, Boston, London, Philadelphia, Knitting, Wii Sports!, Nostalgia, Social memory, Thinking about getting an English bulldog named Franklin

I'd like to meet:

Vincent Joseph Magee and our English bulldog named Franklin

Music:

Kinks, Replacements, Smiths, Monkees, Tom Petty, Elvis Costello, New Pornographers, Death Cab For Cutie, American Music Club, Sleater-Kinney, John Prine, Oasis, Blur, The Verve, Deathray Davies, The Shins, The Jam, The Easybeats, John Vanderslice, Long Winters, Old 97's, Sloan, The Hold Steady, The Thermals, Lemonheads, Springsteen, The Band, U2, NWA, We Are Scientists, Fountains of Wayne, Neko Case, We Are Scientists, RUMP POSSE

Movies:

Dazed and Confused, Better Off Dead, The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeosie, The Apartment, Good Night and Good Luck, Bring It On, The Poseidon Adventure, Earthquake, Vertigo, North By Northwest, Bad Santa, Singin' in the Rain, Head, Meteor, The Station Agent, Say Anything, Pretty in Pink, Over the Edge, The Philadelphia Story, How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, Most of Kevin Smith's oeuvre, That sequence in The Andromeda Strain where they go down several different levels and wear a different colored jumpsuit on each floor, COMMANDO

Television:

CSI and its delightfully trashy Miami spinoff, Homicide, 24, The Simpsons, The OC, Lost, Project Runway, Rescue Me, Veronica Mars, The Wire, Entourage, UGLY BETTY, Life on Mars, Top Chef, Any sort of reality competition crap on VH1 (especially if it includes drunk, washed-up rockers), Big Love, Flight of the Conchords, Weeds

Books:

Of Human Bondage, The Dirt, Mythologies, 722 Miles: The Building of the Subways and How They Changed New York, Microserfs, About a Boy, The Practice of Everyday Life, The Ritual Process, Stitch 'N Bitch, Bee Season, Americana, Feeding the Monster, Louisa Luna's oeuvre, Salinger, Fitzgerald, etc., The Complete Peanuts

Heroes:

Dennis Franz, The 2004 Boston Red Sox, Pa