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Julia

I am here for Friends and Networking

About Me

1. I have a predilection for silver objects.2. Vegenaise has significantly improved my quality of life.3. I make coffee like a man.

My Interests

records, lime rickeys, acquiring more books than I can read, Trader Joe's, music, crazy travel adventures, dive bars, trenchcoats, religion, thrifting, shoes, Italy, cultural sabotage, margaritas, chopstick-collecting, NPR, Jew bacon, literature, zines, vegan foodstuffs, politics, coffee, art, yoga, serendipity

I'd like to meet:

...someone who's constantly risking absurdity...

Music:

Current rotation: A Place to Bury Strangers, Jens Lekman, Thurston Moore, PJ Harvey's White Chalk, Caribou, St. Vincent, Swan Lake, Blitzen Trapper, Marmoset, Black Mother Super Rainbow, the Veils, Nancy Sinatra, the new Spoon album, the Spinanes, Jim White, The Long Blondes, Deerhoof, Tom Waits...also: Sonic Youth, Kraftwerk, Serge Gainsbourg, Stereo Total, Gogogo Airheart, Velvet Underground, Talking Heads, Brian Eno, David Bowie, T. Rex, Bob Dylan, Patti Smith, Suicide, ESG, Aphex Twin, Bjork, The Streets, Coltrane, Nels Cline, Carla Bozulich, Tom Waits, The Stooges, Desert Sessions Vol. 9 & 10, Pere Ubu, Le Tigre, Gang of Four, Interpol, Pavement, Spoon, Of Montreal, Yo La Tengo, Belle and Sebastian, Magnetic Fields, M. Ward, Beirut, Man Man, Can, Faust, The Clash, The Fall, Eagles of Death Metal, Thee Headcoatees, PJ Harvey, Liz Phair (pre-makeover), Neutral Milk Hotel, Cat Power, Elliott Smith, The Unicorns, Islands, Mulatu Astatqe, Mugison, Grizzly Bear, Beach House, Circulatory System, Gogol Bordello, Art Brut, Devendra Banhart, Nouvelle Vague, Lee Hazlewood, Morvern Callar soundtrack, My Bloody Valentine, Enon, Michael Yonkers Band, The Walkmen, Tapes 'n Tapes, Black Lipstick, Modern Lovers, Klaus Nomi, Simply Saucer, Jesus and Mary Chain, Franz Ferdinand...

Movies:

Noi Albinoi, I Heart Huckabees, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Rosemary's Baby, Annie Hall, Grey Gardens, Billy Liar, Zabriskie Point, Y Tu Mama Tambien, Down By Law, Breathless, Blue Velvet, Donnie Darko, Pumpkin, Bartleby, The Nomi Song, The Triplets of Belleville, American Splendor, Lost in Translation, All the Real Girls, Morvern Callar, Shortbus, Me, You and Everyone We Know, Jules and Jim, Days of Heaven, The Science of Sleep

Television:

Twin Peaks...If I had cable: Project Runway and What Not to Wear

Books:

Just finished: Crooked Little Vein by Warren Ellis, Veronica by Mary Gaitskill, Going Solo by Roald Dahl, Dishwasher by Pete Jordan...Also: The Epicure's Lament (Kate Christensen), Bobos in Paradise (David Brooks), Fast Food Nation, Bad Behavior and Because They Wanted To (Mary Gaitskill), The Fuck-Up and Chinese Takeout (Arthur Nersesian), Zhuangzi, Roald Dahl

Heroes:

Patti Smith, Kathleen Hanna. Stephen Malkmus for his cute, sinister grin and heaping doses of articulate irony.

My Blog

Ice Cream Truck

Hot damn! It's March 9th, 50 degrees, and I hear the optimistic tinkle of the ice cream truck outside. No doubt it will manage to drive me crazy before summer even starts. Still, sun-drenched days ...
Posted by Julia on Thu, 09 Mar 2006 12:00:00 PST

What an absolutely insane day

What an absolutely insane day: 90 degrees, allergy headache, running to the post office, running to the train and missing it, subsequent train delays, loose cannon overweight Jewish guy in the cab ask...
Posted by Julia on Wed, 14 Sep 2005 09:23:00 PST

5 Movies I Saw Recently

So part of the application for one of the many jobs I've recently applied to asked me to list the last five movies I saw and my thoughts on them. Here they are: " The Decline of the American Empir...
Posted by Julia on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Vegan Convenience Store

Ok, I really should be applying to more jobs or reviewing SAT words or whatever, but when I heard of Food Fight Vegan Grocery , I had to check it out. Food Fight! is a vegan grocery/convenience stor...
Posted by Julia on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Debt free

As of yesterday, I am debt free! Such an existence hardly seems possible: freedom to incur debt anew. I will be anxiously awaiting that magic piece of paper in the mail, which will proclaim my freed...
Posted by Julia on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

As American As Key Lime Tofu Pie

You Are 20% AmericanYou're as American as Key Lime Tofu Pie Otherwise known as un-American! You belong in Cairo or Paris... Get out fast - before you end up in Gitmo! How American Are You?...
Posted by Julia on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

it's hard to keep up these days

It's so hard to keep up these days! I was just reading some blogs about the Kraftwerk show here in NYC last week. I knew I missed it, I guess I just held off because I didn't want to overindulge on ...
Posted by Julia on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

good 'ole S.M.

The new Stephen Malkmus album is pretty great. Reassuring that he still has it in him. "Pencil Rot" rocks. The "brittle falsetto," the "sunset nostalgia," it's all there. Now if only we could get ...
Posted by Julia on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

To Hell With Poverty...

...Let's get drunk on cheap wine. Gang of Four on Tuesday night at Irving Plaza were fucking amazing. They were completely serious, barely uttering a word. They had a task at hand: living up to t...
Posted by Julia on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Stereo Total show

The Stereo Total show last night at the Bowery Ballroom was pretty much perfect. Francoise was a bit more bookish than I'd imagined and Brezel a bit crazier. Brezel had a monstrous "r" roll and some...
Posted by Julia on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST