Writing (first novel out June 2008, MTV Books!). Reading. Worshiping at the altar of rock n roll. Tasty vegan treats. Drinking, especially at the Beacon Pub. Bad decisions and the stories they create. Car rides. Sidney, the punkest cat ever, and Kaspar and Lars, his partners in crime. My boyfriend's company (awww). My friends' company. Lack of sleep (we have a love/hate thing). My house. The Midwest. Chicago, Wisconsin. The West Coast. Traveling (especially to Seattle and LA, and I'd love for someone to pay for me to go to Europe. Please?). Chicago White Sox baseball. Pirates. Playing my geetar (badly)..contactTab
I'd like to meet:
People who love books. People who love punk rock. Girls who dream of being rock stars. Hell, anyone who secretly wishes they were a rock star. Midwesterners. Run aways. Pirates. People who love road trips. People who are just looking for a good story.
Music:
Nirvana, Hole, Rancid, Against Me!, Social Distortion, Screaming Trees (and Mark Lanegan's solo stuff), The Distillers, The Cure, Dinosaur Jr, The Gits, White Stripes, Joy Division, REM, Pixies, Babes in Toyland, Propagandhi, Johnny Cash, Leadbelly, Material Issue, Katastrophy Wife, Robert Johnson, The Capricorns, Office, The Wipers, Tiger Army, Alkaline Trio, Sex Pistols, Bowie, The Muffs, P!nk, The Vaselines, Bad Religion, Bauhaus, Rush, Sleater Kinney, PJ Harvey, Mudhoney, Rise Against, Eyes Adrift, Everclear, Alice in Chains, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Rites of Spring, Sonic Youth, Tori Amos, Foo Fighters, NOFX, The Clash, Sunny Day Real Estate, L7, Huggy Bear, The Start, Morphine, Garbage, Green Day, Huggy Bear, Smashing Pumpkins, Auf der Maur, My Bloody Valentine, 7 Year Bitch, The Afghan Whigs, Death Cab for Cutie, Pretty Girls Make Graves, The Beatles, Concrete Blonde, Soul Asylum, The Replacements, The Dead Milkmen, Faith No More, Echo and the Bunnymen, Heavens to Betsy, The Stooges, Jane's Addiction, The Lemonheads, Loretta Lynn, New Order, Mazzy Star, Patti Smith, Queens of the Stone Age, Scratch Acid, Tilt, Sunny Day Real Estate, The Weakerthans, Katie and Stephanie's Summer driving mixes, Eryn's Seattle driving mix, do you want me to keep going cause I can...
Movies:
Pirates of the Caribbean(all of them!), The People Vs Larry Flynt, The Breakfast Club, Almost Famous, City of Lost Children, Heathers, Beetlejuice, Delicatessan, Titus, The Lost Boys, Grease, Harry Potter, Sid and Nancy, PCU, Office Space, Nightmare Before Christmas, The Crow, Walk the Line, Winnie the Pooh, The Labyrinth, Dark Crystal, Finding Neverland, Edward Scissorhands, basically anything with Johnny Depp, Gross Pointe Blank, Singles, Velvet Goldmine, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Clerks, Mystic River, Reality Bites, Blade Runner, Lord of the Rings, Rebel without a Cause, Amelie, 40 Year Old Virgin
Television:
Degrassi Junior High, Degrassi High, My So-Called Life, Star Trek the Next Generation, Beverly Hills 90210, One Life to Live (though I miss the original Todd Manning), Desperate Housewives, Grey's Anatomy. Yeah my TV watching habits are dorky, I am fully aware. No reality TV except Intervention and the tattoo shows. Oh and Rock of Love and The Two Coreys, but that's my bad eighties taste rearing its head. I also enjoy White Sox games and the Family Guy and am subjected to a lot of other TV via my boyfriend.
Books:
I became a writer because as a little kid I loved Laura Ingalls Wilder books and composed autobiographies in my head. I've also loved Greek Myths and Shakespeare since I was young and started writing like most teenage girls because I thought I was the next Sylvia Plath. I've been lucky enough to have Joe Meno, Irvine Welsh and John McNally as mentors, so I'd especially recommend anything by them. Though they are non-fiction guys, they write a mean biography: Sam Weller who wrote the Bradbury Chronicles has also been a huge mentor and Charles Cross, author of Heavier than Heaven and Room Full Of Mirrors, has been a great, motivating friend. And perhaps most importantly of all because she has been encouraging me since I was 16 is the amazing Hillary Carlip who wrote Queen of the Oddballs and runs freshyarn.com. Other influences are: Francesca Lia Block, Lisa Tucker, Louise Erdrich, John Steinbeck, especially Grapes of Wrath, Dorothy Allison, Kelly Parra, Patrick Suskind, Laura Wiess, Colleen Curran, Amanda Boyden, Louisa Luna, Henry Miller, Don De Grazia, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Wraeththu and Thin Air by Storm Constantine, Fitzgerald, War and Peace by Tolstoy (I've seriously read it, not trying to be pretentious), (and to counter that pretentiousness) I LOVE HARRY POTTER! I'll stop there cuz again this is a category that I could go on and on until eternity.
Heroes:
All the writers I mentioned in the book section. Kurt Cobain. Girls that play guitar and rock hard like Brody Dalle and Courtney Love. And above all others, my mom.
