ROLLER DERBY! Night swimming, Night skating, camping, gardening, crafting, knitting, making ordinary objects better with a hot glue gun and glitter, singing, Chai Martinis, Dogfish Head Beer, talking to inanimate objects and cats, teevee, movies, movies, movies, karaoke, unrequited crushes, music, music, music, diner slang, trucker slang, hobo symbols, lecturing strangers on the necessity of broad-spectrum sunblock, grammar, linguistics, political incorrectness, irreverence, cooking, eating, glaring at people, stalking people on MySpace, knowing things, learning things, old buildings, esp. churches, Makeup, hair dye, showing people how to put on makeup, using my art and philosophy degree to paint toenails and rip out unwanted hair while talking to my poor, unsuspecting clients about theology and feminism, Entertaining the possibility of going to nursing school and getting a real job, buttercream cupcakes from New System Bakery, Happy Hour on Fridays, Karaoke on Tuesdays, Beach Time, Pool Time, Quarry Time, Crab Time, Miller Time
I'd like to meet:
People who like to have fun, but not outdoors, unless it's at night, and not too cold or too hot; people who will sing karaoke even if they can't sing and play charades even if they always lose; people who actually have a favorite and least favorite word; Roller Derby Fanboys and Roller Girls; People who get sarcasm; movie partners (I'll go see anything); someone who knows things that I don't and will tell me about them; People who know the difference between irony and coincidence; Someone who will explain correct semicolon usage to me, since I seem to have a mental block when it comes to that particular piece of punctuation.
Music:
Too many to name, but...
Blondie, Pat Benatar, Peter Gabriel, Kate Bush, Tori Amos, DEVO, Bach, Howells, Leighton, Monteverdi, Hildegard von Bingen, Byrd, Kodaly, Lassus, Rah Bras, Magnetic fields, Yaz(oo), Concrete Blonde, B-52s, Veruca Salt, Matthew Sweet, Buddy Holly, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Catherine Wheel, Posies, Pixies, Jane's Addiction, Cocteau Twins, Patti Smith, Throwing Muses/kristen hersh, Bjork, PJ Harvey, Journey, Joy Division, New Order, Sonic Youth, Social Distortion, anything involving pipes and drums, Missing Persons, Roxy Music, T.Rex, The Sweet, The Replacements, 13th floor elevators, Neil Diamond, Misfits, Metallica, Dead Can Dance, Wu Tang, One-Hit-Wonders from the 80s, Music that shaped my youth (90s alternative and grunge), stuff I've never heard of that my friends put on mix tapes, music that brings back a memory
Your Taste in Music:
80's Alternative: Highest Influence
80's Pop: High Influence
80's Rock: High Influence
90's Alternative: High Influence
Alternative Rock: High Influence
How's Your Taste in Music?
Movies:
Pride and Prejudice (BBC), Wuthering Heights, Empire Records, breakfast club, Bring it on, Heathers, Pump up the Volume, Drop Dead Gorgeous, Secretary, True Romance, Clueless, In the Cut, Singles, Lord of the Rings II and III, Dangerous Liaisons, Big Lebowski, Fargo, Raising Arizona, wet hot american summer, outside providence, detroit rock city, Girl with a Pearl Earring, Stage Beauty, Gangs of New York, The Departed, Mansfield Park, Immortal Beloved, Amelie, Almost any movie based loosely on historic events, movies with a british accent, powdered wigs and voluptuous clothing are a plus, although I'll watch just about anything, including (unfortunately) horror movie prequals like texas chainsaw massacre and the exorcist...
Television:
Twin Peaks, Buffy, Angel, The State, Upright Citizens Brigade, Brotherhood, China Beach, Dark Shadows, Twilight Zone, Monty Python's Flying Circus, Dawson's Creek reruns, Law and Order SVU, Gilmore Girls, the Prisoner, Doctor Who, Red Dwarf, Chef!, Fawlty Towers, Bab5, Rome, Are you Being Served?, Black Adder, Carnivale, America's Next Top Model, Top Chef, Project Runway, Northern Exposure, Brother Cadfael, Masterpiece Theatre, Lost, The Office, Arrested Development, ...um, yeah, I heart Teevee.
Books:
Geek Love, Lie Down in Darkness, Owen Meany, Garp, Lolita, To Kill a Mockingbird, Eats, Shoots, and Leaves, Warriner's English, Grammar and Composition, fictionalized history, pretty much anything by Tracy Chevalier. I don't read nearly as much as I should.
