being his wife. being her mum. being an individual.
peaceful parenting.
cooking.
gardening & composting.
reusing & reducing.
world-saving.
nonprofit work.
summertime & easy living.
pitchers of cheap beer.
cloves.
filmmaking
taking pictures.
letter writing.
any writing.
good music.
running.
traveling.
having several homes: humboldt county, los angeles, nashville.
I collect things: italian pottery, cream/sugar sets, antique children's books, and vintage linens.
I don't care to meet anyone in a band looking for tons of fab new friends for hot groupie sex*. I get that at home.
*unless you are Peter Murphy or Mike Ness. Then, maybe.
embedded videos, pictures, and slideshows are no substitute for actual language-usage and content. Also, they are annoying in mass quantities.
Please don't be mistaken. I have never really been the glittery greeting type. I'm still not. Come up with something better, please, or just don't bother.
synthesizers & strings, acoustic guitars, rich voices, and late night ambient sounds.
I was born to be the new wave/goth revival.
the top two:
Pet Shop Boys & The Floating Men
and in no particular order...
Junior Boys
Massive Attack
Everything But the Girl
Sade
Dar Williams
Elliott Smith
The Changelings
Peter Murphy
Puressence
the Jealous Sound
Beborn Beton
Jeff Black
talk radio: Jim Rome, Bob & Tom, the BBC World Service.
my new favourite movie ever is Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle.
I also like:
If Lucy Fell
Leaving Las Vegas
It Happened One Night
La Haine
Short Cuts
Whit Stillman
Lars von Trier
caper flicks
I really hated Napoleon Dynamite.
Someday I will have a channel with programming dedicated to Scrubs, King of the Hill, M*A*S*H, & That 70s Show.
"I don't read novels. I prefer good literary criticism. That way you get both the novelists' ideas as well as the critics' thinking. With fiction I can never forget that none of it really happened, that it's all just made up by the author."
Jane Eyre
Tam Lin
Charlotte Sometimes
T.S. Eliot
Angela Carter
essays
postcolonial discourse
african diaspora
travel narratives
GenX postmodernism
young adult novels
literary criticism
identity, imperialism, & marginalization theories
people who live without fear.