* bicycling and bicycles
* vegetarianism
* being outdoors
* cities not suburbs
* small towns
* walking not driving
* cross country skiing and trying not to fall down while doing it
* trying to be a better cook
* absurdity
* horror movies
* fidgeting/nervous habits
* board games, especially when they involve words
* Mad Libs
* politics/being a goddamn liberal
* trying really, really hard to keep my eyes open in photos, and failing miserably almost every time
* phone tag
* looking for beauty in chaos
smart. active. patient. readers. you.
vegetarians get a big plus.
low, q and not u, songs: ohia, beulah, minus the bear, spoon, sonic youth, apples in stereo, milemarker, death from above 1979, the pixies, death cab for cutie, hot snakes, antioch arrow, funeral diner, rise against, wolf parade, sonic youth, jethro tull, the shins, neko case, fugazi, built to spill, HORSE the band, clikatat ikatowi, sebadoh, le tigre, black heart procession, dillinger four, wilco, bad religion, neutral milk hotel, breather resist, no knife, murder by death, love life, dillinger four, nation of ulysses, american analog set, ted leo and the pharmacists, universal order of armageddon, le tigre, joy division, cursive, iron and wine, jimmy eat world. flashback: you and I, saetia, early grace, portrait, heroin, still life.
The Exorcist, Memento, Following, Serial Mom, Shaun of the Dead, The Evil Dead trilogy, the Friday the 13th movies, the Sleepaway Camp movies, Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter, Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer, Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure/Bogus Journey, Serial Mom, Dead Alive, Super Troopers, The Apple.
I have a lifelong obsession with The Simpsons. I'm addicted to Prison Break and also love Scrubs. I get swept up in Nova. Other than that, I don't care.
Currently reading: "Nausea" by Jean-Paul Sartre
Also enjoy: Chuck Palahniuk, Chuck Klosterman, Denis Johnson, Edgar Allen Poe, Kurt Vonnegut, "The Electric Kool Aid Acid Test" and Dystopian fiction. I own a copy of "A Clockwork Orange" with the dictionary in the back, I like it that much. More books: "The Serpent and the Rainbow" by Wade Davis, "The Zombie Survival Guide" by Max Brooks, "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything," "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote (after all, I am a journalist), "The Mole People" by Jennifer Toth and "Johnny Got His Gun" by Dalton Trumbo. The stories that come out of life are often more interesting than the wildest fiction.