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Vanessa

Has anyone seen the giant squid?

About Me

I'm a copy editor at Cosmopolitan magazine (Sex! High heels! Sex in high heels! That's what I'm paid to read about and make grammatically correctall day.) I live in Chelsea. I like New York in all of its ugliness, beautifulness, and weirdness, especially the buildings. And now someone actually has seen a giant squid, and ripped off one of its tentacles in the process, but I'd still like to see it for myself.

My Interests

Music, movies, marine life, pinhole photography, portrait painting (see Tony Zito, one of my few friends on this site), silhouettes (the kind that other people make, just so you don't think I'm a shadow fetishist), comics, the beach, traveling, reading, people (if they're nice).

I'd like to meet:

People who like to go out to hear bands, have some beers, go to interesting movies, eat in Chinatown or other interesting spots, walk around and shoot the breeze...you get the gist.

Music:

Early Dolly Parton, Stones, Big Star, Earlimart, Gram Parsons, Neil Young, Aimee Mann, Clash, Can, Aphex Twin, Ramones, Os Mutantes, Manu Chao.....

Movies:

Spirited Away, Midnight Cowboy, Crumb, Head On, Sid and Nancy, Sunset Boulevard, Taxi Driver, Office Space, Before Sunrise, Before Sunset, Late Marriage, documentaries of all shapes and sizes....

Television:

Simpsons, Law and Order (I only have pirated cable, so my viewing options are a little limited), Seinfeld reruns....

Books:

Love to read, though my eyes are sometimes burned out from my job, but: bio of Philip K. Dick, Easter Island, book on Barcelona by Robert Hughes, The Ice Queen by Alice Hoffman, Carson McCullers, Scott Spencer, Russell Banks, Bust magazine, New Yorker, even the cereal box if I get desperate.