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Professor Wendy

One moment is never enough, but perhaps a weekend will do

About Me

I'm a professor of anthropology and am constantly amazed, disappointed and thrilled at the world as it is.PS It's not bitch, it's bitchen MyGen Profile Generator

My Interests

indie music, gigs, anthropology, short skirts, ghostworld, warburton's bread, London, Glasgow, Oxford, humour, sexy shoes, the abandoned city afterhours, cakes, cupcakes, Vodun, Italia, aquariums, Halloween, Dias de los Muertos, dogs, people who let you pet their dogs, Museum of Jurassic Technology, cheese, pharmaceutical company promotional gifts, Kitten-War, high heels, urban legends, personality disorders, symbolism, rituals, performance, pugs, Thanksgiving, Phil Hendrie, Sherlock Holmes, Domino Records, aesthetics, glasswork, Capability Brown, cartoon lobsters, Department 56, All Tomorrow's Parties, jellyfish, manatees, real communication, experimental food (not unusally experimental foodies), musician jokes, melancholic philosophers

I'd like to meet:

People who are passionate about something and asking questions. Those rare individuals who make communication possible and think the message is more important than the spelling.

Music:

ride, domino records, sea wolf, pj harvey, jon brion, joy division, the blood arm, elliott smith, hugs, walkmen, crippled black phoenix, verve, lou barlow, interpol, clearlake, stills, interpol, quasi, my bloody valentine, divine comedy, postal service, sons and daughters, bright eyes (four winds), B & S, pulp, teenage fanclub, elastica, kim deal, arctic monkeys, wilco, no age, pavement, beta band, arab strap, iron & wine, shins, cold war kids, eagles of death metal, doves, elbow, peaches, spinto band, youth group, midlake, neil young, wolf parade, arcade fire, franz ferdinand, mogwai, shins, peter bjorn and john, hole, magnetic fields, rouge wave

Movies:

Withnail and I, Maya Darren films, Drowning by Numbers, Magnolia, Rope, Rushmore, Sunset Blvd, Fast Runner, Blood of a Poet, the Apartment, Kubrick films, Dark Water, the Gift, Citizen Kane, the Others, Royal Tennenbaums, Wes Anderson films

Television:

Six Feet Under, The Office, Judge Judy

Books:

Trickster Makes this World, Mind and Nature, Lolita, The complete sherlock holmes, To Kill a Mockingbird, anything by Alan Dundes, Oscar Wilde, Poe, Robert Hughes.

Heroes:

Gregory Bateson, Alan Dundes, Hooky, Laurence Bell, Maya Darren, my musical muses, Poppie

My Blog

The art of forgetting

I was at the Crystal Method studio last week with Hooky as he was doing some bass lines for collaboration with them.  As I was sitting there, I noticed their surveillance camera.  As I watch...
Posted by Professor Wendy on Mon, 30 Jun 2008 03:17:00 PST

Karaoke

I said it would never happen, but it did.  I went to the Switches Karaoke party that Filter threw the other night.  I was slightly out of sorts when I arrived there because I ended up a...
Posted by Professor Wendy on Tue, 24 Jun 2008 01:37:00 PST

indie i love you

I just got home from indie 103 where Peter and Tom were doing interviews to promote the new documentary.  It somehow turned into an absolutely absurd evening.  As it is summer, the alfa is n...
Posted by Professor Wendy on Thu, 19 Jun 2008 12:22:00 PST

Stay focused

If it weren't for sex and maybe linguistic anthropology, I don't know if anyone would read anything with undivided attention anymore.  Not that this is a novel idea, Freud said society is based o...
Posted by Professor Wendy on Mon, 09 Jun 2008 08:01:00 PST

weddings and lobsters and ray guns

Today, I found lobster Themador or as it was called at the French Vietnamese restaurant Lobster Hermador (Lobster with Chee).  I was there because my friend Nicky had flown in from Germany to get...
Posted by Professor Wendy on Thu, 05 Jun 2008 08:33:00 PST

A celebrity and a student

Just a typical night at Casa Vega in the Valley.
Posted by Professor Wendy on Mon, 02 Jun 2008 05:42:00 PST

Dreaming of cheese

So last night I had a dream that I was searching for Buratta cheese which I eventually found and ate.  It was delicious and no I didn't wake up and find my pillow missing.  In this increasin...
Posted by Professor Wendy on Thu, 29 May 2008 09:32:00 PST

I can see

Literally.  So one of the subtexts of the last five months was that I got lasik in December and it didn't work (Hence, the profile photo from last month in carmel with glasses on).  Part of ...
Posted by Professor Wendy on Mon, 26 May 2008 10:15:00 PST

101 Cafe

I just got home from having a 2:00am breakfast at the 101 with some friends from the UK.  We ordered the typical array of breakfast foods.  When they brought us our cutlery for some reason t...
Posted by Professor Wendy on Mon, 26 May 2008 03:18:00 PST

As if

Of course the cake didn't last a whole month.  It didn't even last a whole week.  Yum.
Posted by Professor Wendy on Sat, 24 May 2008 05:33:00 PST