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maryquin

About Me


i have been learning how to play the drums this year and it has been one of the coolest things i've ever done. recently, i decided i want to move to the beach in mexico and become an ex pat. perhaps this will work out, perhaps not. in the meantime, i'll be working on learning spanish fluently again for the next few months. also, i like tequila & limonada, whisky, red wine, topo chico, photography, waking up early and having a cup of coffee, music, knitting, a comfy bed, cooking. i listen to NPR on my way to and from work every day. i love to play games - like scrabble, backgammon, trivial pursuit. i would love to have a darkroom again in the near future and take more pictures. i love paper & birds, and birds on paper. and i finally found a bicycle!

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My Interests

The East Side, sushi, public radio, moonwalks, sweden, mexico, crew, being outside, "the arts", photography, good beer, october, dancingdancingdancing, living on the edge, cooking indian food

I'd like to meet:

intellectuals who are not pompous, liberals, people who are informed. people who like to dance. artists and musicians. also would love to meet dave eggers and minor white.

Music:

!!!, bat for lashes, herman dune, bonde do role, the BLOW, art brut, ghostland observatory, gnarls barkley, billie holiday, clap your hands say yeah!, jamie lydell, of montreal, jeff buckley, what made milwaukee famous, the arcade fire, MIA, sufjan stevens, franz ferdinand, beastie boys, cake, flaming lips, johnny cash, beta band, the clash, talking heads, magnetic fields, wilco, fred mcdowell, postal service, death cab for cutie, weezer, david bowie

Movies:

survive style 5+, amelie, science of sleep, the squid and the whale, shopgirl, north by northwest, i heart huckabees, lost in translation, usual suspects, donnie darko, american beauty, high fidelity, abre los ojos, royal tenenbaums, zoolander, rushmore, almost famous, control room

Television:

nothing. i watch old episodes of futurama and simpsons on dvd, though.

Books:

catch 22, unbearable lightness of being, flannery o'connor, wuthering heights, a hearbreaking work of staggering genius, robert frost, the red tent, hamlet, j.d. salinger, fast food nation, etienne gilson, the little prince, dante's divine comedy, a wrinkle in time

Heroes:

my mom.

My Blog

inspiring

so, this weekend i experienced one of the coolest and most inspiring things in a while - and of all things it involved running, which i absolutely hate.  my good friend elizabeth ran the austin m...
Posted by quin on Mon, 19 Feb 2007 10:17:00 PST

birthday

i just have to say that i had the most incredible and amazing birthday & weekend i've had in a LONG time. i couldn't have asked to be with better company, either.i turned the big 2-6 and a group of u...
Posted by quin on Thu, 02 Nov 2006 11:27:00 PST

revisiting my top 5 movies...

so i haven't done a blog post in .... 3 years? i'm a little afraid of it, but tonight - i just had to.i went to see science of sleep - the new michel gondry movie - with my good friend leah. i haven...
Posted by quin on Fri, 29 Sep 2006 10:35:00 PST

Reverse the Curse

go redsox... who knew baseball could be this addictive?
Posted by quin on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST