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the renee

my pockets are out and running about

About Me

i'm either jetlagged or about to be. find out more at the rsb blog: pressplayandrecord.blogspot.com

My Interests

photography, foreign travel [especially london], celebrity schadenfreude/B-/c-list celeb reality shows, lazy sundays reading the new york times, beer pong, collecting spoons from travel, tea, fine writing instruments, andy warhol/factory scene, trivial pursuit, irony, frequent flier miles, tate modern, long & winding car rides with no specific destination, cheese [the stinkier, the better], scrabble, block printing, impossible quests for footwear that may or may not exist [or only in my mind], naps

I'd like to meet:

you or a better version there of

Music:

the go! team, stereolab, bloc party, sonic youth, r.e.m. [irs years], i love you but i've chosen darkness, everything but the girl, mahi mahi, ride, lush, ultra vivid scene, unrest, olivia tremor control, honeybunch, small factory, stevie wonder, le mans, the bats, rebuilthangartheory, kelis, aceyalone, mission of burma, toulouse, morrissey/the smiths, tv on the radio, the pines of rome, the hot chip, broken social scene, galaxie 500, holiday [rip], pj harvey, lush, massive attack, neutral milk hotel, peaches, i'm from barcelona, the strange idols, mr hudson and the library

Movies:

this is spinal tap, borat, shaun of the dead, amelie, team america: world police, to kill a mockingbird, run ronnie run, 24 hour party people, almost famous, the goonies, waiting for guffman, harold and kumar go to white castle, saved!, movern callar, 8 women, network, withnail and i, crash, borat, the queen

Television:

the office [uk/us], reno 911!, good eats, six feet under, absolutely fabulous, arrested development, studio 60 on the sunset strip, mr. show with bob & david, m*a*s*h, the eastenders, 120 minutes [the dave kendall years], strangers with candy, 30 rock, my name is earl, the daily show, anderson cooper 360, sanford & son, inked, the comedians of comedy, trading spouses, the surreal life, independent lens, andy barker PI, the riches, spaced, big love

Books:

dorothy parker, kurt vonnegut, malcolm gladwell, david sedaris, al franken, the new york times, gawker.com, mostly non-fiction/pop culture/history/travelogues, bill bryson, tony wheeler