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jennifer

I am here for Friends

About Me

Red wine drinker, dirty talker, kitty snuggler (but not all three at the same time, you freak). Voyeur, analyst, and improvisationalist. Grammar nerd.Oh, and I smell good.

My Interests

Books, movies, dancing, yoga, not-modern art, dispassionate arguments and pointless discussions, shisha, iced tea, comedy, my cat smarmy, riding bikes, Triple Karmeliet, camping!Singing with friends is one my favorite things on the planet.

I'd like to meet:

Someone who can teach me Spanish.

Music:

"I can't stand the rain Against my window Bringing back sweet memories...."

Movies:

All that Heaven Allows, Pickup on South Street, Trust, Five Easy Pieces, The Sweet Smell of Success, Johnny Guitar, Being There, In a Lonely Place, The Wild Bunch, Metropolitan, Rosemary's Baby, Dead Alive. Oh, and I am a David Cronenberg fiend.

Television:

Weeds, Simon Schama's Power of Art, NY1

Books:

Mostly fiction: Murdoch, Spark, Wodehouse, Austen, Eliot, Dickens, Gaitskill, Hemingway, A. L. Kennedy. Poetry by Berman, Bishop, or Collins.

Heroes:

My cat Smarmy.

My Blog

My Dreams Are Embarrassingly Psychologically Uncomplicated

I had a dream last night that my living environment, both indoors and outside, was rather suddenly visited by a plague of adorable and cuddly-looking but ostensibly VERY deadl...
Posted by jennifer on Mon, 12 Mar 2007 12:00:00 PST

weekend

friday night: running into friends in LIC in time for dinner. drinking only a glass of wine while eating the most decadent pizza in the world (four cheese with pepperoni and truffle oil). the view of ...
Posted by jennifer on Mon, 18 Sep 2006 11:24:00 PST

Worst song to wake up to, played in its entirety, blaring from someone's stereo

Pet Shop Boys, "It's a Sin." I actually preferred waking up to the Spanish-language version of Billy Joel's "Piano Man." I wish I were joking.
Posted by jennifer on Tue, 12 Sep 2006 07:36:00 PST

LIC Sighting 1

A black man sits on the sidewalk, his back against a warehouse wall. On his lap is a black garbage bag overflowing with clothes. He holds up and carefully inspects a black seq...
Posted by jennifer on Thu, 31 Aug 2006 07:55:00 PST

Last day of August

This hasn't been the summer I expected. Instead of forging deeper connections, I've spent far too much time in my own head. One of my favorite novelists Iris Murdoch said, "Happine...
Posted by jennifer on Thu, 31 Aug 2006 07:39:00 PST