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Lydia

you ain't so hip when you look so dead

About Me

Someday I'll jump out of my skin and shake the sky like a thousand violins

aim.anti ciipation

My Interests

studying language & people, feminism, New York City, Southern hospitality, gardening, the ocean, painting, cooking, warm strangers, poetry plus tea

Jeff&Maria

I'd like to meet:

tout le monde.

Music:

Elliott Smith, Lou Hickey, Belle and Sebastian, The Shins, The Sleepy Jackson, Hurts to Purr, The Kinks, The Moldy Peaches, Ani DiFranco, British Sea Power, Feist, Fiona Apple, Cat Power, Vienna Teng, Talking Heads, The Books, School of Language, Tom Waits, The Mountain Goats, Paul Simon, Sahara Hotnights, The Klaxons, Kimya Dawson, Xavier Rudd, The Ramones, Jude Johnstone, Louis XIV, The Upsetters, Coil, Anousheh Khalili, The Spin Doctors, Bob Marley, Bratmobile, Explosions in the Sky, The Ting Tings, Bikini Kill, Silver Jews, Imogen Heap, Bat for Lashes, Rilo Kiley, The Dandy Warhols, 7 Year Bitch, Cold Cold Hearts, The Smiths, Badly Drawn Boy, Free Kitten, The Gossip, Violent Femmes, Ghost Mice, Utada Hikaru, Peaches, Paragraph, AGSFB, Palomar, Heavens to Betsy, Trentalange, Animal Collective, April March, Julie Ruin, The Raveonettes, q and not u, Defiance Ohio, Regina Spektor, The Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Murder City Devils, Boards of Canada, Ohia, Smoosh, The Weakerthans, Smog, Beth Orton, The Butchies, Alanis Morissette, Ladytron, Built to Spill, Tracy and the Plastics, Jack Johnson, PJ Harvey, The Sounds, Illinois, Feel Good Colors, Tortoise, Eagles of Death Metal, Le Tigre, Of Montreal, Rancid, Mates of State, Flaming Fire, Barry Louis Polisar, Dinosaur Jr., The Strokes, Poe, Janove Otteson, A Particularly Vicious Rumor, Sleep, Halie Loren, Dido, Allison Crowe, The Hazzards, Rachael Yamagata, Yo La Tengo, Chicks on Speed

Movies:

The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, Wristcutters: a Love Story, 2 Days in Paris, Ciao! Manhattan, Fat Girl, La Doublure, Water, Melinda and Melinda, The Magdalene Sisters, Broken Flowers, No Country for Old Men, Pretty Woman, The Birthday, Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain, But I'm a Cheerleader, Waiting for Guffman, Le Scaphandre et le Papillon, Monster, Shortbus, Fateless, Juno, Lost in Translation, La Vita è Bella, The Royal Tenenbaums, Goodbye Lenin, Ferngully, Free to be You and Me, Sophie Calle's Double Blind

Television:

Oz, the food network

Books:

Dance Dance Dance, Woman Hollering Creek, Top Girls, Le Nom d’Oedipe, Things Fall Apart, To the Lighthouse, A Map to the Next World, Random Family, A Room of Her Own, Closely Watched Trains, In Search of Respect, The Year of Magical Thinking, Me talk pretty one day, oryx and crake, Love in the Time of Cholera, Travesti, Midnight's Children, Naked, Living by the Word, The School Among the Ruins, Kafka on the Shore, The Bell Jar, Moments of Being, Yellowman, A Certain Age, An Atlas of the Difficult World, You Can't Eeep a Good Woman Down, This Bridge Called My Back

Heroes:

Annie Sprinkle, David Sedaris