live music, spoken word poetry, jumping in puddles, old school carnivals, playing dress-up, handwritten letters, collecting wishes, driving in the rain, making trouble of the best kind, dykes, drag queens, poly-fidelity, the eighties, the ocean, mermaids, kittens, turtles, birds, the moon, pin-up girls, feminism, self-love, ferocity, passion, skinfriends, technicolor dreams, all things glitter, queer, pansexual, fierce femmes, nocturnal, writing it all down, memoir, social justice, revolution, tea parties, love love love, thunderstorms, southern summers, kissing for countless clockless hours, greek mythology, dreaming, learning, traveling, reclaiming, survivors, solitude, shared solitude, chronic illness/pain, patients rights activism, chronic lyme disease, community, working with kids, conversing with squirrels, kissing bellies, 24-hour anything, drive-in movies, crush collecting, vintage lingerie, moonlit picnics, road trips, bubble baths, D.I.Y. everything, urgent napkin poems, wordplay, makeup art, open minds & hearts, childlike wonder, people who are actually cats, cuddling 'til sunset, bookworms, knee-high socks, gravity-defying platform boots, ballgowns, listening to friends play instruments/sing, fuzzy blankets, vegetarian, pacifist not pacified, organic food, avocados, plastic hair!, making breakfast in bed for loved ones, faeries, hope, stargazing, storytelling, night-swimming, sea glass, seaweed, grecian isles, making out & rocking out.
I'd like to meet:
People with big mouths and bigger dreams. Artists. Writers. Feminists. Troubadours. Unabashed goofballs. People with raw passion. People who do it, live it, talk it, dream it. Naked revolutionaries. Queers.
New friends and old. Intense connections, poets even if they don't know it, emotional honesty. People who see the beauty in the small(est) things. Bookworms, felines, dykes, drag queens, genderblenders, fabulous folks who want to have cuddle-marathons! Survivors. People living with chronic illness or pain; people thriving in every way they can, despite it all. (*Specifically, if you need to talk about chronic/late-stage lyme disease and/or endometriosis, feel free to write.) People who believe in magic, whatever that may mean to them. Above all, just - People Who Get It.
You might also know me as Robin.
Music:
The Magnetic Fields, Melissa Ferrick, Regina Spektor, Ani Difranco, Belle and Sebastian, Dresden Dolls, Azure Ray, Elliott Smith, Dressy Bessy, Tattletale, Portishead, Beth Orton, Nina Simone, Tori Amos, Nick Drake, Anne Heaton, Dar Williams, The Nields, Mike Doughty, Alix Olson, Kaia/The Butchies, Morrissey/The Smiths, The Cure, New Order, Depeche Mode, Blondie, Cyndi Lauper, They Might Be Giants, Gothic Archies, R.E.M., Indigo Girls, Sarah McLachlan, Sinead O'Connor, The Be Good Tanyas, Mazzy Star, the oldest of old school Greenday. Soo many more... And of course, Mr. Billy Joel will always have a solid place in my heart.
Movies:
Harold And Maude, But I'm A Cheerleader, Love Actually, Gypsy 83, Gia, Magnolia, Slam, The Royal Tennenbaums, Ma Vie en Rose, La Vida es Silbar, Amelie, Almost Famous, My First Mister, Delicatessen, Labyrinth (and most things involving muppets), Some Like It Hot, Cosi, All Over Me, Little Miss Sunshine, Pretty in Pink, Velvet Goldmine, Boys Don't Cry, When Night Is Falling, Arizona Dream, Juno, Flawless, Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind, The Little Mermaid.
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There's no section for visual artists, so I thought I'd insert a list of some that most move me. From so many people amd so many mediums, a handful: Julie Heffernan; Louise Robinson/Art and Ghosts; Audrey Kawasaki; Yoshitomo Nara; Suza Scalora; Laura Rickus; Emily Martin; Alberto Vargas; Yuki Nakano; Nick Bantock; Brian Froud; Nikki McClure; Dave McKean, Jo Chen; Kevyn Aucoin; Jim Henson. The Imaginary Foundation. More & more furniture designers/creators, every day now, it seems. Sister.
Television:
Arrested Development, Freaks and Geeks, Weeds, The L Word, My So-Called Life, Ugly Betty, Gilmore Girls, vintage Kids in The Hall. And YES, ooh yes, I have seen the light!: BUFFY.
Books:
Just about anything by: Jeanette Winterson, Elizabeth McCracken, Aimee Bender, Augusten Burroughs, Tom Robbins, Tim Sandlin, Sandra Cisneros, asha bandele, Amy Bloom, Judy Budnitz, Miranda July, Alice Walker, Audre Lorde, Sue Monk Kidd, Alice Hoffman, Gabrielle Zevin, Audrey Niffenegger, Ali Liebgott, Andrea Gibson, Tony Hoagland, Naomi Shihab Nye, Jeffrey McDaniel, Marie Howe, Patricia Smith, Marty McConnell, Roger Bonair-Agard, Francesca Lia Block, Ellen Wittlinger, Markus Zusack, J.K. Rowling, Danzy Senna, Lisa Carey, e.e. cummings, T.S. Elliott, Anais Nin.
Numerous books to do with psychology, sociology, medicine and illness/medical culture(s), radical feminism, race and class, the study of Resilience, queer/gender theory. Young adult novels galore.
So many more.
Books are my vitamins, breath, hope.
Heroes:
Dr. Charles Ray Jones; magical man and medical warrior; the only practicing Lyme pediatrician in the U.S. Mums.
