Michelle - ProfilesArchive

About Me

Music over silence, poetry over prose, comedy over tragedy, underground over mainstream, tea over coffee, used books over new, recycling over trash, credo over indecision, special dark over milk chocolate, sushi over carpaccio, orange over blue, sneakers over heels, jazz over pop, sailing over yachting, Bartley's over In-N-Out, City Lights over the Harvard Bookstore, The NY Post over The Onion, Jerry Rice over Steve Young (but this is really like choosing between your children), national healthcare over the crap we have now, Red Sox over Yankees, Zelda over Mario Bros, Braeburns over Fujis, smiling over laughing, dancing over drinking, writing over reading, 16 over 9, Simpsons over Friends, and Calvin & Hobbes over Charlie Brown & Snoopy.

Old-time sessions - listen here.

Two Lost Turkeys - 2nd and 4th Mondays at Iona, 8-10 PM, Williamsburg, Brooklyn.

Wahoo String Band

My Interests

Photographing hilariously named laundromats. Favorites so far: the Don't You Dare Call It "FRISCO" Laudromat, So Fresh and So Clean, Laundrobot, A Laundromat, and The Mat. Studying cytochrome c oxidase with lasers and magnets. Creative activism (e.g. "What about trashy women? Can we recycle them, too?" -BG)

I'd like to meet:

People who: look cool in lab goggles, know Gillespie's "Goobers!" recording of Salt Peanuts, wash dishes like a monk, are not bad cooks, and get moral satisfaction when they clean the lint trap after using a communal dryer. P.S. Movers, shakers, and health justice makers! Come with me and build a novel free medical clinic where patients are friends and community is tantamount.

Music:

Soul-haunting West Virginia fiddle tunes, Andrew Bird, Jenny Scheinman & Bill Mo Hawk Frisell, Eddie South, Stuff Smith, Decemberists, Ani DiFranco, D'Angelo, Lee Morgan, Clifford Brown, Oscar Peterson, Martha Argerich, Jascha Heifetz, Drew Gress, John Hollenbeck, Brad Mildew & Kurt Rosenpenis, and old-time, Irish, and Chinese-Taiwanese-Mongolian fiddle tunes.

Movies:

In America, Before Sunset, City of God, Motorcycle Diaries, Before Sunrise, Next Stop Wonderland, Il Postino, Waiting for Guffman, Princess Mononoke, Donnie Darko, Requiem for a Dream, Braveheart, and Lord of the Rings.

Books:

Howl, East of Eden, Lolita, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, The World According to Garp, Like Life, Day of the Locust, Griffith et Sabine, biographies of John Muir.

Heroes:

H.L. Mencken, Bill Watterson, Lanny Smith, B.J. Novak, and seething social critics from the 1920s.