Jodie Faster profile picture

Jodie Faster

I am here for Friends

About Me

I play roller derby. Buy tickets to the first bout of the season!!!!!

My Interests

Reading, roller derby, linguistics, french culture, anime, queer stuff, cities, urban planning, people watching, finding the perfect winter coat to fit my tiny shoulders, african dance, lesbian haircuts, behavioral science.

I'd like to meet:

People who will teach me to dance like Justin Timberlake.

Music:

LeTigre, early Michael Jackson, Missy Elliot, bitch and animal, early Ani difranco, Loretta Lynn, Alison Krauss, cheesy pop and hip-hop I can dance to, reggae and dancehall.

Movies:

Cabaret, Memento, Run Lola Run, American Beauty, All Over Me, Dazed and Confused, The Celluloid Closet, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf.

Television:

Queer as Folk, Freaks and Geeks, My So-Called Life, Project Runway, America's Next Top Model. Thank god I don't get cable any more cause I'd be watching all that Road Rules/Real World crap and loving it.

Books:

The Book of Nights - Sylvie Germain, anything by Dorothy Allison, Godspeed - Lynnee Breedlove, anything by Michelle Tea, Potential - Ariel Schrag, The Color Purple - Alice Walker, the Teenage Liberation Handbook, Peops, Brave New World, Vamps and Tramps - Camille Paglia.

Heroes:

Lynnee Breedlove, all the girls in derby who get wicked hurt and jump right back up and skate, my sister Katie.