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gin

can we forget my vices and get back to my virtues?

About Me



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Status: just married!
Here for: alleviation of boredom. time-wasting.
Orientation: William orientated.
Hometown: seattle, WA
Body type: 5' 6" / Average.
Zodiac Sign: leo.
Smoke / Drink: no more!/pfft. yes.
Children: someday soooooon
Education: in college.
Occupation: nerd. fulltime. also...student.
Income: none of your bumblebees!
the love of my fucking life...the man, not the costume.

My Interests


curling up on the couch with a book, curling up on the couch with William, playing in photoshop, photography, giggling like an idiot at stupid things my cats do, knitting, crocheting, sewing, embroidering, and pretty much anything else involving strings or threads, drinking one too many vodka cranberries, studying russian, having unashamed love for Eddie Izzard, having unashamed love for William, writing nonsense, singing too loudly while driving alone in my car, kicking ass at scrabble, watching any movie Will Ferrell is in because i have no shame, watching anything with William, making ridiculous faces, nonsensical jokes that only one other person gets, patches of sun warming my skin through a window, tomato basil soup at Minnie's, yawn popping, making soup at 1 am, kissing William and a whole lot more you don't really care about.

I'd like to meet:


awkward, nerdy people who refuse to take themselves or me seriously.
***please, if you are going to send me a friend request and i don't know you, send me a message first. otherwise, don't be surprised if i ignore you. thanks.***

Music:


Bjork, Arcade Fire, Franz Ferdinand, Mum, Goldfrapp, Cibo Matto, Pizzicato Five, Radiohead, White Stripes, Johnny Cash, Loretta Lynn, M83, Squarepusher, Neko Case, Bob Dylan, Joanna Newsom, Modest Mouse, The Streets, Oval, Frou Frou, Depeche Mode, The Pet Shop Boys, Pedro The Lion, The Clash, New York Dolls, Joan Jett, Iggy Pop, The Hives, Pixies, Stereo Total, Poe, Cocorosie, Animal Collective, Blondie, Rasputina, Billie Holiday, The Donnas, Elastica, Sigur Ros, Matmos, Soft Pink Truth, Magnetic Fields, Poe, Hooverphonic, Interpol, 7 Year Bitch, L7, Flaming Lips, Epoxies, Emiliana Torrini, Postal Service, Blonde Redhead, Le Tigre, Bright Eyes, Violent Femmes, The Turn-Ons, The Unicorns, The Pleased, Devendra Banhart, Dead Milkmen, April March, Bikini Kill, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Sleater Kinney, Headphones, The Stills, Dandy Warhols, Decemberists, Dissociatives, Sons and Daughters, Silverchair !!!PERFUME!!!...obviously there are more. you don't really expect me to list ALL of them here??

Movies:


The House Of Yes, Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind, Heavenly Creatures, O Brother Where Art Thou?, Swimming With Sharks, Grosse Pointe Blank, The City Of Lost Children, The Italian Job (But only the original), The Great Escape, A Fish Called Wanda, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Finding Neverland, Big Fish, Trainspotting, Me You And Everyone We Know, Amelie, Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Clerks, Gozu, Royal Tenenbaums, Coffee and Cigarettes, Amadeus, Moulin Rouge, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Rocky Horror Picture Show, Shaun of the Dead, Lost in Translation, The Producers, Pulp Fiction, Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Grandma's Boy, Superman Returns, Melinda and Melinda, Dancer in the Dark, Punch Drunk Love, Click, 40 Year Old Virgin, King Kong, American Beauty, The Wild, Audition, Evil Dead

Television:


24, The Office (not the American one, the American one can bite my ass), Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Family Guy, Monty Python, My Name is Earl, Lost, The Daily Show, The Simpsons, South Park, Arrested Development, Strangers With Candy, SMALLVILLE

Books:


Me Talk Pretty One Day, Plainclothes Naked, Revolutionary Road, The Magic Christian, Anna Karenina, The Stranger, Lies And The Lying Liars Who Tell Them, House Of Leaves, The Handmaid's Tale,Possessing The Secret Of Joy, Skinny Legs And All, Magical Thinking, Running with Scissors, William's top secret journals, The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy, Pervert: A Love Story, Naked Pictures Of Famous People, America, Perfume. I'll read almost anything except romance novels and books you can buy at the grocery store.

Heroes:



My Blog

newness

this has been a good week. yesterday i finally got my hair straightened, which i have been wanting to get done for years. it cost an obscene amount of money, and took about 5 hours, but it was complet...
Posted by gin on Sun, 30 Sep 2007 06:48:00 PST

sucked in

i have a facebook now, for any of you that are on there. just one more thing for me to neglect because i don't spend enough time online anymore. *le sigh* i blame Bjorkdoll, it was the promise of onli...
Posted by gin on Thu, 27 Sep 2007 10:09:00 PST

trash

my guilty pleasure for some time has been America's Next Top Model. but now i've been watching Australia's Next Top Model, and it's even better. the accents, the uncensored 'fucks'...i'm addicted. and...
Posted by gin on Sun, 16 Sep 2007 12:06:00 PST

lazy sunday

i do not blog nearly as much as i would like. in fact, i just don't write nearly as much as i would like. i'm working on changing this, and have started scribbling things down more often. i enjoy writ...
Posted by gin on Sun, 09 Sep 2007 10:37:00 PST

une mise à jour (everything sounds cooler in French)

i still love our new apartment. i am drunkish on cheap wine. hooray! i realized that i always post blogs saying more on this later...and then never write more. boo. so, here is an update on the whole ...
Posted by gin on Wed, 22 Aug 2007 09:24:00 PST

moved

this past week was one of the most exhausting of my life. On Tuesday we moved all of our stuff over to our new place. we stayed up until about 2 in the morning unpacking as much as possible. Wednesday...
Posted by gin on Mon, 20 Aug 2007 07:25:00 PST

Eddie in Seattle (again!)

Eddie Izzard last nite was amazing and hilarious, as usual. the highlight of the show (for us, maybe not for Eddie...) was when a fly flew and smacked right into his face right in the middle of one of...
Posted by gin on Sun, 12 Aug 2007 12:39:00 PST

august rocks

tomorrow i'm going to see Eddie Izzard, Tuesday we are moving into our new place, and on Wednesday my brother is taking William and i to get tattoos for my birthday. life is good.
Posted by gin on Sat, 11 Aug 2007 01:24:00 PST

happy birthday to me!

William and i are going to see Eddie Izzard live this weekend!!!! 
Posted by gin on Mon, 06 Aug 2007 01:30:00 PST

people will buy anything or ways that society is slowly declining

a new and apparently very popular coffee table book is for sale on Amazon titled, quite appropriately, "naked girls smoking weed":the book stems from the website 420girls.com, a website that rolling s...
Posted by gin on Tue, 31 Jul 2007 12:44:00 PST