I like to party.
Also... Music! Books! Reading them and collecting them. Sewing! Making new things out of old things. Trivial Pursuit. Dogs and cats. Knitting. Russia, Central Asia, and the Caucasus. Civil society and human rights in the post-Soviet world- YES. Azerbaijan. Protecting civil liberties. Fighting for our rights. Found objects. Browsing. Talking. Drinking. Low budget travelling. Shoes and bags. Maps and visual information of all kinds. Data. To sum up, I am basically a detail-oriented dreamer with lots of things I'm fascinated by and still figuring out who likes to chat and be nice to people.
This is the song my russian class will be performing on Friday. I'll be the waitress.
Right now: Sally Shapiro, Marnie Stern, Gary Numan
ALWAYS!!!:Deerhoof, Kino, Nick Cave,
Also: Wolf Parade, The Knife, Sigur Ros, Mew, Destroyer, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Kraftwerk, New Order, Chad VanGaalen, Joy Division, American Analog Set, Stereolab, Of Montreal, , John Vanderslice, Leningrad, Beck (Sea Change the most), Portishead, Antony and the Johnsons, Jens Lekman, Joan of Arc/Owls/Make Believe etc., Wilderness, Sufjan Stevens, Oneida, The Rapture, Xiu Xiu, The Album Leaf
Underground plus all others by Kusturica, Tron, Network, The Ice Storm, James Bond, The Big Lebowski, American Psycho, Velvet Goldmine
Twin Peaks (I have season 2 on DVD!!) (so can you they finally released it), Six Feet Under, megablocks of Law and Order. I don't have cable due to a grad school guilt complex (and the fact that I know I'd watch it). Radio is basically my TV.
I can't sleep without reading. I like David Foster Wallace, Faulkner, Murakami, Vonnegut, Huxley, Nabokov, Auster, Saunders, Danielewski, Vollmann. I don't read crap. Magazines: Vanity Fair, Harpers.
“I can’t complain, Mr. Vainberg,†he said. “The Americans have really been helping us out. Xerox machines, free use of the fax lines after nine P.M., discounted Hellmann’s mayonnaise from the commissary, five thousand free copies of An American Life by Ronald Reagan. We now what democracy looks like. We’ve read about it. We’ve been to Century 21. But how do we make it happen here? Because, Mr. Vainberg, once the oil runs dry, who in the world is going to know we even exist?â€
I considered telling him that no one knew they existed anyway but thought it might be tactless.