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marisa

half angel. half tart.

About Me

i could never have enough room to list all of my favorite music. i have no middle name. sometimes i dream stuff and it comes true. gay men love me. i curse like a sailor. i make a perfect croissant. i like the smell of rain. i have pointy elbows. i hate when people clap along with music. i will do anything for my friends. artichokes and strawberries are my favorite foods. i rode a ferris wheel for the first time at age thirty. i'm super picky. i'm a recovering vegetarian. i'm a grammar nerd. i know all the words to 'bust a move'. ted danson used to be my boss.

i make cakes.

My Interests

music, film, graffiti, cooking, books, cake, the legion of doom, art, sunday beach club, watching the city through taxi cab windows, tattoos, the teenagers in my neighborhood, flossing my teeth

I'd like to meet:

you know how to pack a grocery bag. you still think it's funny to use twizzlers as straws. you're smart but suck at crossword puzzles. you'll have healthy poltical discussions with me. you make me laugh. you're sarcastic. you love music more than anything. you'll watch terrible reality television for occasional entertainment. you love art. you like to eat pastries. you think trampolines are the best invention ever. you know someone who can give me a ride in a motorcycle sidecar.

Music:

jeff buckley, the arcade fire, radiohead, built to spill, david bowie, r.e.m., band of horses, sigur ros, stereolab, air, ella fitzgerald, etta james, modest mouse, grandaddy, pretty girls make graves, stevie wonder, the beautiful south, dance hall crashers, neutral milk hotel, on!air!library!

Movies:

amelie, y tu mama tambien, willy wonka, hedwig and the angry inch, whalerider, eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, requiem for a dream, baraka, city of lost children, akira kurosawa's dreams, office space, waiting for guffman, amores perros, city of god, les choristes, heavenly creatures, welcome to the dollhouse

Television:

deadwood, the wire, curb your enthusiasm, six feet under, mr. show, battlestar galactica, sopranos, lost, freaks and geeks, top chef

Books:

the little prince, no exit, the virgin suicides, 1984, jitterbug perfume, the invisible circus, augusten burroughs - running with scissors, dry; jose saramago - blindness, the double; anything by mr. palahniuk - invisible monsters, lullaby, survivor, choke, diary

Heroes:

my cooks.