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Emily

I can see Russia from my house!

About Me

hmmm...i graduated from ucla where i was member of the swim team...got a degree in english which gets me....ummm...the job i have now? and that would be cooking at an organic food co-op. the people are cool though. i went to grad school for a semester for my MFA in film...but that didnt pan out when the program fell apart. so now i am just back to figuring out what is going on. plus, i learned the hard way that often times just doing something is as good as getting the formal education...now if only i could just "do something!" i play a lot of music and do film stuff and waste plenty 'o time watching movies and tv and listening to music. plus i build websites. fun fun...

My Interests

making and listening to music, films, and art in general. watching tv and movies. reading good books. starting an indie record label. playing with my dog...that is, as in canine. political activism. chillin and kickin it with smart, cool people....

Music:

This list could go on forever, I like a lot of things...sleater-kinney and pretty much everything on the kill rock stars label, beck, the velvet underground, led zeppelin, doors, pink floyd, beatles, the clash, rush, nirvana, pearl jam, soundgarden, rage against the machine, red hot chili peppers, coheed and cambria, AFI, idlewild, liz phair, doves, green day, ramones, rancid, john mayer, stevie ray vaughn, jimi hendrix, kaki king, pinback, buddy guy, albert lee, jeff buckley, ben harper, josh ritter, tegan and sara, a perfect circle, atreyu, belly, juliana hatfield, bloc party, bright eyes, clap your hands and say yeah, ween, modest mouse, built to spill, new pornographers, coldplay, radiohead, the cure,bright eyes, damian rice, racetrack, death cab for cutie, the postal service, tori amos, cranberries, architechture in helsinki,yeah yeah yeahs, rilo kiley, etta baker, the decemberists, foo fighters, fishbone, flaming lips,neko case, joshua radin, the shins, deerhoof, yo la tengo, xiu xiu, to name a few...honestly who can make a complete list??

Movies:

again, the list could go on indefinitely...usual suspects, being john malkovich, fight club, fargo, the big lebowski, american beauty, run lola run, welcome to the dollhouse, the shining, the godfather, taxi driver, boys dont cry, silence of the lambs, last of the mohicans, garden state, napolean dynamite, office space, billy madison, meet the parents, drop dead gorgeous, spinal tap, kolya, amelie, brick, and really any weird indie film...

Television:

simpsons, family guy, law and order, CSI, ER, monk, scrubs, lost, seinfeld, arrested development, curb your enthusiasm, weeds, futurama, shows on showtime and HBO for which i cannot affort to subscribe

Books:

i was an english major so that list is long...but here are a few...the bell jar, blindness, go tell it on the mountain, on the road, fear and loathing in LV, invisible man, native son, american pastoral, the catcher in the rye, one flew over the cuckoos nest, to kill a mockingbird, the street, fight club, haunted, sylvia plath, james baldwin, heart of darkness, most literature from the harlem ren., anthro books for us non-anthro majors, and anything else that is written well and stimulates the mind...