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Birdie Yum-Yums

bi-coastal curious

About Me

i like making things...clothing, art, photos, graphics ... blahblahblah

My Interests

MUSIC, travelling, spontaneous road trips, people who say yes to spontaneous road trips, sewing, designing, knitting, cutting, pasting, taking/making pictures, throwing parties, going to parties, drinking fine wine, eating fine food, enjoying good company, talking to funny people, trekking the Himalaya, golfing, seeing more movies b/c I never go to the movies, finding really awesome stuff for super cheap, buying really pricey beautiful stuff, cold chillin'.

I'd like to meet:

urban cowboys and boogie rockers people who aren't afraid to shake
what their mamas gave 'em karaoke mic hogs troubadours and heartfelt
romantics party throwers cave dwellers boat owners shoe makers fabric
whores angora rabbit keepers spinners weavers sculptors potatoheads

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Music:

The Ponys, Peter Bjorn and John, Uncle Moni, Tilly and the Wall, Mantasy, Ryan Adams, Wilco, Cat Power, Whiskeytown, Gillian Welch, Ferraby Lionheart, Phonograph, Ms Neko Case, T. Rex, The Slits, Jenny Lewis, Rilo Kiley, Aimee Mann, Camera Obscura, whatever Steve Lamacq and Tom Robinson are dishing up for the day

Movies:

The Jerk, Beverly Hills Cop, The Taking of Pelham 123, Alice's Restaurant, Lost in Translation, Grave of the Fireflies, Ghostbusters, Die Hard I, II, and yes, III

Television:

Ugly Betty, Grey's Anatomy, The Black Donnellys, The Prisoner, SNL, Late Night, Late Show, Jon Stewart, andohyeahbaby, Passions

Books:

I've been reading The Death and Life of Great American Cities for 6 years. It's a great book but I'm a slow reader. Another great book that I haven't finished: Assassination Vacation by Sarah Vowell. Funny, dry, dark, and incredibly obsessive. Besides those two, I'm also reading a book about the freemasons that I bought at Powell's in Portland. Some of my favourite books that I have finished: The Alchemist, Dubliners, On the Road, Beautiful Losers, To Kill a Mockingbird, LIES and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them, London Fields, High Fidelity, Dharma Bums, Neverwhere, London, White Teeth, Grimm's Fairy Tales, and everything by Roald Dahl... Okay, I lied, I'm a fast reader but I get distracted easily these days. And then there are all the biographies and autobiographies like Marianne Faithfull's, Mr. T on Mr. T (*awesome. believe it.), Little Richard - The Quasar of Rock, Anthony Kiedis' Scar Tissue, and Jack Kerouac's...

Heroes:

little L