Bibliophile. Culinary student. Redhead. Goofball. Terrible singer. Worse dancer. Coulrophobe. Fire eater. Nerd. Main squeeze.
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Food
fine dining, culinary essays/literature, ethnic food, vintage cookbooks, food science, The Food Network, culinary history, slow food, organinc food, farmer's markets, historic recipes, food politics
Drinks
Tab, Iced Vanilla Lattes, Very Good Vodka, Very Good Tequila, and an absurd daily intake of Diet Coke
Art
Egon Schiele, Alberto Giacometti, Lucian Freud, Alphonse Mucha, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Andy Warhol, Molly Kiely, Keith Haring, Coop, Shag, Aubrey Beardsley, William Blake, Jean-Michel Basquiat
Architecture/Design
Kirkbride buildings, Frank Lloyd Wright, Walter Gropius, Mies Van der Rohe, Le Corbusier, Gustav Stickley, Charles & Ray Eames, Michael Graves
Photography
Victoria Kensington, Joel-Peter Witkin, Diane Arbus, David LaChappelle, Edward Weston, Dr. Hugh Welch Diamond
Funny
Bill Hicks, Lenny Bruce, Amy Sedaris, Patton Oswalt, Kids in the Hall, Monty Python, The Simpsons, Brian Posehn, Demitri Martin, Sarah Silverman, Will Farrell, Jack Black
Crafty
Knitting, embroidery, crochet, sewing. I'm also interested in learning to make macrame owls.
Crushes
Jack Black, Penn Jillette, Tom Douglas, Han Solo
Guilty Pleasures
E True Hollywood Stories, combat boots with dresses, Ho-Ho's, biting my nails, My Super Sweet 16, Stephen King novels
Weaknesses
Michael Norman Montgomery, Haagen Dazs Mayan Chocolate, lillies, hot stone massages, high heels
Obsessions that fit in no other category
circuses, sideshows, carnies, freaks, Japanese pop-culture, The Mutter Museum, architecture in Renaissance Florence, the mimic octopus, televangelists, medicine shows, the Mafia, cults, old Warner Bros. cartoons, Punch & Judy, antiquarian books, pin-ups, burlesque (old and new), roller derby, improperly used punctuation on public signs, Engrish, Alaskan crab fishing boats, etymology, the evil that is Disney (esp. Celebration - their wannabe utopian planned community), the Salem witch trials, zombies, ergot of rye poisoning (both gangrenous and convulsive)
The Pope of Trash. Because we'd totally be best friends.
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Billie Holliday, Oingo Boingo (Shut up, Michael, I know you think I'm a dork), The Ramones, Tenacious D, Etta James, Kate Bush, David Bowie, The Talking Heads, New York Dolls, Count Basie, Rosemary Clooney, Black Sabbath, Nick Cave, Tom Waits, The Killers, The White Stripes, Madness, Bauhaus, The Sisters of Mercy, The Police, Birthday Party, The Clash, Thelonious Monk, The Damned, Curve, Dean Martin, Fishbone, Thrill Kill Cult, The Cramps, Beastie Boys, Chet Baker, The Donnas, Beck, Clutch, Monster Magnet, Led Zeppelin, The Buzzcocks, Leela James, Aretha Franklin, Blondie, Siouxie and the Banshees, Nashville Pussy, Breakestra, the Black Keys, Turbonegro, the Briefs, Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings, Wolfmother, Ursula1000, Gnarls Barkley, Mastodon, Elvis Presley....
Sunset Boulevard, His Girl Friday, Boogie Nights, The Godfather (I & II, but I do not acknowledge part III), The Usual Suspects, Resevoir Dogs, Casablanca, The Big Night, Plan 9 From Outer Space, anything by John Waters, all of the Thin Man movies, Blue Velvet, One Hour Photo, The Maltese Falcon, Key Largo, Spirited Away, Full Metal Jacket, The Shining, Eyes Wide Shut, Lolita, The South Park Movie, Casino, Goodfellas, Dog Day Afternoon, Grease, Trekkies, Full Metal Jacket, American Movie, Spinal Tap, Jaws, Excalibur, anything by Akira Kurosawa, Caddyshack, The Devil's Playground, Young Frankenstein, Blade Runner, Man Bites Dog, Clerks, Dogma, anything by Christopher Guest, Wonderboys, the Omen, 9th Gate, the Big Night, Ocean's 11, Ronin, Urban Cowboy (shut up), Wait Until dark, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Touch of Evil, Psycho, The Cooler, Times Square, Time Bandits, The Other, Near Dark, A Christmas Story, Lost in Translation, Babette's Feast, Parents, Old School, Welcome to the Dollhouse, Happiness, Vulgar, Office Space, Rushmore...
Mr. Belvedere ("To tear the flesh, to wear the flesh, and to be borne unto a new world where his flesh is my key."*)
*If you understand that reference, you get 1000 bonus points, and you will be my best friend for life.
Geek Love, Sock, the collected works of Wm. Shakespeare, Me Talk Pretty One Day, Dress Your Family In Corduroy and Denim (all David Sedaris), The Partly Cloudy Patriot (and all Sarah Vowell), Garlic and Sapphires, Comfort Me With Apples (and all Ruth Reichl), The Devil's Garden, Into Thin Air, Wisconsin Death Trip, The Pyrotechnic Insanitarium, Watching Hannah, Ella Minnow Pea, anything by Elizabeth David, anything by M.F.K. Fisher, On Food & Cooking, Pranks, Apocalypse Culture, anything by Joe Landsdale, most William Gibson, The Killer Inside, Crazy From the Heat (the autobiography of David Lee Roth), Fargo Rock City, Sex Drugs and CocoPuffs, A Massive Swelling, Colors Insulting to Nature (and all Cintra Wilson), all Shel Silverstein, all Maurice Sendak, all Judy Blume, People Like Us, An Underground Education, An Incomplete Education, Rebecca, Madness and Modernism, Godel Escher Bach, The Trial, Naked Lunch, the diaries of Anais Nin, Tropic of Cancer, all Henry Miller, Baby Cat Face, Beloved, The Roaches Have No King, Knitting for Anarchists, The Devil's Picnic, If You Can't Take the Heat, Kitchen Confidential, Gilligan's Wake, Horsemen of the Esophagus, Haunted, Fight Club (and all Chuck Palahniuk), all Chuck Klosterman, all Daniel Mannix, Please Kill Me, all Truman Capote, The Nasty Bits, all Flannery O'Connor, all William Blake, Rebecca, Reading Lolita in Tehran, Winkie, Heat, Gastronaut, Julia Child: My Life In France, In the Time of Butterflies, The Life of Pi, Love In the Time of Cholera, all Barry Gifford, all Elmore Leonard, all Jim Thompson, Alice In Wonderland, A.A. Milne, Arturo Perez-Reverte...i really must stop....
Me Mum, Me Dad (optimis parentibus), My Cuz, Dorothy Parker, Julia Child, M.F.K. Fisher, Gabrielle Hamilton