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Gene to the baby elephant seal!

we are all made of stars

About Me

I'm a soy with whip kinda girl. I usually have far more energy than I know what to do with. Wanna go running? I'm an extraordinary machine.

My Interests

I heart running, coffee, passionate people, emma and idgie, the sun, cities, adventures, and catasts.

I'd like to meet:

those with spunk and/or the gem-like vigor of a hummingbird.

Music:

PJ Harvey. Renaissance. Thievery Corporation. Arabic and Middle Eastern dance music. Nelly Furtado. New Order. M.I.A. Lupe Fiasco. Bebel Gilberto. Beth Orton. Beck. Bonobo. Ivy. Emiliana Torrini. Esthero. Massive Attack. selected Radiohead. Regina Spektor. Tori and Fiona. Other stuff that people make fun of me for.

Movies:

eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, fried green tomatoes, go, goodfellas, crash, the piano, little children, lost in translation, raising victor vargas, vanilla sky

Television:

sex and the city, my so-called life, thirtysomething, LOST

Books:

Anais Nin! Laura Kipnis, Eve Alexandra, Michelle Cliff, Pauline Melville, Alice Walker, Jeanette Winterson, Jeffrey Eugenides, Margaret Atwood, Joyce Carol Oates, Lucy Grealy, Jane Hamilton, Kathryn Harrison, Coetzee, Nabokov, Rushdie...

Heroes:

those who keep art alive

My Blog

dispatch from the sunny mountain-top, to NIU/Dekalb

Every morning I run against the backdrop of another gorgeous sunrise in the Blue Ridge Mountains of South Carolina. We hike to waterfalls, skip across clear creeks along paths of stones, bask in warm ...
Posted by Gene to the baby elephant seal! on Sun, 17 Feb 2008 11:49:00 PST

Zain, the international mega-thug

Well folks, I may have gotten a free car, but don't for a moment think that it's not a total shitmobile. I've had this new (lemon) ahem, Mazda, for barely a month and already doled out $250 for r...
Posted by Gene to the baby elephant seal! on Tue, 02 Jan 2007 09:37:00 PST