live music (esp. local bands), DJs, dancing, singing (karaoke, or just at random), reading fiction, trying to transform myself into a responsible, financially stable young adult while still enjoying life.
I'd like to meet:
My friend Lacey made up a wonderful person for me:
"In my fantasy you are with someone very intellectually stimulating and mature. someone who does charitable work and by no means body shots. Someone with delightfully eclectic taste in music, literature, and film. Someone with a large vocabularly and warm heart. someone who will insist on wearing some torn cardigan on dates but you will think it is cute and endearing and not weird or embarassing. This girl will have a quirky yet unannoying outgoing message on her voicemail. She will teach children to read, the blind to see, and Austin to shed any fears or misgivings he may have about intimacy and commitment. She will be embarassed by her middle name but giggle like a naughty school girl when you call her by it. She will be a kind and loving step mom to indy and you will in turn adopt her beagle mutt as your own despite constant eye boogers. You will have picnics in the park on breezy spring days and do the crossword puzzle in bed all day on Sundays (after vegan brunch of course!) She will teach you a few magic tricks and make fresh squeezed orange juice. On your birthday she will attempt to cook you dinner and it will be a burnt disaster but a humorous one that you will later bore your children with in the telling. Her one and only flaw which she will never be able to overcome, is she will be a chronic stealer of library books but you will pretend like it isnt happening and return them and she will also pretend that you dont know she is doing it."
If you are this lovely girl, I really hope I meet you, and soon.
Music:
Ska, Reggae, Soul, Jazz, Hip-hop, Mod / garage rock, 80s / New Wave (and Bluegrass, and Klezmer, and lots of other stuff).
Movies:
barton fink
being john malkovich
brazil
butcher boy
city of lost children
donnie darko
fantastic planet
heavenly creatures
i punch drunk love
rushmore
most recent netflix:
"spirited away"
"capote"
Television:
simpsons, csi, twin peaks, the history detectives
Books:
Favorite Authors:
Italo Calvino, Tom Robbins, John Irving, Kurt Vonnegut
Recently Read:
5/06 - "Mother Night", by Kurt Vonnegut
7/06 - "The Barmaid's Brain", by Jay Ingram
8/06 - "Born in Blood", by John Robinson
9/06 - "You Must Know Everything", by Isaac Babel
12/06 - "In God We Trust", by Norman Cousins
2/07 - "Andrew Carnegie", by David Nasaw
3/07 - "The Temple and the Lodge", by Baigent & Leigh
3/07 - "The Interpreter of Maladies", by Jhumpa Lahiri
5/07 - "Rational Choice in an Uncertain World", by Reid Hastie & Robyn Dawes
6/07 - "The Cider House Rules", by John Irving
Heroes:
Toots Hibbert, Henry Darger, Mahatma Gandhi, Stephen Hawking, my grandfather Nathan Novick, and the righteous among the nations.
