I am a left-handed barista. I grew up in Austin. I love music and fashion, and I am learning how to cook meals for the first time in my life.
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Rock and roll.
Bjork, Tank Girl, Jim James, Maynard James Keenan, Joni Mitchell, Wanda Sykes, Stephen Hawking, Jack Black, Bill Murray, Will Ferrell, Owen and Luke Wilson, Ben Stiller, Steve Carrell, Jerry Seinfeld, Jon Stewart, Conan O'Brien, Trey Parker, Matt Stone, the Movie Dudes, and Sasha Baron Cohen...and I would have really loved to meet Janis Joplin, Bill Hicks, Richard Pryor, and Mitch Hedburg.
The list just keeps getting longer, Hum, Akron/Family, Ladyhawk, Laura Marling, Baroness, Valient Thorr, the Bronx, Annuals, the Black Keys, Cold War Kids, the Hold Steady, the Magic Numbers, Black Lipstick, Octopus Project, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah!, the Long Blondes, Tapes'n Tapes, What Made Milwaukee Famous, Menomena, Sufjan Stevens, Califone, Swan Lake, Joanna Newsom, Midlake, Hot Chip, MSTRKRFT, Lupe Fiasco, Bus Driver, Tenacious D, Tool, A Perfect Circle, Failure, Porcupine Tree, Trail of Dead, Braid, Pavement, Fugazi, Dredg, Ben Folds (solo and otherwise), Beck, the Flaming Lips, Built to Spill, Neutral Milk Hotel, My Morning Jacket, Explosions in the Sky, Interpol, Mogwai, Godspeed You Black Emperor!, the Pixies, the Velvet Underground, Sonic Youth, Bloc Parlay (ya like that?), Pinback, Apples in Stereo, Mono, Tortoise, the Shins, Radiohead, Bjork (I am obsessed!), Flunk, Zero 7, Boards of Canada, Brian Eno, Massive Attack, Stereolab, Thievery Corporation, Desmond Williams, Jazzanova, Fila Brazillia, Cafe Del Mar, Plate Fork Knife Spoon, Orbital, Air, Nuspirit Helsinki, Jamiroquai, Roni Size, Amon Tobin, Daft Punk, DJ Cam, DJ Crush, Prefuse 73, DJ Shadow, RJD2, Kid Koala, MF Doom (and his variety of aliases), Living Legends, Aesop Rock, Blockhead, El-P, Brother Ali, Sage Francis, Sole, anyone from the Anticon crew, Deep Puddle Dynamics, the Non-Prophets, Gruvis Malt, Incubus, Moonraker, People Under the Stairs, Visionaries, Haiku D'Tat, Heiroglyphics, Black Star, Del the Funkee Homosapien, Dan the Automator, Handsome Boy Modeling School, Cool Keith, A Tribe Called Quest, Nas, Slick Rick, Angie Stone, Erykah Badu, Jill Scott, String Cheese Incident, Phish, Old Crow Medicine Show, Soulive, Donna the Buffalo, M.I.A., Medeski Martin and Wood, Miles Davis, Dizzie Gillespie, Charlie Hunter, Brazil 66, Wynton Marsalis, Stan Getz, Thelonius Monk, Duke Ellington, Buddy Rich, John Coltrane, Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, Bessy Smith, Pat Metheny, John Scofield, Al DiMeola, Muddy Waters, Freddie King, Elmore James, Robert Johnson, Karl Denson's Tiny Universe, Herbie Hancock, Derek Trucks, Victor Wooten, Bela Fleck, the Grateful Dead, Particle, Sound Tribe Sector 9, Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey, STRING CHEESE INCIDENT (did I say that already?) Phish, Crosby Stills Nash and Young, Ted Nugent and the Amboy Dukes, Steely Dan, Rush, Yes, early Genesis, Little Feat, Traffic, the Allman Brothers, Bob Dylan, Jethro Tull, Love (with Arthur Lee), David Bowie, Peter Gabriel, Roxy Music, Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention, Simon and Garfunkel, Spirit, the Zombies, the Byrds, the Hollies, the Kinks, Thin Lizzy, Black Sabbath, the Who, the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, the Police, the Talking Heads, the Cars, the Clash, the Cult, the Doobie Brothers, Janis Joplin, Joni Mitchell, Jefferson Airplane, Joe Satriani, Dream Theater, Transatlantic, The Cure, Depeche Mode, INXS, Duran Duran, Tears for Fears, the Replacements, the Minutemen, Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, Jerry Jeff and Djengo Walker, Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys....literally anything and everything (except Aerosmith, the Eagles, U2, and Coldplay...).
ALL TIME FAVORITE MOVIE: BARAKA. Totally and completely amazing shit...lots of others...I love zombie movies...also the Big Lebowski, Dazed and Confused, Waking Life, Fifth Element, Amelie, Almost Famous, Mean Girls, Breakfast Club, A Scanner Darkly, School of Rock, Royal Tenenbaums, Wet Hot American Summer, Where the Buffalo Roam...I love Bill Murray. He's awesome....and in addition, as I knew it would be amazing, 300.
I have been a little too into digital cable lately, but with the invention of the DVR, how could I not be? I especially love Weed, Project Runway, Top Design, Top Chef, Work Out and nip/tuck. I think those are my favorites...otherwise, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Seinfeld (of course), Mr. Show, News Radio, South Park, Da Ali G Show, anything with Bill Maher...
Murder mysteries are the shit...um, Catcher in the Rye has been my favorite since middle school, but I think that's everyone's favorite...Ishmael, Journey to Ixtlan, the Universe in a Nutshell, A Brief History of Time, anything by Kurt Vonnegut Jr., or Philip K. Dick...Ken Kesey, Jack Kerouac, William H. Burroughs or any of those other beatnick cats from the Acid Test days...Tom Robbins...I like music biographies...I dunno. All kindsa shit.
My roommate and best friend Joelle...because she's sitting next to me on the couch.... (And of course, all of my other friends, too! I love my gals!)