ancient Greek, Animaniacs, Batman, beer, big cities, bikeriding, blanket forts, books, boots, brainstorming, candles, Care Bears, cats, censorship in the USSR, cooking, corsets, craziness, cuddling, dancing, drinking, economics, family, freedom, frolicking, gardening, girls with guitars, hiking, history, kissing, languages, Latin, laughter, legal analysis, lesson planning, lions, literature, love, loyalty, making nests in beds, making out, meerkats, mountains, movies, My Little Ponies, music, Nashville, Natchez Trace parkway, nature, parks, passion, patience (is a virtue right?), peaceful afternoons with a notebook and a guitar, PBR, poetry, pomegranates, reading, roadtrips, rocking out, rugby, Russia, Seattle, second chances, sexual healing, showerbaths, sincerity, skinnydipping, sleeping in the back of pickup trucks, small towns, spooning, Stalin (not a fan, he was a very bad man, just find him fascinating), stars, studying, subtlety, sweaters, taking pictures, talking til dawn, tattoos, teaching, tenderness, Tennessee, thrift stores, totalitarian regimes, translating, traveling, tutoring, writing
I'd like to meet:
people who like adventures, people who tell good stories, people who can laugh at themselves
Music:
A Perfect Circle, Aerosmith, the Allman Brothers, Ani DiFranco, Babes in Toyland, Bauhaus, the Beatles, Bella Morte, Belle and Sebastian, Billie Holiday, Billy Idol, the Birthday Massacre, Black Flag, Bob Dylan, Bob Marley, Bon Jovi, Cat Stevens, Charlie Parker, Cruxshadows, the Cure, Danzig, Dar Williams, David Bowie, Death in June, Death Cab for Cutie, Django Reinhardt, Dolly Parton, Donnie Darko soundtrack, the Dresden Dolls, Duke Ellington, Dwight Yoakam, Elliott Smith, Emmylou Harris, Erin McKeown, the Everly Brothers, Fiona Apple, Franz Ferdinand, Garbage, the Gits, Gogol Bordello, the Grateful Dead, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Henry Rollins, HIM, Hole, Imperative Reaction, the Indigo Girls, Interpol, Iron and Wine, Jack Off Jill, Janis Joplin, Jesus Christ Superstar, Jimi Hendrix, Joan Baez, Joan Jett, Johnny Cash, Joni Mitchell, L7, the Last Dance, The Life Aquatic soundtrack, Liz Phair, Louis Armstrong, the Magnetic Fields, Miles Davis, Modest Mouse, Mos Def, Neil Young, Neko Case, Nick Drave, Nine Inch Nails, Nirvana, Outkast, Patsy Cline, Patti Smith, Pink Floyd, the Pixies, PJ Harvey, Placebo, Portishead, the Postal Service, Psyclon 9, Radiohead, Rasputina, Regina Spektor (when in a certain mood), Rent, Robert Johnson, 7 Year Bitch, the Silver Jews, Simon and Garfunkel, Skunk Anansie, Snoop Doggy Dogg (it's a guilty pleasure), the Smashing Pumpkins, Stabbing Westward, Sublime, Tegan and Sara, Throwing Muses, Tom Petty, Tom Waits, Tool, Tori Amos, Tricky, the Velvet Underground, the Violent Femmes, VNV Nation, Voltaire, Weezer, the White Stripes, Woody Guthrie, and many moooore! I love listening to WRVU and hearing new stuff
Movies:
All Over Me, Amelie, American Beauty, Anchorman, Andrei Rublev, anything with Owen Wilson, Jake Gyllenhaal, Gary Oldman, Johnny Depp, or John Cusack (I'd have so many of their babies), bad horror flicks, Tim Burton's Batman, Battleship Potemkin, Being John Malkovich, Brokeback Mountain, A Bronx Tale, Bullets over Broadway, Burnt by the Sun, But I'm a Cheerleader, Dark Eyes, Dead Poets Society, Donnie Darko, East-West, Ed Wood, Edward Scissorhands, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Fight Club, Garden State, good horror flicks, Goodbye Lenin, Harry Potter, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, High Art, Eisenstein's Ivan the Terrible, anything John Waters, Kill Bill, Knocked Up, Labyrinth, Little Miss Sunshine!! (my current fave), Lord of the Rings trilogy, Moscow Doesn't Believe in Tears, Napoleon Dynamite, Oblomov, Pan's Labyrinth, Pride and Prejudice, The Barber of Siberia, The Cranes are Flying, The Cuckoo, The Last Unicorn, The Silence of the Lambs, Trainspotting, Walk the Line, Wonderboys, zombie movies, Zoolander, foreign shit, silly shit, all kinds of things. My boyfriend is a movienerd and we use the hell out of our Netflix membership.
Television:
PBS documentaries, Seinfeld and Simpsons reruns, Scrubs, Arrested Development, Gilmore Girls, Veronica Mars, The Office, Sex and the City
Books:
Anne of Green Gables, Bertolt Brecht, Mikhael Bulgakov, Albert Camus, Catullus, the Chronicles of Narnia, e.e. cummings, Dostoevsky, Barbara Ehrenreich, T.S. Eliot, Euripides, Al Franken, Neil Gaiman, Allen Ginsberg, Kafka, Jack Kerouac, Stephen King, Milan Kundera, Nietzsche, Anais Nin, Ovid, Boris Pasternak, Sylvia Plath, Pushkin, Rainer Maria Rilke, Arthur Rimbaud, Tom Robbins, J.K. Rowling, Muriel Rukeyser, Bertrand Russel, J.D. Salinger, Sappho, Upton Sinclair, Sophocles, Art Spiegelman, John Steinbeck, J.R.R. Tolkien, Tolstoy, Trifonov, Vergil, Kurt Vonnegut, Oscar Wilde, Jeanette Winterson, Elizabeth Wurtzel, and I freaking love love love Kiss My Tiara
Heroes:
various teachers who mean the world to me, Reginald Foster (the Vatican's Latin expert), Fritz Zwicky (eccentric astronomer extraordinaire), and people who aren't full of bullshit
