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Joy

such a dork...

About Me

a little crazy... prone to attacks of bizarre creativity... into hanging out with my family... mostly shy (until I get to know someone... then... watch out!)... appreciative of gourmet cheese and good wine, but at the same time I love cheeseburgers and beer... I sometimes get lost in my piano for hours at a time... former classical ballet student... thoroughly infatuated with the world of burlesque... occassional cabaret singer... complete and utter choir nerd... singer/assistant director/section leader/assistant librarian for One Voice Mixed Chorus... and so much more...

My Interests

androgyny, beer, big cities, bicycles, books, broadway, burlesque, cabaret, california, canada, cats, choir, jumping into cold water, cuddling, daggers, dancing, dogs, dykes, eyes, faeries, flirting, folk, friends, ftm, gaelic, gay people, giggling, girls, girls with guitars, glbt, hair dye, hands, harry potter, illuminati, ireland, irish women, kinky people, kissing, kitties, knives, languages, leather, lesbians, lips, love, minneapolis, mix cds, montreal, monty python, music, pickles, piercings, playing the piano, poetry, pop culture, queer, randomness, reading, renaissance festivals, retro, road trips, sailing, scotland, seattle, secret societies, sex toys, singing, sleeping, smitten kitten, snakes, snuggling, sugar, surfing, tattoos, the ocean, theatre, thinking, tomboys, underwear, useless facts, useless knowledge, vampires, water, women

I'd like to meet:

well... hmmm... fellow music nerds (and I mean music nerds of the worst sort... CHOIR nerds!! hehe...), people who make me laugh until I pass out, girls who are crazy yet drama free, people who are creative and artistic or at least understand the inner workings of someone who is, semi-serious about life, but doesn't take things too seriously, people with a unique appreciation for idiosyncracies

Music:

babes in toyland, billy joel, blues, broadway, cabaret, charlie parker, chopin, choral music, christina aguilera, classical music, diana krall, ella fitzgerald, etta james, eva cassidy, flogging molly, folk music, george winston, girls with guitars, good old fashioned striptease music, jazz, john coltrane, joss stone, lojo russo, musicals, norah jones, old school girly punk, opera, pink, playing the piano, punk, rent, rock, rose norris, singing, swing, the murmurs, the pixies, tim malloys, tori amos, tracy chapman

Movies:

lately into kids movies and psychological thrillers... what a wierd combination...

Television:

I'd like to say that I don't watch TV... but I do... not much... but I do. L Word, Ugly Betty, Project Runway, Top Chef, Weeds, the Simpsons, ER, Masterpiece Theatre, Mystery

Books:

Persepolis, Tipping the Velvet, more nerdiness... I love the Harry Potter books...

Heroes:

My mom, my grandma & grandpa, my brothers, the girls of Lili's, Jane Miller (director of One Voice Mixed Chorus), the fabulous and brave folks in the GLBT movement