metalsmithing, hammers, torches, and the whatnot. compulsively collecting things i will probably never use... i just can't help it. i love art, music, photography, travel, wine, books, colors, the beach, random and useless knowledge, obscure references.
adventurous vagabonds
current addictions include weezer (the blue album - always the blue album), the decemberists, the shins, modest mouse, neutral milk hotel, badly drawn boy, the arcade fire, the avett brothers, jens lekman, band of horses, beirut, andrew bird, silversun pickups, the long winters, rogue wave, the rosebuds, the kooks, blonde redhead, clap your hands say yeah, pixies, morrissey, the smiths, the cure, magnetic fields, of montreal, my morning jacket, mountain goats, the rolling stones, the beatles, and many many others.
currently topping the charts (in annie world): amelie, hedwig and the angry inch, mallrats, garden state, benny and joon, edward scissorhands, pan's labyrinth, almost famous, ghostbusters, back to the future, who framed roger rabbit?, labyrinth
i might have a guilty pleasure or two
favorites (in no particular order): the perks of being a wallflower - stephen chbosky; still life with woodpecker - tom robbins; 1984 - george orwell; brave new world - aldous huxley; interview with the vampire - anne rice; life of pi - yann martel; memoirs of a geisha - arthur golden; running with scissors - augusten burroughs; the road - cormac mccarthy.last 5 books read: into the wild - john krakauer; a confederacy of dunces - john kennedy toole; the road - cormac mccarthy; me talk pretty one day - david sedaris; villa incognito - tom robbins. currently : a heartbreaking work of staggering genius - dave eggers