My interests vary from day to day, but here are a few: I like mid-century/ Scandinavian furniture, pedicures, cream sauces, porches with fans, Abraham Lincoln and JW Booth, tofu hot dogs, and birthday presents year round. I love to cook, track cat 5 hurricanes, plant pretty flowers in my yard, ride my big-girl bike, read hardback books, do pilates, go to the farmer's market, watch NOLA get back on its feet, drink Pinotage with Andrew, watch movies from Net Flix, try new restaurants, buy shoes, browse Architectural Digest and Wallpaper* Magazine for interior design inspiration, opening the windows while I cook a steamy meal and sleep in late on Sundays.
I'd like to meet:
Smart people. People who have opinions of their own. People who don't read trash/gossip mags and think it's literature. People with values. Fellow gourmands. Old friends to make new again. New friends to introduce to my old friends.
Music:
So says my ipod...A Girl Called Eddy, Arcade Fire, Beta Band, Blackalicious, Blonde Redhead, Built to Spill, Calexico, Camera Obscura, The Decemberists, Devendra Banhart, Feist, Flaming Lips, Francois Hardy, Iron and Wine, Joanna Newsom, Kings of Leon, Leonard Cohen, Magnetic Fields, Mates of State, Mirah, Neutral Milk Hotel, Pedro the Lion, Rilo Kiley/ Jenny Lewis and the Watson Twins, The Roaches, The Sea and Cake/ Sam Prekop, Sigur Ros, Spoon, Steve Earle, Sufjan Stevens, Ted Leo and the Pharmacists, Turin Brakes, Uncle Tupelo, West Indian Girl, Wilco...I need some X's - Y's, and Z's.....
Movies:
Anything by Wes Anderson, Pedro Almodovar, Francois Truffaut, Jim Jarmusch, Spike Lee, the Coen brothers, Terry Gilliam and Steven Soderbergh. I am a pure sucker for art-house, documentary and French, Spanish or Russian films.
Books:
Finally I can read for pleasure and not for academia. I made a list of books to read after graduating, here are a few:*Fear of Flying - Erica Jong*Freakonomics - Levitt and Dubner*Crimes Against Logic - Whyte*Pragmatism and Feminism - Rorty*Guns, Germs and Steel:The Fates of Human Societies - Diamond
Heroes:
The obligatory Mom and Dad, along with Colleen and Jack. Strong-minded, 19th century, female activists like Sarah Grimke, Margaret Fuller, and Louisa McCord. Jane Goodall and Margaret Mead for their amazing work in cultural anthropology and environmental studies. Architects/ Designers Frank Gehry, Philip Johnson and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe for being really cool makers of really cool things. Oh, and my partner in crime, Andrew!
