art (creating and admiring), BOOKS!, film, music (let me make you a mix tape!), shopping,thinking about the history of things, ghosts, abandoned buildings, loose tea, coffee, Strongbow, vanilla Stoli, Halloween, live bands, all religions in general and Quakerism in particular, trying to reconcile my pull towards Socialism with my Capitalist spending habits, figuring out how I'm going to save the world, volunteering, being outside, geneaology, antiques, flea markets, buying crap at dollar stores, everything about Philadelphia,nature, exploring, travelling, dancing (badly, but with enthusiasm).I'd always rather play with the kids than talk to the grownups. I stay up past my bedtime color-coordinating my closet while forgetting to do important things like paying my bills.I'm trying to acheive Nirvana through constant obsessive cleaning. I have trouble walking and talking at the same time. I'm ridiculously orally fixated. I'm generally harmless but easily distracted by shiny things.
I'd like to meet:
people with weird talents, unpretentious social activists,anyone who has ever seen a ghost,revolutionaries, Scrabble champs, arty biker types. anyone who can think of something fun and unexpected to do. expatriates. disgruntled old people. anyone who can teach me something.anyone who will pull over and explore an abandoned building with me, those who like to upset the status quo, and anyone who can appreciate a good bhangra. anyone who can play an instrument well or sing to me. someone who will lend me their coat on a cold night. anyone who appreciates my mix CDs. boys who know the names of constellations and will point them out, or who can get me totally excited about something random just because *they're* excited by it and it shows. A certain level of nerdiness is just *hot*. In fact,I insist on it.Also Colin Meloy,Henry Rollins, Hugh Laurie, Jarvis Cocker, and Tom Waits.
Music:
The Decemberists, PULP!,Tom Waits, Leonard Cohen, Morrissey (with and without The Smiths),Stellastarr*,Gogol Bordello. I'm recently head over heels for Jonathan Coulton. Johnny Cash,The Faint, DeVotchka,The Cure, The Killers, Nick Cave,Bjork, Elvis Costello, Belle&Sebastian,Oasis, They Might Be Giants.Did I mention Leonard COhen? Yeah I did, but I will again. My mom's old vinyl.I rock out with the old people at the nursing home to Frankie and Dean-o. I think I'd really like to go to a sock hop, in saddle shoes.I love angry protest rock and psychedelic 60's French pop. Jazzy B is the Crown Prince of Bhangra. And don't you forget it.
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Movies:
Everything is Illuminated.The Darjeeling Limited.A Very Long Engagement. Born Into Brothels. Water. The Crucible. Wonderboys. Amelie. Running With Scissors.The Rules of Attraction. Eagle Vs. Shark.Tank Girl is the best dumb movie you've never seen. Mirrormask. Stardust. ACross The Universe.Drop Dead Gorgeous.Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Donnie Darko. Holy Smoke. Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle.Gangs of NY.A Streetcar Named Desire. Coal Miner's Daughter. Dead Man.Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas. Where the Buffalo Roam. Heathers. Hairspray. Monsoon Wedding. Amadeus. Hideous Kinky. Heavenly Creatures. Bollywood/Hollywood (shut up).
Life With Father.Emmet Otter's Jugband Christmas stands as my favorite Christmas movie of all time. If you've never seen The Vernonia Incident, you're missing out. I just broke down and got Netflix, so expect not to see much of me until I exhaust all the available seasons of House.
What Kind of Drunk Are You?
Television:
Northern Exposure,House,Monk, Intervention, Ghosthunters (*blushes*) and What Not to Wear.Flight of the Conchords.BBC America in general and The Mighty Boosh specifically. Kitchen Nightmares.I'm weirdly addicted to How Clean Is Your House and You Are What You Eat b/c they make me feel like I have my life togther. BBC Reveals is consistently awesome.I can happily vegetate in front of Bizarre Foods, No Reservations, or Paranormal State.I love Globetrekker and subtitled Bollywood movies Saturday mornings on WYBE. I usually have TLC or Discovery Health on for background noise.Give me a documentary about morbid obesity or weird deformities and I'm happy for hours. My IQ has decreased substantially since I've had regular access to OnDemand.
Books:
authors:Johnathan Safran Foer. Paolo Coehlo. Augusten Burroughs. Michael Chabon. John Irving (especially The Water-Method Man). E.M. Delafield. O. Henry. Al Burian. books: Sophie's Choice.Lolita. how the other half lives. the shipping news. Roots. Christy. 1984. Burn Collector.Les Miserables and A Tree Grows In Brooklyn are part of who I am. a confederacy of dunces (I love it and hate it, about 55-45).At play in the fields of the lord. I love explicit bitter poetry by drunk old men. Ode and Bust magazine. blogs. Sunday circulars. religious texts. amusing street signs ("Slow Children At Play"). cereal boxes. other people's T-shirts.
You're Watership Down!
by Richard Adams
Though many think of you as a bit young, even childish, you're
actually incredibly deep and complex. You show people the need to rethink their
assumptions, and confront them on everything from how they think to where they
build their houses. You might be one of the greatest people of all time. You'd
be recognized as such if you weren't always talking about talking rabbits.
Take the Book Quiz
at the Blue Pyramid .
Heroes:
I've been completely obsessed with Anne Sullivan since I was 8. Helen Keller as an adult is pretty amazing too.Gandhi. Margaret Fell.Jane Addams. Margaret Sanger.My boss at the Aark foundation, MaryJane (she's amazing). My mom. Conscientious objectors everywhere. Everyone who ever fought the system and won. Everyone who ever refused to confess. Maybe you.
