letters in the mail, penpals, intensity, language, straight edge, bandanas, ancient history, dream interpretation, bibliophilia, hagiography, vegetarianism, green tea ice cream, high fives/stage dives, close and intimate settings, knee socks and scarves, traveling, making the most of the moment, new-found positivity, being near the ocean, the renaissance, the reformation, economic theory, cultural attitudes towards death, reproductive rights, late nights spent downtown at the river, reacquainting myself with how trashy this city really is by taking late night walks downtown, gender ambiguity, androgyny, looking like a fifteen year old boy, sexuality, feminism, my historical crushes, cynicism, blood/bones/bruises, circle pits, voraciously devouring knowledge, old books/music/photographs, life living.
my future ex-husband. a boy on a quest for knowledge. oh and i wouldn't say no to meeting the ghost of this man.
why helloooooo, mr. kafka.
Billie Holiday. Ella Fitzgerald. Sarah Vaughan. Converge. Chokehold. L'Amico Di Martucci. Scholastic Deth. Owen Hart. Seein' Red. Naked Raygun. Articles of Faith. Minor Threat is, was, and always will be my favorite band.
Tacitus, Suetonius, Plutarch, Sallust, Thucydides, Poppy Z. Brite, Kathy Acker, Gary Shteyngart, Linda Jaivin, Mercedes Lackey, William S. Burroughs, Giovanni Boccaccio, Dante Alighieri, Kenzaburo Oe, Jeff Noon, Susan Cooper, Jonathan Safran Foer, Luther Blisset, Milan Kundera, Gregory Corso, Diane Di Prima, Gene Wolfe, Henry Rollins, Herodotus, Susanna Clarke, Phillip K. Dick, David Gemmell, Fred Saberhagen, Rumi, Dorothy Parker, Ovid, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Robert Anton Wilson, Robert A. Heinlein, Truman Capote, Charles Baudelaire, Charles Bukowski, Hubert Selby, Jr., Ursula K. Le Guin, Marcus Aurelius. But really I only read so that intellectual boys will like me.