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Ashley

About Me

http://mwanga-wa-jua.livejournal.com/

My Interests

antique botanical prints, camping, crossword puzzles, desserts, the Economist, fancy beers, Frank Lloyd Wright, giggling, grammar, language, live music, mathematics, mid-century modern furniture, mountains, new foods, napping, NPR, outdoors, quiet, Paris, relativism, Scrabble, silk, skiing, smelling, stained glass, stargazing, strolling, textures, travel, violins, Vogue, water, yoga

I'd like to meet:

Snoop.

Music:

American Analog Set, Andrew Bird, Arcade Fire, Arctic Monkeys, Aretha Franklin, Asobi Seksu, Ayub Ogada, Beatles, Beck, Bela Fleck, Belle and Sebastian, Beta Band, Bjork, Bloc Party, Blonde Redhead, Bonobo, Breeders, Brian Wilson, Caribou, Cat Power, Chris Thile, CYHSY, Clinic, Clientele, Color Bars, David Byrne, Dressy Bessy, Dvorak, Edgar Meyer, Elliott Smith, Fujiya & Miyagi, George Clinton, Hope Sandoval, Hot Chip, Islands, Interpol, JS Bach, James Brown, Jane's Addiction, Jenny Lewis with the Watson Twins, Joni Mitchell, King Biscuit Time, LCD Soundsystem, Led Zeppelin, Leonard Cohen, Lou Reed, Manitoba, Mates of State, Mazzy Star, My Morning Jacket, New Pornographers, Nick Drake, Nina Simone, Of Montreal, Panda Bear, Pavement, Paul Simon, Pernice Brothers, Pixies, Prince, R.E.M., Rachmaninov, Radiohead, Ray Charles, Rogue Wave, Rolling Stones, Rufus Wainwright, Shins, Simon and Garfunkel, Sonic Youth, Spoon, SquarePusher, Stevie Wonder, Talking Heads, Tapes 'n Tapes, Tchaikovsky, Thom Yorke, Unicorns, Velvet Underground, Wilco, Yo La Tengo

Movies:

Adrien Brody, Al Pacino, Atonement, Audrey Hepburn, Beautiful Mind, Ben Stiller, Boys Don't Cry, Brokeback Mountain, Charlize Theron, Cool Hand Luke, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Dangerous Liaisons, Dead Man Walking, Dead Poets Society, Deer Hunter, Delicatessen, Ed Harris, Forest Gump, The Gift (1993), Girl Interrupted, Godfather, Godfather II, The Hours, Interiors, Jack Nicholson, Kevin Spacey, Laura Linney, Little Miss Sunshine, Meet the Parents, Meryl Streep, Morgan Freeman, My Fair Lady, Napoleon Dynamite, Nicolas Cage, Paul Newman, The Pianist, Rear Window, Reservoir Dogs, Robert De Niro, Schindler's List, Sean Penn, Shawshank Redemption, Silence of the Lambs, Steel Magnolias, Susan Sarandon, Talk to Her, Tom Hanks, Trois Couleurs: Rouge, Woody Allen

Television:

Curb Your Enthusiasm, Golden Girls, HGTV, NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, TV5

Books:

The Alchemist, Anna Karenina, Breakfast of Champions, Catcher in the Rye, Death in Venice, Invisible Cities, Life of Pi, Love in the Time of Cholera, Middlesex, On the Road, The Prince, Tao Te Ching, Walden

Heroes:

People who aren't afraid of themselves.