daylight savings, cat and girl, knitting, reading, queers, lindy hop, activism, procrastination, movies, singing, feminism, ethical living, waxing intellectual, community empowerment, writing, stitching and bitching, time-suckage, dead-end jobs, guerilla magnet collecting, grad school, lazy gardening, sheet mulch, the early 1940's, vintage clothing, vintage sewing & knitting, estate sales, riding my bike, the multnomah county library system, rainy days, reclaiming and reusing, permaculture, sustainability, growing food, community supported agriculture, not eating animals, affordable natural and conventional healthcare for everyone, free piles, building stuff out of trash, octavian!
people in north/northeast portland who have stuff in common with me, etc. vintage lovers, chicken enthusiasts, permaculture enthusiasts, weirdos, and especially those of you who are all-of-the-above! however, all the perfect ethics in the world won't mean shit to me if you're not able/willing to be a nice person.
ani difranco, morrissey (pre-21st century), iron and wine, the gossip, belle and sebastian, kimya dawson, cocorosie, regina spektor, justice, mary timony, sleater-kinney, bikini kill, cadallaca, the ditty bops, cat stevens, joni mitchell, le tigre, rilo kiley, elliot smith, the pretenders, lily allen, carla bruni, the blow, anita o'day, helen forrest, ella mae morse, all the old big bands, ska (nobody listens to ska anymore!), chick stuff, old stuff, etc, etc, etc, etc.
ghost world, fight club, but i'm a cheerleader, office space, all over me, boogie nights, watcher in the woods, parent trap and parent trap 2, reality bites, the royal tenenbaums, high art, E.T., amelie, before sunrise, say anything, harold and maude, welcome to the dollhouse, pumpkin, my summer of love, drugstore cowboy, john waters movies, dick, bring it on, anything with deanna durbin, orchestra wives, moon over miami, the wizard of oz, the bachelor and the bobbysoxer, other old movies, me and you and everyone we know, girl interrupted, edward scissorhands, anything else with winona ryder, the slums of beverly hills, whale rider, motorcycle diaries, dirty pretty things, and again, i always leave stuff out. new favorite: shortbus.
CARNIVALE. freaks and geeks. space ghost c2c. degrassi. l-word (a guilty, once-a-year, renting-on-dvd pleasure).
joyce carol oates, wendy-o matik, katherine dunn, chuck palahniuk, upton sinclair, michelle tea, margaret atwood, sylvia plath, anne sexton, bell hooks, simone de beauvoir, david holmgren, john robbins, pat califia, judith butler, gayle rubin, beverly cleary, mattilda aka matt bernstein-sycamore, ray bradbury, george orwell, laurie halse anderson, judy blume, daniel clowes, danzy senna, anne-marie macdonald, maud hart lovelace, nick hornby, barbara kingsolver, rebecca wells. my favorite (NW-specific) gardening book is Gaia's Garden by Toby Hemenway. i'm currently reading: nobody passes by mattilda, and we were the mulvaneys by jc oatesplease give me book recommendations, i will love you forever!
the childlike empress.