I like having fun, yo. I am going places. In twisty fashion.pre summer '07: I work at the library, mostly, and keep a job at the bookstore one day each week in order to keep my employee discount! I seek training in professional skills/super-mysterious-karate-fu.post summer '07:I am burning my candle at the nose and the toes studying from dawn to dusk (and usually to early morning), wanting to eventually fill my head with all things computer science, biology, cognitive science, electrical engineering, and artificial intelligence. I swear I'll stop short of Skynet becoming self-aware. I am also learning to play that sweetest of woodwinds, the oboe.and miscellaneous:I enjoy playing the guitar and singing. I write stories, songs, and viciously cruel criticisms of stupid people. I'm good with the sex, with cooking, and with making horrific tragedy pretty fucking funny. I edit a podcast. I am obsessed with the proper way to make tamales. I am learning how to make guitars. I enjoy knitting. I want to learn to make clothing. I want to know everything!
Howard Zinn, Jeff Mangum, Katha Pollitt, Margaret Atwood, Jon Stewart, Dennis Kucinich, lots of others.
If it's new and likely unknown to radio-retards, I'm all for it. I'm also for great electronically-tinged scary/dream-like rock. As far as long-term sweetness goes, I loves me some Radiohead, Thom Yorke, Air, Apples, Muse, Mag Fields, Trail of Dead, Joanna Newsom, Metric, Autechre, TMBG, Books, Broken Social Scene, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Daft Punk, Decemberists, Doves, Dresden Dolls, Eels, Beck, Flaming Lips, Godspeed YBE, Neutral Milk Hotel, Wilco, Pixies, Postal Service, Sigur Ros, Elliot Smith, Sonic Youth, Spoon, and old, forever-lost Weez...And Jeff Mangum is the greatest genius whose music and poetry ever graced my eardrums.
Holy shit, more flicks than I care to name... how about Tonari no Totoro, Aliens, Lost In Translation, Hedwig... Too many answers! Miyazaki, Wes Anderson, Cronenberg? I am a mass consumer of flicks.Lately: voracious bootleg consumption, Firefly and Densha Otoko and Red Dwarf and miscellaneous anime.
Public television is where it's at.
Ender's Game/Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card, Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang by Kate Wilhelm, the Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury, Wild Seed by Octavia E. Butler, Blankets by Craig Thompson, V for Vendetta by Alan Moore, Demon Haunted World by Carl Sagan, The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood, the Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling, People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn, Godel, Escher, Bach by Douglas Hofstadter,
Carl Sagan, FDR, Katha Pollitt, Octavia E Butler, more that I can't remember right now...