cooking-eating-feeding-peoplemusic (trading mix CDs)thrift-store shoppingdancing and singing (very badly)when I'm drunkreading for funreading (philosophy, fiction, cookbooks, news, etc.) talking to strangerstaking ridiculously longwalks in tatteredsweat-shop-free shoeslosing argumentsto polite butintimidatingly brilliant peoplemaking bad jokeszombie moviesCOFFEE
Anyone with a quiet disdain for the rich.Or, if You are: 1) nice to waiters. 2) read novels and poetry for pleasure AND 3. don’t mean “I want to share with you my original-free-verse-therapy-on-paper so you can see the darkness that is my being†when you say “I like poetry†If you can: 4. ask hard questions without already having an answer in mind when you ask them 5. can admit that the 20's-style flirtation in "It's a Wonderful Life" is romantic If you like: 6. to drink cheap beer and talk loudly about abstract ideas And you are not one of those people who 7. is embarrassed to turn the radio up loud to songs that are completely out-of-style And you are one of those people who 8. buys clothes at thrift stores to save money But 9. NOT in order to be hip or "ironic" And you are not afraid 10. to take a tentative stand Also, anybody who agrees that e.e. cummings is a great poet to read aloud, wasabi peas are a good breakfast food, and that most people who use the word “metaphysical†in everyday conversation are ridiculous will probably get along with me (note: I do use that word in everyday conversation).In general, I like talking to strangers. Sometimes I have genuinely interesting conversations with crazy, brilliant, interesting, or even impressively normal people in bars and coffee shops, on the bus, and while waiting in line at the grocery store. So I will say tentatively that I am not weirded out by people who randomly message me because they looked at my profile online. (Please do not give me reason to change my mind.) If you're still reading this, send me a message ('somegirliknow' on AIM and yahoo). My only requirement is that you be devastatingly brilliant or at least damn funny.(VITALLY IMPORTANT: Does it bother anyone else that it should be 'whom I'd like to meet' instead of 'who I'd like to meet'?)
As much as the depressed-inner-teenager-first -discovering-alternative-progressive -indie-label-not-what-your-mother- liked-unpopular-music would like to think otherwise, I've discovered that the music a person listens to is not a very good indication of whether or not I'll like that person. But I'll bite, I guess. Some of my favorite albums are Springsteen's Born to Run, Dylan's Blood on the Tracks, Waits' Small Change, REM's Murmer and Automatic for the People, Young's Harvest, the Stone's Sticky Fingers, Simon's Graceland, Mitchell's Blue, Counting Crows' August and Everything After, and William's Car Wheels on a Gravel Road....Some other artists I like are Ani Difranco, Ben Harper, Nick Cave, 10,000 Maniacs, Elvis Costello, Leonard Cohen, Billie Holiday, Ryan Adams, Al Green, Sinead O'Connor, David Gray, Aretha Franklin, Aimee Mann, Patty Griffin, Otis Redding, Cat Stevens, Dolly Parton, Damien Rice, Belle and Sebastian, Steve Earle, Nick Drake, Elliott Smith, Tori Amos, Gillian Welch, and Paul Westerberg
Sometimes I can get into deconstructed-narrative-post-modern -confusing-but-intentionally-so-art- type things (Jim Jarmusch?)and I like clever social satire(Cohen brothers? Kubrick?)and beautiful slice-of-life -pictures-of-humanity(Sayles? Eyre?)if they're not contrived...but mostly I like zombie flicks...jesus, I'm terrified of zombies
Blow up your TV. Eat a lot of peaches.Plain MySpace Layouts by Iron Spider
This list is not definitive, but immediately, off the top of my head: Fiction: Sherman Alexie, Roald Dahl, William Faulkner, C.S. Lewis (though I'm not religious), Carson McCullers, Flannery O'Connor, Annie Proulx, J.D. Salinger, John Steinbeck, Mark Twain, Tennesee Williams...Poetry: Billy Collins, T.S. Eliot, e.e. cummings, some Bukowski, and what little I have read of Lorca and Neruda... Non-Fiction (by no means a complete list): Laurie Colwin, M.F.K Fischer, Nick Hornby, Howard Zinn....and (because people ask) some philosophy that is important to me: Kant's Ethics (Especially Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals and the Critique of Practical Reason), Mill's On Liberty (even if utilitarianism is ultimately misguided), and Rawls' Theory of Justice
self-reflective progressives, especially those who teach elementary school music