softspoken

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Gender Female
Industry Fashion
Occupation Vintage and Handmade Shoppe Owner
Location Columbia, South Carolina, United States
Interests gertrude stein, sewing, crocheting, annie oakley, pincushions, zines, alice in wonderland, anais nin, andy warhol, anne sexton, antiques, awkward silences, baby carrots, beards, john fante, being quiet, being pretty, bob dylan, boats, punctuation, excessive punctuation, no punctuation, bonnie and clyde, books, cataloging, catfish, plaid, cats, bukowski, clearance racks, coke zero, cherries, cherry stem knots, cigarettes, commas, confederacy of dunces, counting calories, cucumbers, deep south, dictionaries, dinosaurs, draping, dress forms, ernest hemingway, f. scott fitzgerald, fabric, fashion, flappers, folk music, glasses, goodwill, guacamole, heartbreak, hermits, highway 61, hummingbirds, i-20, interrobang, jack kerouac, jd salinger, jealousy, godard, jesus christ, junk shops, karma, kissing, kurt vonnegut, lavender, leaves of grass, letters, librarians, libraries, loneliness, loners, love letters, magnolias, mail, making lists, marc jacobs, mascara, math, men, mental illness, miranda july, mississippi river, morton salt girl, muscadines, natchez, notes in class, old photos, on the road, patternmaking, pbs, pecan trees, perfect dresses, perfume, persimmons, picking mulberries, pictures of monkeys, polaroids, postcards, reading, record players, records, richard brautigan, richard brautigan's mailbox, richard linklater, robert crumb, running, ricky gervais, the ricky gervais show, karl pilkington, stephen merchant, monkey news, sarah vowell, scissors, sec football, secret hidden geniuses, scribbled notebooks, shelley jackson, shyness, sitting on porches, smell of used books, sneezing, spanish moss, steve martin, street style, sylvia plath, t.s. eliot, sweet tea, tesla, the band, the little prince, the rosenbergs, needle and thread, jack white, tom robbins, tomatoes, treadmills, university of alabama, used bookstores, v8 juice, vegetables, vintage style, vinyl, virginia woolf, walker percy, what makes love stay, winning, worrying, writing
Favorite Movies wild at heart, grey gardens, fat girl/a ma soeur!, breathless/À bout de souffle, vivre sa vie, i <;3 huckabees, annie hall, virgin suicides, buffalo 66, all the real girls, we don't live here anymore, before sunrise, eternal sunshine, pee wee's big adventure, dr strangelove or: how i learned to stop worrying and love the bomb, lost in translation, pull my daisy, princess bride, gone with the wind, amelie, ghost world, don't look back, easy rider, waking life, jules et jim, crumb, the anniversary party, slacker, annie, mary poppins, devil and daniel johnston, born into this - bukowski doc, une femme est une femme, bonnie and clyde, love liza, squid and the whale, shopgirl, me you and everyone we know, paper moon, gummo, julian donkey boy, hiroshima mon amour, searching for the wrong eyed jesus, sherman's march: a meditation to the possibility of romantic love in the south during an era of nuclear weapons proliferation, alone in the wilderness, grizzly man, sorry haters, mutual appreciation, shortbus, true romance
Favorite Music harry nilsson, bob dylan, r.e.m., pixies, violent femmes, leonard cohen, tom waits, my morning jacket, modern lovers, big star, t rex, oblivians, hole, silver jews, josh ritter, damien rice, electric light orchestra, nick drake, jackson browne, elliott smith, the band, buddy holly, kris kristofferson, beck, ben kweller, ben folds, hank williams, hank williams jr, janis joplin, willie nelson, waylon jennings, john prine, jethro tull, mississippi john hurt, velvet underground, doors, kinks, bright eyes, will oldham, bonnie prince billy and etc., neil young, radiohead, dressy bessy, cat power, beth orton, yeah yeah yeahs, deadboy &; elephantmen, daniel johnston, erin mckeown, beck, jim croce, vashti bunyan, stooges, sammy davis jr, nico, reigning sound, coco rosie
Favorite Books ida by gertrude stein, confederate general from big sur by richard brautigan, the stories of breece d'j pancake, noone belongs here more than you by miranda july, trout fishing in america by richard brautigan, a confederacy of dunces by john kennedy toole, the hawkline monster by richard brautigan, patchwork girl by shelley jackson, still life with woodpecker by tom robbins, mother night by kurt vonnegut, love is a dog from hell by bukowski, catcher in the rye by salinger, sun also rises by hemingway, love in the ruins by walker percy, on the road by jack kerouac, junky by burroughs, electric kool aid acid test by wolfe