jmcleod76

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About me

Gender Female
Industry Communications or Media
Location Lewiston, Maine, United States
Introduction Just a boi with a nose for fun. Check out my first entry for an idea of what you'll be getting here.
Interests My wife, my dogs, Zen, brownies, reading, collecting used books, politics, activism, deep ecology, genderbending, candlepin bowling, inflatable kayaking, martial arts, being silly, laughing loud, grilling, drinking beer on the back porch, listening to people's stories, nearly all forms of subculture and counterculture, painting, computer illustration, street art, stickers, photography, nature, slam poetry and conscious hip hop, tattoos, cartoons and comics, Dungeons & Dragons (though it's been a regrettably long time), board games, smelling perfume, looking up random subjects on Wikipedia, a revolving array of short-term fancies ...
Favorite Movies Harold and Maude, Brokeback Mountain, Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away, My Neighbor Totoro, Castle in the Sky, Kiki's Delivery Service, The Last Unicorn, All Over Me, Memento, Spring Summer Fall Winter ... and Spring, Why Has Bodhi-Dharma Left for the East, Wallace and Gromit (the old shorts and Curse of the Wererabbit), Wall-E, Lord of the Rings trilogy, Fight Club, Donnie Darko, 12 Monkeys, Saved!, Trainspotting, Strange Days, Breakfast Club, Bend it Like Beckham, Juno, Little Miss Sunshine, Pirates of the Caribbean, Pan's Labyrinth, I'm the One that I Want, I have a weakness for eye-candy kung fu movies (Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Hero, House of Flying Daggers, etc.) ...
Favorite Music Joan Jett, Kimya Dawson, Denise Dill, Dave End, Cat Power, Paul Baribeau, Lonna Kelley, Lady Lamb the Beekeeper, Rye 'n Clover, Mazzy Star, B-52s, Ani Difranco, Sleater-Kinney, Helium, The Murmurs, The Butchies, Bikini Kill, The Toughcats, Arborea, Saylove, Sontiago, Lauryn Hill, The Fugees, Mos Def, Talib Kweli, Gnarls Barkley, Portishead, Bob Marley, Tori Amos, The Beastie Boys, Ray LaMontagne, The Beatles, Bob Dylan, Feist, The Pixies, The Smiths, The Cure, REM, Mirah, Doria Roberts, They Might Be Giants, Violent Femmes, Rage Against the Machine, Henry Rollins, The White Stripes, Dead Kennedys, Sex Pistols, The Clash, The Ramones, Pylon, Shonen Knife, Beck, Dead Prez, The Roots, MF Doom, Prince, Nina Simone, Billie Holiday, Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Nick Drake, Cat Stevens, Leonard Cohen, Tom Waits, Andrew Bird, Gillian Welch, Johnny Cash, Hank Williams, Patsy Cline, Marvin Gaye, Ben Harper, Amos Lee, Michael Franti, Miles Davis, John Coltrane ...
Favorite Books Crow With No Mouth: Poems of Ikkyu, Moon in a Dewdrop: Writings of Zen Master Dogen, The Poisonwood Bible, Prodigal Summer, The Grapes of Wrath, The Book Thief, I Am the Messenger, The Stranger, The Autobiography of Malcolm X, A People's History of the United States, 253, Bomb the Suburbs, No More Prisons, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime, Everything is Illuminated, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Kafka on the Shore, The Shipping News, Close Range: Wyoming Stories, Wicked, Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister, Lord of the Rings trilogy, His Dark Materials trilogy, Ceremony, White Oleander, Sophie's World, Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse, Old Path White Clouds, Cat's Cradle, Slaughterhouse Five, Breakfast of Champions, 1984, Brave New World, Feed, Momo, The Giver, Harry Potter, On the Road, anything by Neil Gaiman, Toni Morrison, Sherman Alexie, Annie Dillard, Mary Oliver, Jeanette Winterson, David Sedaris, Ivan E. Coyote ...