Elizabeth Myriam Diamond
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| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Occupation | grocery slave/painter |
| Location | Northampton, MA |
| Introduction | I love tigers & wine & beer & whiskey & fresh cotton sheets & any & all visual imagery & very hot peppers & new england weather & cookbooks & finding a magnetic fields song to fit my every mood & situation & new bedford memorabilia & painting & noodles & the ocean & dive bars & flea markets & ghetto mama earrings & random hook-ups & pushing my own boundaries & diners at dawn & dancing & hardcore rap music & food & my old block in new orleans & finding ceramic animals at yard sales & road trips & struggling post-industrial cities & artwork that creates something better than the reality it is attempting to imitate & cowboy boots & mix cds & kissing & crocheting & glitter & gardening & cooking & my friends & treating my plants like people & piles of quilts & loud makeup & tattoos & reading & dustyrose the grey tiger cat & drinking & drawing. |
| Interests | Making art, drinking wine, (frequently at the same time), books, records, vintage clothing, the public library, cooking extra-spicy fabulous food, collaging, 60's cookbooks, kitchens, pictures of chicken legs and milk cartons and other interesting food from the ground, art parties, my houseplants, plants in general, especially succulents and cacti, vegetable and herb gardens, knitting, crocheting, quilting and embroidery, travel, motels, road trips, drums, hanging out in my yard, and bringing glue and my sketchbook to bars so I can collage in a social setting. |
| Favorite movies | Crybaby, and in general John Waters is good for my heart, as are David Lynch and Jim Jarmusch, 8 Women, Stranger Than Paradise, The House of Yes, Dancer in the Dark, All About My Mother, Nashville, A Streetcar Named Desire, Suddenly Last Summer, Butterfield 8, Down By Law, The Swimmer, Mystery Train, Wild At Heart, crybaby, Sleeper, Breakfast at Tiffanys, all things Bollywood |
| Favorite music | MAGNETIC FIELDS & SILVER JEWS. I love the Silver Jews and the Magnetic Fields more than absolutely anything, except maybe Jenny Lewis, it's becoming a sort of dangerous obsession. In a non-obsessive way, Pavement, Sebadoh, David Bowie, Outkast, Nas, Dresden Dolls, Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks, The White Stripes, The Pixies, Ani Difranco, The Gossip, Bjork, Peggy Lee, Jenny Lewis, The Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Cat Power, Billie Holiday, Nina Simone, John Lennon, Ethel Merman, Johnny Cash, The Magnetic Fields, Franz Ferdinand, Rilo Kiley, Judy Garland, Kanye West, Quintron &; Miss Pussycat, Jay-Z, Chicks on Speed, Dr. Dre, Lil Kim, Missy Elliott, Sleater-Kinney, The Cure, The Pet Shop Boys, Le Tigre, PJ Harvey, Tom Waits, Talking Heads, Belle &; Sebastian, The Smiths, Lil Wayne, Liars, Animal Collective, Wilco, Sigur Rós, Bollywood soundtracks, probably a lot more... |
| Favorite books | anything by Iris Murdoch, Zadie Smith, Kate Atkinson, Michelle Tea, Haruki Murakami, A.S. Byatt, James Baldwin, Hanif Kureishi...plus i love a good memoir, and i am very fond of food writing. |