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| Gender | Female |
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| Location | London, United Kingdom |
| Interests | travel, tattoos, reading, peanut butter, www.ethicalsuperstore.com, sunshine, foreign languages, community, pretending to be a photographer, The British Museum, dance parties, ginger snaps, gardening, Gregorian chanting (especially in Latin), science (especially entomology), palindromes, Jack Bauer, toffee nut lattes, history |
| Favorite movies | High Fidelity, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Edward Scissorhands, Almost Famous, The Goonies, Mr. & Mrs. Smith, Sin City, Willow, Igby Goes Down, Fight Club, Reality Bites, pretty much anything by Wes Anderson, Garden State, Dumb and Dumber, Empire Records, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Snatch, Arlington Road, Superstar, Office Space, Donnie Darko, The Birdcage |
| Favorite music | The Arcade Fire, Band of Horses, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club (Howl), Bright Eyes, The Cinematic Underground, The Cure, Damion Rice, Death Cab for Cutie, Eve 6, Feist, Fleetwood Mac, James Taylor, Jimmy Eat World, The Juliana Theory (old stuff), Kanye West, The Killers, Kings of Leon, Phil Collins, Mae, Moving Units, Muse, N*E*R*D*, Ray LaMontagne, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Rilo Kiley, Snow Patrol, Spoon, Sufjan Stevens, U2, The Used |
| Favorite books | The Count of Monte Cristo, House of Leaves, The Death of Ivan Ilyich, The Bell Jar, Cyrano de Bergerac, Jazz, The Magic Finger, The Giving Tree, My Name Is Asher Lev, The Metamorphosis, Hey Nostradamus!, If You Give a Mouse a Cookie, The Scarlet Pimpernel, Chicka Chicka Boom Boom, Cry the Beloved Country, The Phantom Tollbooth, A Tale of Two Cities, Killing Yourself to Live, Ovid's Metamorphosis |
When your science teacher smashed a frozen rose with a hammer, did you warm the petals to bring them back to life?
No-- but after the last petal fell from the bloom and my tears caressed the beast's lifeless features, he arose in a swirl of sparkles and came back as an unattractive lady-man. Seriously disappointing.