leah.

About me

Gender Female
Industry Science
Occupation Registered Nurse
Location Philadelphia, PA, United States
Interests Music, Creating and enjoying art of all types, Movies, Reading, Writting (reviews, short stories, essays), my domestic crafts of sewing, knitting, and cooking if I am in the mood, the News, Fleisher art memorial classes, meeting interesting people, walking around cities, wawa, discovering new and interesting "stuff", surfing the internet (i like to read the "missed encounters" section of craigslist personals), exercising and yoga, nursing.
Favorite Movies I heart Huckabees, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Amelie, Peices of April, 9 1/2 Weeks, A Very long Engagement, Dirty Pretty Things, God is Great and I am not, Last Tango in Paris, The Virgin Suicides, Lost in Translation, The Professional, Garden State, What about Bob, V for Vendetta, Coffee and Cigarettes, Paris Je'taime, The Darjeeling Limited, The Pianist, Resevior Dogs, Kill Bill 1&2, Grindhouse, Life Aquatic, Royal Tannenbaums, Alexandra's Project, Dot the I, Science of Sleep, Strangers with Candy, Fight Club, Memento, Pecker, The Machinist, Snatch, Lock Stock and Two Smokin' Barrels, Love Actually, Pride and Prejudice, Is there Sex after Death?, Running with Scissors, Donnie Darko, Lord of the Rings, 10 Things I Hate about You, Love or Something like it, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Happenstance, Romeo and Juliet, The Hours, Being John Malkovich, Pulp Fiction, Moulin Rouge, Welcome to the Dollhouse, Buffalo '66, Changing Lanes, O Brother Where art Thou?, The Last Supper, Me You and Everyone We Know, 300, A Clockwork Orange, American Beauty, Being John Malcovich, Pretty Baby, Cashback, Lolita, Black Snake Moan, Paris Je' Taime, No Country for Old Men, There Will be Blood, Talk to Her, Eagle vs. Shark, Billy Eliot, Amores Perros, American Psycho, Dog Day Afternoon, The City of Lost Children, Towelhead, Burn after reading - pretty much all of the Coen brother's movies. I love watching film movement flicks as well as anything else that is interesting, non-typical, and/or well made.
Favorite Music The Beatles, Brighteyes, Damien Rice, Amy Whinehouse, The Clientele, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Radiohead, Justin Timberlake, The Arcade Fire, Neutral Milk Hotel, TV on the Radio, Sufjan Stevens, The Killers, M.I.A., Dizzy Rascal, Third Eye Blind, Peter Sarstedt, Elvis, Foo Fighters, The White Stripes, Gorillaz, The Strokes, Racontours, Queens of the Stone Age, Broken Social Scene, Interpol, Tom Waits, Pixies, Franz Ferdinand, The Cure, Bjork, Madonna, Moby, Fatboy Slim, Cake, Beck, Pavement, Eels, Spoon, The Cranberries, The Juliana Theory, The Postal Service, Wilco, St. Vincent, CSS, The New Pornographers, The Flaming Lips, The Kills, Death Cab for Cutie, Artic Monkeys, Bon Voyage, Evangelicals, PJ Harvey, Cat Power, Modest Mouse, Muse, Vampire Weekend, Sigur Ros, Animal Collective, Parenthetical Girls, Dinosour Jr., Devendra Banhart, Deerhoof, David Bowie, Band of Horses, Efterklang, Mum, Frog Eyes, The Knife, The Maccabees, Mogwai, Neutral Milk Hotel, The Smiths, Talking Heads, Xiu Xiu, Yo La Tengo... the list grows on.
Favorite Books Choke by Chuck Palunchuk, A Heartbreaking work of Staggering Genius, You Shall Know our Velocity both by David Eggers; The Namesake, and Interpreter of the Malades by Jhumpa Lahari; Bowl of Cherries by Millard Kauffman; The Giver by Lois Lowry; Anything by Shel Silverstein, C.S. Lewis, or Tolkien. Miranda July. Richard Russo. Douglas Coupland.