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My blogs
Blogs I follow
| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Industry | Government |
| Occupation | Kick-Ass Assistant |
| Location | San Francisco, California, United States |
| Introduction | I'm all about the simple pleasures, keeping things as stress-free as possible, and living life in the slow lane... |
| Interests | abandoned buildings, airports, American West, animals, antiphospholipid antibody, antiphospholipid syndrome, architecture, art, arts and crafts, autoimmune disorders, baking, birds, bookish people, books, bookstores, Joe Bob Briggs, cacti and succulents, cheese, cheez, children's books, city cultures, collage, collages, comfortable silences, community supported agriculture, complementary and alternative medicine, cooking, cultural studies, farmers' markets, fibromyalgia, figuring out how things work, film, film festivals, games, glow-in-the-dark things, graphic novels, growing things, hand-made, having company, history, history of science and technology, hummingbirds, ink drawing, intricacy, lakes, libraries, local honey, lupus, making things, media studies, mountains, movies, moving images, mythology and folklore, nature, NPR, old things, partnership, people, photography, plants, popular culture, PRI, Psoriatic Arthritis, puzzles, Qigong, quiet, radio stories, rivers, side roads, SLE, slow food, sociology, solitude, still images, sunlight through colored glass, swimming, systemic lupus erythematosus, T'ai Chi, tiny moments, trains, trying to figure out why, trying to learn other languages, words |
| Favorite Movies | All Summer In A Day, American Movie, The Apu Trilogy, Army of Shadows, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, The Battle of Algiers, Blood Hook, Brother's Keeper, Burden of Dreams, Cache, Cold Fever, The Cruise, The Devil and Daniel Johnston, Dig!, Eastern Promises, The Eighth Day, The Exiles, Fantastic Planet, Genghis Blues, Grave of the Fireflies, Heat, How To Get Ahead In Advertising, Joe vs. the Volcano, Jules and Jim, Juliet of the Spirits, Killer of Sheep, Kitchen Stories, Kung Fu Hustle, Leningrad Cowboys Go America, Leolo, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, Lost In Translation, The Magician of Lublin, McCabe and Mrs. Miller, Medium Cool, Miss Firecracker, Mr. Love, No Country for Old Men, Once, Orphans (1987), Paris Texas, The Passenger, Pat Garrett and Billy The Kid, Pee-Wee's Big Adventure, The Piano Teacher, Playtime, The President's Analyst, Proof (1991), The Red Shoes, Rivers and Tides, Santa Sangre, Secret Honor, Secretary, The Shining, Silent Running, Sympathy For Lady Vengeance, Tekkon Kinkreet, Things Behind the Sun, Tokyo Drifter, The Triplets of Belleville, Underground (1995), Uzumaki, The Wages of Fear, Warm Water Under a Red Bridge, Wild Zero, Wings of Desire, Woman In The Dunes, David Gordon Green, Werner Herzog, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Takeshi Kitano, Sergio Leone, Hayao Miyazaki, Yasujiro Ozu, Satyajit Ray, Nicolas Roeg, Criterion Collection, FAVORITE TV SHOWS, Absolutely Fabulous, Arrested Development, Malcolm in the Middle, Monty Python's Flying Circus, Northern Exposure, The Ren & Stimpy Show, Seinfeld, Six Feet Under, Twin Peaks, THE WIRE |
| Favorite Music | Acetone, Angelo Badalamenti, Badly Drawn Boy, Belle and Sebastian, Black Box Recorder, Billy Bragg, Camper Van Beethoven, Neko Case, Cibo Matto, Elvis Costello, Cracker, Dntel, Nick Drake, Bob Dylan, Brian Eno, Gang of Four, Astrud Gilberto, Goblin, Guided by Voices, PJ Harvey, Robyn Hitchcock, The Jam, Daniel Johnston, Rickie Lee Jones, The Judybats, The Kinks, Nick Lowe, John Lurie, Meat Puppets, Ennio Morricone, Willie Nelson, Pixies, Nino Rota, Sonic Youth, The Style Council, Tindersticks, Tom Waits, Lucinda Williams, Yo La Tengo, soundtracks |
| Favorite Books | Brothers of the Head, A Confederacy of Dunces, Einstein's Dreams, Geek Love, Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898, The History of Luminous Motion, Hole in the Sky: A Memoir, The Hundred Dresses, Invisible Cities, The Medusa Frequency, Microserfs, Mister God This is Anna, everything Moomins, Old Black Witch!, Red Sky at Morning, The Sheep Look Up, Tall Tales from the Mekong Delta, Zeno's Conscience, Elizabeth Bishop, Italo Calvino, Raymond Carver, Don Delillo, Russell Hoban, Jane Kenyon, Wallace Stegner, Wallace Stevens |