Clairest of the Claire

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Gender Female
Industry Arts
Occupation Mother, Painter, Illustrator, Graphic Designer
Location Eugene, OR, United States
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Introduction MY BIG GROCERY LIST OF LIKES: painting, writing, Mike, 2-year-olds that run with their hands in the air, Boo Radley moments, blue glass on a window sill, Italy, sunflowers, irises, feeling all lit up inside, black and white movies, omelets, sushi, eskimo kisses, neck kisses, belly kisses, any kind of kisses, kittens, papa smurf (my dad), winning at cards, sketching, snuggling, and more kisses.
Interests painting mostly, and people.
Favorite Movies Amelie, Royal Tenenbaums, Napoleon Dynamite, Basquiat, Lust for Life, Pecker, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Princess Bride, Benny and June, What's Eating Gilbert Grape, High Fidelity, Say Anything, Better off Dead, Stealing Beauty, Dummy, Garden State, So I Married an Axe Murderer, Zoolander, Lucas, Breakfast Club, Sixteen Candle, Roman Holiday, Charade, Breakfast at Tiffanies, North by Northwest, Arsenic and Old Lace, Grand Hotel, Ninotchka ....
Favorite Music The Shins, The Strokes, Neutral Milk Hotel, Pinback, Badly Drawn Boy, The Wrens, Death Cab, Built to Spill, Modest Mouse, Ugly Cassanova, Elliot Smith, Wilco, Devendra Barnhardt, Mirah, Regina Spektor, Catpower, Gillian Welch, Magnetic Fields, Belle & Sebastian, Tosca, Kruder and Dorfmeister, DJ Shadow, Calexico, Damien Rice, The Beatles, Leonard Cohen, Nico, Billy Holliday, Miles, Edith Pillaf, Rickie Lee Jones, Lucinda Williams, Sunvolt, Uncle Tupelo, Luna, Dan Jones and the Squids (specially that new drummer, yummy!), Saltlick, Tractor Operator, Yeltsin, Testface, Jessica Plotkin...there's more I just can't think of them right now
Favorite Books The River Why, Jitterbug Perfume, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genious, Neruda's Veinte Poemas de Amore y Despario, Where the Sidewalk Ends, Hope for the Flowers, To Kill a Mockingbird...

You're wearing a sweater that stretches down to your feet. What color belt do you put on?

No belt, if I'm really going to walk around looking like a tea cozy, I'd rather just be that.