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About me

Occupation Writer. Student. Sarcastic Bastard
Introduction Grad student in the arts, freelance writer. Racking up the old frequent complainer miles.
Interests punk, teaching, activism, writing, abandonments, decay, the metropolis, soviet art, Eastern Europe, languages, travel, Foucault, queer theory, infiltration, Walter Benjamin, rumpled academics, um...lots of stuff
Favorite Movies Delicatessen, The Lynching of Louis Sam, Dark Days, Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amelie Poulin, LoTR, The Man on the Train, Goodbye Lenin, Burnt by the Sun, Cite des Enfants Perdus
Favorite Music Tom Waits, Hank Williams, Dead Prez, New Order, Bauhaus, Public Enemy, nin, Bikini Kill, Huggy Bear, Tangiers, Devo, Taraf de Haidouks, Submission Hold, The Cure, Reagan Youth, Aus Rotten, Priest, Shotmaker, Johnny Cash, Patsy Cline, silence, male peacocks at the zoo, typewriters
Favorite Books authors:, Dubravka Ugresic, Walt Whitman, Blake, Dickens, Ian Rankin, Tadeusz Borowski, Arthur Conan Doyle, William Carlos Williams, Alice Munro, Varlam Shalamov, Tomson Highway, Mandelstam (both Osip and Nadezhda), Ivan Klima, Eden Robinson

Your superpower is that you smell like dandelions whenever someone lies. How will you maintain your secret identity?

Dandelions are called "wet the bed" in French. You do the math.