Underdog Lovely
| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Industry | Education |
| Occupation | Educator/Writer |
| Location | New Paltz, NY, United States |
| Introduction | Collector of Plath ephemera. Thrift store junkie. A bodily exercise in conservation of space. A sucker for complex, creative minds. Agnostic humanist. Mercilessly committed to personal responsibility. Space nerd. Third-wave-feminist. Bookish. Vulnerable, driven, confident, potty-mouthed. Accidentally jerky. Allergic to televised sports. Non-swimmer. A once-drummer. Perpetually curious. A conscientious objector to being a human billboard. Crafty, but not macrame-and-scrapbook-y. A Gemini, if you buy into that sort of thing. Rabid recycler. Bossy. Sweet. A hopeless Luddite. I am the sort of person to bring you fresh, home-made cookies in an air-sickness bag. I try to resist apology, complacency, and the stupidity of urgency. I sometimes fail. I try to live by Kant's categorical imperative. I sometimes fail. I am terrible at parallel parking. I find Gregorian Chant kind of hot. I have been called a "Font of Incredibly Awesome Bargain Knowledge." My favorite word is "yes." Or: Red foxes, barbed-wire, fire. Alternating lockjaw and impassioned chatter. Curse. Scatter. Gather. Repeat. |
| Interests | Epeolatry, Vintage Gunne Sax dresses, Existentialism, Personal Responsibility, Financial Responsibility, Absurdist Drama, Long Talks in the Dark, Cave Dogs, Strawberries, Gothic Cathedrals, Graveyards, Kids, The Mutter Museum, Vintage Cars, Wrought Iron, Having my Freckles Counted, Reality, Walking in the Woods, Walking by Water, Candle Light, Leatherworking, Jewelry-Making, Small Things, Saying What I Mean and Meaning What I Say, People who Say What They Mean and Mean What They Say, The Smells of Old Books, Leather, Signs and Symbols, Archetypes, Tools, making Things with Tools, the Perseids, Peeper Frogs, Stability, Autonomy, Fidelity, Kant's categorical Imperative, Reading, Teaching, Logotherapy, Psychology, Space Exploration, Bedtime Stories, Chocolate, Pop-Up Books, Metaphor, Fingerpainting, Failing Better, Nasca Lines, Bluestockings, Nerds, le Mote Juste, London. |
| Favorite Movies | Pan's Labyrinth, The Descent, Alien, The Nightmare Before Christmas, The Orphanage, Die Hard, Waking Life, 28 Days Later, 28 Weeks Later, Night of the Living dead, Dark City, The City of Lost Children, There Will Be Blood, Amelie, A Clockwork Orange, The Virgin Spring, Fight Club, The Professional, Life is Beautiful, The Village, Brazil, The Truman Show, Midnight Run, The Princess Bride |
| Favorite Music | Tori Amos, The Arcade Fire, Arvo part, Bach, Bauhaus, beck, Bjork, Bon Iver, David Bowie, Neko Case, Johnny Cash, Nick Cave, The Clash, Leonard Cohen, Mumford & Sons, Iron & Wine, Siouxsie, Cocteau Twins, PJ Harvey, Ministry, The Swans, Olof Arnalds, Indigo Girls, Dirty Three, Sisters of Mercy, Thrill Kill Kult, The Cranes, Sisters of Mercy, The Cranberries, The Cure, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Dead Can Dance, Earth, Encre, Mozart, Peter Gabriel, James, Jimi Hendrix, Joy Division, Massive Attack, Pink Floyd, Led Zepplin, natalie Merchant, Moby, The National, Nina Simone, The Nau Ensemble, ray LaMontagne, Mediaeval Babes, Nirvana, REM, Sinead O'Connor, Pop Will Eat Itself, Damien Rice, Sigur Ros, Skinny Puppy, Suzanne Vega, Tord Gustavsen Trio, Gillian Welch, Wovenhand, Depeche Mode, Brian Eno, Loreena McKennitt, Neubauten, NIN, Radiohead, Bruce Springsteen, U2, Tom Waits, Dar Williams, Nick cave |
| Favorite Books | Four Quartets, Leaves of Grass, Fight Club, The Sound & The Fury, The Bell Jar, Ender's Game, The Prophet, And the Ass Saw the Angel, The Twits, Collected works of Shakespeare, Eliot, Plath, Whitman, Neruda, Carolyn Forche, Beckett, Pinter, Heaney, Peter Shaffer... |
How tall would you be if you had never cut your fingernails?
I would be the size of a white dwarf crossed with an atom bomb