Gender	Female
Industry	Publishing
Occupation	Writer
Location	PDX, Oregon, United States
Introduction	In continual pursuit of living the dream.
Favorite movies	American Beauty, Me and You and Everyone We Know, The Fountain, Wet Hot American Summer, Sideways, The Science of Sleep, Shopgirl, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Closer, Perfume, Garden State, Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure, Jackass, Southpark Bigger Longer and Uncut, Boondock Saints, Saved!, Thumbsucker, Usual Suspects, Blow, Almost Famous, kingdom of heaven, Three Amigos (sentimental reasons), Never-Ending Story, My Blue Heaven.
Favorite music	the police, queen, my morning jacket, beastie boys, nada surf, roy orbison, radiohead, led zepplin, weezer, beirut, john mayer/john mayer trio, prince, billy joel, johnny cash, bjork, dwight yoakam, matthew sweet, bruce springsteen, linda ronstadt, band of horses, amy winehouse, lamberdt hendricks and ross, elliot smith, interpol, rilo kiley, creedence, cream, sublime, marley, cut copy, neko case, the shins, the strokes, albert hammond jr. all by himself, lilly allen, pj harvey, sweethearts of the rodeo, lauryn hill, jimmy eat world, traveling willburys, the mars volta but really at the drive in much, much more... yeah yeah yeah's, bloc party, tony bennett, brubeck, the count, dianna krahl, dwight yokam, allison krauss, queen ella, (r.i.p.), the hold steady, crystal castles, the builders and the butchers, strangers die every day, broken social scene, dj shadow, tom petty and the wallflowers, snow patrol, vivaldi, lupe fiasco, all the marsalis brothers (but mostly wynton and branford), the clash, the kinks, imogen heap, nelly furtado, zero 7, wilco, mazzy star, white stripes, nas, dre, snoop, old school west coast in general (n.w.a., ice cube, tupac, etc.) u2, muse, jimi, blondie, bowie, iggy, billy idol, the thermals, state radio ... lots. anything touched by the hands of rick rubin.
Favorite books	scott spencer is wonderful, as is joan didion. i have a deep love for russian lit, mostly because of nabokov and tolstoy. douglas copeland's "girlfriend in a coma" changed me. orhan pamuk's "snow", ann-marie macdonald's "fall on your knees", nick flynn's "another bullshit night in suck city"... i fell in love with reading as a child, mostly due to beverly cleary's ramona series, and c.s. lewis' narnia books.

The first time you had your shoes taken off - how surprised were you to see that you still had toes?

oh lord. you have no idea.