Nora Claire
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| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Industry | Education |
| Occupation | Caregiver, grad student, floater, vagabond, part-time degenerate, MFA or MAT hopeful |
| Location | Astoria, Queens, United States |
| Links | Wishlist |
| Introduction | Nerdy by nature. 4" heels. Afraid of bugs. Water baby. Genuinely decent human being. Totally imperfect. Sweet but snarky and curse too much but I'm trying to quit. I cry when I read The Giving Tree out loud. I am not precious. I prefer 1.5 over double spaced. I write. I read. Math and I don't get along but I like having things explained to me. In exchange I supply human dictionary services. I like swimming in the ocean at night because you can't tell the sea from the sky. Then a gatorade bottle bobs by and I remember why I'm not sentimental. I don't know how to use photoshop, illustrator, quark, or most cellphones. But I am really handy with hammers and drills. |
| Interests | Outdoors, outsider art, Pearl River Mart, tattoos, tacky kitsch, collecting things, writing, John Cusack, Kubrick, scrabble, kitties and kiddies, crossword puzzles, reading, writing, making stuff, the beach, yoga, animals, free stuff, wandering, cats, bikes, paints, vitamins, fluids, the moon, swamps, the eight stitches on my pinky finger, pen pals, degrassi, jungles, oceans, leslie fiedler, cults, polaroids, hitchhock, henry darger, twilight, mix tapes, dictophones, books, old things, camp, robert crumb, edward gorey, lolita, david lynch, parades, watercolors, spain, tom friedman, fall, thunderstorms, john waters, body image, remembering things, handwriting, dreams, walking, Wnyc |
| Favorite Movies | the jerk, annie hall, scarface, high fidelity, goodfellas, rosemary's baby, invasion of the body snatchers, some like it hot, lolita, the shining, whatever happened to baby jane?, one flew over the cuckoo's nest, daytrippers, groundhog day, it's a wonderful life, the royal tennenbaums, igby goes down, dazed and confused, the graduate, run lola run, secretary, the birdcage, ghost world, when harry met sally, dirty rotten scoundrels, party monster, female trouble, how to marry a millionaire, midnight cowboy, woodstock, any john waters, hitchcock, david lynch, woody allen |
| Favorite Music | Jeff Buckley, The Velvet Underground, Simon & Garfunkel, Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, Billy Joel, Patti Smith, Janis Joplin, Morrissey/The Smiths, The Decemberists, Beirut, Nick Drake, Radiohead, the Shins, Iron & Wine, Elliott Smith, Arcade fire, Warpaint, Badly Drawn Boy, David Bowie, Mazzy Star, City & Colour, Buffalo Springfield. CSNY, anything involving Neil Young, Foster the People, Gym Class Heroes, Serge Gainsbourg, Beethoven, Chopin, Mahler.. Beatles, the Who, Zeppelin, ETC |
| Favorite Books | Updike's Rabbit series, Haruki Murakami's Hardboiled Wonderland and the End of the World, On the Road, William Carlos Williams, Elizabeth Bishop, Nabokov, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Aldous Huxley's Time Must Have a Stop, old Roald Dahl shorts, Salinger, Tom Robbins, Chuck Palahniuk, Sex Drugs and Cocoa Puffs, Dorothy Parker, The Giving Tree, Hope for the Flowers, Shel Silverstein, John Fante, Dennis Cooper |
When you hesitate before hitting snooze on your alarm clock, are you being lazy?
sometimes. i'm like, "oh this is what the kids are listening to." It's set on z100 because it's so effing annoying, it's sure to get me out of bed.