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My blogs
Blogs I follow
| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Location | Chicago, United States |
| Introduction | I get a rash at the suggestion of picking 10 albums to take with me on a deserted island. Otherwise... 'tis all a muddle! And if I could I wouldn't have it any other way. Or would I? |
| Interests | absurdity, cheese, double entendres, yoshitomo nara, wrap-around porches, scarves, ciggies, staircases, a life of leisure, falkor, smelling books (smelling anything), the ocean and its salty beach (and its smell), warm paws (and their smell), strong sweet coffee (repeat), burnt marshamallow (et encore), noodles, foo de fa fa, boardwalks, dark eyes, bonfires in my spine, a crackling LP, crackling anything, capturing it in a photo, parentheticals, superwhite tuna, avocado, lotions and potions & candles (oh my), kieslowski's vision, city life, train watching, commmuters, crustaceans, the origin of phrases, glossy covers, singer-songwriters, ballet, escapism, hugging a little monkey, gourmandes, balance, disarming design, european sensibility, veggies, six feet under, nooks and crannies, avoiding small talk, dive bars, giving things legs (a.k.a. anthropomorphizing), vintage goods... |
| Favorite movies | Amelie, Run Lola Run, Three Colors Trilogy: Blue/White/Red, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Withnail and I, The Big Lebowski, American Beauty, the Princess and the Warrior, Boogie Nights, Royal Tenenbaums, Trainspotting, Breaking the Waves, The Wizard of Oz, The Namesake, The Secretary, Everything is Illuminated, Ratatouille |
| Favorite music | Bob Dylan, the Pogues, Leonard Cohen, the Beatles, Pulp, Neutral Milk Hotel, Arcade Fire, The Cure, Rufus Wainwright, Serge Gainsbourg, the Kinks, the Smiths, REM, the Libertines, Jeff Buckley, the Stone Roses, Destroyer, The Replacements, Arlo Guthrie, Joni Mitchell, Velvet Underground and Nico, the Strokes, Andrew Bird, the Shins, the Veils, Belle & Sebastian, Kings of Leon, Beirut, the Decemberists, (old) David Gray, the National, Crooked Fingers, Neko Case, Band of Horses, (the album) Astral Weeks |
| Favorite books | The Master and Margarita, The Year of the Hare, Savage Beauty, Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, The History of Love, Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog), Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, and most anything by Milan Kundera, Tom Robbins, Poe, Carson McCullers, Kurt Vonnegut, Bret Easton Ellis, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Joyce Carol Oates, Oscar Wilde |