Lida
My blogs
Blogs I follow
| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Industry | Student |
| Location | Chicago, IL, United States |
| Introduction | I am not an expert at cooking octopus, although I admire those who are. If you want the story behind the name, all you have to do is ask. I'm going to be a junior in high school and obsessed with food. I am a pescetarian (ie i eat seafood) and enjoy all things ethnic, especially Japanese and Moroccan cuisine. |
| Interests | Eating and cooking, swimming, reading, writing, hiking, running, piano and music, foreign languages, peanut butter, russia, france, liquidizing various things in the blender, being cozy on a winter day, collecting coke cans, traveling, surrealism, impressionism, antioxidants, the environment |
| Favorite Movies | pan's labyrinth, hard candy, girl with a pearl earring, love actually, lost in translation, edward scissorhands, clue, cruel intentions, the parent trap, waitress, volver, mean girls, bridget jones' diary, thirteen, bend it like beckham, ferris bueller's day off, beetlejuice, amelie, the sound of music, diva, notes on a scandal anime: kiki's delivery service, my neighbor totoro, TOKYO GODFATHERS Spirited Away is good but overrated |
| Favorite Music | the postal service, M.I.A., lady sovereign, cake, t.a.t.u, minus the bear, eminem, spring awakening soundtrack, the beatles, mindless self indulgence, the pixies, modest mouse, sonic youth, poster children, neutral milk hotel, jimmy eat world, harry and the potters, beck, the flaming lips, missy elliott, the Octopus Project, tenacious D, the white stripes, sufjan stevens, peaches, death cab for cutie, regina spektor MUSICALS: SPRING AWAKENING, hairspray, wicked, avenue q, fiddler on the roof, guys and dolls, chicago, billy elliot CLASSICAL: debussy, rachmaninoff, ravel, bach, tchaikovsky |
| Favorite Books | Favorite writers: Dostoevsky, Sylvia Plath, Vladimir Nabokov, William Blake, Hillary Frank, Haruki Murakami, Francesca Lia Block, Roald Dahl, Edward Gorey, Oscar Wilde Favorite books at the moment: The Picture of Dorian Gray, Dracula, Crime and Punishment, I Can't Tell You, Better Than Running at Night, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Define Normal, Looking For Alaska, Born Confused, Never Let Me Go, I Capture the Castle, Harry Potter, Girl With a Pearl Earring, Jane Eyre, Perfume, The Lovely Bones, Speak, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Weetzie Bat, The BFG, The Witches, The Gashlycrumb Tinies, The Melancholy death of Oyster Boy and Other Stories by Tim Burton... who knew he wrote poetry? and cookbooks |