I like physical activity, dancing, hiking, horseplay. I'm involved in many creative projects of various stripes-- every day. I like problem solving.
Music I Like:
NOW: Sleeping States, Yeasayer, Fleet Foxes, Bon Iver;
FOREVER: Midlake, Panda Bear, Andrew Rothbard, Hot Chip, Menomena, Barry Manilow,Clearlake, Low, Magnetic Fields, Komeda, Laika, Amon Tobin, Rufus Wainright, Red House Painters/Sun Kil Moon, His Name is Alive, Pink Floyd, Bowie, Joni, 80sPrince, Smog, LedZep, I Am Kloot, sea & cake, radiohead, jim o'rourke, cat power, steely dan, stereolab, spoon
Films I Like:
brief encounter, mademoiselle, 2001, days of heaven, calendar, exotica, singin in the rain, the lost boys, gerry, babette's feast, memento, breaking the waves, dogville, persuasion, frozen river, zentropa, brazil, me you and everyone we know, o fantoma, la vie en rose, old joy, wendy and lucy, once, happy endings, lust, caution, lilo and stitch, foul play, SHOWGIRLS! guffman, the state of things, election, happy together, chuck & buck, 3 Women [tuna melt, anyone? i'm famous for my tuna melts...]
Literature I Like:
Martin Amis's books, Faulkner's; David Quammen's; Flannery's; Chris Ware's; The World of Normal Boys; You Can Say You Knew Me When; At Swim, Two Boys; The Bone People; The Corrections; Rose of No Man's Land; Middlesex; Pantone (Coated) Color Specifier. Helen DeWitt's The Last Samurai (no, not the tom cruise movie); The Book of Daniel; The Road
Mr. West... would you like to see my doll collection?
i am the quite adaptable, the spastic, the generous. able. meandering. clever. grounded. too grounded. flirtatious. overzealous. bossy. funny. inventive. opinionated. considerate. impulsive. kind. inappropriate. hyper-focused. easily distracted. driven. chatty. intuitive. talented. dirty. exhibitionisticalatory.
i am the quite quite. so are you.
i will try to make you laugh first, learn your name second.
some people see this as a fault.
i avoid drama to the point of running out of the room.
i lose my footing a little around pecking orders and haughty attitude... so spare me if your default is dismissal.
i hate getting the short end of the stick. i do.
love peanut butter. hate strawberries.
i eat the parsley garnish even if i don't clean my plate.
expert tree climber. except when i fall out and land on my head. big deal.
and for a guy who doesn't cry a lot, i seem to shed many a tear on airplanes and on my bicycle. what's that about? seriously. if you know why, shed some light on a brother.
i've got an incredible, hot, talented boyfriend, who keeps me on a very long leash. i love to flirt, chat or otherwise engage wit the mens and then tell him about it afterwards.
Who I'd like to meet:
creative smartie pantseseses. no college degree required.
people who make their own mold, not ones who jump into whichever one is, uh, popular.
crazy bitches with genuine styyyyyle.
people with expression lines on their faces.
people with expressions on their faces.
other tauruses [i always get along with 'em.]
also, scruffy blondes with furry forearms. and boys with a well-turned calf.
Okay...i like TOTALLY got flashbacks and a hard on when I got on your page and Stone Rose's "She Bangs The Drums" started playing....oh..dickies cut offs and doc martens boots. Happy April 1st, man!
Man. I a very strong cupiditas to beable to go out there and have some unadulterated fun with guys but I think at this stage in the game it'd just be a sad attempt at proving validity. Can I live vicariously through your experiences? Please...do tell.