my
Interests
Interests/Hobbies
Looking nice all the time, Teaching for America, creating meaningful art, making peoples' lives better, never needing a reason to smile, the short burst of cold water when you first turn the shower on, the smell of snow, drawing perfectly straight lines, making sure the volume on the television ends with a 5 or 0, the way my face scrunches when I gulp the last bit of coffee from my cup, daily multivitamins, standing over air vents, perfectly fitting jeans, the crippling and overwhelming feeling of potential knowledge I experience when I walk into a library, the smiles of my students.
Music I Like:
Rufus Wainwright, Sondre Lerche, Chad VanGaalen, Rilo Kiley, Andrew Bird, The Faint, Neko Case, Basement Jaxx, The New Pornographers, Jenny Lewis, Fleet Foxes, Department of Eagles, She & Him, Cat Power, Royksopp, Peter Bjorn and John, The Decemberists, Junior Boys, Belle & Sebastian, Stars, Broken Social Scene, Justice, Los Campesinos, St. Vincent, Deer Tick, Sunset Rubdown
Films I Like:
Shortbus, American Beauty, Amelie, The Life of David Gale, Best in Show, Notes on a Scandal, Milk.
Literature I Like:
-Invisible Monsters - Chuck Palahniuk
-I Am Not Myself These Days - Josh Kilmer-Purcell
-A Spot of Bother - Mark Haddon
-Shopping and Fucking - Mark Ravenhill
-The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime - Mark Haddon
-the Work of Tom Robbins (Skinny Legs and All, Villa Incognito, Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas, Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates, Another Roadside Attraction, Even Cowgirls Get the Blues, Still Life With Woodpecker, Jitterbug Perfume)
-Ragtime - E.L. Doctorow
-A Sense of Direction - William Ball
-The Plays of Christopher Durang
-The Harry Potter series
-The Work of David Sedaris (Dress Your Family in Courderoy and Denim, Barrel Fever, Naked, Me Talk Pretty One Day)
-Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil - John Berendt
-The Works of Augusten Burroughs (Running with Scissors, Dry, Magical Thinking)
-A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
-Song of Solomon - Toni Morrison
-Water for Elephants - Sara Gruen
TV Shows I Like:
Top Chef, Skins, The Office, Project Runway, Desperate Housewives, Brothers and Sisters, BBC Reveals, X-Men the Animated Series, Pushing Daisies. America's Best Dance Crew. I get butterflies when Alton Brown tells me about foodstuffs.