About Me

  • About Me: I am a discordant, ineffable riotgirl who is not age-appropriate in any way.

Television

  • Favorite Shows: House, Battlestar Galactica, Firefly
  • Favorite Channels: BBC

College

  • School Name: Bennington College
  • Status: Undergrad

More About Me

  • Nationality: The realms of Dream
  • Religion: Nontheistic Pagan Philosopher of the Most Holy Church of Bite Me
  • Heroes: Book Barn Beryl
  • Interests: Terrifying the moral majority...contemplating the origins of consciousness...reading comic books...you know: the usual.
  • Expertise: Contention and retention
  • Occupation: Tutor slave
  • Industry: Grammar

Travel

  • Places to see before I die: I want to see every little thing there ever was, no matter how humble. I want every breath to matter.

Music

  • Favorite Artists: The Brazilian Girls, The Raconteurs, Fiona Apple, Joanna Newsome, Emily Haines, Metric, Air, Nuetral Milk Hotel, The New Pornographers, Art Brut, Joy Division, The Rosewood Thieves, Vetiver, Cat Power, The Panda Band, The Kills, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Regina Spektor, The Dresden Dolls, Vetiver, Adem, TV on the Radio, Goldfrapp, The Flaming Lips, Fire Bug, Billie Holiday, Bright Black Morning Light, The Unicorns, The Decemberists, The Gorillaz, Dinosaur Junior, Thelonius Monk, Tegan and Sarah, Pretty Girls Make Graves, Arcade Gire, Cocorosie, Ani DiFranco, Elliot Smith, PJ Harvey, Ella Fitzgerald, The Pixies, The Age of Rockets, The Stills, OK Go, Queens of the Stone Age, Queen, Rainer Maria, Dangerous Muse, The Ditty Bops, The Go! Team, Her Space Holiday, Spiritualized, Christopher Blue, Depeche Mode, Portishead, Janna Marit, The Charles Shaw Project, Boards of Canada, The Shins, The Strokes, The Cranberries, Modest Mouse, Sonic Youth, Deerhoof, David and the Citizens, Elf Power, Letters to Cleo, Edith Piaf, The Shout Out Louds, Mum, Neko Case, Sunny Day Real Estate, The Smiths, My Bloody Valentine, Loreena McKinnet, Sean Lennon, Johnny Cash, Amy Winehouse, Lily Allen, The Who, St. Vincent, Steel Train, Ingrid Michaelson, Laura Jensen, Dar Williams, Bess Rogers, Feist, and even more than that.
  • Favorite Genre: Alternative/Indie/Folk-Rock/Acoustic/Jazz/Blues
  • Favorite Lyrics: I must go on standing / You can't break that which isn't yours / I, oh, must go on standing / I'm not my own, it's not my choice / Be afraid of the lame / They'll inherit your legs / Be afraid of the old / They'll inherit your souls / Be afraid of the cold / They'll inherit your blood / Apres moi, le deluge / After me comes the flood.
  • Songs I hate: 98.9% of what they play on MTV.
  • Guilty Pleasure: Christina Aguilara
  • Songs I repeat the most: "The Water", Feist
  • Band I wish I was in: The White Stripes, for the drugs and the chicks; TV On The Radio, for the sound and the fros.

Food

  • Favorite Cuisine: All flavors of Asian.
  • Favorite Drinks: Coffee. Every day of my life.

Books

  • Favorite Authors: Neil Gaiman, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Francesca Lia Block, Douglas Adams, Diana Wynne Jones, Keats, Wordsworth, Terry Pratchett, JK Rowling, Zadie Smith, Sor Juana, Sylvia Plath, Shakespeare (or...Christopher Marlowe?), Jhumpa Lahiri, Kazou Ishiguro, CS Lewis, Lewis Carroll, Orson Scott Card, Truman Capote, Nietzsche, Marx, Kafka, Kurt Vonnegut, Madeline L'Engle, Lyra Tenenbraus...and even more than that.
  • Favorite Genres: Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Magical Realism
  • Favorite Characters: Dream, Death, and Delirium (who used to be Delight).
  • Favorite Quotes: "I know a planet where there is a certain red-faced gentleman. He has never smelled a flower. He has never looked at a star. He has never loved any one. He has never done anything in his life but add up figures. And all day he says over and over, just like you: 'I am busy with matters of consequence!' And that makes him swell up with pride. But he is not a man--he is a mushroom!" "A what?" "A mushroom!" The little prince was now white with rage. "The flowers have been growing thorns for millions of years. For millions of years the sheep have been eating them just the same. And is it not a matter of consequence to try to understand why the flowers go to so much trouble to grow thorns which are never of any use to them? Is the warfare between the sheep and the flowers not important? Is this not of more consequence than a fat red-faced gentleman's sums? And if I know--I, myself--one flower which is unique in the world, which grows nowhere but on my planet, but which one little sheep can destroy in a single bite some morning, without even noticing what he is doing--Oh! You think that is not important!" His face turned from white to red as he continued: "If some one loves a flower, of which just one single blossom grows in all the millions and millions of stars, it is enough to make him happy just to look at the stars. He can say to himself, 'Somewhere, my flower is there . . .' But if the sheep eats the flower, in one moment all his stars will be darkened . . . And you think that is not important!"

Movies

  • Favorite Movies: A Fish Called Wanda, Dog Show, Life of Brian, Everything is Illuminated, American Psycho, Thumbsucker, The Good Girl, Junebug, Breakfast on Pluto, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Pulp Fiction, SLC Punk, Kill Bill Volumes 1 & 2, Sleepy Hollow, Dogma, Fight Club, Gia, Jesus Camp, Trainspotters, West Side Story, Four Weddings and a Funeral, Beetleguise, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Moulin Rouge, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Howl's Moving Castle, Spirited Away, Ghost in the Shell, Akira, Grave of the Fireflies, The Shining, Heathers, The Royal Tennenbaums, Pan's Labyrinth, Firefly, Star Wars, Doctor Zhivago, Rebecca, The Wind That Shakes the Barley, Dirty Pretty Things, Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl, Stardust, Hairspray, Maurice, anything on Turner Classic Movies.
  • Favorite Actors: Allan Rickman.
  • Movie Quotes I say all the time: "You're not how much money you've got in the bank. You're not your job. You're not your family, and you're not who you tell yourself. You're not your name. You're not your problems. You're not your age. You are not your hopes. You will not be saved." Actually, I've never said that. I should start, though.
  • Actor that would play me in a movie: It's a toss-up between John Belushi and Rodney Dangerfield.

Style

  • Where I shop: H&M, Goodwill, thrift stores, vintage stores, boutiques, Fair Trade
  • Brands I love: I'm part of the brandless revolution.
  • I like to wear: Chunky amber jewelry, skirts, and unmentionables.
  • Can't live without: Black eyeliner.
  • Prized Possessions: My soul vessel.
  • Guilty Pleasure: Harry Potter t-shirt from...Hot Topic. *is ashamed*

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  • Mister_Woods
    (replying to your comment on the photo)Glad you liked it. The blocky thing is actually an old safe, lined with concrete. It reminded me of how much security is only an illusion.