About

hello world! here's a bit about me..
Activities:
music, film, the arts, dancing, biking, hiking, swimming, learning, laughing. anything really. as long as its challenging and/or fun, educational, silly, a little stupid and/or self-indulgent/destructive.
Interests:
stalking the literati, coining new catch-phrases that never quite catch on, contact team sports, interactive street performance art, Pablo Neruda, digital media/social justice, cultural cross-sections, pomegranate seeds, organizing friend's medicine cabinets
Favorite Music:
michael franti & spearhead, dan bern, elliot smith, polyphonic spree, le tigre, kaki king, knaan, jason mraz, U2, marvin gaye, bob dylan, billie holiday, doba caracol, mickey finn, lorin bassnectar, greg packer, orbital, portishead, mark farina, brian eno, tamara nile, tracy chapman, ani difranco, the roots, ray lamontagne, neil young, buffalo springfield, traveling wilburys, howlin wolf, mississippi john hurt, bessie smith, big mama thornton, the crackercats, rich hope, lonesome spurs, marie macgillis & the model millionaires, danny B harvey, the head cats, unknown hinton, hot club quartette, jazzabilly blues, melissa mclelland, gonzalo bergara, bix beiderbecke, jeff buckley, cameron twyford, cut copy, pheonix, friendly fires, foals, califone, doves, POS, gift of gab, stuff my bf recommends; D
Favorite TV Shows:
only ones that play in art galleries (or are now canceled and lasted longer than 2 seasons. but no not friends. that show makes me get stabby )
Favorite Movies:
Michel Gondry, Darren Aronofsky, Wes Anderson, Richard Linklater
Favorite Books:
kerouac, vonnegut, milan kundera, thomas pincheon, ee cummings, dylan thomas, douglas coupland, hunter s thompson, tennessee williams, frost, pound, TS eliot, plato, ursula rucker, baudelaire, sartre, nietzsche, goethe, rousseau... so many

Favorite Quotations:
"No matter how great you are. It can’t work between us. You don’t have leather pants. And even if you did buy leather pants it still wouldn’t work. You don’t have the right body for them. It wouldn’t be believable. It’s not like I need leather pants all the time. Often I’m repulsed by my own desire for them. But it’s beyond fashion, it’s a spiritual hunger. It’s a leather-pant-shaped vacuum in my soul." - L.D. Tipping

"Love is a fire,
It Burns Everyone
It's the world's excuse
For being Ugly." - Leonard Cohen




If a traveler does not meet with one who is better or equal,
let one firmly travel alone;
there is no companionship with a fool.

- the bhammapada, sayings of the buddha