CURRENT MISSION

Sometimes my mission is just to survive until the end of the day.

ABOUT ME

I'm kinda short.

I have a cat, Diego. He's alternately affectionate and playful. Sometimes sleepy. Very social.

Centres d'intérêt

• cats
• chocolate

Morceaux de musique, films et livres

What's on my iPod:
John Coltrane, Miles Davis, the Beatles, Sufjan Stephens, the Decemberists, My Brightest Diamond, Counting Crows, The Postal Service, Death Cab for Cutie, Jack Johnson, Moe, Damien Rice, Cat Power, Green Day, Wilco, Nick Drake, Kronos Quartet, Sigur Ros, David Bowie, Rasputina, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Norah Jones, Emii, Cake, Xiu Xiu, The Dixie Chicks, Tim McGraw, Garth Brooks, Journey, Queen, Dom Leone, The Rolling Stones, U2, Simon & Garfunkel, The Grateful Dead, Cher, Bollywood soundtracks, Hall and Oates, Nine Inch Nails, Prince, Weezer, Mindless Self Indulgence, the Ramones, Regina Spektor

Favorite Movies:
Wes Anderson's films: Bottle Rocket, Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums, Life Aquatic; Black, Dr. Strangelove, Donnie Darko, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, E.T., The Princess Bride, The Quiet Man, Kuch Kuch Hota Hai, Indiana Jones, Spirited Away, Waiting for Guffman, Best in Show, A Mighty Wind, American Beauty, March of the Penguins, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Match Point, Bend It Like Beckham, True Stories, Almost Famous, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, The Boondock Saints, Mel Brooks - Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein, Robin Hood Men in Tights, Spaceballs, The Last Unicorn, The Muppet Movie, The Great Muppet Caper, Life is Beautiful, Lost in Translation, Talk to Her, Spring Summer Fall Winter... and Spring, Eat Drink Man Woman, Welcome to the Dollhouse, Vera Drake, My Left Foot, The Good Girl, Brokeback Mountain, The Shawshank Redemption, Raising Arizona, A Streetcar Named Desire, Monsters Inc., Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, The Lion King, Mary Poppins, The My Little Pony Movie, On the Waterfront, Lilo and Stitch, Lajja, Hotel Rwanda, Hey Ram, The Man Who Wasn't There, Edward Scissorhands, House of Flying Daggers, Kung Fu Hustle, Bubble Boy, Wonder Boys, My Girl, Cool Hand Luke, Labyrinth, Strictly Ballroom, To Wong Foo Thanks for Everything Julie Newmar, Ghost World, Wallace and Gromit - The Wrong Trousers, A Close Shave, A Grand Day Out, Princess Mononoke, 12 Monkeys, To Kill a Mockingbird, Flowers for Algernon, Pan's Labyrinth

The stuff on the shelf:
Anything by Heller, Vonnegut, O'Connor, Austen, Shakespeare, or Dr. Suess; The Princess Bride by S. Morgenstern, Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte, Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce, Dubliners by James Joyce, The Life of Pi by Yann Martel, Animal Farm by George Orwell, Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger, Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Agatha Christie mysteries, Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson, Dracula by Bram Stoker, Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes, To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros, the plays of Tennessee Williams, Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell, The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis, A Wrinkle in Time by Madelien L'Engle, Number the Stars by Lois Lowry, Night by Elie Weisel, The Phantom Tollbooth by Norman Juster, Poe's short stories, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith, Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls, The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway, Wuthing Heights by Emily Bronte, Walden by Henry David Thoreau, Watership Down by Richard Adams

Une aventure extraordinaire que j'ai vécue

When I was in sixth grade I helped rescue a woman who'd been kidnapped. And I gave her hot chocolate. I feel real good about the hot chocolate part.