CURRENT MISSION

feed my inner monkey

ABOUT ME

i luv miniature trees, tea parties, and magpies, riding bicycles; swimming; spaz dancing; cat action; playing music; listening to music; dreaming to music; wooden rollercoasters; swings; sewing, good literature; butterscotch sundaes; apple blackberry pies; scissors; 45s; looking at clouds while laying in green grass; cutting and pasting, glue sticks; talking to ants, talking to plants; going places where i can't understand what anyone is saying; painting rooms; macaroni and cheese; wrapping gifts; adjoining words - lucky + succubus = luccubus; card games, scrabbel, japanese stationery, and capybaras...

Interests

music listening and playing (cello, guitar, keyboards)

sewing, knitting, cut and paste

travel and nice people

static trapeze

• cats
• literature
• dancing
• cheese
• partying
• traveling
• knitting
• painting
• music
• guitar
• swimming

Music, Movies, and Books

favorite movies: new book - zbig ryybczynski; archangel - guy madden; danger diabolique, planet of vampires - mario bava; linda, linda, linda; last life in the universe - pen-ek ratanaruang; save the green planet; oldboy, sympathy for mr. vengeance,address unknown - park chan-wook; steve zissou life aquatic, royal tenenbaums, rushmore - Wes Anderson; me and you and everyone we know - miranda july; kontrol; head-on; 2LDK; footlight parade,gold diggers of 1933 - busby berkeley; 2046, chungking express, in the mood for love - kar wai wong; 10th victim; juliet of the spirits,nights of cabiria, la strada (playing soon at castro) 8-1/2- fellini; doppleganger, pulse, cure, bright future - kiyoshi kurasawa; battle royale; loved one; movern caller; little odik; band of outsiders; feminine masculine, what?, all douglas sirk films, daisies, indecent desires the list goes on.

favorite music: aaviko, omnivorous, moondog, can, animals and men, times new estate, ananda shankar, astrud gilberto, art mineo,billie holiday, nina simone, brigitte fountain & art ensemble of chicago, caetano veloso, silver apples, mr. leonard cohen, oh-sees, spider compass, the bran, this heat, suicide, melt banana, generic- contra vs. zelda coachwhips, young marble giants, syd barrett, billy holiday, jessamine, sigur ros, finches, blonde redhead, cessaria evora, fats waller, ennio morricone, magnetic fields, nico, dear nora, jacques jean perrey, mort garson, dick hayman, buzzcocks, raymond scott, dj broken window, hella, 00i00 lydia lunch and teenage jesus, cab calloway, deerhoof,faust, family fodder, al bowley, john fahey, coltrane, joy division, sound effects of dr. who, bruce haack, lata mangeshkar, the monks, lightning bolt,quintron wolf eyes, patsy montana,mum, neutral milk hotel, velvet underground, marlena shaw, france gall - i heart u, tarantism, os mutantes, os mutantes, os mutantes lalo schifrin, deVol, the books, all bad moog albums, raymond scott, fantastica-russ garcia, russian songs for kids, stereolab, mr. steven jesse bernstein, total shutdown, tin hat trio

favorite books:the investigation-stanislav lem; devil in the white city ; easy riders, raging bulls-biskin; gravity's rainbow-pynchon; master and margarita - bulgakov; carter beats the devil - gold; a wild sheep chase, wind-up bird chronicles - murakami; ham on rye, women - bukowski; on the road to LA, wait until spring, ask the dust; dreams on bunker hill - fante; corrections - franzen; our band could be your life - azerrad; death on the installment plan, london bridge, journey to the end of the night - celine; story of the eye, blue of noon - bataille; high-rise, crash - ballard; cloud atlas- mitchell; valis, scanner darkly, man in the high castle, ubik-dick;

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

saw my best friend die and then come back to life again.

Teach, Learn, Share

always and forever

Countries I’ve Visited

Brazil, Colombia, India, Indonesia, Japan, Nepal, Netherlands, Turkey

Countries I’ve Lived In

Thailand, United States

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