In the past, I've wanted be an antifascist in Spain, a French New
Waver, or a nineteenth-century radical. I still believe in every
bit of that, but slowly, I've figured out the limitations of coming
in belatedly and so I've been trying to better explore the world I
live in. Right now, I'm taking a break to do that before perhaps
applying to graduate school in cinema studies or English. I love
movies from all times and places, and my friends will occasionally
mock me for doing things like waiting in line for 6 hours to see
Werner Herzog talk. I also love theater (and I occasionally help
friends with lighting), politics, and baseball. I grew up in
Austin, and I have a laid-back Austinite's experience of the world,
such that social pretense irks me and formality makes me
uncomfortable. But I've been on the East coast for close on a
decade (went to school in Philly), and I love the energy and
excitement of this city.
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Height 5' 11" (1.80m).
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Languages English
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My self-summary
What I'm doing with my life
I work for a university press, which is a nice way of keeping a
hand in humanities research while taking a break from doing it
myself.
I'm really good at
Talking through things. Lending an ear.
My favorite books, movies, music, and food
My favorite writers include Graham Greene, Thomas Hardy, W. H. Auden, Caryl Churchill,
John le
Carre, Eugene O'Neill, John Milton (a genuine
radical, whom the left ought never have conceded to curmudgeons),
and Walter
Benjamin. I tend to read three or four books at once, though
that doesn't mean I always finish them; right now, I'm in the
middle of Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children, E. P.
Thompson's The Making
of the English Working Class, and Fredric Jameson's The
Political Unconscious. I also think there's a real poetry to
certain xkcd
strips.
I love movies from the silent era to the present. The movie I love best of all is The Rules of the Game, Renoir's 1939 tragecomedy about French society on the eve of World War II. I swear that movie changes every time I see it. I also love lots of other very different movies: the New Hollywood of the 70s (McCabe & Mrs. Miller, The Godfather, Mean Streets), The French New Wave (Shoot the Piano Player, Weekend, Celine and Julie Go Boating), Classic Hollywood (His Girl Friday, The Night of the Hunter, musicals, noir), Austin movies, especially Linklater's (Slacker, Dazed and Confused, Before Sunrise/Sunset), movies from behind the Iron Curtain (from Ashes and Diamonds all the way to Soviet musicals), Powell and Pressburger (A Matter of Life and Death, The Red Shoes), and the New German Cinema since the 70s (Aguirre, the Wrath of God, Herzog's documentaries, The Marriage of Maria Braun and other Fassbinder). Lately, I've been exploring recent Chinese and Taiwanese cinema (Yi Yi, A Brighter Summer Day, City of Sadness, The World). Movies I've particularly liked over the last couple of years have included Children of Men, Volver, A Prairie Home Companion, The Departed, Persepolis, No Country for Old Men, Encounters at the End of the World, and the first half of WALL-E. And it's not a movie, but I'm now on Season 5 of The Wire and can't figure out how I missed it for six years. (Okay, I didn't have HBO, but still...) I love reading about movies too - critics I like include Pauline Kael, Manny Farber, and Jonathan Rosenbaum.
Music: Dylan, The Beatles, Cat Stevens, Leonard Cohen, Willie Nelson (hometown pride...), Nina Simone, Mahler, Schubert, Britten, Sondheim. Lately I've been trying to explore things a bit more recent.
Oh, and I love Mexican, Indian, and Thai food, and ice cream.
I love movies from the silent era to the present. The movie I love best of all is The Rules of the Game, Renoir's 1939 tragecomedy about French society on the eve of World War II. I swear that movie changes every time I see it. I also love lots of other very different movies: the New Hollywood of the 70s (McCabe & Mrs. Miller, The Godfather, Mean Streets), The French New Wave (Shoot the Piano Player, Weekend, Celine and Julie Go Boating), Classic Hollywood (His Girl Friday, The Night of the Hunter, musicals, noir), Austin movies, especially Linklater's (Slacker, Dazed and Confused, Before Sunrise/Sunset), movies from behind the Iron Curtain (from Ashes and Diamonds all the way to Soviet musicals), Powell and Pressburger (A Matter of Life and Death, The Red Shoes), and the New German Cinema since the 70s (Aguirre, the Wrath of God, Herzog's documentaries, The Marriage of Maria Braun and other Fassbinder). Lately, I've been exploring recent Chinese and Taiwanese cinema (Yi Yi, A Brighter Summer Day, City of Sadness, The World). Movies I've particularly liked over the last couple of years have included Children of Men, Volver, A Prairie Home Companion, The Departed, Persepolis, No Country for Old Men, Encounters at the End of the World, and the first half of WALL-E. And it's not a movie, but I'm now on Season 5 of The Wire and can't figure out how I missed it for six years. (Okay, I didn't have HBO, but still...) I love reading about movies too - critics I like include Pauline Kael, Manny Farber, and Jonathan Rosenbaum.
Music: Dylan, The Beatles, Cat Stevens, Leonard Cohen, Willie Nelson (hometown pride...), Nina Simone, Mahler, Schubert, Britten, Sondheim. Lately I've been trying to explore things a bit more recent.
Oh, and I love Mexican, Indian, and Thai food, and ice cream.
I spend a lot of time thinking about
...what it means to encounter the past and the present. To me,
movies, plays, books, from funny times and places are the ultimate
accusers that turn around and show us how funny our own time and
place are. What I love about, say, Shakespeare isn't that he's our
contemporary, it's that he isn't. Shakespeare's plays say something
to me in their radical historicity about what it might mean to see
otherwise, to see our own moment own moment of postmodern,
post-ironic global capitalism, differently and from a distance. The
point, of course, isn't to bemoan the new in favor of the old, but
to see our own fantasies of ourselves and to reimagine how else the
world might be. Well, that and to have some fun...
The most private thing I'm willing to admit here
My Erdos number is 7.
You should message me if
Much as I'd love to spend hours browsing here, I probably
shouldn't, so please feel free to drop me a line. As a matter of
fact, if you're a girl who isn't shy about saying hello and
speaking your mind, then that to begin with is a reason to message
me.
Other reasons it might be a good idea to drop me a line:
- You're a political person who likes to piece together how we represent ourselves, to historicize the present.
- You are also, at the same time, eager to be viscerally moved by a good movie, good conversation, or something beautifully mundane.
- You write well and understand that writing well has nothing to do with bogus, holier-than-thou injunctions against splitting infinitives and stranding prepositions.
- You think being nice isn't a sign of weakness.
- You're serious about the world and all that's wrong with it, but want, try, strive to smile in spite of it.
Other reasons it might be a good idea to drop me a line:
- You're a political person who likes to piece together how we represent ourselves, to historicize the present.
- You are also, at the same time, eager to be viscerally moved by a good movie, good conversation, or something beautifully mundane.
- You write well and understand that writing well has nothing to do with bogus, holier-than-thou injunctions against splitting infinitives and stranding prepositions.
- You think being nice isn't a sign of weakness.
- You're serious about the world and all that's wrong with it, but want, try, strive to smile in spite of it.
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