I have a job, and it pays for me to do stuff I actually enjoy. That stuff includes riding my motorcycles, photography, cooking, making things to wear and use, listening to/obsessing about music, going to shows, reading, watching live theater, talking, being outdoors, karaoke, and partying.

Someone once told me he thought it was unbearably hot that I'm an incredibly girly girl that drinks and swears like a sailor. It was both flattering and accurate.

I'm looking to date gentlemen I find attractive and interesting... Let's figure out if we're of like mind. I spent some time doing lots of short-lived things after my last bad breakup, and I'm pretty over it at this point... I'm ultimately looking for something exclusive and long-term to share all the fun this short life has to offer.

Always trying to enjoy it, no matter the circumstances.

I will say that owning a home is seriously testing my capability to face everything with a smile, though I'm happy to report I'm still winning.

knitting, smart-assery, cooking, kissing, drinking, doting on those i love, 30 mph right-hand curves, dissecting pop culture in conversation, straight-facing really outlandish jokes...

my eyes, my tattoos, the volume of my voice (loud, especially when enthusiastic), the volume of my laugh (REALLY loud), my sharp tongue.

Go look at my last.fm profile... That should answer pretty much everything by way of music, or at least should give you a decent idea of whatever i'm currently obsessing over. It changes constantly!

http://www.last.fm/user/roxxierae

Movies:
Shawshank Redemption, Tombstone, High Fidelity, OSS 117: Cairo Nest of Spies, In Bruges, Snatch, Pulp Fiction, On Any Sunday (not to be confused with Any Given Sunday), Mallrats, The Big Lebowski O Brother, Where Art Thou?, Boondock Saints, Children of Men, Shoot 'Em Up, Payback, The Shining, Velvet Goldmine, This is Spinal Tap, Best in Show, A Mighty Wind, Anchorman, X-Men I & II, Cloverfield (which i appreciate is hotly contested among those that like to talk about these types of things... i thought it was a BRILLIANT take on the genre).

I love, love, LOVE going to the drive-in to watch terrible movies. I forgot just how much I love it until I went and saw GI Joe and Transformers II over the summer. Nothing makes a terrible movie better than cigarettes, booze, and the ability to yell at the screen with my closest friends.

I purposefully enjoy television (no cable or antennae or even a TV set so i have to download what i watch) such as The Mighty Boosh, Breaking Bad, 24, Mr Show, The West Wing, and a few others.

I love Chuck Klosterman, Eric Schlosser (I am ALWAYS down to talk about the principles discussed in Reefer Madness. If you haven't read it, do it now), C.S. Lewis, Brett Easton Ellis, The "His Dark Materials" trilogy, Ray Bradbury and TONS of other 40s-60s era science fiction (especially short stories), Neil Gaiman, David Sedaris, Yevgeny Zamyatin...

I recently read Nathan Rabin's book The Big Rewind, which I thought was absolutely brilliant and funny and heartbreaking. I'm a huge fan of the Onion A.V. Club, and was surprised by the intimacy and beauty found in the autobiography of the guy that writes the "My Year of Flops" column.

I'm reading Sophie's World in an effort to address the gap in my knowledge base surrounding philosophy. Given the breadth of said gap, YA fiction seems like an appropriate place to start.

I'm reading The Right Stuff because I'm kind of queer for aeronautics, military pilots, and the period in our culture when science and discovery was held in such high esteem.

I just finished Mirror, Mirror. I love the idea of Lucrezia Borgia being Snow White's wicked queen given the nastiness that went on in her father's stay at the Vatican. I loved the mention of Machiavelli in the context of a fairy tale. I think it's probably a pretty girly book to enjoy as much as I did, but i recommend it nonetheless.

As for food, i am an amateur chef and would love for you to check out my food blog:

http://hooliganvegetarian.blogspot.com (it's been a bit dormant while I've been dealing with the renovations on my home, but there's content to come, swear.)

What to cook for people when my cupboards seem bare, how to be a better friend, how to be a better girlfriend, all the unfinished projects on my plate, how to improve the Coachella experience, how much it goddamn costs to get the goddamn city to come pick up my goddamn trash, why home ownership eventually turns everyone into a dad, how long it will be before I'm in a bathrobe and black socks and sandals watering the front lawn...

partying at home with friends, where the liquor is cheap and we don't have to yell over the noise of a bar.

Sometimes, as i head off to work, i walk by the half-drunk glass of red wine on the counter from the night before and think "hey... who's gonna know?"

I have yet to drink it, though.

-You like what you've read
-You consider yourself a rock-and-roll good time
-You would jump at the chance to share a bottle of 12-year-old whiskey with a woman who appreciates it
-You like good-natured disagreements full of passion and wisecracks
-An evening spent swapping ipods in an effort to expose someone new to the music you love sounds like a great time, and something you could do until the sun comes up