I am independent, empathetic, and inquisitive.
My Self-Summary
I am living in Santa Fe surrounded with a great community. I am
constantly struck with how lucky I am to have such amazing friends
and family to laugh with. I love to have real conversations that
are both smart and funny and I am not afraid of respectful debates.
My sense of humor is observational, ironic and sometime a little
dark.
A more general list of my interests includes costuming, documentary
arts (photography and audio editing), traveling, working with most
art mediums, informing my self about the world around me,
environmental science, politics, cool little kids, and an overall
interest in human beings... their histories, interests and the ways
they interact; in other words, I like people watching.
In an effort to summarize my self further here is the top five
things that have formed how I am today [1] growing up in an
incredibly creative environment and therefore feeling as if it is
necessary that I be a creative person. [2] Being extremely
Dyslexic, which explains the bad spelling and grammar (Please
excuse it). If you are wondering if that means I see everything
backwards and mixed up, the answer is NO. I have a different kind
of dyslexia which is hard to explain but means I read very slowly
and have a hard time comprehending when I am reading. I have a hard
time spelling and punctuating because I don't easily reread what I
write.[3] my dad dying when I was little.[4] growing up with an
unnaturally strong community around me, which helped with my dad's
death, but means I expect communities to be as amazing now as they
were when I was growing up. [5] living my life between New Mexico
and New England.
What I’m doing with my life
Every time I answer a question like this my life path changes cores
and my answer becomes out dated, so here it goes. I was working in
the film industry in the wardrobe department. But I realized that I
have more interests and wont to pursue more in my life. So I am
starting the grad school process. Which means it is hard to work in
the film industry. So I am back to working as a nanny, doing little
jobs for artists around town and working at a lingerie store. I
still enjoy working on movies but I am enjoying learning more.
I’m really good at
Sewing, coming up with and making costumes for theme parties,
throwing dinner parties, people watching, walking in high heals,
spacial relations, and throwing fun Birthday parties for my
friends. The most extravagant party included a moon walk.
The first things people usually notice about me
I do not know, I'm not them.
My favorite books, movies, music, and food
Books:
Assassination Vacation
and
The Partly Cloudy
Patriot by Sarah Vowell, I love all of her books and all of
David
Sedaris books,
Fraud by
David Rakoff,
Mountains Beyond
Mountains by
Tracy Kidder,
Gaviotas
a Village to Reinvent the World by
Alan Weisman, and
Hope Human and Wild by
Bill
McKibben,
Botany of Desire by
Michael Pollan,
The
Time Traveler's Wife by
Audrey Niffenegger and all of
the
Oz books (the
books that followed the Wizard of Oz).
Movies:
Benny
and Joon,
Charade,
Fight Club,
Footloose,
Inside Man,
The Italian Job,
Kill Bill,
Little Miss
Sunshine,
Lars and the Real Girl,
Monsoon
Wedding,
Monsters, Inc.,
Murderball,
Ocean's Eleven,
The Price of
Milk,
Pride and Prejudice the
six-tape version,
Priscilla, Queen of
the Desert,
Red
Dawn,
Roman Holiday,
Rory O'Shea Was
Here,
The Royal Tenenbaums,
Saved!,
Secretary,
Shortbus,
Serenity,
Spellbound,
Wallace & Gromit: Three Amazing Adventures,
Jump!,
Podcasts:
This American Life,
WNYC's Radio
Lab,
Slate's
podcast including the
political gabfest,
Real Time
with Bill Maher,
Savage Love and
Sex is fun.
Music: This is a hard question for me, since I can not describe why
I like some types of music and not others. I love a lot of
experimental music, but when the experimental music loses any
thread of beat or melody I lose interest. I love good dance music
even if it has lyrics that make me cringe. I am currently in a
R&B/Soul faze particularly Stevie Wonder. When it comes right
down to it, I enjoy listening to most music, but especially when it
mixes and matches genres. here is a list of some of the artist I
like:
D Numbers,
ray charles
ives,
Those
Darlins,
Beirut,
Ghastly City Sleep,
Rio En Medio,
Cat Power,
Coco Rosie,
Devandra
Banhart,
Animal Collective,
Beck,
Talking Heads,
The Specials,
David Bowie,
B. Fleischmann,
Department Of Eagles,
Stevie
Wonder,
Aretha Franklin,
Amy Winehouse,
Kanye West and
Marcelo
D2,
Food: I like all kinds of good food especially fresh fruits (mmmm
Berries) and vegetables, Indian food, sushi, salads, home cooked
food and green Chile.
The six things I could never do without
friends/family, nature, good food in particular fruits and veggies,
freedom, my computer, and sleep.
On a typical Friday night I am
out with friends or working, mostly working.