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My self-summary Propose an edit

Oh, you know. A grotesque hallucinatory ambience.

I like esoteric and ridiculous interests. See: dueling keytars, sticking my lower body out of moving cars, guerilla art, food politics, making uterus-themed art, vegetable thuggery, creating and leading my own super secret societies (Uterus Liberation Front), literary tattoos, green hair, purple hair, laser-pistol-slinging dinosaurs, scathingly brilliant ideas, the smell of books, playing Scrabble in front of fires, walking on the beach in the wee hours of the morning, genderqueers, banana-centric desserts, vests and ties, trying to figure out the various notes in wine, tribal bellydancing, straight grillin', getting tossed around, tossing others, anything involving the water (like wiping out while whitewater rafting or kayaking) being more than a little crunchy, chess as a metaphor for life, and watching spelling bees.

I'm sort of argumentative, but it's usually well-intentioned. I like eating food spicy enough to make my nose run and eyes water, preferably as a first date. I have hair that changes often. I like to engage in activities that make me sweat. I also like the smell of sweat on people I enjoy.

I grew up overseas and have an interest (bordering on the obsessive) with the Middle East. Leftist, if you buy that sort of thing. Local produce. Cruising farmers markets.

Vegan.

What I'm doing with my life Propose an edit

I'm letting it take me in the direction it desires. Becoming bigger than guns, bigger than cigarettes. Progressing. Occasionally regressing.

Dancing as much as is humanly possible. Over-accessorizing. Digging for vintage coats or carpet bags. Wearing bright colors to accent my bright hair. Maintaining a healthy sense of optimism.

Recently, playing a *lot* on my banjo, which I consider to be my newfound true love. I'm still fairly terrible, but I'll be damned if I haven't immersed myself fully in banjo culture (did YOU know that banjo culture existed?).

I'm really good at Propose an edit

Martial arts. Cooking. Rugby, sometimes. Wrestling. Arguing. Accidentally intimidating people. Crossword puzzles! Getting restaurant staff to answer embarassing questions. Convincing people I'm right, even when I'm not. Injuring myself. Causing intense reactions. Offending people. And, on a brighter note, making people laugh and breaking down inhibitions. Surprising people. Revealing previously undetected facets of my personality. Looking and lurching like a zombie.

And having fun. I excel at that.

The first thing(s) people usually notice about me Propose an edit

The hair, my charming stubbornness, or the noise created by the ridiculous number of bangles I wear.

My favorite books, movies, music, and food Propose an edit

[Authors] Kahlil Gibran, Jeanette Winterson, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Allen Ginsberg, Charles Bukowski, bell hooks, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Audre Lorde, Sue Monk Kidd, Angela Davis, Tom Wolfe, Virginia Woolf, Ken Kesey, Judith Butler, Michael Chabon, Jack Kerouac, Richard Brautigan, Peter Singer, William Shakespeare, Eugene Ionesco, Zora Neale Hurston, John Steinbeck, Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman, Milan Kundera, Jared Diamond, Ursula LeGuin, Carol Adams, Hermann Hesse, Nikki Giovanni, Nizar Qabbani, Pablo Neruda, Christopher Marlowe, Euripides, Aristophanes, Ernest Hemmingway, Jhumpa Lahiri, Terence McKenna, Timothy Leary, Arthur Rimbaud, Charles Baudelaire, et al. Anything about food politics, demystifying the food industry, 60s and 70s radical factions, queer theory, feminist critical theory, the doors of perception, ethnobotany, body politics, race relations, Islam, radical political theory, the study of gender, pirates, or dinosaurs. Give me a book and I'll read it.

- Recently finished: Devil in the White City (Erik Larson) and Dry (Augusten Burroughs).

- Currently reading: Outlaws of America (Dan Berger), A Taste of Power (Elaine Brown), Trout Fishing in America (again, by Brautigan), and Bringing the War Home (Jeremy Varon).

[Movies] Cool Hand Luke, Shortbus, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, The Warriors, Cube, Tetsuo, Eraserhead, Gandhi, Maria Full Of Grace, Capturing the Friedmans, L'Auberge Espagnole, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, Pi, Le Fabuleux destin d'Amelie Poulain, Salaam Bombay, Monsoon Wedding, Desperado, Hotel Rwanda, Orgazmo, Un Long Dimanche de Fiancailles, Lost Boys, Interview with the Vampire, Nosferatu, Fargo, Y Tu Mama Tambien, Love Me If You Dare, The Seventh Seal, Habla Con Ella, Como Agua Para Chocolat, UHF, Star Wars [I'm a complete Star Wars nerd], Fight Club, The Red Violin, Amadeus, The Usual Suspects, Agnes of God, Tank Girl, Bad Education, Pulp Fiction, City Of God, Menace II Society, Reservoir Dogs, Ghost World, Harold and Maude. I also have a weakness for movie versions of Shakespeare's plays, especially if they've been touched by Kenneth Branaugh. [See: Much Ado About Nothing, Hamlet, Othello, Henry V, Twelfth Night.] Documentaries.

[Music] Against Me!, Ali Farka Touré, Amos Lee, Andy Palacio and the Garifuna Collective, Arrested Development, Aterciopelasos, Atmosphere, Augustus Pablo, Ausgang, Bad Brains, Balkan Beat Box, Bassnectar, Bauhaus, Bernie Worrell, Bikini Kill], Binary Star, The Birthday Party, Bjork, Black Eyes, Black Seeds, Black Uhuru, Bob Dylan, Bob Marley, Bootsy Collins, The Bridge, Buckethead, Buju Banton, Burning Spear, Cannibal Ox, Capleton, The Causey Way, Cocteau Twins, The Coup, Crestfallen, Culture, The Cure, Damian Marley, The Damned, Danzig, Dar Williams, David Bowie, Dead Can Dance, Dead Prez, Deadmau5, Del the Funky Homosapien, Devendra Banhart, Dezarie, Disco Biscuits, Eek-A-Mouse, Einsturzende Neubauten, The Epoxies, The Eternals, Feindflug, Firewater, The Flaming Lips, Frog Brigade, Fugazi, Funkadelic, Galactic, GFE, Giant Panda Guerilla Dub Squad, Gogol Bordello, Gotan Project, The Grateful Dead, GZA, Groundation, Hanzel und Gretyl, Heiruspecs, Hieroglyphics, Immortal Technique, Iron and Wine, Jah Works, Jah Warrior, The Jayhawks, Jeff Buckley, John Brown's Body, Joni Mitchell, Ky-Mani Marley, Le Tigre, Led Zeppelin, Little Feat, Lost Children of Babylon, Majority Rule, Mclusky, The Meters, Midnite, Milosh, Ministry, Morgan Heritage, Muddy Waters, The New Deal, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Nick Drake, Ozric Tentacles, Parliament, Particle, Peter Tosh, Phish, The Pixies, Primus, Queen, RJD2, Saul Williams, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Sizzla, Sleater-Kinney, Slint, Soldiers of Jah Army, STS9, Stars, Steel Pulse, Stiff Little Fingers, Tabla Beat Science, Talking Heads, Thao Nguyen, Tom Waits, Tori Amos, Tortoise, Toumast, Tracy Chapman, Underworld, William Elliott Whitmore, The Wood Brothers, Wu-Tang Clan, Zegota. Or, if you prefer genres: reggae, dub, punk rock, jam bands, thrash, psychobilly, hip-hop, power metal, industrial, synthpop, EBM, new wave, post-punk, horror punk, electrofunk, electroclash, classic rock, bluegrass, folk (freak, riot, anti-), soul, zydeco, jazz, old blues, sitars, and funk. Also, fusion. ANYTHING fusion. Anything weirdly Middle Eastern and ambient. I love, love, LOVE anything that has "Brass Band" in the title: Hot 8 Brass Band, Rebirth Brass Band, Soul Rebels Brass Band, Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Youngblood Brass Band, etc.

[Foods] Anything spicy enough to make my eyes water and my nose run. Thai, Japanese, and Vietnamese. Fresh pineapple. Tea. Any and all vegetables. Everything peanut sauce. Avocados. Salads that take an hour to eat.

The six things I could never do without Propose an edit

Transcending limits. On that note -- my cat Hitchcock, daydreams, martial arts, brutal honesty, an evolving personality, excellent grammar, constant evolution, my imagination, change, surprises, new people who break the mold, variety, chaos, order, my determination, living with a sense of passion, a brass section.

I spend a lot of time thinking about Propose an edit

Politics. Fantastic riffs. Gender. Cathartic moments. Skunks as pets. All the instruments I'd like to play.

On a typical Friday night I am Propose an edit

Hopefully dancing to some dirty funk or dancehall. Drinking as many dirty vodka martinis as I can afford. Watching old TV shows (Sanford and Son and Dragnet are sure ways to my heart) or documentaries. Picking at my banjo.

Or karaoke.

The most private thing I'm willing to admit here Propose an edit

[x] I have a deafeningly loud interior monologue.
[x] I waste a lot of time perusing the "Missed Connections" section on Craigslist. I find them strangely fascinating. And the thought of finding one about me is a little thrilling in a voyeuristic, anonymous way.
[x] I don't know how comfortable I am with the fact that people now describe me as "bohemian."

You should message me if Propose an edit

...you like to dance and you're fairly indiscriminate as to your soundtrack.

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