Thisweekonourprogram...

Stories about the series of tubes otherwise known as "The Internet", in three acts...

Act one: Two of our regular contributors unearth their Friendster accounts; what happens when an on-line community of 50 MILLION vanishes overnight?

Act two: The OK Computer generation is struck by OkCupid's arrow... "from a great height"...

Act three: All I do is travel and yoga and I'm a free spirit...dottumblerdotcom...

From WBEZ in Chicago, these stories and more, when we come back... It's This American Life... Stay with us.

I'm a Midwest transplant working on my sixth year in the City. I produce creative film and video and manage a local psych-rock band. I also run a small production agency... The commercial stuff pays the bills while I pursue passion projects and the rotating cast of space cadets I'm perpetually surrounded by ensure my bohemian spirit remains unsullied by the evils of disposable income.

Having recently turned 30, I'm deep in the throes of a John Cusack a la High Fidelity "what does it all mean" introspective period and spend most of my free time crying in the rain. Seriously though, the future's never looked brighter. I'm better at everything than I've ever been and I don't look like a teenager anymore which is a total game changer, I'm actually doing all the things I spent my 20's talking about doing in coffee shops and as much as I may feel like it, I'm now able to resist the urge to use this space to quote poetry or song lyrics. Clearly, you've got me at a good time.

Pisces Sun / Aquarius Moon / Leo Rising
ENFP

The cell phone and the email, cat herding and hand holding, envisioning and inspiring.

Probably the silver streak in my hair.

Books:
Lately I've been on a biography kick. I just finished John Huston's autobiography "An Open Book" and right now I'm in the middle of one on Peggy Guggenheim called "Art, Lover". Next is "Fake!" by Clifford Irving, the story of Elmyr de Hory, the greatest art forger of our time.

Movies:
Some of the films that have moved me lately... Another Earth, Beginners, Submarine. My favorite film is probably Alfonso Cuarón's Great Expectations which is a minor work not universally praised but it's the film that made me fall in love with cinema.

Music:
Yo la Tengo, Chet Baker, Caetano Veloso, Fleetwood Mac, Tom Waits, Belle and Sebastian, Bill Evans, Elton John, Ben Folds, Stereolab, Joan as Police Woman, Joanna Newsom, Feist, Serge Gainsbourg, Conor Oberst, M. Ward, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Blossom Dearie, Neil Young, Graham Nash, Broken Social Scene, Mates of State, Gilberto Gil, Hall and Oates, Microphones, Modest Mouse, Ugly Casanova, Spiritualized, Beulah, Pulp, Guided by Voices, Jesus and the Mary Chain, My Bloody Valentine, I could go on...

1. Expression (the arts, all of them, don't care if it's cheating)
2. Food and Drink (please don't say "foodie")
3. Camera (my personal creative outlet)
4. Knowledge and Information (my phone, the internet)
5. Understanding (of the Universe and our place in it)
6. Friends and Lovers to share the previous five with.

Designer chairs and my future Lautner-power-pad.

Going out for music, movies, art, theater. I'm currently in the middle of a total apartment remodel and am looking forward to hosting dinner parties and movie nights very soon.

Lando Calrissian is my spirit animal.

You are a Woody Allen muse, dancer, harpist, jazz vocalist, fashion designer, gallery curator, you can help me with my French...

Or less specifically, you're a classy lady looking for someone to be classy with.

Or in a word...glasses.