i'm either an extroverted introvert or an introverted extrovert. i can't decide.

i often feel like i'm completely made up of opposing, contradictory impulses. somehow, i've managed to integrate them, if that makes sense. it's a strange balance.

sometimes i pretend to be a bird.

i like personal mythologies, secret languages, queer history, smelling things, and reading about feral children.

transitions are afoot. i moved to chicago from austin, tx in sept. 2008 and i'm still trying to figure out what i'm doing here.

for right now i work at a bookstore and belong to a pretty great arts collective.

knitting and needle-point.

coming up with amazing costume ideas at the absolute last minute - both for halloween and other occasions.

taking simple subjects and making them seem more complex than they are (and vice versa).

trivia.

cracking myself up.

meandering.

reading.

performing.

probably my eyes.

a nice lady recently said that my hair was adorable.

if i'm wearing shorts, my legs.

books - j.r. ackerley, bruce benderson, blake butler, dennis cooper, e.m. forster, mary gaitskill, christopher isherwood, edouard leve, clarice lispector, ben marcus, tom mccarthy, david mitchell, albertine sarrazin, denton welch. also books on queer history/theory and art/literary/cultural criticism.

movies - kenneth anger, james bidgood, robert bresson, jean cocteau, xavier dolan, todd haynes, derek jarman, david lynch, guy maddin, dusan makavejev, merchant & ivory, pier paolo pasolini, douglas sirk, john waters, apichatpong weerasethakul. anything with bette davis, isabelle huppert, or tilda swinton.

music - animal collective, big freedia, mary j blige, vashti bunyan, lana del rey, grimes, mahalia jackson, grace jones, grizzly bear, le1f, magnetic fields, mykki blanco, parenthetical girls, perfume genius, rihanna, sonic youth, swans, sylvester, when saints go machine, yarbrough & peoples.

tv - ancient aliens, community, he-man, my strange addiction, peep show, portlandia, project runway, rupaul's drag race, six feet under, strangers with candy, twin peaks, the wire.

food - pasta and ice cream. and poutine.

i've learned i can live without a lot, and i'm working on doing with less. i enjoy a cup of coffee in the morning and a nap in the afternoon. and i've never met a crossword puzzle i didn't like.

romantic conceptualism

systems of power

accountability

creative communities

why people are often easily satisfied with mediocrity

mary j. blige.

supine.

i'm full of secrets.

you have something interesting to say.