Interests & Hobbies
Meaning of Life:
Live, laugh, survive the pandemic.
Five Things I Can't Live Without:
-my phone
-food
-water
-music
-moisturizer
Favorite Books:
By author/illustrator: Richard Ford, Jennifer Egan, Haruki Murakami, Richard Brautigan, Mary Gaitskill, Chris Ware, Lynda Barry, Steve Martin, Siri Hustveldt, whoever wrote the Voynich Manuscript.
What I Like To Do For Fun:
all of the above, and also taking walks, seeing friends, bowling before it was not okay, baking things.
Favorite Songs:
The Replacements, XTC, Wilco, The Traveling Wilburys, Sun Kill Moon, Pavement, The New Pornographers, Mogwai, everything Rick Rubin or Timbaland has done, Mogwai, Iggy Pop, Mary J Blige, Guided By Voices, Harry Nillson, Elvis Costello, Future Islands, about half of Fleetood Mac's stuff, David Bowie, Built To Spill, Tom Ze, Beulah, John Fahey, Lindstrom, of Montreal, Panda Bear, Mina Mazinni, LIz Phair, Otis Redding, Pixies, Sam Cooke, Todd Terje, the Sugarcubes, Joni Mitchell, R.E.M.,
Favorite Movies:
The Birds, Moonstruck, The Cook, The Thief, The Wife, and her Lover, Russian Ark, Don't Tell Mom The Babysitter Is Dead, The Witches, and Titanic if I want some straight up nostalgia.
Craziest Thing I've Ever Done:
Crazy is subjective, but I guess I would say joining a cam modeling site? ;)
If I Could Be Anywhere Right Now:
Michigan
Hobbies:
cooking, reading, trying to get better at guitar and violin, yoga, avoiding Twitter, True Crime, going down conspiracy theory rabbit holes on Youtube.
Talents:
Ambidextrous, double jointed thumbs, correctly guessing the year an album came out even if I don't care about the band.
Perfect Mate:
Someone who can watch a depressing documentary right before bed and still sleep okay.
Perfect Date:
Not during a pandemic.
Turn Ons/Offs:
Turn Ons: guys who own vinyl but don't make it their identity, guys who like comics but aren't condescending, sincerity, curiosity, are close to their families even if they argue at holidays, wear pants that fit.
Turn offs: Chain smokers, guys who say "you're not like other girls", atheists who quote Sam Harris and Richard Dawkins rather than expressing their own feelings about religion.
Best Reason to Get to Know Me:
This feels like a loaded question, I don't want to set myself up for failure.