Friends, Activity Partners

Jul 2003

oakland, ca

pie bird press, wetfoot publications, press boutique, peter koch printers

http://profiles.friendster.com/1006566

RISD, Central St. Martins (London), The Head-Royce School

printer and piemaker

Mix Tape Club, Bay Area Letterpress Printers' Alliance, The International Demolition Derby Association, The Fred Society, Volvo Sports America, Dinner Club

My bowling ball, people watching, malt liquor margaritas, collecting things, thrifting, board games (esp. word games- perquackey, anyone?), food that comes in buckets and/or on sticks, baking, swimming, $5 punk shows, the word "taco", Fred from "Valley Girl", neon signs, dive bars, people with uneccessarily vast knowledge of almost anything.....

Biographies of eccentrics and entrepreneurs, novels about the same, and essays: Air Guitar, Life as I've Known it Has Been Finger Lickin' Good, From Here to Eternity, Carter Beats the Devil, Dave's Way, 20, 000 Years in Sing Sing, White Teeth, White Noise, Slouching Towards Bethlehem (and anything by Joan Didion), Word Freak, Daisy Fay and the Miracle Man, Hiding the Elephant, In Cold Blood, The Executioner's Song, Our Band Could Be Your Life, Secret Formula, Houdini!!!, True Confessions

It Happened One Night, Making the Grade, The Allnighter (starring Susanna Hoffs), anything made in the 80's but set in the 60's, and anything with Mandy Moore

right now: B52's, Pat Benetar, The Crabs, Tina Turner, Def Leppard, Versus, Elvis Costello, Gang of Four, Peaches, Heart, Stevie Nicks, the Coug, X, Foreigner, Yes, Skynyrd, Neil Young, Dory Tourette, Salt n Pepa, Guv'ner, Joan Jett, way too much Poison, XTC, Dump, Adam Ant, 4 Tops, Bonnie Raitt, Prince, The Rentals, Motley Crue, Yo La Tengo, Mendoza Line, J.T., Hulk Hogan and the Wrestling Boot Band.... and the usual indie-punk-soul-classic-rock-hip-hop-nineties-nostalgia mix

ANYTHING on PBS (especially documentaries about sandwiches, The History Detectives, and Antiques Roadshow), Girlfriends, The Surreal Life!, Supermarket Sweep, ANTM (Top Model), Elimidate, Twin Peaks, and always, always the Simpsons.

Sagittarius

Every New Year's Eve, I resolve to start a new club or regular event. I love road trips, documentaries, and all things nautical. I am nocturnal, domestic, obsessive-compulsive, and a total pack rat. I have a stubborn love for the archaic and impractical. I work with equipment from the turn of the century (no, not this century), drive a 36 year old foreign car, use a rotary phone, make pies the way my grandma taught me, love almost nothing more than browsing through antique books, and still prefer my cocktails with the ingredients in their names. I can look at a menu and know exactly what I want in under a minute. I collect everything from airline safety manuals to Jell-o cookbooks and chopstick wrappers. I am a listmaker and a diagrammer, and color coordination is very dear to my heart. Sometimes I lie in bed at night imagining crossword formations. I love state and county fairs and festivals for things like artichokes and peanuts, and especially the drive home.

A little stucco house, preferably built between 1925-1935, with a lemon tree in the backyard. A big brown dog. Someone who will go to demolition derbies with me and buy me those "volcano" drinks with dry ice and set off fireworks with me. People who go bowling in the afternoons. People who understand the value of a properly-spelled word or a grammatically correct sentence. Someone who can beat me at boggle. And anyone who is willing to try.
Also: people with ironic tattoos, hot boys who can fix my car, Agent Dale Cooper, Vince Neil, Seann William Scott, The Hulkster, Eric Estrada, Da Brat, and Prince.