Lisa

ps 203; ps 221; syosset high; columbia u.; soas [school of oriental and african studies] it's not as neo-colonial as it sounds, really; stanford

Stanford University, Attended 2007 - Present, Ph.D., Anthropology
Columbia University, Attended 2000 - 2004, Class of 2004, Bachelor's Degree, anthropology/human rights

reading and writing. (phd student).

http://www.myspace.com/dreamslender [ive migrated]

reading/book shopping, long unrestrained conversations with close friends, noisy silence, film, (fine) dining, vinyasa yoga, dancing, visiting far away places, weekend brunch, alta cocina (a la adria of el bulli), motherfucker [the party], radical politics, writing, contradictions, nairobi, clinton st. baking co., list making, board games, borough market [in london], soy milk that froths, (non-minimalist) abstract expressionist art, the flow of seasons changing, apples, odilon redon, walking, vintage clothes + shoes, indulgence, oscar de la renta, 1950s danish decor, unique coffee shops, music that makes me dance/think/dream, [cafe] atlas, astrology, danny meyer, the history of nyc, cultural biographies, theory (critical, literary, postcolonial, cultural), strength training, the sunday ny times, the bloomsbury group, the frankfurt school.

jeanette winterson, giorgio agamben, gayatri spivak, michel foucault, virginia woolf, italo calvino, gabriel garcia marquez, marcel proust, mahmoud darwish, paul auster, karl kirchway, john ashbery, kazuo ishiguro, judith butler, jacques derrida, haruki murakami, adonis, bell hooks, theodor adorno, frantz fanon, marguerite duras, rick moody, june jordan, ee cummings, walter benjamin, georges bataille, edward said, akhil gupta, saba mahmood, joan didion, james ferguson, talal asad. the new yorker, harpers, ny times.

lars von trier, agnes varda, pedro almodovar, r.w. fassbinder, (pre-1970) michelangelo antonioni, wim wenders, ingmar bergman, jean luc godard, bela tarr, abbas kiarostami, tsai ming-liang, claire denis, yasujiro ozu, wong kar-wai, hal hartley, ang lee, peter greenaway, jacques demy, hirokazu kore-eda, kim ki-duk, david lynch, chantal akerman, alain resnais, edward yang. la belle noiseuse, au hasard balthazar, gerry, the house of yes, dead man, gia, la haine, mr death, anything w/ johnny depp and/or angelina jolie in them.

lately: halah by mazzy star. neutral milk hotel. azure ray. hayden. bright eyes. mary j blige. mariah.

sex and the city. old school real world. democracy now.

Pisces

pisces sun. capricorn moon. scorpio rising. i am quite sober and serious, but i enjoy moving through the world in a state of lighthearted bliss. my mind is in a constant state of conversation - a kind of waking dream, an ongoing screenplay of imaginary future discussions...when im staring off into space, in other words, im actually talking. it has recently been brought to my attention that this is slightly unusual.

people to talk about social and cultural theory with. dining partners who live in san francisco.