Naomi

the discovery center, hebrew day school of ann arbor, slauson middle school, pioneer high, uc-berkeley, uc-davis

grad student, researcher to the stars

c.i.p. (children of israeli parents), also www.cdbaby.com/cd/naomiadiv

surveying the scene, singing/songwriting, dancingdancingdancing, capoeira, salsa, small ethnic markets as museums, cooking, feeding you, laughing, talking to strangers, long-term travel, busking/buskers, field trips, coffee: cream no sugar, modern dance, lounging in bed, live performance in small venues, screenprinting, monoprinting, poems, baths, typing on my typewriter, biking to the ice cream store

jitterbug perfume (tom robbins), the lone ranger and tonto fistfight in heaven (sherman alexie), where the wild things are (maurice sendak), love poems (anne sexton), odes to common things (pablo neruda), the phantom tollbooth (norton juster), from the mixed up files of mrs. basil e. frankweiler (e.l. konigsburg), the outsiders (s.e. hinton), the missing piece (shel silverstein)

anything documentary, anything coming-of-age. anything i don't fall asleep in.

bob dylan, joni mitchell, neil young, dar williams, cesaria evora, natalie merchant, kate rusby, paco de lucia, a tribe called quest, g-love, lucinda williams, the jackson 5, gillian welch, whiskeytown, patty griffin, aretha franklin, miles davis, zap mama, wilco, the be good tanyas, alexi murdoch. and wwoz public radio, new orleans. that's the soundtrack to my life.

don't really watch tv, but if given the opportunity i will watch an mtv 'the real world' marathon. oh, and my so called life. duh.

Gemini

happy, bookish, musical, affectionate, idealistic, mischievous, friendly, mouthy, adventurous; also, i make good pancakes and excellent soup.

loyal, brave and brilliant. a proclivity for field trips would not hurt.