alison tubini

yeah, I'll admit it. I went to emma, and the vass.

Vassar College, Attended 1996 - 2001, Class of 2001, Other

collector + curator of trash, gravedigger.

the dfwc, 16 lagrange radio house, kenyon-honduras archaeological project, pfb, bvar

punk rock, archaeology (formal + informal), rusty metal, ancient writing systems, espanol, genderfuck, freight trains, photocopies, urban design, cupcakes, trashpicking, bike riding, letter writing, rodents, jersey peaches, ice hockey, growing food, cooking vegan feasts, not being a tourist.

my life and hard times: thurber. indie comix. lorrie moore. most picture books. the god of small things:roy. william faulkner. the geography of nowhere: kunstler. autobiography of red:carson. yehuda amichai. civilwarland in bad decline:saunders

recently: mirah, new model army, the carter family, portraits of past, kimya dawson, husker du, jean grae, ella fitzgerald, crass, the weakerthans

who needs tv when you can have "this american life"?

Gemini

not good at self-assessment. totally in love with the world (people's complexities and motivations, the schuylkill at night, music coming from my housemates' rooms, skates on ice, trash in the gutter, crumbling houses, cuneiform tablets under this desk) and constantly breaking and reassembling my own heart about it. frequently, but not reliably, cheerful. hopelessly sincere. only funny when I'm being sarcastic. bruised knees, hair usually sticking up in some way I would prefer it wasn't. I want to talk to you. I firmly believe a better world is possible - and here, at moments - almost always in the ways we deal with each other.

I have to keep turning up the music to drown out the ice cream trucks.

all those brilliant people I've lost touch with. kids who
make things or find things. someone who will make buttercream frosting for me. people to speak my grammatically-appalling spanish with.