Brandie Madrid

books, music, film, writing and singing songs, ice cream, being lazy, being productive, poetry, Scrabble and other word games, etymology, myths, cooking, eating, my grotesque and epic dreams, sleeping, learning.

"Jane Eyre, " Jose Saramago's "Stone Raft" and "Blindness", Anne Sexton's "Love Poems", "Leaves of Grass, " Anais Nin's diaries, Salinger, Vonnegut, fantasy/sci fi, "Word Freak" by Stefan Fatsis, "Mary Reilly, " "My Antonia" by Willa Cather, "The Nimrod Flipout", "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel, "White Noise" by DeLillo, "The Passion" by Winterson

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, I Heart Huckabees, The Piano Teacher, Rushmore, Amadeus, Royal Tenenbaums, anything Coen Bros or Gilliam (Fargo, The Man Who Wasn't There, The Big Lebowski, Brazil, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen), Amelie, Donnie Darko, Wet Hot American Summer, The Hours, Office Space, The Piano, Sense and Sensibilty, The Ice Storm

Bjork, Blonde Redhead, the Pixies, Tori, nine inch nails, Bach's passacaglia, Joanna Newsom, the Makeup/Nation of Ulysses/Weird War/Scene Creamers, Stereolab, Etta James, Portishead, Tricky, Cat Power, Yo La Tengo, Beck, Ween, Mr. Bungle, Cibo Matto (if you have their demo album, i will pay you big time for a copy!), Rufus Wainwright, the peanuts christmas song, almost anything composed or arranged by Mark Mothersbaugh... did you know he did the end credits song for Pee Wee's Playhouse? it rocks!

Strangers with Candy, 6 Feet Under, West Wing, Thundercats, the L Word, Sex & the City (so very guilty do i feel), Family Guy, Space Ghost Coast to Coast, Aqua Teen Hunger Force

my dad loves me very much. and my mom talks very low on the phone, so she always sounds like she has a secret to tell you. i have a younger brother named Dallas. i am in love with large bodies of water. i try to be healthy, but i am obsessed with ice cream. i brush my teeth twice when i wake up, then before and after most meals, then twice before bed and maybe a few extra times per day for good measure. i didn't grow up with Prince or the Fresh Prince or the Little Prince, but i also (also, Lisa) think that a snake eating an elephant is not a hat.

a leafy seahorse who can transmit Scrabble bingos into my head and who won't get killed by dynamite. and probably whoever you are.