cari

san francisco state university

the good times are definitely over

amnesty international freedom writers network since 1988

books, buildings, film, nature shows, office supplies, being unfamous, donuts, homestar runner, watching the simpsons at the gym, context, pretty-achy things, npr

any italo calvino, a room of one's own, tender is the night, a brief history of time, the elegant universe, the street of crocodiles, midnight's children, everything that rises must converge, the onion, mcsweeney's, virginia woolf, ernest hemingway, paul auster, david sedaris, charles bukowski, isaac babel, chris ware, dan clowes, los bros hernandez

jim, truffaut, wong kar-wai, paul thomas and wes anderson, jeunet & caro, john sayles, charlie chaplin, tim burton, sofia coppola, wings of desire, living in oblivion, breathless, trust, heavenly creatures, the lord of the rings, a charlie brown christmas

danger mouse, danger doom, arcade fire, (old) modest mouse, regina spektor, spoon, deathcab, tvotr, enon, jurassic 5, mos def, rilo kiley, grandaddy, hot snakes, sufjan stevens, will oldham, blonde redhead, les savy fav, elliott smith, the fiery furnaces, the faint, the magnetic fields, the pixies, the smiths, the cure, the rogers sisters, the strokes (shut up), the walkmen, my roommate maxfield's band

the office, the daily show, the colbert report, homicide: life on the street, chappelle show, six feet under, fishing with john, spongebob squarepants, cowboy bebop, the powerpuff girls, dexter's laboratory, ren & stimpy, rocko's modern life, mr. show, the kids in the hall, mutual of omaha's wild kingdom, arrested development, curb your enthusiasm

I: am striving to be so uncool that the hipsters pelt me with their trucker hats, like to talk about quarks, am a word nerd, love the city but hate the people, am trying to learn spanish so puedo hablar con la gente en mi vecindad, have survived my trial by fire, am happier now than i've ever been in my life, don't like the way my voice sounds, am looking for my post office a la bukowski and faulkner, enjoy getting older, really like straight up carrot juice or vanilla almond soy shakes by odwalla. All carbs, all the time!

PEOPLE: who hate tom cruise, with monkey and/or robot fixations, who like saying the words scurvy, onus and tantalizing, who are comfortable with silence, who eat breakfast in the afternoon, who don't talk during movies, with jarmusch hair or people who like looking at the people with jarmusch hair or really just jim jarmusch, who don't stalk people or harass women on the street, who recycle, who have library cards, who think i'm cute, who know that we make people into symbols and shouldn't, who like to create stuff, who can be seriously silly, who smell like pea soup, who know where that pea soup line came from. PLEASE, ENOUGH WITH THE IRONIC T-SHIRTS!