Katie Painter

Walnut Hills High School, Class of 2000

University of San Francisco, Master's Degree
Indiana University - Bloomington, Class of 2005, Bachelor's Degree

heartbreaker, starving artist

826 Valencia

weddings, babies, literature, cliterature, vegetables (non-human), falling down in public, nervous breakdowns, nervous breakdance, yelling at reality tv characters even though they can't hear me, unicorns

Everything Is Illuminated, To the Lighthouse, Harry Potter, Their Eyes Were Watching God, The Great Gatsby, Nine Stories, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, Jitterbug Perfume, The Bingo Palace, The Giving Tree, The Lorax, And the Earth Did Not Devour Him, And Her Soul Out of Nothing, Some Ether, Where the Sidewalk Ends, Even Cowgirls Get the Blues, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Norton's Anthology of Women's Literature (my Bible)

Hudsucker Proxy (or anything Coen bros), Cabaret, Magnolia, Singin in the Rain, Annie Hall, Legends of the Fall, All About My Mother, Never Ending Story, Harold and Maude, Waiting for Guffman, High Fidelity, Igby Goes Down, Y Tu Mama Tambien

Ani DiFranco, Otis Redding, Jeff Buckley, Talking Heads, Elvis Costello, Bob Dylan, Aretha Franklin, Ella Fitzgerald, Talib Kweli, Blackalicious, Neutral Milk Hotel, The Postal Service, Death Cab for Cutie, Bright Eyes, The Decemberists, Taj Mahal, Pete Seeger (if you play the guitar and write soulful/political lyrics, chances are I will sleep with you)

Law & Order, Sex and the City, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Six Feet Under, The Brak Show (or anything on adult swim really)

Sagittarius

Inevitably, you will hear me before you see me. I project my voice to the extent that you can hear me a good 10 min before I'm actually in your vicinity. When you do finally see me, you will be surprised to find out how physically small I am, and how I am not, as you had assumed, 12 ft tall.

People who will come visit:

http://frogglegs.blogspot.com

Also, people who want to fund me in my pursuit of a terminal degree.