Interests:
knitting, crafting, trying to learn to love sewing, my sewing machine, estate sales, garage sales, portland, nice people, yarn, alpacas, beading, reading, photography, editing pictures, podcasting, drawing, delinquency, macaulay culkin, stephen malkmus, craftser.org, dying yarn, fibers, getting paid to do what i love, dirty little secrets, sharpies, graffiti, suspenders, skateboarding, observing people's mannerisms
Favorite Music:
beck, bjork, blonde redhead, yes, beastie boys, le tigre, mirah, pavement, mates of state, ace of base, andrew bird, all girl summer fun band, animal collective, annie, aqua, beat happening, biz markie, black box recorder, brainiac, broken social scene, cake, calvin johnson, cat power, chicks on speed, coco rosie, daft punk, dear nora, depeche mode, devendra banhart, dogs die in hot cars, eels, electrelane, elliot smith, erase errata, erland oye, etienne daho, fiona apple, frank black, franz ferdinand, gene defcon, gorillaz, gravy train!!!!, the go! team, handsome boy modeling school, heavens to betsy, hella, i hate you when you're pregnant, iron & wine, jens lekman, joanna newsom, johnny cash, joni mitchell, kelis, kimya dawson, ladytron, m. ward, marcy playground, michael jackson's early stuff, mirah with the black cat orchestra, modern english, modest mouse, mount sims, my bloody valentine, neutral milk hotel, new order, new radicals, nico, nine inch nails, outkast, pere ubu, pj harvey, portishead, pretty girls make graves, prince, quarterhorse, quasi, queen, queens of the stone age, radiohead, rasputina, ratatat, scissor sisters, shonen knife, snap!, soft cell, sonic youth, squirrel nut zippers, stephen malkmus, stereo total, stereolab, system of a down, television, tenacious d, the aislers set, amps, arcade fire, the author, the beach boys, the beatles, the blow, the books, the cardigans, fiery furnaces, flaming lips, magnetic fields, the odd bodkins, the microphones, the unicorns, the vaselines, the velvet undergound, the walkmen, tom waits, tv on the radio, van morrison, vincent gallo, violent femmes, wandering lucy, ween, yeah yeah yeahs, young people, fannypack, avenue D, white stripes, bubba sparxxx
it was super fun, i guarantee you would have a blast, but i heard the people there mess with the guys who visit and are generally nice to ladies.
it was good to be in mexico-mexico, and not a border town
well, a week before i went on my trip, i was making vinaigrette in the kitchen at the cafe and the oil & vinegar mixture was very bubbly and beautiful and red-pearlescent looking, so i thought it would be a good idea to take a closeup pic of the little bubbles.
long story short, i dropped my camera into a large measuring cup full of oil. thus, the "dreamy effect"
empuje. i like the spanish word for push.
y'er so crafty!
and getting caught in the rain...
(get it? rocks? but it does)