I study social movements, and will hopefully have my PhD in hand soon. Then, who knows?

I played classical flute for a million years before abandoning it to geek out a bit as a renaissance recorder player. Now I'm back to flute again, but am wishing I played dobro instead.

Other than music, food in all its capacities is the secondmost primary focus of my existence. I am fortunate to live on an island where cattle, pigs, and chickens run (semi-) wild and free, and there is an abundance of goat cheese, honey, garlic, and swiss chard. Sadly, there are no cocoa plantations but apparently a local distillery is in the works, so at least there's that. Too bad we'll be moving before that manifests.

I generally surround myself with living things- but while I love animals, I prefer plants because they are so much quieter. My 85 pound sulcata tortoise Attila is pretty quiet, too, so he's my current favorite.

Wump World

I delight in the beautiful and the absurd, and get absolutely giddy when the two occur as one.

Eternal graduate student

F

Yes

Well, er, Muse ...
And:

Phoenix
Franz Ferdinand
Florence & The Machine
You Say Party! We Say Die!
Hannah Georgas
Amanda Palmer
The Panda Conspiracy
Green Day
Magnetic Fields
Old Crow Medicine Show
Alela Diane
Pearl Jam
The Dixie Chicks
Bela Fleck
Tinariwen
Delhi 2 Dublin
Black Prairie

Top 9:
Princess Bride
LadyHawke
Babette's Feast
Secret of Roan Inish
Children of Heaven
Time Bandits
High Noon
Sweetland
Neverending Story

Don't own a TV but still have favorite shows, like Supernatural, Firefly,
Dr Who (the new version)

Favorite authors are China Mieville, Ursula K LeGuin, Isabel Allende and Neil Gaiman but I will happily read just about anything and everything. Unless it pertains to my doctoral dissertation, in which case ... *shudder*.

Showbiz
Origin of Symmetry
Hullabaloo
Absolution
Black Holes and Revelations
H.A.A.R.P.
The Resistance

Dec 15, '09 Seattle (DTHB)
April 2, '10 Seattle (Key Arena)