Cherdan Helena Grant-Johnson

My cat, music, cruising around in my art student G-rida, vodka, clove cigs, misadventures, thrifting, ballin on a budget, DIY or at least admiring such ingenuity from afar, Netflix, indie/art house cinema, documentaries, ethnic minorities, hapa mutts like me, minorities within a minority within a minority, mahus, fa'afines, trannys, vegetarianism/veganism, being barefoot, Latino Americano cultura, Portugues cultura, being a PROUD Açoreana, my roots, my parents, my mother and all her divine madness, my father and his genteel composure, sleeping, Somas, coffee, lip gloss in obscene mass quantities, good memoirs, listing things, the record store, bad concept albums, Americana, singer-songwriters, my turntable, cheese, garlic, my clavicle, the sun, the sea, accents, traveling, the enigma that is lower Puna, Kaumana my home, militant celibacy, No Wave, indie rock, punk, hardcore, twee, noise, folk, dance-punk, chanteuses, car-sitting- sitting on the trunk of my car in the sunshine, near the ocean breeze, my stereo blasting, usually cigarette in hand, music, singing, going to shows, men (ugh), learning, writing when I feel inspired (which is rare), documentary film, my job, partying, eccentrics and dreamers, drinking, smoking cloves, smoking pot, B&W tattoos, piercings (mainly adding on to my ears), indie rooooock, my iPod, being an enigma, being a fucking beast, my hair, beauty & makeup, shaping my brows, thrifting, vinyl, PBS, seitan, tempeh, tofu, high protein-no starch-low cal diet, organix, healthy living, sustainability, progressive politics, anarchism, feminist theory, irony, parody, acerbic wit, mockumentaries, latinos, rockeros, punks, skins, purple, pink, red, my bedroom, interior design, interior decorating, gays, my gays, trannys, GLBT, art nouveau, no wave, downtown NYC, Bowery bums, gorgeous dead people, auteurs, chaunteuses, glorious messes, unfinished/lost albums, Neil Young, the intelligentsia, tragic figures, mulattos, mixed kids, freaks, tall people, thick girls like me, tall girls like me, Portuguese guys that don't act like mokes, Portuguese humor, militant celibacy, the hallowed halls of perversion that make up my mind, kink, voluminous behinds, everything I learned from Spike Lee, not giving a fuck.