History, books, people, underwear, feather pillows, plants, crochet, knitting, barns, lowercase writing, writing, lost kittens, the question why, dancing, typing fast, ho-hos (the swiss miss kind), ho-hos (the transvestite prostitute kind), burlesque, art, silver rings, tattoos, staple guns, crime, serial killers, movies movies movies.
Music
I do dishes to Remy Shand and Maxwell; I drive to instrumental like Boud Deun, Herbie Hancock and Fugazi; I sing to the likes of Ani DiFranco, The Nields (now often seen as Nerissa & Katryna Nields), Natalie Imbruglia, Marry Me Jane, Air Supply. I'm moved by the likes of Janis Joplin, Counting Crows, Joan Baez, Bright Eyes, Califone. I'm cool because I listen to Ween, Oysterhead, Gov't Mule, The Cure, The Derek Trucks Band, PJ Harvey. I'm super cool because I've seen NIN, David Bowie, Ween, Gov't Mule, Alanis Morrissette, the B-52s, the Derrick Trucks Band and Ani DiFranco. "Let's watch a movie" is music to my ears...
Movies
I'm a freak for movies. Though I've always had an unpleasant before-taste for slapstick comedy, every time I go, I end up laughing and liking it. I dig fantasy shit that can't happen. I dig suspense and thriller in which there's always a bad guy and I get to try to guess who it is. I like Run Lola Run, The Lover, The Shining, Shaun of the Dead, The Professional, La Femme Nikita. Love Dr. Strangelove, Rear Window, City of Lost Children, Amelie, and many others. Can't even think of how many movies I enjoy watching. Others to consider and get excited in the parking lot about: Exorcist, The Shining, Resident Evil. Anything with goblins, zombies, ghosts, killers, scary shit that says "boo" and freaky shit that says nothing (like the first hour of Wendigo). I love horror, even the shitty kind, and I love weird: David Lynch can step in my dreams any fuckin' time: I'm a fan of Twin Peaks, Mulholland Drive, Dune (DUNE!) and Lars von Trier (Dogville, The Kingdom, Medea, Element of Crime, Dancer in the Dark)
i like brain candy, like mysteries (Patricia Cornwell, Minette Walters, Elizabeth George). I love brain food, like Hemingway, Kundera, Winterson, Marquez, Tartt, Proulx, Camus and a whole slew of others. See my website for all the books I've recently read. A list: Confederacy of Dunces, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Sexing the Cherry, Frankenstein, Jane Eyre, The Secret History, Lake of Dead Languages, Perks of Being a Wallflower, Possession, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, Singing Songs, House of Leaves, The Diamond Age, Catcher in the Rye, Anais Nin's Henry and June, Grendel, Julip, The Dark Towers Series, His Dark Materials trilogy, Dune, Farewell to Arms, Slowness, The Awakening, Woman in the Dunes, Atlas Shrugged, The Big Sleep & The Long Goodbye, Quo Vadis, I Spit on Your Graves (Boris Vian), Handmaid's Tale, Love in the Time of Cholera, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, This Boy's Life, I Am Legend, On the Road, Kafka's In the Penal Colony and The Hunger Artist, Hoffman's The Golden Pot and The Sandman, Stones from the River, Bastard Out of Carolina, The Untouchable (Bannville), The Shipping News, The Stranger, Giovanni's Room, The Red Tent, The Brothers Karamazov, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter and Member of the Wedding, Summer, Light in August, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, On the Road and more... Currently reading: Perfume: The Story of a Murderer, by Patrick Suskind.
Heroes
heroes?
all the dead people that did good stuff.
and my sister.
oh. I guess living people that did good stuff too.
want a real hero? put a cape on me, motherfucker.
University Of Rochester
Rochester, NEW YORK
Graduated: 2001
Student status: Alumni
Degree: Bachelor's Degree
Major: Comparative Literature/German
Clubs: Club WRiTe
1998 to 2001
Mount Holyoke College
South Hadley, MASSACHUSETTS
Graduated: N/A
Student status: Alumni
Degree: None
Major: English Literature
Oisin Henry was born on Friday, September 12 weighing in at a mighty 9lbs, 10.2 oz. He's a handsome, strapping young lad at 22.5 inches long. Charles and I are crazy excited to have finally met our little boy. And we thought we were crazy mad in love before! Oisin is showing us a thing or two ... he's absolutely, wondrously amazing.
Christen and Charles got hitched on April 5, 2008. We both agree: of all the weddings we've been to, this one was definitely our favorite! It was fabulous. Our friends are fabulous. Our marriage is fabulous.
Christen wants to laugh everyday.
And usually does.
For absolutely no reason at all.
"God, this is like living every moment in an orgasm,
with only pauses between plunges." - Anais Nin, Diaries
"It is immoral not to tell." - Albert Camus
"...by the power of the written word to make you hear, to make you feel... before all, to make you see. That — and no more, and it is everything. If I succeed, you shall find there according to your deserts: encouragement, consolation, fear, charm — all you demand — and, perhaps, also that glimpse of truth for which you have forgotten to ask." - Joseph Conrad
"I think we ought to only read the kind of books that wound and stab us. If the book we are reading doesn’t wake us up with a blow on the head, what are we reading it for? So that it will make us happy, as you write? Good Lord, we would be happy precisely if we had no books, and the kind of books that make us happy are the kind we could write ourselves if we had to. But we need the books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us. That is my belief." - Franz Kafka, to his friend Pollak, 1904
Do you remember when we finished kayaking the first time, and we were loading them up on the car, and there was a weird excitement about what was going to happen next? I'm glad you make me feel that way all the time! muah!
Hi Christen! CONGRATULATIONS with the new baby. I am so happy for you. I can't wait to see pictures. I called today...but you were busy!! Take care of yourself and your little bundle of joy. Congrats again. Talk to you soon. Great job!
Oisin Henry was born on Friday, September 12 weighing in at a mighty 9lbs, 10.2 oz. He's a handsome, strapping young lad at 22.5 inches long. Charles and I are crazy excited to have finally met our little boy. And we thought we were crazy mad in love before! Oisin is showing us a thing or two ... he's absolutely, wondrously amazing.
Christen and Charles got hitched on April 5, 2008. We both agree: of all the weddings we've been to, this one was definitely our favorite! It was fabulous. Our friends are fabulous. Our marriage is fabulous.
