Member: _bossanova_

_bossanova_ é otimista, realmente.

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Member: _bossanova_
Member: _bossanova_
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Top ten

Interests

Personal

bands:

  1. The Pixies
  2. João Gilberto/Elis Regina/Jobim/et al
  3. Nina Simone
  4. Marvin Gaye
  5. Smashing Pumpkins
  6. Fleet Foxes
  7. Motown/Stax/Spector
  8. Portishead
  9. Bonobo
  10. Radiohead

films:

  1. Dersu Uzala
  2. Vertigo
  3. 2046
  4. In the Mood For Love
  5. Volver
  6. Todo sobre mi madre
  7. La mala educación
  8. Prisoner of the Mountains
  9. Happy Together
  10. La double vie de Véronique

books:

  1. Middlesex
  2. The Mists of Avalon
  3. A Wrinkle in Time
  4. The Unbearable Lightness of Being
  5. The Satanic Verses
  6. Midnight's Children
  7. anything Eco
  8. (almost) anything Fitzgerald
  9. Don't Cry
  10. White Teeth

tv shows:

  1. Downton Abbey
  2. Mad Men
  3. Arrested Development
  4. 30 Rock
  5. Californication
  6. True Blood
  7. Bored to Death
  8. Ab Fab
  9. X-Files
  10. The Simpsons
 

into: medicine, literature, art, music, film (esp. old/independent/art/foreign ones), travel, Brazil, Spain, my amazing family, driving cars, flying in airplanes, skydiving, riding horses, dancing to music that makes it impossible to stop, cooking, motorcycles, psychology, primatology, red lipstick, Art Noveau, flappers/philosophers and everything F. Scott or Zelda Fitzgerald, miniature goats and donkeys, Russian archaeology, history, singing in the car and in the shower, live shows in small venues, staying up past my bedtime, Mongolia, drawing, feminism, good sex, spirituality, indulging my didactic impulse, experiencing the South as a cultural outsider, bossa nova, practicing my Portuguese

not into: pretension, organized religion, social conservatism, incessant and unrelenting negativity

makes me happy: hearing a great old song at 3 am in a diner or drugstore, Almodovar heroines & Wong Kar Wai anti-heroes, endless kissing, alto sax-playing buskers, getting anything hand-written in the mail, healthy puppies, good sleep, cracking open a new book, seeing new places, listening to stories

makes me sad: indifference, racism, disease, organized religion, poverty, being far away from loved ones

hobbies: reading, film, music/live shows, cooking/eating out, travel, dogs, spending time with people that are dear to me

vices: anything with cinnamon, worrying, books I can't afford, cab rides through the city at night

thoughts on sg: It's okay

i spend most of my free time: daydreaming

 

occupation: servitude

current crush: Aleksandar Hemon

stats: 110/75

body mods: appendectomy, pre-sacral neurectomy, 2 tiny tattoos, 2 pierced ears

heroes: my grandmothers

gets me hot: brains: preferably of the literary or scientific persuasion (or both), laughter, books, kindness, a lack of pretension

fantasy: to be useful

sign: is entirely different from a symptom

most humbling moment: always feels like it's right around the corner

CIGARETTES: Nope

MY DIET: Omnivore

ALCOHOL: Occasionally

MY DRUG USE: Down the hatch

I AM LOOKING FOR: someone exotic

MY KINK FACTOR: I'll try anything once, especially if you beg for it.

MY POLITICS: Bleeding-heart Liberal

POT: Occasionally

MY STATUS: not telling

MY IDEA OF A GOOD TIME: A long, slow, late dinner with friends.

I WANT: Booty, Friendship, Online Flirting

MY PIGEONHOLES: Goth, Hillbilly, Bookworm