Member: mapleGoat

mapleGoat likes The Daily Show, BC, and freckles.

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bands:

  1. Radiohead
  2. Sonic Youth
  3. Sigur Ros
  4. Metric
  5. Yeah Yeah Yeahs
  6. My Morning Jacket
  7. Wilco
  8. Emily Haines
  9. Arcade Fire
  10. Sufjan Stevens

films:

  1. Art & Copy
  2. Urbanized
  3. Wristcutters: A Love Story
  4. Objectified
  5. Standard Operating Procedure
  6. Food, Inc.
  7. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
  8. Maelstrom
  9. Superbad
  10. New Waterford Girl

books:

  1. The Elements of Typographic Style
    Robert Bringhurst
  2. iOS Human Interface Guidelines
    Apple
  3. The End of Poverty
    Jeffrey D. Sachs
  4. The Big Necessity
    Rose George
  5. Following The Last Wild Wolves
    Ian McAllister
  6. slide:ology
    Nancy Duarte
  7. Dark Age Ahead
    Jane Jacobs
  8. The Partly Cloudy Patriot
    Sarah Vowell
  9. Who's Your City?
    Richard Florida
  10. Up North: Where Canada's Architecture Meets the Land
    Lisa Rochon

tv shows:

  1. Frontline
  2. Interior Therapy with Jeff Lewis
  3. Ice Pilots NWT
  4. Flying Wild Alaska
  5. The Agenda with Steve Paikin
  6. Parks and Recreation
  7. The Daily Show
  8. Flight of the Conchords
  9. Viva La Bam and Jackass
  10. Curb Your Enthusiasm
 

into: humour, curiosity, creativity, passion, design, intelligence, ideas, conversation, listening, sharing, empathy, imagination, vision, curves, Canada, music, voices, reading, photography, the cloud, tea, Bettie Page, egalitarianism, embracing mistakes, public broadcasting, podcasts, architecture, editing, page layout, writing, goats, monogamy, magazines, nature, porn, documentaries, cats, pinups, cinema, the Arctic, cold weather, caribou, polar bears, narwhals, muskoxen, Inuit culture, tundra, ice roads, diplomacy, politics, urban planning, self-deprecation, words, social drinking, Haida art, Nunavut, Northwest Territories, Yukon, Alaska, BC, Washington, Oregon, Australia, Japan, South America, goats and more goats, iOS, OS X, Aperture, Final Cut Studio, Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, Keynote, Objective-C, Cocoa Touch, Xcode, PHP, MySQL, monopods, Border Collies, Teen Girl Squad

not into: small minds, defeatism, short-term thinking, judgemental fucks, self-righteousness, inequity, poverty, poor customer service, telemarketers, politics, hyperglycemia, cover bands, being unable to stay awake, humidity, being rushed, font substitution

makes me happy: design, laughing, learning, affection, intimacy, musique, masturbation, books, food and drink, friends, autumn, hearing Canadian place names in lyrics, gift giving, ligatures, exceeded expectations, diversity, iTunes Store downloads, new books, buying fonts, maple syrup, long sleeves and layers, receiving packages in the mail, snow, helping people, passionate agreement, appreciation of nuance, languages other than English spoken in public, Rhodes, Hammond, banjo, Leslies, Clav, synths, a great pair of headphones

makes me sad: clinical depression, hypoglycemia, receiving compliments, praise, climate change, disappointment at the mailbox, no money to travel, people not listening, being dismissed, emails that never come, dashed hopes, environmental devastation, character limit on Current Crush textbox

5 things i can't live without: insulin, the female form, laughter, my iPhone, a Mac

vices: girl crazy, impatience, peanut butter, chocolate, anything maple (except beer), procrastination, perfectionism

thoughts on sg: I love it

 

occupation: Graphic Designer / Entrepreneurz

current crush: Maura Davis, Zooey Deschanel, Alia Shawkat, Juliette Binoche, Sarah Shahi, Sandy Miranda, Jenn Grant, Daisy Lowe, January Jones, Ellen Wong, Gina Gershon, Sue Gardner, Erin Burnett, Kristin Schaal, Nil Köksal

heroes: Steve Jobs, Jonathan Ive, Thom Yorke, Tim Berners-Lee, Steve Paikin, Jeffrey Sachs, Louise Arbour, Morgan Spurlock, Gordon Ramsey, Sheila Fraser

gets me hot: touch, kissing, stockings, boots, garters, bras, glasses, panties, corsets, laces, ribbons, silk gloves, latex (all that lie underneath these), freckles, diastema, typography, no time limits on foreplay, design, photography, girls who play keys, girl with a Wacom, girls who play banjo, girls who code, girls who cook and bake, Hasselblads, Japanese women, Inuit women, First Nations women, Indian women

favorite position: Cowgirl is a classic with immutable appeal. However, I love to mix things up trying new positional concoctions.

most humbling moment: 'US National Snow and Ice Data Center reported the polar ice cap shrank, on average, the equivalent of three Belgiums every day in July [2009].' — The Globe and Mail

ALCOHOL: Occasionally

MY DRUG USE: Drug Free

MY POLITICS: None apply, you assholes