About

IS:

29, female, Australian, social worker, professional herder of chil’uns

LOOKS LIKE:

Sorry about that

Damn tree-hugging hippies

There, that’s better. Kill kill kill

LIKES:

(parenthetical commentary), abseiling, absurdity, accents, adventures, alternative/indie, ancient history, arguing, atheism, australia, being a perennial student, being a sarcastic bastard, the beach, blues, brisbane, british spellings, bumming on the internet, civil disobedience, civil liberties, comfortable shoes, comfortable silences, culture jamming, darkrooms, debating, diversity, dreaming, evil, evolution, exaggerating, family, festivals, film, folklore, folk/rock, free speech, freedom from religion, freedom of religion, hating netspeak/textspeak, history, hugging, human rights, idealism, independent film, independent music, insomnia, invention, irony, irreverence, jazz, languages, laughing at myself, learnin’ shit,  liberalism, linguistics, literature, lomography, minions, misanthropy, mocking, music, mythology, never shutting up, non-sequiturs, old books, old cameras, parody, peace, people-watching, performing arts, philosophy, photography, Photoshop, playing the drums (badly), playing guitar, political intrigue, politics, pop culture, post-punk, pro-choice, procrastination, psychology, punctuation, quirks, ranting, reading, revolution, rock climbing, sarcasm, satire, Schadenfreude, SCUBA diving, secular humanism, sexuality, Shakespeare, skydiving, singing, sleep, sociology, staying up too late, surrealism, sword fighting, theatre, theology, ukuleles, useless trivia, using big words, utter crap, volleyball, whimsy, world domination, world peace, writing, your mum

LISTENS TO:

Sigur Rós, The Arcade Fire, Florence + the Machine, The xx, Mumford & Sons, Tegan and Sara, Elbow, Eels, The National, Bon Iver, Gotye, Massive Attack, The Cure, Pixies, Placebo, Cat Power, Emiliana Torrini, Portishead, José González, The Middle East, Belle and Sebastian, The Grates, The Bravery, Whitley, Neutral Milk Hotel, Metric, Athlete, Brian Jonestown Massacre, Frank Turner, Editors, The Shins, Bertie Blackman, A.C. Newman, Band Of Horses, Amanda Fucking Palmer, The Dandy Warhols, Joseph Arthur, Regina Spektor, Fleet Foxes, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Sia, Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros, Joy Division, The Temper Trap, An Horse, Doves, Whitley, Grizzly Bear, The Dead Weather, Mazzy Star, The Beatles

WATCHES:

Arrested Development, Six Feet Under, 30 Rock, Dexter, Supernatural, Family Guy, Bones, Summer Heights High, Scrubs, Weeds, United States of Tara, Hungry Beast

Children of Men, Little Miss Sunshine, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Stranger Than Fiction, The Princess Bride, Mean Girls, The 400 Blows, The Royal Tenebaums, The Ice Storm, Juno, Election, Being John Malkovich, Drop Dead Gorgeous, (500) Days of Summer, Heathers, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, In Bruges, Lost In Translation, Pan’s Labyrinth, Saved!, The Talented Mr. Ripley, Doubt, Harold and Maude

READS:

I Pass Like Night (Jonathan Ames), Independence Day (Richard Ford), Everything is Illuminated and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (Jonathan Safran Foer), The Princess Bride (William Goldman), The Armies of the Night (Norman Mailer), Post Secrets series (Frank Warren), Wolf at the Table (Augusten Burroughs), The Virgin Suicides and Middlesex (Jeffrey Eugenides), The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night Time (Mark Haddon), 1984 (George Orwell), Brave New World (Aldous Huxley), Stranger In A Strange Land (Robert A. Heinlen), The Secret History (Donna Tartt), In Cold Blood (Truman Capote), anything by David Sedaris, Jincy Willett, J. M. Coetzee, Chuck Palahniuk

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