CURRENT MISSION

Global havoc. Or just variety.

ABOUT ME

I am very sweet. I talk a lot to make up for actually being quite shy. I love to travel, but I'm somewhat against "tourism"- that is, the idea of intruding onto someone else's daily life just because I want to see it. So I try to act as unassuming as possible in new situations, and just go with the flow. (I really liked it when Czech people asked me for directions in Prague.)

PHILOSOPHY

I want my life to be as full of satisfying and exhilirating experiences as it can be. I am not afraid to do things that are not expected of me. I like to challenge myself all the time- whether it's going to another country completely alone or just dressing slightly differently than I normally do.

Radical change is the word. Or two.

Interests

• make up
• traveling
• tourism

Music, Movies, and Books

Books- Wise Blood and A Good Man is Hard to Find by Flannery O'Connor. The Man Who Loved Children by Christina Stead. Miss Lonelyhearts, Day of the Locusts, and A Cool Million by Nathanael West. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Death in Midsummer by Yukio Mishima. Cogwheels by Ryonusuke Akutagawa. No Longer Human by Osamu Dasai. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad.

Movies- Heavenly Creatures by Peter Jackson. Repulsion by Roman Polanski. Badlands by Terence Malick. Ghost World by Terry Zwigoff. Rushmore and The Royal Tenenbaums by Wes Anderson. An entire smattering of films by Alfred Hitchcock. La Vida es Silbar by Fernando Peréz. All About My Mother and Talk to her by Pedro Almodóvar. Amelie by Jean-Pierre Jeunet.

Music- Gang of Four. Captain Beefheart. The Pixies. Björk. Cocteau Twins. Morphine. Tom Waits. Leonard Cohen. Nick Cave/The Birthday Party. Siouxsie and the Banshees. Cat Power. Mindless Self-Indulgence. The Smiths. Interpol. Rasputina. Portishead. Massive Attack. Ravel. Debussy. Grieg. Nina Simone. Billie Holiday. The Dresden Dolls. Kurt Weill.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Canada, France, Germany, Israel, Italy, Spain, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Czech Republic, United States