Jilli. 20, Illinois, computer science major. Things I do in excess: argue, eat cheese, smoke, white girl dance, watch TV on DVD, drive, and make weird faces.

Cheers.

 

a few of my favorite things

books:

  • Cat’s Cradle; Mother Night; Slapstick; Slaughterhouse Five; Breakfast of Champions (Vonnegut)
  • A Moveable Feast; The Sun Also Rises (Hemingway)
  • Harry Potter (JK Rowling)
  • Ham on Rye, Post Office, Love is a Dog from Hell, The People Look Like Flowers at Last (Bukowski)
  • Never Let Me Go (Ishiguro)
  • Downtown Owl; Killing Yourself to Live (Chuck Klosterman)
  • Collected Poems (Allen Ginsberg)
  • Looking for Alaska (John Green)
  • Less Than Zero; The Rules of Attraction (BE Ellis)
  • A Tale of Two Cities (Dickens)

music:

  • Sleater-Kinney, Radiohead, Talking Heads, St. Vincent, Animal Collective, Destroyer, The Beach Boys, The Kinks, LCD Soundsystem, Beach House, Deerhunter, P.J. Harvey, Yo La Tengo, The Antlers, Patsy Cline, Spoon, Flying Lotus, Liars, Spiritualized, Portishead, The Rolling Stones, Steve Reich, Benny Goodman, and so on and so forth

movies:

  • Singin’ in the Rain, Chinatown, Dr. Strangelove, Cabaret, Gosford Park, Clue, Before Sunrise/Before Sunset, Spirited Away, Pulp Fiction, Jurassic Park, Y Tu Mama Tambien, There Will Be Blood, The Shining, Sunset Boulevard, Manhattan, Harry Potter, Empire Strikes Back, Lord of the Rings, Lost in Translation, Gangs of New York

TV shows:

  • Arrested Development, Lost, Parks & Recreation, Community, The Twilight Zone, MST3K, Friday Night Lights, Freaks and Geeks, The Mighty Boosh, Mad Men, Dexter, 30 Rock, The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, I Love Lucy, Gossip Girl, Six Feet Under, Party Down

sports:

  • soccer.