Ruby

The Basics

Name

Ruby

Location

New Zealand

About Me

About Me

I like paper things, soy sauce fish, cute babies, nice ladies, Russian books, cheeky looks, Jazz music, writing music, reading late at night, writing late at night, typewriters, dead writers, Frida Kahlo, talking to wine-os, drunken adventures, other people’s misdemeanours and….

Religion/Spirituality/Philosophy

Atheist of Jewish descent

Looking For

Queer Friends in my Area, Queer Friends on the Internet

Relationship Status

Single, Pining

Virtues

Honesty, empathy, confidence, trying to give more to the world than I take from it.

Vices

Socially derped, too highly opinionated at times, terrible dancer.

Are You Out To Your....

Member(s) of Immediate Family, Close Friends

What I Like

Favorite Books

Light Boxes by Shane Jones, Five Wounds by Jonathan Walker, 1984 by George Orwell, The Blind Singer by Chris Price, Sharp Teeth by Toby Barlow, And The Ass Saw The Angel by Nick Cave, On The Road by Jack Kerouac, To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee, The Book of Longing by Leonard Cohen, Not Her Real Name by Emily Perkins, and yet again the list continues on and on forever, Amen.

Favorite Movies

‘Synecdoche, New York’, ‘Dancing In The Dark’, ‘Once’, The Saddest Music in the World’, ‘Napoleon Dynamite’, ‘500 Days of Summer’, ‘Juno’, ‘Cat on a Hot Tin Roof’, ‘Lolita’, ‘Bright Star’, ‘The Piano’, ‘An Angel at my Table’, ‘The Breakfast Club’, ‘Electric Children’, ‘Rocky Horror Picture Show’, ‘The Triplets of Belleville’, ‘Electrick Children’, ‘Moonrise Kingdom’, ‘Pans Labyrinth’ + more, more more…

Favorite Documentaries

Exit Through the Giftshop (debatable as to wether or not it really is a documentary), Freakonomics, It Might Get Loud, anything about Ginsberg, Keroac etc.

Favorite TV Shows

‘Top Of The Lake’, ‘Underemployed’, ‘Doctor Who’, ‘Bob’s Burgers’, ‘Adventure Time’, ‘Regular Show’, ‘Later with Jools Holland’, ‘Basement Sessions’, ‘New Girl’, ‘Iconoclasts’…. I’m more likely to watch movies than TV shows.

Favorite Music

Jacques Brel, Ben Sollee, Oscar Pettiford, Gershwin, Glenn Miller, Ella Fitzgerald, Bessie Smith, Memphis Minnie, Miles Davis, The Violent Femmes, The Smiths, Patti Smith, The Velvet Underground, Kimya Dawson, The Moldy Peaches, Cat Power, Wanda Jackson, The White Stripes, Rufus Wainwright, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Tom Waits, Jack White, Jesse Sheehan, Stornoway, Harry Nilsson, Luke Hurley, Paul Mccartney, the Beatles, Nathan Haines, Dave Brubeck, Django Reinhart, Leonard Cohen, Cab Calloway + more + more to the power of lots.

Favorite Sandwich

Cheese, tomato and red onion toastie on homemade bread… with enough tobasco to kill a small child.

Favorite Quotes

“Imagination is more important thank knowledge” – Albert Einstein

“Possibility is not a luxury; it is as crucial as bread” – Judith Butler

Favorite Thing on Autostraddle.com

The things that make me think.

The things that make me laugh.

The things that make me cry.

Favorite Writers

Jack Kerouac, Chris Price, Franz Kafka, Tolstoy, Shane Jones, Jonathan Walker, Bill Manhire, George Orwell, Mary Shelley, Toby Barlow, Tao Lin, Andrea Gibson, Edgar Allan Poe, Allan Ginsberg Lemony Snicket, Nick Cave, Emily Perkins, the list continues on and on forever, Amen.