The Basics
Name | Lora |
About Me
Check All That Apply | Queer |
Website/Blog/Tumblr | gertrudefrankenstein.tumblr.com |
Relationship Status | Single, Forever Alone |
Virtues | Awesome hair, can rock sunglasses like a motherfucker |
Vices | Social smoking, the dirtiest of curse words, and that one time I drank half a bottle of Old Granddad whiskey and hurled… a lot |
Are You Out To Your.... | Member(s) of Immediate Family, Members(s) of Extended Family, Close Friends, All Friends |
What I Like
Favorite Books | Bastard Out of Carolina, Barrel Fever, Lolita, Harry Potter, I Capture the Castle, Candide, Wuthering Heights, Atonement, The Bell Jar, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Anne of Green Gables, Fun Home, Ghost World, Maus, The Stone Diaries, Big World, I Was Told There’d Be Cake, A Girl Named Zippy, A Room with a View, Self Help, Who Will Run the Frog Hospital?, The Book Thief, Slaughterhouse-Five, His Dark Materials trilogy, etc. |
Favorite Queer Books | Fun Home, The Price of Salt, Rubyfruit Jungle, Among Other Things I’ve Taken Up Smoking, The Color Purple, Flaming Iguanas, Angels in America, The Miseducation of Cameron Post, Fall on Your Knees |
Favorite Movies | Bright Star, everything by Wes Anderson, Star Wars (original trilogy), Harry Potter, Wet Hot American Summer, Mean Girls, Ghost World, Harold and Maude, All the Real Girls, Lost in Translation, The Apartment, What’s Up Doc?, Waiting for Guffman, Groundhog Day, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Clueless, Shaun of the Dead, lots of Tarantino, Singin’ in the Rain, Calamity Jane |
Favorite Documentaries | Helvetica, Grizzly Man, The Celluloid Closet, This Film is Not Yet Rated, Roger and Me, American Movie, Jesus Camp |
Favorite TV Shows | Mad Men, Community, 30 Rock, Parks and Recreation, Happy Endings, Bomb Girls, So You Think You Can Dance, Jeopardy, Freaks and Geeks, Arrested Development, Seinfeld, Party Down, Summer Heights High, Skins (UK), Strangers with Candy, Top Chef, It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Veronica Mars |
Favorite Music | Rilo Kiley, Jenny Lewis, Ella Fitzgerald, Spoon, Dusty Springfield, Santigold, Horse Feathers, Janelle Monae, Regina Spektor, the New Pornographers, Joanna Newsom, Le Tigre, Robyn, Laura Marling, the Clash, Yeasayer, Bon Iver, Amy Winehouse, Adele, Vampire Weekend, Kanye West, Madonna, Jefferson Airplane, Woodhands, the Velvet Underground, Passion Pit, the bird and the bee, Grizzly Bear, The Mountain Goats, The Supremes, The Beatles, The Carpenters, Sleigh Bells, the Kills, Fiona Apple, Fleetwood Mac, Lady Gaga, Joni Mitchell, Carole King, showtunes, Beyonce, Sleater-Kinney, and Feist. |
Favorite Sandwich | Club, no tomato or ham, extra turkey |
Favorite Thing to Autostraddle | The state line between Indiana and Kentucky, a.k.a. the Ohio River |
Favorite Thing on Autostraddle.com | All of the lady lovers. |
Favorite Writers | Lorrie Moore, Sarah Vowell, Haven Kimmel, Mary Miller, David Sedaris, E.M. Forster, Adrienne Rich |