taylor

The Basics

Name

taylor

Location

atlanta

About Me

About Me

I’m a college student currently taking a break from college (until January), and hopefully spending the summer working for an environmental group. I love poetry more than anything. I’m also into arts and crafts, music, photography, mary jane, doctor who, glitter nail polish, outer space, and my two pet mice.
This is my first summer being an “adult” and living on my own, and I’m trying to really explore and get to know Atlanta. I’m always interested in new friends, especially if you’re also interested in spending time outside, adventuring, and seeing some shows.

Check All That Apply

Lesbian, Gay, Queer

Religion/Spirituality/Philosophy

the universe is expanding. always. isn't that crazy???

Website/Blog/Tumblr

http://glitterlighter.tumblr.com

Twitter

sputniktay

Looking For

Queer Friends in my Area, Queer Friends on the Internet, Queer Friends to Make Out With, Business Contacts

Relationship Status

Single, Sleeping Around, Forever Alone

Virtues

I've got a decent sense of humor, and I've been told I'm intelligent.

Vices

Anxious, irrational, bad with commitment, a little bit cray-cray.

Are You Out To Your....

Member(s) of Immediate Family, Close Friends, All Friends, School/Work

What I Like

Favorite Books

Short version: everything Haruki Murakami has ever written is perfect. Also, Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell, and Lolita by Nabokov.

I’m more into poetry and short fiction/essays than books, so…. poems!:

Anne Sextion: “Live”, “Said the Poet to the Analyst”, “The Lost Ingredient”, “Her Kind”, “The Starry Night”, “The Black Art”, “For the Year of the Insane”, “Wanting to Die”, “Cripples and Other Stories”, “Just Once”, “Us”

If you haven’t read The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot I will badger you until you do (also, of course, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”, “Hollow Men”, “Four Quartets”, “Ash Wednesday”, “Gerontion”)

Others: “Parts Of An Argument” by Arda Collins; “The Girl Learns Forfeit” by Laurel Snyder; all of Tinderbox Lawn by Carol Guess; “The Paper Nautilus” by Marianne Moore…. augh there’s a lot more I don’t even know why I’m trying to list them all.

Favorite Queer Books

The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe – Jane Wagner
all of Marilyn Hacker’s poems
Talking in the Dark – Billy Merrell
Tinderbox Lawn – Carol Guess
Orlando – Virginia Woolf

Favorite Movies

The Muppet Movie & Muppet Treasure Island

There are others but that’s all you really need to know. I would rather watch the Muppets than almost anything else ever, unless there are naked ladies somewhere.

Favorite Documentaries

400 Years of the Telescope, narrated by Neil Degrasse Tyson
Cosmos, with Carl Sagan :)
Planet Earth
Blue Planet
all of the Natgeo stuff on Netflix

Favorite TV Shows

Doctor Who (with the Eleventh Doctor), Glee, The Office, American Dad!, Futurama, King of the Hill, Venture Bros., Superjail!, Lockdown, Hoarders, Intervention

Favorite Music

Passion Pit, The Shins, Belle & Sebastian, Animal Collective, Arcade Fire, Florence + the Machine, Tegan and Sara, Sleigh Bells, Phoenix, Metric, Radiohead, Modest Mouse, Iron & Wine, Starfucker, Indigo Girls, Super Mash Bros, Girl Talk, Lil Wayne, Kanye West, Nicki Minaj, Angus & Julia Stone, Asobi Seksu

Favorite Sandwich

a veggie burger

Favorite Writers

Poetry: T.S. Eliot, Anne Sexton, Adrienne Rich, E.E. Cummings, Laurel Snyder, Carol Guess, Arda Collins, Elizabeth Alexander, Paul Guest, Adrian Matejka, Natasha Trethewey, Marilyn Hacker, Nikki Giovanni, Sylvia Plath, Mina Loy, Marianne Moore, W.H. Auden, Robert Frost, Pablo Neruda, Billy Merrell, Wallace Stevens, Ezra Pound (grudgingly), H.D., Gertrude Stein….
Fiction: Haruki Murakami, Joseph Conrad, Vladimir Nabokov, Ernest Hemingway, Kurt Vonnegut, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Henry James, Tolkien, Virginia Woolf, Jane Austen, Leo Tolstoy, William Faulkner, Jonathan Safran Foer, David Foster Wallace…
Nonfiction: Sloane Crosley, Sarah Vowell, Z.Z. Packer, David Sedaris…
“Other”: Carl Sagan, Ram Dass, Stephen Hawking, Deepak Chopra, Brian Greene…