Hex Appeal

Team: Hittin' Misses

Number: 7
Derby Positions: blocker
Motto: Have a Hex, and a good lie down
Movies: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead; Amadeus; Tampopo; Frida; I'm No Angel; Hour of the Wolf; When Night Is Falling; anything by Kitano, Scorsese, Jarmusch, Kurasawa, Herzog, Mehta, Jordan, Leigh, Von Trier, Hartley, Altman, Lynch, Cronenberg, Kar-Wai, Zhang, Almodovar, Merchant/Ivory
Bands: Mekons, Pogues, The Fall, Everything But the Girl, Tom Waits, Bob Dylan, Rolling Stones, Camper Van Beethoven, Squirrel Nut Zippers, Dead Kennedys, Cramps, Replacements, Santana, Buena Vista Social Club, Saint Etienne, Niel Young, Johnny Cash, Fugazi, Sonic Youth
Books: The Master and Margarita, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, The Kitchen God's Wife, The Tattoo Murder Case, My Year of Meats, Orlando, Syntactic Structures, Parameters and Universals, Belfast English and Standard English, A Natural History of Negation, The English History of African American English, Everything that Linguists Have Always Wanted to Know About Logic *But Were Ashamed to Ask
Celebrity Resemblance: my mother, but only over the phone
Celebrity Most Likely to Make Out With: Salma Hayek
I Can’t Live Without: house plants, rollerskates, my parents, my girlfriends in WI and TX, earl grey tea
Guilty Pleasure: molten chocolate cake at the French Roast on 6th Avenue in Greenwich Village
Hobbies: cooking; argentine tango, ballroom and disco dancing; group noodling; film buff; reading novels, especially detective/mystery novels; singing classical music when I have the chance to join a chorus; jigsaw puzzles and sudoku; card and board games, especially mah jong
Likes: sushi, disco, Ireland, Grace Jones, the sound of a NYC subway car approaching; Chinese temples; Austin, TX; chicken shit bingo; fall colors WI
Dislikes: scented candles, carpet skating, SUVs, heavy metal
Drink of Choice: grape juice