my middle name is phoenix, like the bird. i don't use my first name.

i was born in september of 1984. i like presents.  please?

• english major.
• a virgo, a rat, and isfj.
• vegetarian for 11 years.
• liberal.
• former minnesotan currently residing in portland with my two cats and husband.
• agnostic.
• pierced, stretched, and tattooed.
• married!
• i dislike: milk, homophobes, factory farms, fundamentalists, censorship, conservatives/republicans, most diamonds, the willfully ignorant, and plagarists.
• i like: abandoned buildings, gender roles/studies, poetry/writing, motorcycling, the sims2, reading, bare feet, scars, bad erotica/porn, web design, irc, corsets, flowers, x-files, mstk3, the colbert report, 1950s housewives, my little pony, animals (including stuffed ones!), theology, mythology, ephemeral films, and swinging in the park at midnight. also, doc martens, sexology, garter belts, serial killers, john waters, secretary, and the russian language.
• i listen to garbage.  everclear.  matchbox twenty.  switchblade symphony.  savage garden.  jack off jill.  no doubt.  darude.  dj tiesto.  r.e.m.  new order.   dresden dolls.  talking heads.  the police.  moody blues.  liz phair.  alanis morissette.  natalie imbruglia.  marilyn manson.  madonna.  nine inch nails.  vnv nation.  lords of acid.  third eye blind.  incubus.  ani difranco.  barenaked ladies.  the beatles.  scissor sisters.  bob dylan.  depeche mode.  green day.  project pitchfork.  flesh field.  red delicious.  they might be giants.  joy division.  rob thomas.  vhs or beta.  anna nalick.  weezer.  the pixies.  johnny cash.  the who.  panic! at the disco.  darren hayes.  butthole surfers.  boy hits car.  thievery corporation.  tori amos.  astropuppees.  atb.  snake river conspiracy.  emilie autumn.  orgy.  amanda palmer.

• i've seen live: rob thomas (x2), anna nalick (x2), nine inch nails (x2), autolux, queens of the stone age, matchbox twenty (x3), maroon 5, sugar ray, train, shelby lynne, nickelback (x2), old 97s, ministry, my life with the thrill kill kult, default (x2), 3 days grace, trapt, max j, emily hammer, brianna lane, crystal castles, bombs into you, gospel gossip (x2), kmfdm, angelspit, legion within