MalaYQue

I'm now caught up on all of my swaps. Thanks to those who were nice about it and didn't ding me too bad. Those of you who DID ding me even after I kept in email contact and included a lot of extras that I spent good money on, and also paid through the nose for delivery, well, I'm pretty sure we wouldn't hang out in real life because I strongly suspect you may be asssholes.

Now that that's out of the way, I have learned my lesson and have a new plan: I will sign up for new swaps only when I have the item ready to go in a package. Then and only then will I click the sign up button.

So, ABOUT ME: I'm a biker, graphic designer, writer/editor, and researcher. I work from home and enjoy not having to commute or answer to people I don't like. I'm married with two college-age kids. I have a wacked-out sense of humor, a potty-mouth, and I take no shitt so don't try dishing.

Blues, 70's soul and funk, the Vaughans, Allman Brothers, The Band, Brian Eno, War, Tower of Power, Mary J. Blige, The Cure, Etta James, Patsy Cline, Cake, The Doors, Robbie Robertson, Delinquent Habits, BB King, Sublime, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Iz, mariachi, "Un bel di vedremo" from Madama Butterfly, Johnny Cash, The Federation

Quirky movies are the best in my book: High Fidelity, Easy Rider, Raging Bull, American Movie, Raising Arizona, Being John Malkovich, Dazed and Confused, Powwow Highway, Sling Blade, Clerks, Trees Lounge, Fight Club, The Salton Sea, Ghost World, Sin City, Welcome to the Dollhouse, Smoke Signals, Friday, State Fair (1945), Frequency, Office Space, Groundhog Day, Pulp Fiction, Jackie Brown, all Coen Brothers films and the Clint Eastwood/Sergio Leone spaghetti westerns, especially The Good, The Bad and The Ugly.

Some of my all-time favorites are off the air now, but I really like Sopranos, Weeds, Medium (except I can't stand the Joe character and the two older girls), the Daily Show with Jon Stewart, Sex and the City, Desperate Housewives, Ab Fab, Arrested Development, Family Guy, Lucky Louie (what the hell happened to that show?), Colbert Report, Big Love

Photo editing with Photoshop, printmaking, collage, Mexican folk art, shrines, junk/recycled object art, anything irreverent. I used to do stained glass in high school and would like to try that again. I would also like to get hold of a Print Gocco and try that out. It looks like it would be fun to print with.

I love Harley-Davidsons, biker lifestyle, poker runs and biker rallies, napping when I am exhausted, Apple Macintosh computers, beans and tortillas, iced coffee, touching things with interesting textures, silver jewelry, Powwows, fry bread, citrus friuit, crushed ice, authentic American Indian culture, jewelry and art, Mexican culture, genealogy, citrus-floral fragrances, cats with bad attitudes and extra toes, yappy little dogs that think they're bad asses, brown and green eye makeup, Stanford Cardinal (no, I'm not an alumna), California history, hand guns, switch blades and other cool knives, urban legends, reading non-fiction, cool reading glasses, retro tattoo art, gay guys who like to shop, women who speak up and sound off, off-color jokes, Northern California, finding humor anywhere I can, and -with the exception of body parts - things that are freakishly small or freakishly large. Colors: green, purple, orange, brown, black, turquoise. Bold & strong colors, no pastels.

Doesn't Appreciate: • pastel colors (ick) • cutesy stuff • country style decorating • anything with blue geese/ducks • prim & proper shit • people who are obnoxious, bullying, mean, rude, homophobic, intolerant, or humorless • eating meat/fish • people who drone on and on about the superiority of their diet. Especially vegetarians who do that. Guess what? Nobody cares. Get over yourself! • spitting • bringing religion into politics • censorship • talking in movies