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queermailName: Saara
Age: 21
Location: Currently I'm getting my fingers strawberry-stained in Finland (where I was born), but in September I return to my bookpiles in Scotland (where I study).
How do you identify? (sexuality / gender) Lesbian. Gender-wise, mostly female, though at times I feel more, um, genderless.
Interests / hobbies: Fiction, life-as-fiction, chance encounters with strangers (like smoking your first-ever cigarette with an elderly man from the north, talking about snow & what a lovely evening it was), languages (French is my current love, but I may have taught myself the Greek alphabet because I couldn't resist -- being a polyglot would be the most awesome thing ever), crying in the theatre, philosophy, escapades, forests, reading, writing, staying up too late, baking, tea houses, elsewheres, burning people, going to the movies alone, being foolish, the incomprehensible art of translation, trains, running away, oheverything.
Favourite books: I am obsessed with books to the extent that my librarian mother thinks I read too much. Some bookloves are: The Secret History, The History of Love, Neverwhere, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, Kit's Wilderness, Mercury Fur, Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures, The World Without Us, Ronia the Robber's Daughter, The Theban Plays, L'heure de la sortie (School's Out), The Unbearable Lightness of Being.
Favourite films: As a film student, I find it sinfully delightful that I'm actually required to spend an evening in the cinema every week. I like movies that are mindfucks or stick to you like ghosts or make you cry or brim over with restless life. Jeux d'enfants, Last Night, Like Minds, Mulholland Dr., The Bubble, Velvet Goldmine, Sunshine, Moulin Rouge, Billy Elliot, Before Sunrise & Before Sunset, Das Leben der Anderen, Grave of the Fireflies, Les amants réguliers, Donnie Darko, My Life Without Me, The Hours, 3-Iron.
Favourite music: I like classical, I like musicals, I like music with stories, haunting lyrics or no words at all. I like old theatre songs I heard as a child about the importance of learning how to read (& how that's not enough) and sparse piano notes we listened to in a Philosophy class on a light afternoon. (Best I like it when the right song plays at the right moment.) Some examples: Vienna Teng, Phillip Glass, Stars, Iron & Wine, Erik Satie, Yoko Kanno, The Decemberists, CocoRosie, Angelo Badalamenti, Au Revoir Simone, Bright Eyes, Antony & The Johnsons, Philippe Rombi, Kings of Convenience, Scandinavian Music Group, Neutral Milk Hotel, Kaj Chydenius.
What would you like to send / receive? I would absolutely adore snailmail of any kind, anything from postcards or little notes to parcels. I wouldn't mind emails, either, but I have to admit I'm quite hopeless with longterm email exchange.
Who would you like to send and receive mail from? Any kind stranger who might feel like writing.
What countries would you like to receive mail from and send to? Anywhere, oh anywhere at all. Preferably in English, but I have to admit that my French could use some practice as well...
Anything that you would particularly not like to receive? Can't really think of anything.
What would be in your dream letter or package? Something that made you ache or tingle with life. (Be it words or pictures or anything.)
Anything else you'd like to add? My dream of becoming a crazy cat lady in a house filled with books (with a loveable mutt since my girlfriend's a dog person) is complicated by the wanderlust that causes me to be incapable of even imagining a permanent home country for quite some time now. The world is so amazing and I just long for more of everything. There is so much about queer culture that is still so new to me, and I really want to learn more and get to know more people in these circles.
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Age: 21
Location: Currently I'm getting my fingers strawberry-stained in Finland (where I was born), but in September I return to my bookpiles in Scotland (where I study).
How do you identify? (sexuality / gender) Lesbian. Gender-wise, mostly female, though at times I feel more, um, genderless.
Interests / hobbies: Fiction, life-as-fiction, chance encounters with strangers (like smoking your first-ever cigarette with an elderly man from the north, talking about snow & what a lovely evening it was), languages (French is my current love, but I may have taught myself the Greek alphabet because I couldn't resist -- being a polyglot would be the most awesome thing ever), crying in the theatre, philosophy, escapades, forests, reading, writing, staying up too late, baking, tea houses, elsewheres, burning people, going to the movies alone, being foolish, the incomprehensible art of translation, trains, running away, oheverything.
Favourite books: I am obsessed with books to the extent that my librarian mother thinks I read too much. Some bookloves are: The Secret History, The History of Love, Neverwhere, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, Kit's Wilderness, Mercury Fur, Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures, The World Without Us, Ronia the Robber's Daughter, The Theban Plays, L'heure de la sortie (School's Out), The Unbearable Lightness of Being.
Favourite films: As a film student, I find it sinfully delightful that I'm actually required to spend an evening in the cinema every week. I like movies that are mindfucks or stick to you like ghosts or make you cry or brim over with restless life. Jeux d'enfants, Last Night, Like Minds, Mulholland Dr., The Bubble, Velvet Goldmine, Sunshine, Moulin Rouge, Billy Elliot, Before Sunrise & Before Sunset, Das Leben der Anderen, Grave of the Fireflies, Les amants réguliers, Donnie Darko, My Life Without Me, The Hours, 3-Iron.
Favourite music: I like classical, I like musicals, I like music with stories, haunting lyrics or no words at all. I like old theatre songs I heard as a child about the importance of learning how to read (& how that's not enough) and sparse piano notes we listened to in a Philosophy class on a light afternoon. (Best I like it when the right song plays at the right moment.) Some examples: Vienna Teng, Phillip Glass, Stars, Iron & Wine, Erik Satie, Yoko Kanno, The Decemberists, CocoRosie, Angelo Badalamenti, Au Revoir Simone, Bright Eyes, Antony & The Johnsons, Philippe Rombi, Kings of Convenience, Scandinavian Music Group, Neutral Milk Hotel, Kaj Chydenius.
What would you like to send / receive? I would absolutely adore snailmail of any kind, anything from postcards or little notes to parcels. I wouldn't mind emails, either, but I have to admit I'm quite hopeless with longterm email exchange.
Who would you like to send and receive mail from? Any kind stranger who might feel like writing.
What countries would you like to receive mail from and send to? Anywhere, oh anywhere at all. Preferably in English, but I have to admit that my French could use some practice as well...
Anything that you would particularly not like to receive? Can't really think of anything.
What would be in your dream letter or package? Something that made you ache or tingle with life. (Be it words or pictures or anything.)
Anything else you'd like to add? My dream of becoming a crazy cat lady in a house filled with books (with a loveable mutt since my girlfriend's a dog person) is complicated by the wanderlust that causes me to be incapable of even imagining a permanent home country for quite some time now. The world is so amazing and I just long for more of everything. There is so much about queer culture that is still so new to me, and I really want to learn more and get to know more people in these circles.
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Date: 2010-06-30 07:01 pm (UTC)Alright, cool. my email address is ces62@pitt.edu