Equal parts beach bum and bookworm. Favorite ways to spend time? Seeing live music; lying on a beach; watching a Soderbergh, Tarantino, Spike, or any great indie movie; listening to Dance Hall, hip-hop, & rock; anything H2O-related; trying new adventures; traveling to new places.

In real life, I am a PhD student at UNC-Chapel Hill. My research focuses on politics and the media.

Art & life: music, movies, books, the beach

Movie obsessed so this is just the tip of the iceberg: Pulp Fiction, Sex, Lies and Videotape, Traffic, Y Tu Mama Tambien, Late Marriage, Monsoon Wedding, Withnail and I

Nip/Tuck, Huff, Entourage, Sopranos, Rescue Me, The Daily Show, and Veronica Mars

Waiting in Vain, White Teeth. Going Home to Teach and The Great Yacht Race by Anthony Winkler; Bushworld by Maureen Dowd; A Right to Be Hostile (Boondocks Collection) by the brilliant and hilarious Aaron McGruder. My daily fix: Salon, Slate, and the New York Times.

If I can't dance it's not my revolution.