pen pals & swappers
It's been years since I posted here, but I got some good pen pals before. I'd love to swap stationary as well, because I have more than I can ever use!
Name: Mia
Age: 23
Location: Santa Cruz, CA
E-mail: polkadotumbrella@sbcglobal.net
Sexuality: bisexual.
Interests/hobbies: cooking, dinner parties, film, feminism, garage sales, photography, thrift stores, reading, traveling, stationary, singing, gay rights, concerts, riot grrrl, punk, psychology, painting, collage, altered books, printmaking, architecture, cats, late night conversations where you completely forget the time.
Favorite books: Anything by Jennifer Egan or Augusten Burroughs, The Savage Girl by Alex Shakar, Astonishing Splashes of Colour by Clare Morrall, Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi, Juliet, Naked by Nick Hornby, The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger, Wierd Like Us: My Bohemian America by Ann Powers, Post Secret, Spilling Open by Sabrina Ward.
Favorite films: Ghost World, Trainspotting, Amelie, Little Miss Sunshine, The Invisible Circus, Slumdog Millionaire, Moonrise Kingdom, Eagle Vs. Shark, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, The Men Who Stare at Goats, But I'm a Cheerleader, Beautiful Losers, Mic Macs, Paris, Je t'aime, Ruby Sparks, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, Bagdad Cafe.
Favorite music: Sleater-Kinney, Le Tigre, Pretty Girls Make Graves, the Dresden Dolls/Amanda Palmer, Epoxies, Bratmobile, Stereo Total, Magnetic Fields, Cat Power, The Decemberists, Belle and Sebastian, The Shins, Tilly and the Wall, Bikini Kill, Crass, Noisettes, Metric, The Slits, Tegan and Sara, Long Blondes, Regina Spektor, Bright Eyes, Kimya Dawson, Jens Lekman, Kate Nash, Elliott Smith, Neutral Milk Hotel, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Beirut, Beulah, The Gossip, Los Campesinos!, Mirah, Sia, Coco Rosie, Florence and the Machine, The Pica Beats, Gogol Bordello, Thao and the Get Down Stay Down, Ani DiFranco, Des Ark, Emilyn Brodsky, Jason Webley, St. Vincent, Tune Yards, Andrew Jackson Jihad, The Corin Tucker Band, Zoe Boekbinder, Bitter Ruin, Birds Fled From Me, Defiance, Ohio.
What would you like to send/receive? Long letters, handmade envelopes, mix CDs, stationary and art.
Who would you like to send and receive mail from? Anyone. But definitely snail mail rather than e-mail.
What countries would you like to receive mail from and send to? I’d love to write to people in different countries, but the US is fine as well.
Anything else you'd like to add? I recently graduated from college with a bachelors in art therapy, with a women's studies minor. I love curiosity. I often enjoy solitude. I feel most drawn to other outsiders and artists.
Nothing is as exciting as mail love. My only tattoo is an envelope with a heart on my left wrist. I've been writing to pen pals since I was 15, and I can't imagine it not being a part of my life. I'd love to hear from you!
