sylviesartorius

I'm a high school senior from Southern California. I enjoy taking walks in the sun, catchy tunes, drawing, and daydreaming about traveling all around the world.

some fun facts about me: ~I play the french horn, trumpet, and piano ~I ran cross country and distance track for 2 years in high school. I continue to enjoy running, but not at an elite level. ~I am a huge nerd. I love learning and I enjoy all my academic subjects in school. I love talking to people who share my love of Biology, European History, Art history, music theory...etc. ~I love "cultural activities" like watching opera and Shakespeare, going to all sorts of museums, and attending local festivals (Obon in the summer, a Greek festival, the Hungarian festival) ~I work at a small aquarium ~I speak pretty decent French ~I love drawing!

I generally really enjoy soul & funk music. I love anything with a good beat and a big fat horn section.

Allen Stone, Watsky, Avi Wisnia, the Kooks, alt-j, Daft Punk (random access memories), Burt Bacharach, Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass, Billy Joel, Elton John, Matisyahu, Eric Clapton, Marvin Gaye, Ratatat, Justin Timberlake, Stevie Wonder, Earth Wind & Fire, Javelin, Stromae (woo French rap!), The Jackson 5, Kimbra, Julia Nunes, Alain Clark

I'm also a fan of Willemijn Verkaik. She is a musical actress and singer...I'm just a fan of her voice!

Le Petit Prince, Siddhartha, Fahrenheit 451, Wicked, Stargirl, The Razor's Edge, the Picture of Dorian Grey, Dante's Inferno, Hamlet, the Great Gatsby, Walden, the Brothers Karamazov, the House of Seven Gables (love Nathaniel Hawthorne), Assorted Poems by Edgar Allen Poe, anything Michael Pollan (most recently read the Botany of Desire)

Midnight in Paris, Amelie, La Jetee, Brazil, Chinatown, the Cook the Thief His Wife and Her Lover, the Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Dazed & Confused, the Devil Wears Prada, Orpheus, Roman Holiday, Ghost World, the Shining, Up, How to Train Your Dragon, Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, the Graduate, Elizabeth I (the HBO documentary with Helen Mirren)

Daria, Family Guy, the Cleveland Show, Hey Arnold, Big Bang Theory, American Dad, As Told By Ginger, Breaking Pointe, 30 Rock

Medieval, Celtic, and Wiccan/Pagan motifs, design, traditions, and stories. I have a morbid side so I love all things creepy/goth/dark.

Art Nouveau and German Expressionism.

Buttons and stickers that say quirky things or feature a cartoon character like Beavis & Butthead or a cult figure like Frank-N-Furter or a pin-up like Bettie Page or something awesome like a sparkly neon sting ray

A good notebook/sketchbook

New music

My graphing calculator!

Finding new routes to walk/run!

A really nice cup of tea! My personal favorites are yamamotoyama (spelling?) green tea and sencha tea and Lady Grey. I also love to visit the little cafe in my town for a mug of a new flavor of tea and read a book.

Running in my Nike Lunarglides

Food. I eat (and generally enjoy) ALL THE FOODS.

Humor. I love a good comic book, silly meme, and reading the funnies at the breakfast table.

Dressing up and putting on a little makeup from time to time.

Scientific (especially biology!) Information: books, news articles, images, discussions, critical thinking

Life Drawing classes

Although I'm not atheist, I don't like religious imagery. I enjoy reading inspirational quotes and sayings, and I do identify as Jewish, but I don't really like to flaunt my religion nor do I like much religious miscellany (except for paintings)

Doing arts & crafts. I love looking at crafts but I personally don't enjoy making them. I like creating drawings, paintings, and photographs, but I lack the patience necessary for crafting.

Dogs. I really don't trust them. I work as a tutor and have had really bad experiences with some of my clients' dogs.