She grows salt-encrusted limes from the top of her head and cries tequila tears. She has never experienced reincarnation. Under that insouciant facade, she is wearing another insouciant facade. Her favorite colors are dust, avocado, cream, dark gray, gold, and black. If you put her into a room within which are keys to a puzzle that ultimately will release you from its confines, she will not be able to do so without a walkthrough.

abilities

making icon bases, pontification, loving you like you ought to be loved, channeling the urgency of male teenager flailing, overlooking the obvious, text adventure games, generating non-sexy heat, wearing hamsters on the head, strategic topic changes, recreational narcolepsy, snide commentary, barebones web design, elaborate non-sequitars

comics

Hellblazer; the Books of Magic; 100 Bullets; Top Ten; Sandman; Sleeper; Transmetropolitan; the Losers; Hellboy; Goon; Fables; Y: the Last Man; Birds of Prey; Gotham Central; Sandman Mystery Theater; Ex Machina; Hopeless Savages; the Authority; Seven Soldiers of Victory; the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen; Ghost in a Shell; Global Frequency; Nausicaa of the Valley of Wind; Batman; the new Blue Beetle; Desolation Jones; Runaways; Wildcats v3; Superman/Batman annual #1; the new Atom; Nextwave; Marvel Adventures; Booster Gold; Simon Dark; Secret Six

movies

The Jacket, Infernal Affairs, Lola Rennt, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, Shaun of the Dead, Fight Club, the Boondock Saints, Kill Bill, Donnie Darko, Sin City, Iron Monkey, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Clue, Ocean's Eleven, Rushmore, Jin-Roh, I Heart Huckabees, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Constantine, Kung Fu Hustle, Enemy at the Gate, the Usual Suspects, Twelve Monkeys, Memento, Reservoir Dogs, Mononoke Hime, Glory, Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Heathers, the Woodsman, Ghost Ship, eXistenZ, Zatoichi, Be Cool, the Mexican, Pleasantville, I'll Sleep When I'm Dead, Igby Goes Down, State and Main, the Prestige, Pan's Labyrinth, Little Miss Sunshine

bands

Queens of the Stone Age, Ted Leo & the Pharmacists, Mindless Self Indulgence, OK Go, Metric, Weezer, the Vandals, Of Montreal, the Libertines, Green Day, Franz Ferdinand, Modest Mouse, Hell is for Heroes, Cake, Mankind Liberation Front, the Decemberists, Gorillaz, Reel Big Fish, Elliot Smith, Third Eye Blind, the Dandy Warhols, Muse, Guided by Voices, Melissa Auf der Maur, Hawksley Workman, the Kinks, Little Birdy, the Mad Caddies, They Might Be Giants, Placebo, Rachael Yamagata, the Vines, Belle & Sebastian, Fountains of Wayne, Ghinzu, Richard Cheese, Babyshambles, Snow Patrol, Flogging Molly, Junior Senior, Semisonic, Lola Ray, Grinspoon, Beck, the Caesers, Rilo Kiley, My Chemical Romance, the Cribs, Mobile, Hello Stranger, Dropkick Murphys, Belleruche, Michael Penn, Harvey Danger, the Secret Machines, Echo & the Bunnymen, Poe, Razorlight, McLusky, Less Than Jake, the Fratellis, the Distillers, Ben Folds, the Aquabats, Crystal Method, Cloud Cult, the Whitlams