user5519

I like all things shiny, quirky, unusual, and minimalistic. I like rats, moths, owls, and snails, non-cutesy stickers/ rubberstamps/ stationary, candy, jewelry eccentric and elegant, zines, comic books, fabric, interesting fibers, pretty papers, creepy/cute plushies, handmade envelopes (Letter, ATC and random sizes), handmade books, blank journals, gel pens, and pigma microns. I prefer not to receive magazine pages or cutouts (unless they are unopened makeup or perfume samples) or cutesy items, with the exception of Mashimaro, Totoro, Puka, and Strawberry Shortcake stuff.

Do NOT send wrinkled, crumpled, or creased items. There seems to be a large number of swappers (here and elsewhere) who think this is ok. It isn't. It is easy to tell what has been damaged in the mail and was was damaged prior to being packaged. You don't want to receive bent crap, so don't send it. Look carefully at everything you send out and try to see it as the recipient will. When something has been sitting around your house for months or years, its flaws will be less apparent to you than to someone seeing it for the first time.

Aphex Twin, Aaron Spectre, Autechre, Bauhaus, The Beatles, Björk, Boards of Canada, Broken Social Scene, Clannad, Cinema Strange, The Dillinger Escape Plan, Depeche Mode, The Ditty Bops, Dream Theater, Dresden Dolls, Efterklang, Elliott Smith, Elvis Costello, Fiona Apple, The Flaming Lips, Future Sound Of London, The Innocence Mission, Jack Off Jill, Joanna Newsom, Kelpe, Lamb, Melt Banana, Mirah, The Mobius Band, Múm, Neutral Milk Hotel, NIN, Nina Simone, Noir Desir, Omnullus, Paolo Conte, Philip Glass, Plaid, Portable, Portishead, Queens of the Stone Age, Radiohead, Regina Spektor, Rush, Röyksopp, Shpongle, The Smashing Pumpkins, Sneakerpimps, Solas, Spacehog, Squarepusher, Under Byen, The Velvet Underground, etc.

Pi, Requiem for a Dream, Tipping The Velvet, La Femme Nikita, Trainspotting, Doom Generation trilogy, Harold and Maude, Ma Vie En Rose, The 5th Element, La Cité des Enfants Perdus, Billy Elliot, Regarde la Mer, The Dark Crystal, The Secret Of NIMH, Amadeus, Twelve Monkeys, The Polarbear king, Milo and Otis, James and the Giant Peach, Donnie Darko, The Secret of Roan Inish, À la folie... pas du tout, The Secret Garden, Wizards, etc.

Twin Peaks, Firefly, CSI NY, Avengers, Red Dwarf, Dr. Who (the old one), Blake's 7, Star Trek in all flavours, Twilight Zone, Miss Marple, Poirot, Brother Cadfael, etc. (all on DVD. No ads that way ^_^)

Sewing, ATCs, Artistic Decos, Journals, Collage, Metalwork