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Location/Country

San Diego, California...U.S.A.

Position/Job Description

Barista.

About Me:

I feel it's imperative to have a love for what you do, or at least a fairly strong like. I mean, after all you've chosen it, right? I truly enjoy the industry for which I've chosen to make a living: it's held my interest for some years, but more importantly, it's inspired me to learn more, so with a little luck and considerably more perseverance, someday I hope to be a badass barista.

Favorite Espresso/Coffee Beverage

Doppio Espresso

Favorite Coffee Origin

New Guinea, Sumatra, or Ethiopia. Why do you insist on making me decide?

Favorite Espresso Bar/Coffee House

I like Caffe Calabria

Favorite Movies

Sunshine, Being There, Dr. Strangelove ( just about anything with Peter Sellers), Amores Perros, Branded To Kill, The Bad Seed (original), 2LDK, The Night Of The Hunter, Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf?, Meet The Feebles, The Acid House, Ichi The Killer, Fallen Angels, Gozu, Fear & Loathing In Las Vegas, Hard Candy, Naked Lunch, A Clockwork Orange, Sexy Beast, Akira, Army Of Darkness, Wild At Heart, Blue Velvet, Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls, Suspiria, The Indian Runner, The Graduate, Raising Arizona, Little Murders, All About Eve, Anything John Cassavetes, Wes Anderson, Monty Python, John Waters, Jim Jarmusch, Michel Gondry, Sam Pekinpah, Lars Von Trier, Mel Brooks. Good lord, I've watched & loved so many films that I couldn't possibly remember them all.

Favorite Music

Wire, The Fall, The Causey Way, Pilot Scott Tracy, The F@#king Champs, Trans Am, Pere Ubu, The Melvins, The Birthday Party, Brian Eno, Roxy Music, Shellac, Tortoise, The Sea & Cake, The Stranglers, Don Caballero, Devo, David Bowie, Goblin, Clinic, Neu!, Faust, Magma, Lou Reed, Iggy Pop, The Stooges, This Heat, Kraftwerk, Joy Division, Gang Of Four, Man Or Astroman?, Dr. Octagon, Hank Williams, Johnny Cash, James Brown, Funkadelic, Howlin' Wolf, Sun Ra, Ornette Coleman, Charles Mingus, Louis Jordan, The Frogs, Public Image Limited, Gary Numan, The Kinks, Perez Prado, Booker T & The MG's, Fantomas, Tomahawk, and other, just random stuff.

Favorite Books

Oh, how I adore the public library and folks kind enough to give a girl a loan from their personal stash of literature! As of late, I've been reading Alfred Bester, Philip K. Dick, Stanislaw Lem, Ray Bradbury, Albert Camus, Andrei Bely, Irvine Welsh, Joseph Conrad, Jim Thompson, Paul Bowles, Thomas Mann and Chuck Palaniuk.

Favorite Quotes

Listen, there are oodles of brilliant architects of language, phrasemakers and folks who generally specialize in the erudition of the inane; but really, does it make you any smarter to quote them?