me → whitney. twenty-seven. blue-eyed brunette. 5’7”ish. iowa. ex-ballerina working in an art gallery. infp. intermittent art history student. currently taking a short break from the land of academia.
likes → films with subtitles, traveling, the color gray, windy days, tea, art deco, painting, classical music, wearing scarves, dylan thomas, npr, messing about in photoshop, antiques, modern art, beat poetry, museums & cafés, costume dramas, collecting books, floral prints, autumn, spring.
music → arcade fire, architecture in helsinki, beck, beirut, bodies of water, bon iver, cat power, cocoon, dirty projectors, eisley, elbow, ellie goulding, emmy the great, feist, florence + the machine, interpol, joanna newsom, josé gonzález, lightspeed champion, mumford & sons, the national, neutral milk hotel, nirvana, pearl jam, pete yorn, radiohead, regina spektor, sea wolf, smashing pumpkins, sparrow house, sufjan stevens, tv on the radio, wilco, woodpidgeon.
television → 30 rock, ashes to ashes, blackadder, bones, buffy the vampire slayer, community, dead like me, doctor who, downton abbey, firefly, fringe, how i met your mother, jeeves and wooster, life on mars, mad men, mystery science theater 3000, never mind the buzzcocks, parks and recreation, psych, ringer, secret diary of a callgirl, sherlock, suits, the big bang theory, the hour, the mighty boosh, the office, top gear, torchwood, true blood, the west wing, white collar, the x-files.
film → almost famous, amélie, black swan, dogma, glorious 39, inception, inglourious basterds, kill bill, little miss sunshine, love actually, m, metropolis, office space, pulp fiction, reality bites, reservoir dogs, rosencrantz and guildenstern are dead, sense & sensibility, the dark knight, the royal tenenbaums.
ships → nine/rose, ten/rose, eleven/amy, rory/amy, booth/brennan, hodgins/angela, jim/pam, barney/robin, jeff/annie, freddie/bel, josh/donna, eric/sookie, neville/luna.
people → billie piper, david tennant, alexander skarsgård, emily deschanel, zooey deschanel, kate winslet, marion cotillard, guillaume canet, diane kruger, joshua jackson, chiwetel ejiofor, sarah michelle gellar, joseph gordon-levitt, alan rickman, emma thompson, helen mirren, tim roth, gary oldman, jon hamm, anna torv, donald glover, tina fey, carey mulligan, john krasinski, jenna fischer, romola garai, hugh laurie, stephen fry, mia wasikowska, matt smith, karen gillan, michael fassbender, idris elba, christian bale, andrew garfield, mélanie laurent.
current song on repeat to the point of obnoxiousness → “grounds for divorce”, elbow.
random short-term life goal → to add more flannel and short boots to my fall wardrobe and pretend i’m bridget fonda in singles. glad fashion is cyclical and the early-90’s are cool again.
a word? → copacetic.
