Ikyoto

I'm an all around wacky person who hails from NYC. Craftsmanship is very important to me.

I love thoughtfully/carefully made hand-made objects. I'm interested in secrets and found items.

My alter-ego is a mad scientist (I wear a lab coat at work when the air-conditioner is too strong), and love to hear how we live in the future (robotics, materials science, and biological discoveries). Fun items on scientific themes are also welcome.

I want to find out more about obscure subcultures. Are you a member or fan of one? If you send me something gothic, afropunk, or steampunk I'll probably like it.

Things I could use:

• something handmade by you
• leather for sewing
• indie comic books
• zines and minibooks
• recipes with veggies (though not neccessarily vegetarian)
• surreal dolls or puppets
• unique vagina art
• meat themed crafts
• a letter listing come-backs you wish you had said
• a fake degree in something you feel I might like to be a Master or Doctor of
• something celphalopod (Octopus, Squid, Cuttlefish, or Nautilus!)
• a used board game or card game
• something related to outer space
• a used copy of a magazine I like (Make, Real Simple, Martha Stewart, Threads, Bust)
• something gothic, afropunk, or steampunk
• something scientific
• beautiful fabric
• fake non-fiction stories
• ukulele music or accessories

Magnetic Fields, Tsuji Ayano, TMBG, Amy Winehouse, fun., Tenacious D, Halifax Slasher, The Kinks

The podcast Song Exploder

My music taste is so broad that more discriminating people have said it's a lack of taste! Right now I want to know more about Rockabilly or early 20th century music. Can you help me with this?

Delicatessen, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Good Bye Lenin!, Being John Malkovich, Kamikaze Girls, King of Masks, League of Exotic Dancers, Arsenic and Old Lace, Mad Max Fury Road

If Men's Rights Advocates are railing against it, I am for it.

Borges Collected Fictions, Malkasian Percy Gloom , Sedaris Me Talk Pretty One Day, Murakami A Wild Sheep Chase, Lethem As She Climbed Across The Table, Reichl Comfort Me With Apples, Roach Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers, Barry Cruddy, The New Best Recipe, Raskin The Tattooed Potato and Other Clues, Huxley Brave New World, Pollan The Omnivore's Dilemma, Eco Foucault's Pendulum, Thompson Good-Bye, Chunky Rice, Nakamichi Pattern Magic

Print gocco, food art, sewing, shoemaking, jewelry, I'll try anything once. :)