Quinn Collard

C D Landolt el, Attended 1990 - 1995
Brookside Int, Attended 1995 - 1997
Clear Brook H S, Attended 1997 - 2001, Class of 2001

Clear Brook High School, University of Houston - Downtown

Smith College, Attended 2001 - Present, Bachelor's Degree, English

student, poet

The Sophian, Smith Democrats, Vox, Feminists of Smith Unite!, Spectrum, Healthy Heads

poetry, writing, books, typewriters, zines, self-publishing, libraries, dogs, puppies, animals in general, animal rights, vegetarianism, sketch comedy, feminism, Wicca, delusions, mental illness, depression, self-injury, suicide, obsessive-compulisive disorder, addiction, erotomania, New York City, Converse All-Stars, too much coffee, grammar/spelling nazis, etymology, English majors, dictionaries, sarcasm, nerdiness, nonconformity, accordions, death, bisexuality, journals, mix tapes, not straightenting my hair, old movies, penpals, Sanrio, self-loathing, sex, nerdy glasses, Houston Rockets/Astros, The Sims, stationery, self-loathing, vintage anything, thrift store fashion

Poetry!, anything in my zine Ephemera, books about mental illness, young lit, children's lit, The Lost Generation, The Beat Generation, The Romantics, Sylvia Plath, Jack Kerouac, Emily Dickinson, Kurt Vonnegut, Ray Bradbury, William Shakespeare, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ken Kesey, John Steinbeck, John Updike, Allen Ginsberg, Charles Bukowski, e.e. cummings, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Anne Sexton, Walt Whitman, Langston Hughes, John Keats, The Bell Jar, The Catcher in the Rye, Lolita, The Dharma Bums, Breakfast of Champions, The Sun Also Rises, The Great Gatsby, Sometimes a Great Notion, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Wuthering Heights, Hamlet, Catch-22, Dandelion Wine, David Sedaris, S.E. Hinton, Lois Lowry, Robert Cormier, Judy Blume, Louis Sachar, Roald Dahl, Paula Danzinger, Paul Zindel, Shel Silverstein, Madeline L'Engle, The Phantom Tollbooth, Harriet the Spy, The Outsiders, The Giver, Anastasia Krupnik, Ramona Quimby, The Baby-sitter's Club, The American Girls

Anything with Steve Buscemi, Harold and Maude, Lolita (original version), Casablanca, Ghost World, Rushmore, Donnie Darko, Annie Hall, Raising Arizona, Napoleon Dynamite, Fargo, Trees Lounge, Big Fish, Amelie, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Purple Rose of Cairo, Gamera, The Big Chill, Sunset Blvd., As Good as It Gets, Gigantic, Brain Candy, Rattle and Hum, A Hard Day's Night, Pippi Longstocking, Singing in the Rain, The Blues Brothers, lots of old things especially those involving Humphrey Bogart or Alfred Hitchcock, things which are unintentionally hilarious

They Might Be Giants, U2, The Beatles, Sloan, XTC, The Velvet Underground, Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players, Bob Dylan, Warren Zevon, Bruce Springsteen, Tom Petty, Simon and Garfunkel, Ani DiFranco, Eels, Candy Butchers, Billy Joel, Steely Dan, Barenaked Ladies, Rufus Wainwright, Weird Al Yankovic, random old jazz and blues, random '80's crap

Late Night with Conan O'Brien, The Kids in the Hall, ER, Frasier, The Simpsons, Six Feet Under, Monk, The Twilight Zone, Saturday Night Live, Arrested Development, Desperate Housewives, Monty Python's Flying Circus, Mr. Show, Seinfeld, Sports Night, NewsRadio, Dr. Katz, Hey Dude, Mystery Science Theatre 3000, Saved by the Bell, Malcolm in the Middle, Late Show with David Letterman, Boston Legal, King of the Hill

I am an English major at Smith College. I have a tendancy to be obsessive about things. I write poetry which I've been told is good.

They Might Be Giants fans, writers, or any interesting,
unusual people, and cute girls are always good.