Jordan Burghardt

• Age: 25
• Gender: Female
• Industry: Non-Profit
• Occupation: Community Organizer
• Location: Glen Ellyn : IL : United States

About Me

I do a pretty mean rendition of "Father Figure" by George Michael, and I'll sing any Michael Jackson song on cue. I am obsessed with drinking coffee from Dunkin Donuts. I like wearing scarves and over-sized sunglasses for no reason other than I think they look good. And I watch arty French flicks with my shades on.

Interests

• Watching movies
• especially documentaries. Having a love affair with Josh Lyman and the West Wing; and David Caruso and CSI: Miami. Counting down the days until I move to Chicago. Jack Kerouac. Allen Ginsberg. The Beat Generation. William Shakespeare. Traveling. Politics. Social Activism. Passion. The Joy of Life. Smiling. Photography (especially Ansel Adams). Concerts. People. and I'm not going to lie
• I have recently discovered I am a Scrabble nerd.

Favorite Movies

• Juno. Darjeeling Limited (+ Hotel Chavalier). Kids. Spun. The Breakfast Club. Natural Born Killers. *Waking Life.* *A Scanner Darkly.* Kiss Kiss Bang Bang. The Departed. The Dreamers. Garden State. American Beauty. Lost in Translation. The Virgin Suicides. Lolita (the Kubrick version--SO GOOD). Secretary. Before Sunrise and Before Sunset. Reality Bites. Kill Bill Volume I and II. Pulp Fiction.The Manchurian Candidate. The Believer. American History X. JFK. Downfall. Cannibal! the Musical. Team America
• FUCK YEAH! guilty pleasures--The Sweetest Thing. The 40-Year-Old Virgin. I love love LOVE horror movies: the Shining. Psycho. the Exorcist. you get the gist of it.

Favorite Music

• This American Life. Anything that makes my head bobble and my body wiggle or sporadically break out into song while driving. Right now I'm into three types of music: whiny male musicians
• chick rock
• and politically-motivated music. Top favorites: Fujiya & Miyagi
• Soul Coughing/Mike Doughty
• Talking Heads
• The Magnetic Fields
• Neutral Milk Hotel.

Favorite Books

• On the Road. Dharma Bums. (Jack Kerouac)..... Macbeth. Hamlet. Richard III. (Shakespeare).... Catcher in the Rye. Franny and Zooey (JD Salinger). John Grisham novels. I've also gotten on a "zombie novel" kick.

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