cece stage is
- always reading a book.
- always writing something.
- always thinking a thought.
- always knitting a sock.
- often walking around.
- often cooking dinner.
- often humming a song.
- often having prophetic dreams.
- rarely on a plane.
- never bored.
cece stage is 26 years old. she was born on february 18th in long beach, california. if you’re a hiring manager, her passion is marketing. if you’re an ex boyfriend, click here. if you’re her friend, let’s hang out later. if you have something to ask or tell her, she loves checking her email, cecestage@gmail.com.
after graduating with a ba in english from uc santa barbara, she got a job as a copywriter at an ad agency where she’s been working ever since. she used to be a barista and still has dreams that she is scheduled to open tomorrow. here’s her resume.
life / lists
some of my favorite books
> geek love / catherine dunn [read]
> stoner / john williams [read]
> the stories of breece d’j pancake / breece d’j pancake
> trout fishing in america / richard brautigan
> another roadside attraction / tom robbins
> to the lighthouse / virginia woolfe
> a feast of snakes / harry crews
spring playlist
> blue angel / hermine
> today is the day – rock version / yo la tengo
> fragments / skúli sverrisson · oskar guðjónsson
> garden botanum / these trails
> pursue happiness / vegetable
> lotta love – live / neil young
> poptunes / daniel johnston
> lonely girls / lucinda williams
> i get along without you very well / the durutti column
> long haired lady / paul mccartney
> may i? / kevin ayers
> edward / amps for christ
> pennybox / racecourse (my brother’s band!)
> mystery dance (honky tonk demo) / elvis costello
> at the traphouse / young nudy
here’s my spotify (i’m sorry i still use spotify)
books i’ve read in 2026 so far
> the master and margarita / mikhail bulgakov
> convenience store woman / sayaka murata
> severance / ling ma
> a canticle for lebowitz / walter m miller jr.
> room to dream / david lynch
> the stories of breece d’j pancake / breece d’j pancake
> madonna in a fur coat / sabahattin ali
> brief interviews with hideous men / david foster wallace
> no one asked for this: essays / cazzie david
currently: tropic of cancer / henry miller
our band could be your life / david azerrad
pets i’ve had throughout my life
> dog named sadie
> a string of hamsters that sadie kept eating and my parents kept secretly replacing
> cat named lula
> cat named stella
> cat named sunny (personal favorite)
> cat named skippy
> assortment of fish (might be able to find their names in an old journal, will update)
> frog
> dog named auggie
> cat named mika
> cat named junie (current)
> cat named frank (current)
> dog named fannie (current)
things i love
> laminar flow
> baseball
> scraping a lot of lint from the lint catcher
> supta baddha konasana
> reality tv shows. can’t say which ones. it’s private.
> oatmeal
> mango sticky rice
> when levis become super soft but don’t rip
> looking at the sun and sneezing
> heavy silver rings
> when the gap in my front teeth leaves a mark in what i’m eating
> the smell of california native shrubbery warmed in the sun especially sage and buckwheat
> knowing a cat will come up to me
> cappuccino
> taking books from the free libraries
> these words: bicentennial, circumambulate, ameliorate, genuflect, weirdo
> walking 3 miles
things i hate
> the smell of purse
> the smell of fake leather
> obsessive thoughts about food poisoning, contamination, mold, motion sickness etc.
> elevators
> the loud terrible hissing noise [NAME REDACTED] makes instead of laughing
> the smell i have coined “airport” which realistically has very little to do with the airport, but wires got crossed and now the two are inextricably linked
> drinking water out of a mug
> planes
> touching the greasy inside of a chip bag
> the rough seam that sticks out of hard plastic objects like a phone case or comb
> the song hotel california
knitting
look at all the stuff i’ve knit recently HERE!
i knit my first beanie in 2021 and have been addicted ever since. it’s the best hobby in the world.
