Philomere
| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Industry | Publishing |
| Occupation | writer |
| Location | California, United States |
| Introduction | MOTHER of FOUR, freelance writer, amateur silversmith, domestic dynamo, chef de maison, head chauffeur, sanitation supervisor, social director, crisis manager, chief arbiter, errand expert, auxiliary ATM, maven of multitasking, sleep deprivation specialist, keeper of the cookies… |
| Interests | reading, cooking, travel, scuba diving, jewelry design, philosophy, theatre, playing the piano, entertaining, literature, world history, advertising, France, Greece, children's books, geology, music, holistic healing, architecture, wine, chocolate |
| Favorite Movies | The English Patient, Star Wars, Mon Oncle, Amelie, Rear Window, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Stealing Beauty, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Wings of Desire, A Room with a View, The Piano, Il Postino, Cinema Paradiso, Koyaanisqatsi, The Wizard of Oz, The Sound of Music, Citizen Kane, Diva, The Red Balloon, Dr. Zhivago, Being John Malkovich, Lost in Translation, Oh Brother Where Art Thou, High Fidelity, The Pianist, Winged Migration, Napoleon Dynamite, Tess, Gone With the Wind, Schindler's List, Mistress of Spices |
| Favorite Music | Django Reinhardt, Andrés Segovia, Angelo Badalamenti, Annie Lennox, The Art Of Noise, Basia, Bill Frisell, Blondie, The Blue Nile, The Cars, Césaria Évora, Charles Trenet, Chris Isaak, Debussy, Cocteau Twins, Count Basie, Creed, Dave Brubeck, David Gray, The Eagles, Elvis Costello, Erik Satie, Fairground Attraction, Francis Cabrel, Chopin, Glenn Miller, Israel Kamakawiwo'ole, James Taylor, Jeff Beck, Jelly Roll Morton, John Hiatt, John Mayer, Led Zeppelin, Lenny Kravitz, Loreena McKennitt, Louis Armstrong, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Madeleine Peyroux, Madredeus, The Manhattan Transfer, Martin Denny, Michael Franks, Micheal O Suilleabhain, Nat King Cole, Natasha Bedingfield, Norah Jones, Penguin Cafe Orchestra, Peter Gabriel, Pink Martini, Prince, Robert Palmer, Roy Orbison, Simon & Garfunkel, Simply Red, St. Germain, Stan Getz, Sting, Stray Cats, Terence Trent D'Arby, Thomas Dolby, Tom Petty, ZZ Top, Tchaikovsky, Gustav Mahler, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Holst, Sergei Rachminov, Igor Stravinsky |
| Favorite Books | Secret Passages by Paul Preuss, Golden Gate by Vikram Seth, The Magus by John Fowles, The Bible, Seven Pillars of Wisdom by T.E. Lawrence, Possession by A.S. Byatt, Les Fleurs du Mal by Charles Baudelaire, The Outline of History by H.G. Wells, 100 Selected Poems by E.E. Cummings, Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier, Narcissus and Goldmund by Hermann Hesse, The Oxford English Dictionary, Like Water for Chocolate, Atonement, The Rainbow, Written On the Body, Le Rouge et Le Noir, The Time Traveler's Wife, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Deception Point, Cloud Atlas |