KaraB

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Gender Female
Industry Investment Banking
Occupation Proposal Writer
Location Baltimore, MD
Introduction Mommy. Friend. Writer. Ranter. Reader. Girl. Dreamer. Practicing Cynicist. Lover of Bread and Related Carbohydrates. Whiner. Shoe Whore. Comedienne to an audience of me. Coffee bar hopper. Internet junkie.
Interests Watching good films that usually involve the following: subtitles, Laura Linney, previously shown at The Charles Theatre; Reading good books (or at least starting to read good books and then doing other stuff while promising myself I'm going to get back to reading that good book); Planning events and forcing my friends to attend; Cooking and baking and not sharing the results with anyone; Spouting Dr. Phil philosophy to unwilling parties; Raising a beautiful little girl and trying not to mess her up.
Favorite Movies The Exorcist; Three Colors: Blue (Trois couleurs: Bleu); The Station Agent; Mysterious Skin; Paris Je T'aime; Love Actually; Secretary; Hedwig and the Angry Inch; Les Quatre Cents Coups (The 400 Blows); The Goodbye Girl; Ordinary People; 25th Hour; Tarnation; Cache (Hidden); Amelie (Le Fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain); A Scanner Darkly; Rabbit-Proof Fence; The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys; Dirty Filthy Love; My Summer of Love; In America; Kissing Jessica Stein; At Close Range; The Falcon and the Snowman; American History X; Swingers; Wedding Crashers; The Italian (Italianetz); Three Colors: Red (Trois couleurs: Rouge); Three Colors: White (Trois Couleurs: Blanc); Ryna; Once; Sex and the City: The Movie; Hors de Prix (Priceless); The Savages; Control; The Reader; A Cold Wind in August
Favorite Music Crowded House and Neil Finn, The Essex Green, Placebo, Metric, Feist, Vienna Teng, Rachael Sage, The Indigo Girls, The New Amsterdams, The Oranges Band, The Bravery, The National, Lavender Diamond, Dappled Cities, A Girl Called Eddy, Blue Merle, Teitur, Massive Attack, Conjure One, Damien Rice, Sara Melson, Jeff Buckley, Heather Nova, Leona Naess, Nikka Costa, Daughter Darling, Kristin Hersh, The Butchies, Billy Joel (classic), ELO, Bowie, Floyd, Clapton, The Who, Les Sans Culottes, The Shins, Zero 7, Remy Zero, The Sea and Cake, Camera Obscura, Goldfrapp, Rufus Wainwright, Travis, Ryan Adams, The Prayer Boat, Red House Painters, Doves, Rickie Lee Jones, Abra Moore, Anika Moa, Lisa Germano, Dar Williams, Bic Runga, Poe, Hooverphonic, Lizzie West, Starsailor, Blonde Redhead, Over the Rhine, The Innocence Mission, The Swell Season, Mates of State, Radar Bros, Cary Brothers, Great Northern, Bon Iver...you know, and other stuff.
Favorite Books A Clockwork Orange; Rabbit, Run; Rabbit Redux; Rabbit is Rich; Rabbit at Rest; The Centaur; Couples; Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong; Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee; The Night Trilogy; In My Brother's Image; Bee Season; Sons and Lovers; Under the Volcano; Eat Pray Love; The Prophet, Chardonnay is Not for Sippy Cups, Fat Girl, Elegance of the Hedge Hog, Invisible Monsters, The Human Stain

How do you pronounce the 'g' in bologna?

I'm from western Pennsylvania. It's called "bah-lo-nee" yinz guys.