Van Badham
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| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Occupation | Writer |
| Location | Melbourne, Australia |
| Introduction | I am a lucky writer of novels and films, and plays for radio, music theatre and stage. I live between London and Sydney and I love folklore, cooking, esoteric bookshops and a nice bearded man. |
| Interests | Genre Fiction, Literature, Cinema, Cabaret and Burlesque Performance, New Writing, Theatre, Expressionism, Futurism, Constructivism, Film Theory & Criticism, Classical, Renaissance and Restoration Theatre, Modernism, Folklore, Architecture, Contemporary Art, Art History, History, Comparative Religion, Gardening, Cryptozoology, Political Economy, Feminism, Cuisine, Traveling, Etymology, Lexicography, Comedy, Farce, Liberation Theology, Human Rights, Social Justice, Environmentalism, Witchcraft, Sorcery, Symbology, Popular Science, Cricket, Tennis, Football, Autonomous Organising |
| Favorite Movies | A Room With a View, The Empire Strikes Back, Nosferatu, Dark City, Juliet of the Spirits, The Hour of the Wolf, Weekend, Dune, The Seven Samurai, Psycho, Metropolis, Jesus of Montreal, The Princess Bride, Peeping Tom, Persona, A Zed and Two Noughts, Desperately Seeking Susan, The Hudsucker Proxy, High Heels, Raiders of the Lost Ark, All the President's Men, Tootsie, Sexy Sadie, The Son, Anchorman, Jaws, Watchmen, Brick, Double Indemnity, North by Northwest, El Topo, Harold and Maude, Starship Troopers, Blade Runner, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Proposition, Once Upon a Time in the West, Two Mules For Sister Sara |
| Favorite Music | The Last Shadow Puppets, The Bees, The Saints, The Polyphonic Spree, Nirvana, David Bowie, The White Stripes, The Beta Band, Sufjan Stevens, Joni Mitchell, Neil Young, Curtis Mayfield, Jimi Hendrix, Marianne Faithfull, Bob Dylan, The Rolling Stones, Wyclef Jean, NWA, The Beastie Boys, Nick Cave, Johnny Cash, Melanie, Dusty Springfield, The Stranglers, Philip Glass, The Velvet Underground, Nat King Cole, Chet Baker, The Strokes, Outkast, Sam Cooke, Marvin Gaye, the Avalanches, Tom Waits, The Temptations, The Chi-Lites, Pink Floyd, Bongwater, The Dead Weather, Radio Moscow, The Raconteurs, J.S. Bach, Warren Ellis, Jacques Brel, Antonion Vivaldi, Krystof Penderecki, Amy Winehouse, Mark Ronson, Giacomo Puccini, Dmitri Shostakovich, Segey Prokoviev, Air, Carole King, The Cult |
| Favorite Books | His Dark Materials, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, The Bell Jar, Tales of Mystery and Imagination, The Day of the Triffids, Lucky Jim, Brideshead Revisted, Emily of New Moon, Persuasion, The Remains of the Day, Money, Atonement, The Virgin Suicides, The Turn of the Screw, The Sound and The Fury, Bliss, Wuthering Heights, White Noise, Lies And the Lying Liars Who Tell Them, The Bloody Chamber, Love and Other Demons, The Blind Assassin, Christine, MAUS |