La Framéricaine
Blogs I follow
- Our Juicy Life
- A Malaysian in France
- A Tidings of Magpies
- As My World Turns
- Berry Deep France
- Beth in France
- BizarroBlog
- Inside the USA
- Jew Eat Yet?
- La Belette Rouge
- La France Profonde -- An American in Aveyron
- Life at La Bastiole
- Non, je ne regrette rien
- quasi French
- Rasmenia
- Stickup Artist, Living in the Wild Wild West
- The Bloggess
- Tongue in Cheek
- Where's My Effing Pony?
| Occupation | Clerk (Mme) & Limestone Carver (Mr) |
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| Location | Southern California, and Le Blanc, FRANCE |
| Interests | culture shock, language, reading, writing, cinema, world history, organizational systems, non-traditional ways of knowing, road trips, maps, speaking French, speaking Spanish |
| Favorite Movies | Klute, Crazy Love, Le rififi chez les hommes, Bullitt, The Grifters, Diva, Rear Window, Classe tous risques, La salaire de la peur, Body Heat, Crumb, In the Realms of the Unreal, Marnie, The Birds, Out of the Past, The Hunter, Let's Get Lost, Bird, Frantic, The Cohen Brothers, Les frères Dardennes, The Memory of a Killer, La vie rêvée des anges, The Counterfeiters, The Mariage of Maria Braun, The Bad Seed, The Italian Job (the original), La sconosciuta, The Price of Sugar, Unforgiven, The Unforgiven, Pow Wow Highway, Thunderheart, Hombre, The Three Faces of Eve, The Asphalt Jungle, The Cooler, Double Indemnity, The Postman Always Rings Twice (the original), Insomnia (the Norwegian original), The Singing Detective (BBC), Prime Suspect, Posse, The Outlaw Josy Wale, McCabe & Mrs. Miller, Crimes & Misdemeanors, Jeremiah Johnson, American Gangster, LA Confidential, Bob Le Flambeur, Charade, Séance on a Wet Afternoon, Magnolia, In the Line of Fire, The Gauntlett, Charly Varrick, Don't Look Now, The Getaway (the original), The Hidden Fortress, Les Bas Fonds, Three Days of the Condor, The Insider, Lonestar, The Seven Samurai |
| Favorite Music | twangy American mountain, Country Western, classic American jazz, the 3Bs--Brassens/Becaud/Brel, American Blues, R&B, Stephane Grappelli & Django, Chet Baker--the good the bad & the ugly, Ben Webster, Stuff Smith, Nat King Cole, Lila Downs, Anita O'Day, Nina Simone, Sara Vaughn, Amy Winehouse, Annie Lennox, Aimee Mann, Alison Kraus, Emmy Lou Harris, Billie Holiday, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Rosalie Sorrels, Cassandra Wilson, Charlie Haden, Charles Trenet, Soundtracks: The Cooler, Trouble The Water, Frida, Magnolia, O'Brother Where Art Thou? Christmas Music, World Music |
| Favorite Books | George Pelecanos, Dennis Lehane, Robichaux by James Lee Burke, Lew Griffth by James Sallis, Raymond Carver, Bosch by Michael Connely, Brand by Ken Bruen, The Liar's Club, Breaking Clean, The Autobiography of a Face, I Am Legend, Mallory by Carol O'Connell, Easy Rawlings by Walter Mosely, Charles Willeford, The Seth Material, The Yiddish Policeman's Union, Once In A House On Fire, Giving Up The Ghost, Andrew Vaachs, From Alice to Ocean:Alone Across the Outback |