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Gender	Female
Industry	Education
Occupation	Disabled
Location	New York City, New York, United States
Links	Audio Clip, Wishlist
Interests	Reading, Writing, Research, Movies, Music(all kinds), dancing Basque heritage, computers (since 1980) software/ hardware evaluation, painting, graphic arts, photography, video, conversation, art, fashion, History, Science & technology, Philosophy, Literary Theory, Linguistics, Public Policy and Administration, Politics, Global Human Rights emphasis on US and Fiji, the Constitution, Advocacy for health disability and chronic pain, human rights. Member of ACLU and Amnesty International, Democratic Party, economics, teaching, education, administration, sociology, identity politics, psychiatry, learning processes, teaching methods, and handcrafts, popup books/displays, creating projects of all kinds, Disability. Hopefully in 2 years will go back to activities that I can no longer pursue: tennis, swimming, body-building, yoga, scuba, para-sailing, hiking, biking, long walks in rain or snowstorms.
Favorite Movies	Citizen Kane always first, Wings of Desire, The Verdict, The Sweet Hereafter, The Third Man, The Fourth Man, The Fifth Element, Fountainhead, The Marriage of Maria Braun, Ipcress File, Boys from Brazil, Arsenic & Old Lace, The Philadelphians, Smila's Sense of Snow, The Fourth Man, Five Easy Pieces, Apocalypse Now, A Beautiful Mind, Dir:Herzog, Fassbinder, Scorcese, Brothers Scott, Brothers Cohen Anything they do, like Miller's Crossing, any horror. Recent:Gran Turino (great!)Little Miss Sunshine, Sunshine Cleaning Service; The Angry Inch; Velvet Goldmine;HamletII WAS VERY FUNNY.
Favorite Music	Brahm's Requiem, R.Strauss 4 Last Songs, Alternative Bush, Audioslave, Radiohead, Godsmack, Portishead, Art Rock Brian Eno, 801, Phil Manzanera, Classic Rock Hendrix, Arlo Guthrie, Jim Morrison, The Grateful Dead, Jazz, Coltrane, Archie Shepp, Rap/Funk from early '90's, Mexican Rock/ alternative, Mariachis, Techno/Moby, New Age, Jon Hassell, Motown, 60's/Beatles, Stones, Willy Nelson and Friends at July 4 Picnic in Austin, Neil Young and Crazy Horse, SOAD, Airborne Toxic Event (both electric & acoustic series), Billie Holiday, Coltrane, Archie Shepp, Pharoh Sanders, Miles, of course, Eric Reid, Sun Ra, Fela, World Music. Rigoletto, Pagliacci, La Boheme, Don Giovanni, Carmen (esp.Carmen Jones movie), Porgy & Bess, (andrew lloyd weber DOESN'T COUNT), Tommy, most requiems, Mahler, Barber Adaggio w/ strings, etc)Ricard Strauss, Brahms, Goldberg Variations, etc. Daily, I listen to alternative, original punk, anything from late 50's. Jazz, all the greats, but a 2 yr. love affair with Rock from 50's to now. Tom Waits. Jon Hassell Harold Budd. Art Rock, any thing Eno does (work with Cluster and Rodelius) or touches, like U2. Phil Manzanera favorite album Primitive Guitars.
Favorite Books	Norton Anthologies of any kind, Hegel Phenomenlogy of Spirit, Charles and Mary Beard Economic History Of U.S., S.Huntington Clash of Civilizations, Peter Lance A Thousand Years for Revenge, Walter Lacquer Terrorism, Hannah Arendt Totalitarianism Banality of Evil, all of her books, never finished Will. Kenzaburo Oe, The Pitch Runner Memorandum (Nobel 1994)also his "Teach Us to Outgrow our Madness", Russell Banks, The Denial of Death (Nobel Prize 1963) All of Thomas Kuhn, Peter Norton, The Hard Disk Companion (somewhat outdated, but most of the principles remain true), Kay Redfield Jamison The Fire Within and 3 others including medical text, Faulkner The Unvanquished The Sound and the Fury, Proust's Swan's Way, all of Hermann Hesse, Freud Moses and Monotheism, Civilization & its' Discontent, Malinowski Magic Science and Religion, de Toqueville On America, Weber Puritanism & the Spirit of Capitalism, An Economic History of the USSR, Keats' Letters, all of Carlos Castaneda, Joanna Greenberg I Never Promised you a Rose Garden also short stories, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Frankenstein and both of her parents' William Godwin (first Anarchist) Mary Wollstonecraft (first Feminist) Samuel Beckett all, A Course on Miracles, Snow on China, Poets Percy Shelley, John Dunne, Dylan Thomas, Ted Hughes, Langston Hughes, Thomas Kuhn, Sylvia Plath, anything published by City Lights S.F. in the 50's, JUST TOO MANY. Read many plays as well. Now reading Karen Stenner's The Authoritarian Dyanmic, Don Quixote in Spanish via Project Gutenburg & Adobe Read Aloud!, Poets Dylan Thomas, Percy Shelley, John Dunne, Eliot, many others, Playwriters, Eugene O'Neill, Ionesco, Pinter, Sheperd, Too many to list.