Sheiler

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Occupation wringing hands, tapping toes, looking at the clock
Introduction 5' 7" on a good day.
Favorite Movies Twist and Shout, Ghost World, All About My Mother, Talk To Her, After Sunset, The Year of Living Dangerously, Rushmore, The Royal Tannenbaums.
Favorite Music Simon Bousquet, Nina Simone, Everything But the Girl, The Blue Nile, Cesaria Evora, Daniel Bélanger, Valéry Saint-Germain, Neil O'Connor, Francis Cabrel, Elliot Smith, Feist, Edith Piaf, Martha Wainwright, Paolo Conte, Ferron, Rufus Wainwright, The Cure, Martin Sexton, kd lang, Joan Armatrading, Sinead O'Connor, Abba, Frida, Belle and Sebastian, Ricki Lee Jones, Suzanne Vega, Alberta Hunter, Roxy Music, The Pretenders, Vaya Con Dios, Annie Lennox, Mahalia Jackson, Cristina Branco, Swell Season, Patti Smith, Gipsy Kings, Pat Metheny, Joan Baez, Iris Dement, Paul Simon, Joe Jackson, Jane Siberry, Pete Townshend, King Sunny Ade, The Roches, The Police, Smashing Pumpkins, Baaba Maal, Phoebe Snow, Keith Jarrett, Judith Edelman, Branford Marsalis, Leo Kottke, Cocteau Twins, Roy Orbison, Radiohead, Billy Bragg, Annie Lennox, Marianne Faithfull, Les Negresses Vertes, The The, St. Germain, REM, Cristina Branco, Pete Townshend, Iron & Wine, Smashing Pumkins, Elliott Smith, Keren Ann, The Smiths, Ella Fitzgerald (anything live).
Favorite Books The Bloomsday Dead - Adrian McKinty, Cold, Cold Ground - McKinty, The Passion - Jeanette Winterson, A Gastronomical Me - MFK Fisher, Summer Before the Dark & The Golden Notebook - Doris Lessing, Yellow Raft on Blue Water - Michael Dorris, The Healing - Gayl Jones, Push - Sapphire, The Young in One Another's Arms - Jane Rule, Talking Heads - Alan Bennett, Cutting for Stone - Abraham Verghese, Chelsea Girls - Eileen Myles, To The Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf, The Great Railway Bazaar - Paul Theroux, Razor's Edge - Maugham, Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neale Hurston, The Golden Gate - Vikram Seth, Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight - Alexandra Fuller