Margo Rowder

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About me

Gender Female
Industry Internet
Occupation Senior Copywriter
Location Chicago, Illinois, United States
Introduction writer, walker, reader, TV-watcher, health nut, teen sci-fi novel enthusiast/YA dystopia writer, devotee of good beats
Interests learning, laughing, eating healthy stuff, playing soccer, playing Dance Dance Revolution, drumming (losing time and keeping time), scarfing Japanese food, dancing, futzing with color, questioning everything, reading Bitch Magazine, film production, film editing, gawking at Vermeer and Dali, watching good stand-up, Art Nouveau, Trader Joe's, TiVo, podcasts like KCRW's "The Business" and More Hip Than Hippie
Favorite Movies Apted's "Up" series (most recent was 49 Up), The 40-year-old Virgin, The Elephant Man, American Movie, City Lights, Tarnation, Super Size Me, Garden State, When Harry Met Sally, Monty Python and the Quest for the Holy Grail, Man Walking on Snow, Blue Spring, School of Rock, Parenthood, Happy Accidents, Pump Up the Volume, High Fidelity
Favorite Music jazz, blues, rock, funk, hip-hop, Brazilian, African, The Police, Queen, Tegan and Sara, Jamie Lidell, The Shins, Mike Doughty, Art Tatum, TMBG, Kanye West, Tower of Power, Beck, Cake, Spymob, Jet, Dave Brubeck Quartet, Death Cab, Green Day, Harry Connick Jr.'s _She_, Tenacious D, Joshua Redman, Take 6, Justin Timberlake, The Killers, Living Colour (since forever), Mark Mothersbaugh, Dvorak, Chopin, Michael Franks, Ray Charles, John Coltrane, SRV, Two O'Clock Lab Band, UNT Jazz Singers, Feist, A Band of Bees, M.I.A., Jon Hendricks' "Freddie Freeloader", Rosewood Thieves, anything that makes me wanna shake my thang
Favorite Books A Wrinkle in Time, My Name is Asher Lev, The Life of Pi, The Power of Now, The Time Traveler's Wife, On Bullshit, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, High Fidelity, The Bitch in the House, Sideways Stories from Wayside School, Griffin & Sabine