Olivia Meldrum
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| Gender | Female |
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| Industry | Student |
| Location | Port Royal, PA, United States |
| Introduction | Roman Catholic! Private voice instructor, self-published writer, graduate from Franciscan University of Steubenville, OH, where I studied Sacred Music (voice) and Theology. Good music, good literature, and all good art in general makes my day, everyday. Jesus does, too. |
| Interests | The Roman Catholic faith, the Romantic movement, the fairytale, history and historical dress, mythology, folklore, the visual arts, the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, classical music, opera, songwriting, reading, writing, poetry, bird-watching, the theatre |
| Favorite movies | Spirited Away, Howl's Moving Castle, The Village, North and South, Enchanted April, Edward Scissorhands, Notorious, The Passion of the Christ, LOTR, Lady in the Water, It Happened One Night, The Philadelphia Story, Casablanca, Ladyhawke, Time Bandits, Black Narcissus, Slumdog Millionaire, It's a Wonderful Life, Spellbound, Vertigo, any Hitchcock, Signs, Unbreakable, The Sixth Sense, Spiderman films, Fight Club, West Side Story, Once, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Zeffirelli's Romeo and Juliet, La Passion de Jeanne D'arc, 3-iron, the Secret Life of Walter Mitty, Singin' in the Rain, Princess Mononoke, Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Castle in the Sky, Nosferatu, The Illusionist, Little Miss Sunshine, Crouching Tiger - Hidden Dragon, Hero, House of Flying Daggers, The Matrix, Breakfast at Tiffany's, The Princess Bride, Finding Neverland, Sweeney Todd, The Secret Garden, Time Bandits, Monty Python and the Holy Grail |
| Favorite music | Classical, operatic, showtunes, classic rock, indie pop + rock |
| Favorite books | LOTR, The Hobbit, Narnia, Till We Have Faces, The Problem of Pain, others by Lewis, Oscar Wilde, Great Expectations, A Tale of Two Cities, G. K. Chesterton, Jane Austen, Bronte sisters, Shakespeare, Hamlet, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Romeo and Juliet, The Grapes of Wrath, Peter Pan, Lord of the Flies, Quo Vadis, A Room With a View, Howards End, A Passage to India, Dracula, The Little Prince, The Glass Menagerie, Hymns to the Night, St. Bernard of Clairvaux, Moomin Series, Tuck Everlasting, The Search For Delicious, The Hero and the Crown, Rose Daughter, Robin McKinley, The Neverending Story, A College of Magics, Betsy-Tacy series, Terry Pratchett, The Phantom Tolbooth, Friedrich de la Motte Fouque, fairytales of Grimm's, Anderson, Perrault, D'aulnoy, many others |
You have a red jar of cedar chips. Why do moths miss the forest?
Don't you know? Moths experience Schweizerheimweh too. The cedar chips remind them of their larvae-hood home, and the red jar reminds them of the sun...

