cbb

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About me

Gender Female
Industry Student
Location Pacific Northwest, United States
Introduction ©2011 cbb. All original writing and photographs, except where noted, and then sometimes when I had no way of crediting the photographer (though not owing to lack of effort on my part).
Interests Making up for lost time
Favorite Movies Il Postino, Dodes'ka-den, Adams Aebler, The Whole Nine Yards, Horem Padem, Crash, American Beauty, De Aanslag, Judgment at Nuremberg, Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles, The Full Monty, Little Miss Sunshine, Karisuma, Good Night, and Good Luck, any movie with Fred Astaire, Salgues' Dreams of Dust, Yesterday (2004), Last Life in the Universe, Japanese Story, Cashback (2006), The Vertical Ray of the Sun, The Celebration, Before the Rain, Together (He Ni Zai Yi Qi), Sei Shonagon, Dersu Uzala
Favorite Music Abby Lincoln's "A Turtle's Dream, " The Hilliard Ensemble's "Morimur, " Bach Sonatas and Partitas for Unaccompanied Violin (Joseph Szigeti performance), "Miltons" (Nascimento), Shirley Horn, Sting, Basia, Bill Evans, Pat Metheny, Chamber music various and sundry, OutKast's "I Like the Way She Moves", Cake, Anouar Brahem, Chaka Khan, Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier (Glen Gould), Pablo Casals on any recording
Favorite Books Henderson the Rain King, Rat Man of Paris, A Fine Balance, The Gardens of Kyoto, A Gesture Life, God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater, White Teeth, Ghostwritten, Number9Dream, The Journey of Bangwell Putt, As She Climbed Across the Table, The Effect of Living Backwards, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicles, The Transit of Venus, Portrait of a Lady, The Diverting Tale of the Radish and the Shoe, The Brothers Karamazov, The Idiot, William Trevor and Alice Munro stories, The Poisonwood Bible, The Rings of Saturn, The Emigrants, Landscape and Memory, In the Skin of a Lion, The English Patient, Plainwater, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, The Shipping News, Letters to a Young Poet, Tao Te Ching (Stephen Mitchell translation), The Four Quartets, Mary Oliver

Lionesses have no manes. How do they know when they've grown up?

When they prefer it that way.