Suko
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| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Industry | Arts |
| Occupation | Dancer, artist, proposal writer, radio presenter Tameside Radio, Vice President of Chinese Center on Long Island |
| Location | Rockville Centre, New York, United States |
| Introduction | Here I am, a Long Island housewife, finding "fame" in the United Kingdom. What a laugh. One husband, one daughter, two cats, two bedrooms, one bathroom (regrettably), two cars, one garage, thousands of friends. |
| Interests | Music, dance, art, movies, theatre, books, British radio, England, China, Japan, travelling |
| Favorite Movies | Mosquito Coast, Cinema Paradiso, The Year of Living Dangerously, and anything else by Peter Weir, Swept Away, The Wild Child, The 400 Blows, and anything else by Truffaut, Annie Hall, Manhattan, anything by Woody Allen, Before Sunrise, Before Sunset, Music and Lyrics, Umbrellas of Cherbourg, March of the Penguins, Winged Migration, The Parrots of Telegraph Hill, Little Miss Sunshine, Driving Miss Daisy, Shawshank Redemption, Wondrous Oblivion, The Paper Clip, The MGM musicals of the 30s, 40s, 50s. Film noir and lighter black and whites 30's to 50's, anything with Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly, The Nicholas Brothers, William Powell, Irene Dunne, Melvyn Douglas, Jean Arthur, Joan Blondell, Morgan Freeman, Toni Collette, Hugh Grant, Jude Law, Michael Caine, Woody Allen, Julie Delpy, Isla Fisher |
| Favorite Music | Very eclectic. alternative rock, show tunes, jazz from rag to chill, pop, rock, classical, bossa nova. Favorite artists: Snow Patrol, Elbow, Chris Botti, Miles Davis, Ornette Coleman, Kate Bush, Elvis Costello, Seal, Bob Dylan, Sting, Joss Stone, Nellie MacKay, Nellie, Nellie Furtado, Fergie, Dave Matthews, Bliss, Zero 7, Coldplay, Keane, Tears for Fears, The Wallflowers, Duran Duran, Yoyo Ma, Astrud Gilberto, Carlos Antonio Jobim, Naoko Mizuka, Robbie Robertson, Joni Mitchell, Ricki Lee Jones, Nils Lofgren, Rob Thomas, Eva Cassidy, Neil Finn, Crowded House, The Script. Favorite albums: Songs for Polar Bears, When It's Over We Still have to Clear Up, Final Straw, Eyes Open and anything by Snow Patrol, Leaders of The Free World, Seldom Seen Kid, Asleep in the Back and anything by Elbow, First Wish and A Thousand Kisses Deep by Chris Botti, Nils Lofgren's Acoustic Live album, Lucia Micarelli's Music from a Farther Room, Neil Finn's Seven Worlds Collide, the soundtrack to Winged Migration, Quiet Letters by Bliss, A Brand New Day by Sting, Shapes by Dominic Miller, Suit by Nelly (yes the hip hop rapper, love him), Robbie Robertson's Music for the Native American, Modern Times by Bob Dylan, The Kick Inside, Lionheart, Hounds of Love, The Sensual World, The Red Shoes all by Kate Bush, Crash and Stand Up by Dave Matthews, Talkie Walkie by Air, My Aim is True, Armed Forces, Punch the Clock, King of America and the Juliet Letters all by Elvis Costello, Seal's first and second albums, Songbird by Eva Cassidy, Keane's Hopes and Fears and Under the Iron Sea, Perfect Symmetry, Coldplay's Parachutes, A Rush of Blood to the Head and X&Y, Soundtracks to Spring Awakening, In the Heights, Chicago, Gypsy, Les Miz, Anything by Rodgers and Hammerstein. |
| Favorite Books | Me Talk Pretty One Day, When You Are Engulfed in Flames by David Sedaris, Thinking in Pictures by Temple Grandin, The Five People You Meet in Heaven, Tuesdays with Morrie, both by Mitch Albom, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith, I Love You Like Crazy Cakes by Rose A. Lewis, 84 Charing Cross by Helen Hanff, The Joy Luck Club, The Kitchen God's Wife, The Hundred Secret Senses, The Bonesetter's Daughter, all by Amy Tan, Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden, This Perfect Day and everything written by Ira Levin, Confessions of a Shopaholic and it's sequels by Sophie Kinsella, The Year of Living Biblically by AJ Jacobs, Elsewhere by Gabrielle Zevin, Dear Zoe by Philip Beard, Dave Barry Does Japan, The Kite Runner by Khaled Hossein, biographies, memoirs, anything on China and Japan |
Your people want to make a statue in your honor. What will it be made out of and what victory will it commemorate?
What did I do to deserve this?