Jo Bingo
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| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Introduction | I play cello and i like to write. i LOVE Middlemarch and i LOVE Roald Dahl... and don't get me started on Ivan from Dostoyevsky's "The Brothers Karamazov." |
| Interests | Playing My Cello, Bach Cello Suites, Coffee, diet Coke, Bagels, Pizza, Half-Pound Cheeseburgers and Fries, learning to drive, running, swimmings, reading reading reading ... (writing)... watching movies movies movies, Tim Burton, Coraline, Fantastic Mr Fox, stop-motion animation, Jane Austen, Roald Dahl, Mermaids, Knitting, Sweaters, Jeans, Bag Lady Clothes, Pajamas, multiple layers, blankets, sleeping, old animated disney films, but not all of them, Russian novels, CELLO, Dogs, Birds, Cooking, The Contrapasto Position, Botticelli. |
| Favorite Movies | The Shop Around the Corner, Wizard of Oz, You've Got Mail, Anastasia, 1985 Room with a View, Clue, 12 Angry Men, All Dogs Go to Heaven, Amadeus, Back to the Future, Beetlejuice, Big, Pretty in Pink, Charlotte's Web, Clueless, Wall-E, Constantine, City Lights, The General, The Count of Monte Cristo, Enter the Dragon, Defending Your Life, Sleepy Hollow, Labyrinth, Driving Miss Daisy, Ever After, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Finding Nemo, Garden State, Ghostbusters, The Gods Must Be Crazy, Groundhog Day, 2000 Bedazzled, Harold and Maude, High Fidelity, Hell Boy II, Lord of the Rings, Hocus Pocus, The Importance of Being Earnest, The Iron Giant, Jacqueline Du Pre: In Portrait, A Knight's Tale, Kramer vs. Kramer, The Land Before Time, The Last Unicorn, Memoirs of a Geisha, The Neverending Story, O Brother, Where Art Thou?, Rashomon, Rear Window, Rain Man, Rikki-Tikki-Tavi, Roman Holiday, Saved!, The Secret Garden (1993), The Secret of NIMH, The Secret of Roan Inish, The Seven Samurai, The Shining, Shaun of the Dead, Shallow Hal, Orange County, Erin Brockovitch, Truman Show, Arsenick and Old Lace, Moonstruck, The Princess Bride, Two Weeks Notice, The Princess and the Goblin, Chocolat, Dirty Dancing, Shrek, Legally Blonde, Miss Congeniality, Ghost, Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Little Women 1994, High Fidelity, Cyrano de Bergerac, 12 Angry Men, Harriet the Spy, The Sword in the Stone, 28 Days, All of Me, The Last Holiday 2006, Titus Norman Rockwell is Bleeding, 1994 Jungle Book, Ponyo, Count of Monte Cristo, Beetlejuice, Mummy Movies 1 & 2, Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day, Working Girl, Wall-E, The NeverEnding Story, The God's Must be Crazy, City Lights, A Quest for Camelot, Pan's Labyrinth, Phoebe in Wonderland, The Little Mermaid, Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Beauty and the Beast, Snow White, Fantastic Mr. Fox |
| Favorite Music | Bach, Lute, Cello Cat Stevens, Loudon Wainwright Iii, Steeleye Span, Jacqueline Du Pré, Simon And Garfunkel, Gnarls Barkley's "Crazy, " America, Indigo Girls, Bruce Molsky, Andrew Manze, Piffaro, The Nutcracker, Christmas Revels, Joan Armatrading, Schubert's "Death and the Maiden, " Schubert's Quintet in C Major, The Emerson String Quartet, O Brother Where Art Thou soundtrack, George Enesco's Octet in C Major Opus 7, Tom Waits, especially Tom Waits' "Martha, " a little Regina Spektor, of course Tenacious D's "Tribute, " The Madison String Quartet, Mozart (is the bomb), WAVERLY CONSORT, Carmina Burana, Paul O'Dette (best lute player), Rostropovich, Steets of Philadelphia, any Andre Emelianoff, including Emelianoff and Hirata, kol nidres, Carousel, Lutz Kirchof: Lute Music for Witches and Alchemists, Paul O'Dette's "Robin Hood" especially "I Cannot keepe my wyfe at home, " Biber, Beethoven, Berlioz, Mississippi John Hurt's "Coffee Blues, " Celtic Tides, Saint-Saëns: Carnival Of The Animals, PETER AND THE WOLF by Prokofiev, White Stripes' "Elephant, " Katy Perry's Hot n Cold, Beyonce's "Irreplaceable" and "Single Ladies, " Rhianna's "Take a Bow, " Moby's "One of these mornings, " Shostakovitch, Tchaikovsky, BRAHMS, Brahms Cello Sonata #1 in E Minor, dvorak cello concertos, elgar cello concerto, Dvorak American String Quartet pus. 96, "I will survive" by Gloria Gaynor, Soundtrack to "the Secret of Roan Inish, " Stadtpfeiffer - Music of Renaissance Germany, "Send Me on My Way, " John Fahey. |
| Favorite Books | Selma by Jutta Bauer, The Brothers Karamazov, Hans Christian Andersen's "The Little Mermaid, " A Barrel of Laughs a Vale of Tears, Persuasion, Seduction and the Secret Power of Women: The Lure of Sirens and Mermaids, A Room With A View, Excellent Women, Howard's End, An Island Garden, the Griffin and Sabine Trilogy, The Chronicles Of Narnia, Lady Susan, Sanditon, If You Want to Write, On Becoming a Novelist, The Art of Fiction, In the Suicide Mountains, Freddy's Book (by John Gardner), The color Fairy Books, Cranford, North and South, MIDDLEMARCH, Pride And Prejudice, Sense And Sensibility, Northanger Abbey, Mansfield Park, The Watsons, Matilda, The Magic Finger, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Emma, Boy, Roald Dahl's Skin and other Short Stories, The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and other Short Stories (also Roald Dahl), Little Women, The BFG, anything by Roald Dahl really, "The daughter of Buk Ettemsuch, " Catherine Called Birdy, Ella Enchanted, The Midwife's Apprentice, The Last Unicorn, Lolita, "The Weaving of a Dream, " Wives and Daughters, My Father's Dragon, Arabian Nights, Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood, Flatland, Dealing with Dragons, The Good Earth, The Metamorphosis, The Trial, Anna Karenina, Dubliners, Chronicle of a Death Foretold, Walk Two Moons, The Hobbit, The Secret Garden, Jane Eyre, My Father's Dragon, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Mrs. Dalloway, Loveykins (by Quentin Blake), Toulouse-Lautrec: Painter of the Night, The Adventures of Forri the Baker, Darkness at Noon, Ambrose Bierce's The Devil's Dictionary, The Dictionary, Harry the Poisonous Centipede: a Story to Make You Squirm, hamlet, Gulliver's Travels, The Active-Enzyme Lemon-Freshened Junior High School Witch, The Secret of the Old Clock (Nancy Drew), The Little Prince, Alice in Wonderland, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, "Bloomability" and "Love that Dog" by Sharon Creech, the Nancy Drew Books (indeed) |
If you were a cannibal, what would you wear to dinner?
Cotton. Cotton Breathes.