funke
My blogs
| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Location | United States |
| Introduction | I love the extremes of both cerebral hemispheres: both left-brainers (the geeks) and right-brainers (the zanies). I even like no-brainers. |
| Interests | Synthesizing all random sense and nonsense into one deep philosophical discussion, best held if one is waiting in line 40 feet above the ground at a waterslide park. "I perceive the collective mind shuddering..." |
| Favorite movies | Anything British Literature Adaptations, Napoleon Dynamite, Hotel Rwanda, Zoolander, Amelie, The Princess Bride, Hunt for Red October, House of Sand and Fog, Casablanca, The Lord of the Rings |
| Favorite music | Anything Beatles, Sufjan Stevens, Chocolate Genius, Radiohead, Gershwin, Stravinsky, Phillip Glass, Giant Sand, J. S. Bach, Tallis, Schutz |
| Favorite books | Anything Dickens, Anything Lewis Carroll, The Importance of Being Ernest, Watership Down, The Lord of the Rings, The Everlasting Man, The Napoleon of Nottinghill, Till We Have Faces, The Brothers Karamazov, Notes from the Underground, War and Peace, The Chronicles of Narnia, Barth's Dogmatics, Goedel Escher Bach: the Eternal Golden Braid |
When your science teacher smashed a frozen rose with a hammer, did you warm the petals to bring them back to life?
I cried acrid tears of sorrow that, splashing on the shattered rose, buried its forlorn pieces in a seabed grave of hydrogen and oxygen.