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Gender Female
Location Palmerston North, New Zealand
Introduction Hello.
Interests Other than the subject of this blog: Reducing management culture Politics generally Radio as a media Gardening Beach and bush Old things Baking, and cooking with care
Favorite Movies The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill, Jacques Tati – Playtime (1967); Trafic (1971), Singing in the Rain, Lawrence of Arabia, Mary & Max, The Man Who Wasn't There & other Cohen Bros, Shaft (the original), The Muppet Movie, Planet of the Apes (1968 and recent version), E.T., Fantastic Mr Fox, The Reluctant Fundamentalist, Lost in Translation, Smoke, & docos. Like Hepburn, Jack Nicholson as actors; Ken Loach, Herzog, Antonioni and Anders Thomas Jensen as directors
Favorite Music Yusef Lateef, Parliament, Joan Osborne, Amy Winehouse, Tom Waits, 1 album of Lucinda Williams, early Nina Simone, Eurythmics, Elgar's cello concerto in e minor, Skiffle, Flat-footing, & Kenny Rogers for sing-alongs.
Favorite Books Keith Thomas, Man & the Natural World; E. Boyd Smith, Chicken World; Taylor's Sagacity & Morality of Plants; Rabinbach, The Human Motor; Paul Crook, Darwin's Coat-tails; Sci Fi: HG Wells and Margaret Atwood, Charlotte's Web, Animal Farm, Yates' Gardening Guide.