Russ
My blogs
| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Industry | Law |
| Occupation | Secretary! With an MA!! Loser! |
| Location | Atlanta, Georgia, United States |
| Introduction | Born in London, grew up in Atlanta, went to NYU, got MA in Art History from the Courtauld, back to NYC, worked in PR for 5 years, moved back to Atlanta 1 1/2 years ago, have a lame ass job that leaves my brain free for this kind of thing. Living a comfortable and happy suburban bohemian yuppie existence with Greatest Man on Earth, my husband, and Greatest Cats on Earth, Sophia and Orangello. |
| Interests | Collaging, movies, reading, music, spending time with my crazy family, hanging out with my cats, trying new and exciting food, trying old and reassuring food, celebrity tabloids, partying like i'm on spring break, sending people weird mail, cooking, occasionally shopping, road trips, politics, making fun of stuff. |
| Favorite movies | The Damned, The Holy Mountain, Ali: Fear Eats the Soul, Raising Arizona, The Road Warrior, National Lampoon's European Vacation, Polyester, City of God, 8 1/2, Female Trouble, Why Does Herr R. Run Amok?, The Battle of Algiers, Some Like it Hot, Who's Afraid of Virgina Woolf, Lawrence of Arabia, Mondo Trasho, The Big Lebowski, The Rolling Stones Rock n' Roll Circus, Breathless, Taxi Driver, All About My Mother, High Times, Z, No Way Out, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Weird Science, A Hard Day's Night, Wild at Heart, High Society, Singing in the Rain, Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Darling, Death in Venice, The Fog of War, Manufacturing Consent, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, How to Marry a Millionaire, Blue Velvet, Goodfellas (or "Goodfellows" as my beloved late grandfather called it), Katzelmacher, Better off Dead, Up in Smoke, Children of Men, Gosford Park, Nashville, M*A*S*H, Bowling for Columbine, The Howlin' Wolf Story, The Wall, Fast Times at Rigemont High, Easy Rider, The Shining, Crimes & Misdemeanors, Annie Hall, Sleeper, Zelig, Hannah & Her Sisters, Rosemary's Baby, most of the Pink Panthers, The Ladykillers (the original one!), Star Wars, Apocalypse Now. |
| Favorite music | The Rolling Stones, Stooges, Howlin' Wolf, Wu Tang, The Fall, Bauhaus, Bob Dylan, Christian Death, David Bowie, Crass, X, Of Montreal, Led Zeppelin, Vybz Kartel, Pink Floyd, Journey, Supertramp, The Allman Brothers Band, The Specials, Selecter, Bogle, Linton Kwesi Johnson, CSN/CSNY, Y by himself, Chumbawamba's first two albums, Voivod, Slayer, DI, The Germs, Sex Pistols, The Damned, Christian Death, Brian EnoThe James Gang, Leos Janacek, Velvet Underground, Angry Samoans, The Plugz, Black Mountain, Grizzly Bear, Metallica, The Clash, TV on the Radio, Black Mountain, James Booker, Leadbelly, anyone singing Cole Porter except that awful U2 cover of Night & Day, The Animals, Styx... |
| Favorite books | Martin Amis - Money & The Information, Iain Sinclair - Downriver & Lights Out for the Territory, Magus Mills - The Restraint of Beasts, Atwood - The Blind Assasin and Oryx & Crake, Franzen - The Corrections, all Sedaris, all Mark Leyner, all Jonathan Lethem, McEwan - Atonement & A Child in Time, all Foucault, White Teeth, John Waters, all Chomsky, Kazantzakis - The Last Temptation of Christ, Heart of Darkness, Houellebecq, Bataille, Don DeLillo - White Noise & Libra, Roy - The God of Small Things, Mistry - A Fine Balance, John Dos Passos - The USA Trilogy... |
Radio wire is often used to make bird nests. What station do they listen to?
Classi rock (that's 97.1 The River in these parts). They listen for songs by The Byrds, The Eagles, Hawkwind, and Suite Judy Blue Eyes by CSN ("Chestnut brown canary, ruby throated sparrow...").