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| Industry | Arts |
|---|---|
| Location | United States |
| Interests | museums, libraries, public art, islands, books, image-making, crafts, collecting words, epistles (writing reading posting and the whole kaboodle), poetry, punctuating with color, ruling the world (beware), and odd-shaped things and people. |
| Favorite Movies | No particular order: The Big Lebowski, The Wizard of Oz, E.T., Blade Runner, Sexy Beast, Elf, The Limey, Nosferatu, Sixteen Candles, Bottle Rocket, Sex Lies and Videotape, Holiday (Hepburn & Grant, not Diaz and Winslet), Arsenic and Old Lace, Demonlover, Car Wash, 9 to 5, Nadja, Harold and Maude, Most recent favorite: What I Want My Words To Do To You |
| Favorite Music | I like almost everything except for most folk music. I've listed my favorite music-makers but have inserted some genres of which I'm particularly fond. Madonna/, /The Rolling Stones/, /Dinah Washington/, /--polka--/, /Babalu/, /Pink Martini/, /Nina Simone/, /Koko Taylor/, /--annoying girl electronica--/, /--house (of the gay-black-Puerto Rican variety that sprang out of Chicago. Not that British crap)--/, /--ska (Jamaican ska:a.k.a. first wave-not that martyrized version outta Cali)--/, /Beethoven/, /Puccini/, /George Clinton and P-funk/, /Maceo Parker/, /--goofy story songs from the '70s--/, /Prince/, /Weezer/, /Marlena Shaw/, Most recently downloaded song: "Just Dropped In(To See What Condition My Condition Was In)" by Kenny Rogers & the First Edition |
| Favorite Books | Invisible Man-Ralph Ellison, Weetzie Bat-Lia Block, From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankenweiler- E.L. Konigsburg, poems of Emily Dickinson, The Grand Sophy-Georgette Heyer, These Old Shades-Georgette Heyer, The Joys of Motherhood-Buchi Emecheta, The Eye Ear and Arm-Nancy Farmer, His Dark Materials trilogy-Phillip Pullman, Dragonriders of Pern-Ann McCaffrey, Bellocq's Ophelia-Natasha Trethewey, The Plain Janes - Cecil Castellucci & Jim Rugg |