J. Barry

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About me

Industry Education
Occupation Professor
Location Clinton, New York, United States
Introduction i'm an ordinary woman, who lives in an ordinary town, in an ordinary house on an ordinary street.
Interests digital music files, harper's magazine, sea salt, stars, mountains, film, snow, campfires, water, crossword puzzles, six feet under, being queer, wine, new orleans, sisters, cultural studies, environmental activism, roseanne, halloween, showers, hip hop, dancing.
Favorite Movies woman under the influence, badlands, pulp fiction, fargo, all about eve, the exterminating angel, doggville, high art, manny and lo, manhattan, apocalypse now, the birds, silverlake life, pollack, nobody knows, belle de jour, and a thousand more i'm not thinking of right now.
Favorite Music lucinda williams, bob dylan, p.j. harvey, loretta lynn, the white stripes, ryan adams, dead prez, blackalicious, roseanne cash, johnny cash, led zeppelin, courtney love, le tigre, common, aimee mann, sinead o'connor, neko case, the clash, peaches, the yeah, yeah, yeahs, radiohead, willie nelson, emmylou harris, the new pornographers, tv on the radio, the arcade fire and a hundred other people/bands that i can't recall right now. i'm a music geek.
Favorite Books native son, tracks, the prophet, the bluest eye, the straight mind, earthcare, maus i & ii, storming heaven, justice, nature and the geography of difference, women, race and class, the idea of culture, wuthering heights, helter skelter, and a thousand more i'm not thinking of right now.