This Girl
My blogs
| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Industry | Education |
| Occupation | Slave to the Art of Others |
| Location | East Coast, United States |
| Introduction | I am . . . I'm not sure, that's what I'm trying to figure out with this blog. Maybe for now we'll go with adorable intellectual wild child bad girl liberal book worm. |
| Interests | reading, running, belly dancing, writing, rainy days, serenity, art, art history, history, music, big words, diatribes, life |
| Favorite Movies | Rear Window, Wait Until Dark, High Noon, Strangers on a Train, A Woman Under the Influence, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, To Kill a Mockingbird, Like Water for Chocolate, Toy Story, Goodfellas, The Usual Suspects, Princess Bride, Fight Club, 12 Angry Men, The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, About a Boy, The Truth About Cats and Dogs, Sense and Sensibility, Y Tu Mama Tambien, Back Street(1941), Captain Courageous, The Wizard of Oz, The Shawshank Redemption, and Gidget Goes Hawaiian |
| Favorite Music | Amel Larrieux, Kate Earl, Amos Lee, that one song by Whitesnake with that woman throwing herself around on the top of a Jag (because it was going to be the signature song for my childhood career ambition as a stripper, probably at Scores, but as I grew up I realized that while my boobs are large enough they are real and I think that gets you kicked out of the American Association of Strippers), Amy Winehouse, James Morrison (the British guy not the old horn player), Def Leppard's Pour Some Sugar on Me (the closing song for my never came to fruition professional stripper routine), Alice Smith, KoKo Taylor, Aerosmith, Gomez, B.B. King, Ray LaMontagne, Laura Nyro, Fiona Apple, Etta James, ARETHA FRANKLIN, Cesaria Evora, Jeff Buckley, MoZella, Otis Redding, Beethoven, Artur Rubinstein, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Hank Williams Sr., Al Green, Louis Armstrong, Oscar Peterson, Jill Scott, Maroon 5, Leela James, Elvis Costello, Prince, Lauryn Hill, Rachael Yamagata, Me'Shell NdegeOcello, Keb' Mo', John Mayer despite the Jessica Simpson nonsense - this too shall pass, DMB, Bob Marley, Erin Boheme, Maxwell, Common, Imogen Heap, Remy Shand, Frankie Negron, Albita, Marvin Gaye, Floetry, Huey Dunbar, Bizet, Ben Harper, Lou Reed, Sade, Dinah Washington, Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros, Stevie Wonder, Beastie Boys, D'Angelo, Bonnie Raitt, John Coltrane, Ray Charles, and . . . |
| Favorite Books | My favorites from adulthood - basically anything BUT the Victorians, Hemingway, Joyce and Steinbeck, specifically, I love - the complete works of John Donne, Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad, Moby Dick by Herman Melville, The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger, Age of Innocence and Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton, Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the complete works of Pablo Neruda (in Spanish), An Occurence at Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce, Go Down Moses and anything else by Willian Faulkner, Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen, Almanac of the Dead and anything by Leslie Marmon Silko, The Awakening and anything else by Kate Chopin, anything and everything by Flannery O'Connor, The Moviegoer by Walker Percy, Look Homeward Angel by Thomas Wolfe, anything and everything by Raymond Carver, anything by Sharon Olds, Edgar Huntly by Charles Brockden Brown, Trifles by Susan Glaspell, Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion, Black Boy by Richard Wright, To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston, and many many more. My favorites from childhood - Harriet the Spy, From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, Otherwise Known as Sheila the Great, Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing, Alice in Wonderland, The Wizard of Oz, The Phantom Tollbooth, The Taming of the Shrew, . . . |
Paper or briefs?
Saran wrap because it keeps the moisture in, nothing quite like using your crotch as a breeding ground to truly bring sexy back.