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My blogs
Blogs I follow
| Gender | Female |
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| Location | New York, New York, United States |
| Links | Audio Clip |
| Introduction | DADAism. Surrealist. Existentialist. Baroque sensibility. Whoopee cushion. Sartre. Faulkner. James Joyce. Sex and the City. Retro! Mod! Vintage! Just about anything performed by Glenn Gould. The art of Sophie Calle. I am married to the writer/attorney Hansen Alexander, author of the biography "Rare Integrity: A Portrait of L.W. Payne, Jr." and the novels "From Westpoint to Watergate" amd "The Death of Chauvinism." |
| Interests | Language, art, poetry, drama, music: "Remember that you are a human being with a soul and the divine gift of articulate speech: that your native language is the language of Shakespeare and Milton and The Bible; and don't sit there crooning like a bilious pigeon." Pygmalion, G.B. Shaw |
| Favorite Movies | The surrealist animation of Suzan Pitt.. "El Doctor, " "Joy Street, " "Asparagus." The sumptuousness of Jean-Luc Godard. Wallace Shawn in "My Dinner With Andre." The Richard Linklater films "Before Sunrise" and "Before Sunset." The film adaptation of "The Hours." Orson Welles' "Citizen Kane." The restored edition of "Metropolis, " "Life is Beautiful." |
| Favorite Music | John Coltrane's "A Love Supreme" The Emerson String Quartet playing the Shostakovich cycle.The smiling sunshine exuberance of Iz Kamakawiwo'ole. Mstilav Rostropovich's mature and velvety interpretation of the Bach Cello Suites. Keith Jarrett's expository brilliance. The Bernstein interpretation of the Mahler cycle. Mauizio Pollini playing Chopin. Mravinksy's conducting of the Tchaikovsky 4. John Adam's 'Nixon in China." Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, Susan Graham, Rolando Villazon, Magdalena Kozena, Chiwoniso, Herbie Hancock, The Clash, The Jam, Kate Bush, Tori Amos |
| Favorite Books | James Joyce's Ulysses. Anything by Thomas Wolfe (because you can't go home again.) Virginia Woolf. The bombast of Walt Whitman. Allen Ginsberg's poetry (for the same qualities of Walt Whitman.) Donna Haraway's "Cyborg Manifesto, " Anything that explores ontology and digital technology... Avital Ronell, Greg Ulmer, Mark C. Taylor. Jack Kerouac's "On The Road, " anything by Alain de Botton, Adam Gopnik, Alex Ross or the rest of the New Yorker dudes. Jeffrey Eugenides "Middlesex." The short stories of Eudora Welty and Flannery O'Connor. Anything written by William Faulkner or Jacques Derrida. |