Helena

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Gender Female
Industry Publishing
Location Durham, North Carolina, United States
Introduction When I'm not working, I'm at the gym. (Or sitting on my ass and looking at the internets.) I enjoy drinking the occasional high-gravity beer and attending minor-league baseball games (go, Bulls!). I also enjoy taking photos, traveling, reading, writing fiction, sketching (pencils, charcoal), traveling, gossiping about celebrities, watching movies, and criticizing acting performances. I like being sneaky. And obsessing about things. Mostly, I am interested in talking about my interests.
Interests Books, television, cinema, art, music, exercise, pop culture, travel, Google, the paranormal, animal rights, Barack Obama
Favorite Movies 2001: A Space Odyssey, Beetlejuice, Bram Stoker's Dracula, The Changeling (Medak, 1980), Death Proof, Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, Edward Scissorhands, Le Fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain, Garden State, The Haunting (Wise, 1963), Heathers, The Hunger, Kill Bill, Labyrinth, Legend, Lolita (Kubrick, 1962), The Lost Boys, The Man Who Fell to Earth, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Monsoon Wedding, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Pride and Prejudice (BBC and Wright), Pulp Fiction, Sense and Sensibility (Lee), The Shining (Kubrick), The Silence of the Lambs, Some Like It Hot, Star Wars (episodes IV, V, VI), V for Vendetta, Wayne's World, When Harry Met Sally, Working Girl. My recent Oscar movie binge: Atonement, Away from Her, The Bourne Ultimatum, Juno, La Vie En Rose, Michael Clayton, No Country for Old Men, Sweeney Todd, There Will Be Blood (I did not much care for Charlie Wilson's War, except for Philip Seymour Hoffman, who was—de rigueur—rock 'em sock 'em.)
Favorite Music Air, Tori Amos, Arcade Fire, Au Revoir Simone, Erykah Badu, The Beatles, The Beastie Boys, Beck, Belle and Sebastian, Björk, DAVID BOWIE, Camera Obscura, Neko Case, Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, Cibo Matto, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, CocoRosie, Coldplay, Cold War Kids, Death Cab for Cutie, The Decemberists, Deerhoof, Donna the Buffalo, BOB DYLAN, Feist, The Fratellis, Garbage, Gorillaz, The Grateful Dead, Imogen Heap, Hole, Interpol, Iron and Wine, Led Zeppelin, The Libertines, Laura Love, Madonna, Aimee Mann, Mates of State, Matisyahu, Mazzy Star, Moby, Of Montreal, Morcheeba, Neutral Milk Hotel, New Buffalo, The New Pornographers, Nine Inch Nails, Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Portishead, R.E.M., Rilo Kiley, The Shins, Sia, Smashing Pumpkins, Sonic Youth, Regina Spektor, Squirrel Nut Zippers, Sufjan Stevens, Tegan and Sara, Tricky, Weezer, The White Stripes, Amy Winehouse, Wolf Parade, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Jenny Owen Youngs, Zero 7
Favorite Books Fiction: Atwood, Austen, Kingsolver, Lawrence, Marquez, Morrison, Nabokov, O'Connor, Rowling, Stoker, Vonnegut, Wharton, Woolf. Nonfiction and Theory: Anderson, Ahmad, Auerbach, Butler, Dolan, Du Bois, Fanon, Foucault, Jameson, Levine, Said. Comics/Manga: Buffy season 8, Return to Labyrinth

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Several replicas of Sarah Williams's bracelet.