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Industry Museums or Libraries
Occupation Administrative Librarian
Location Chicago, IL, United States
Introduction Assistant Director of Palatine Public Library.
Interests Libraries, reading, collecting and listening to music, analyzing film, swimming, walking, hiking, cycling, chess, trivia games, wii, photography, audio production, architecture, poetry, estate sales, thrift stores, antique shops, good food, good drink, stargazing, museums, road trips, NPR, XM, Chicago, Minnesota, New Zealand, all things Pacific, and sleeping
Favorite Movies Andrei Rublev by Andrei Tarkovsky, The Exterminating Angel by Luis Bunuel, Fellini's 8 1/2 by Federico Fellini, Grand Illusion by Jean Renoir, Heart of Glass by Werner Herzog, Last Year at Marienbad by Alain Resnais, Weekend by Jean-Luc Godard, Wings of Desire by Wim Wenders, and anything by Ingmar Bergman
Favorite Music Amon Düül II, Bardo Pond, Can, Miles Davis, Brian Eno, Fairport Convention, Genesis, Hawkwind, Joy Division, The Kinks, Low, Roy Montgomery, Neil Young, Pink Floyd, The Rolling Stones, Slowdive, Traffic, The Velvet Underground, Windy and Carl, Yo La Tengo, Frank Zappa
Favorite Books Illuminations by Walter Benjamin, One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse, In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust, The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke, Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace, and anything by Jack Kerouac, Milan Kundera and Pablo Neruda