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Introduction	"I wish I could throw off the thoughts which poison my happiness. And yet I take a kind of pleasure in indulging them." ~ Frédéric Chopin
Interests	Being vital.
Favorite movies	28 Days Later, Atonement, The English Patient, Hot Fuzz, Office Space, Shaun of the Dead, Go, L'Auberge Espagnole, Trainspotting, Big Night, A Room with a View, Laura, Shallow Grave, Cinema Paradiso, Match Point, My Foolish Heart, A History of Violence, Eastern Promises, Slumdog Millionaire, The Best Years of Our Lives, Intermission, Before Sunrise, Before Sunset, All About Eve, Throw Mama from the Train, Into the Wild, The Celebration (Festen), Emma, The Dreamers, I Want You, Noah Baumbach's Kicking and Screaming, Metropolitan, Barcelona, La Reine Margot, Cyrano de Bergerac, Indochine, Masterpiece's Persuasion and Northanger Abbey, Once, Garden State, Sexy Beast, Gosford Park, Monty Python's Holy Grail and The Meaning of Life, Swingers, Thank You For Smoking, Little Miss Sunshine, The Maltese Falcon, Kiss Me Kate, Withnail and I, How To Steal A Million, Everything's Gone Green (Douglas Coupland).
Favorite music	Arvo Pärt, Interpol, The Doves, New Order, Radiohead, The National, Lisa Hannigan, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Elbow, Slowdive, Catherine Wheel, The Meeting Places, Film School, Beirut, DeVotchKa, The Swell Season, The Fields, Jose Gonzales, kexp.org, CBC Radio 2, South, The Editors, The Rosebuds, The Stills, The Shins, The Smiths, The Streets, The Thermals, Maxim Vengerov, Lars Vogt, Arctic Monkeys, Stars, Broken Social Scene, Joy Division, Sarah Slean, Sarah Harmer, U2, The Tragically Hip, Hooverphonic, Ladytron, Kiri Te Kanawa, Eva Marton, Maria Callas, Enrico Caruso, Midlake, Menomena, Minus the Bear, The Kings of Convenience, Hot Chip, Bang Gang, The Prayers and Tears of Arthur Digby Sellers, Pedro the Lion/Dave Bazan, Willoughby, Kym Brown, Marie Laforêt, Carla Bruni, Vic Chesnutt, Neil Young, Death Cab for Cutie, Clinic, The Strokes, Sigur Ros, The Dandy Warhols, Gorillaz, Chet Baker, Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan, Louis Armstrong, Dexter Gordon, Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra, Chopin, Ravel, Debussy, Mussorgsky, Palestrina, de Victoria, Bach, Early and Renaissance music, motets and madrigals, the French and the Russians, Baroque, Impressionism, Neo-Classicism, and Minimalism; Angela Hewitt, Glenn Gould, old Ashkenazy, Lars Vogt, Puccini arias, Film music by Richard Robbins, Ennio Morricone, John Murphy, Clint Mansell, Gabriel Yared, Jordi Savall, and Jean-Claude Petit, The Decemberists, Federico Aubele, The Waterboys, The Bothy Band, The Chieftains, Planxty, The Tallis Scholars, The Good, the Bad, and the Queen, Ivy, The Sundays, Autour de Lucie, Lush, The Walkmen, Franz Ferdinand, Lhasa, Kasabian, The Smashing Pumpkins, Garbage, The Verve, The Shore, The Rapture, Wolf Parade.
Favorite books	McCarthy's Bar by Pete McCarthy, The Prydain Chronicles (The Book of Three, The Black Cauldron, The Castle of Llyr, Taran Wanderer, and the High King) by Lloyd Alexander, My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George, The Wizard Children of Finn by Mary Tannen, Technopoly by Neil Postman, September and Under Gemini by Rosamunde Pilcher, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer, The Poetry and Short Stories of Dorothy Parker, A Room with a View by E.M. Forster, The Human Comedy by William Saroyan, Rachel's Holiday and Sushi for Beginners by Marian Keyes, A Promising Man and A Girl's Best Friend by Elizabeth Young, Fall on Your Knees by Ann-Marie McDonald, Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons, the Bible, Blame It On Paris by Laura Forland, The Camulod/Dream of Eagles Chronicles by Jack Whyte, Sex on the Brain by Deborah Blum, Gender and Discourse by Deborah Tannen, Shoot the Women First by Eileen MacDonald, Paddy Clark Ha Ha Ha by Roddy Doyle.