Jim Sligh

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About me

Gender Male
Industry Education
Occupation Writer
Location Boston, Massachusetts
Introduction Teaching English in a pueblo outside of JaƩn, in southern Spain.
Interests Open windows, typewriters, conversation, good bread.
Favorite Movies Fitzcarraldo, The New World, The Age of Innocence, Brazil, Touch of Evil, McCabe & Mrs. Miller, Ran, Grizzly Man, Taxi Driver, Capote, Dead Man, The Lady From Shanghai, His Girl Friday, The Rules of the Game, The Royal Tenenbaums, Broken Flowers, The Last Waltz, Raging Bull, The Limey, City Lights, Dr. Strangelove, Dawn of the Dead (1978), Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Conversation, Hable con Ella, Annie Hall, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, The Good The Bad & The Ugly, Through a Glass Darkly, The Big Sleep
Favorite Music Andrew Bird's Bowl of Fire, Sly & the Family Stone, Spoon, Sleater-Kinney, Clem Snide, Wilco, Iron & Wine, Ted Leo & the Pharmacists, Ray Charles, Neko Case, Tom Waits, Arcade Fire, The Magnetic Fields, Duke Ellington, Sufjan Stevens, Curtis Mayfield, The Mountain Goats
Favorite Books Adverbs, All The King's Men, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, Tales of Protection, Case Histories, Everything Is Illuminated, Any Human Heart, Being Dead, The Lovely Bones, A Star Called Henry, The Fortress of Solitude, The Orchid Thief, The Green Lantern, My Life As A Fake, The Tailor of Panama, Finding George Orwell in Burma