Adriana Parker
My blogs
| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Industry | Education |
| Occupation | Librarian |
| Location | Salt Lake City, Utah, United States |
| Introduction | I'm a librarian--just like Bat Girl. |
| Interests | libraries, reading, progressive politics, Mexico, photography, dancing, bikes!, art nouveau, the Oxford comma, spoonerisms, pictorialism, French press coffee, the rampant misuse of ellipses, film noir, black tea, relishing my torpor, malapropisms, flamenco dancers, pop art, the Pre-Raphaelites, glam rock, champagne, schadenfreude, playing the violin, green-ness, antique books, linguistics, onomatopoeia, Art Deco, intrigue films, writing, dinner parties, tattoos, veganism, belly dancers, silent films, impressionism, stilettos, dictionaries, pastries, the study of minor acts of dishonesty and antisocial behavior, list-making |
| Favorite Movies | L'Atalante, Secretary, Ascenseur pour L'échafaud, Double Indemnity, Touch of Evil, Chinatown, The French Connection, The Killers, Abismos de Pasion, The Lady Vanishes, 3 Women, Y Tu Mama Tambien, M, Rope, Harold and Maude, Le Samourai, Ed Wood, Brief Encounter, Todo Sobre Mi Madre, Vertigo, Hiroshima Mon Amour, To Catch A Thief, The Third Man, The Maltese Falcon, My Dinner with Andre, Les Diaboliques, Being There, Sunset Boulevard, Amores Perros, Breathless, Volver, L'avventura, Solaris (1972), To Have and Have Not, Withnail and I, In the Mood for Love, That Obscure Object of Desire, The Party, The Hunger, Love Me If You Dare, The Night Porter, Hable con Ella, M.A.S.H, Charade, Vargtimmen, The Piano Teacher, A Shot in the Dark, Short Cuts, Blue Velvet, True Stories, It Happened One Night, Barbarella, Jackie Brown, Sid and Nancy, Irma La Douce, The Apartment, Bell Book and Candle, Spirited Away, My Neighbor Totoro, Howl's Moving Castle, The Motorcycle Diaries, Donnie Darko, Kind Hearts and Coronets, Logan's Run, Notorious, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Bottle Rocket, The Royal Tenenbaums, Rushmore, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, Barton Fink, Being There, Annie Hall, The Night of the Living Dead, Cinema Paradiso, Best in Show, Waiting for Guffman, A Mighty Wind, This is Spinal Tap, The Omega Man, New York Doll, Carnival of Souls, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Roman Holiday, The African Queen, The Fly, Dreams, Capote, Frenzy, Coffee and Cigarettes, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Strangers on a Train, Young Frankenstein. Some Like It Hot, M Butterfly, To Kill A Mockingbird, Dial M for Murder, One Two Three, The Big Sleep, Punch Drunk Love, Dark Passage |
| Favorite Music | Tragic Black, Redemption, David Bowie, Leonard Cohen, Pulp, Siouxsie and the Banshees, the Creatures, Peter Murphy, Bauhaus, Morrissey, the Smiths, Velvet Underground, Joy Division, New Order, Sisters of Mercy, the Cure, New York Dolls, Cocteau Twins, Skinny Puppy, Gang of Four, Dead Can Dance, the Kills, Edith Piaf, Brian Eno, Magnetic Fields, Roxy Music, David Byrne, Talking Heads, Stan Getz, T. Rex, Saint Etienne, Rolling Stones, This Mortal Coil, Iggy Pop, the Stooges, Astrud Gilberto, Television, Psychedelic Furs, Donovan, Calexico, the Pixies, Cat Stevens, Johnny Cash, Stereolab, Spoon, Antony and the Johnsons, Serge Gainsbourg, Antonio Carlos Jobim, James, Lou Reed, the Cramps, John Coltrane, Edward Elgar, Dave Brubeck, Arcade Fire, Bob Dylan, the Ramones, Radiohead, Nina Simone, Hank Williams, Elvis Costello, Cowboy Junkies, Jeff Buckley, Tim Buckley, Tindersticks, Yo La Tengo, Nico, Billie Holliday, Sex Pistols, Tom Waits, Nick Drake, Duran Duran, Low, Erik Satie, Gustav Mahler, Gotan Project, Kronos Quartet, Flaming Lips, Depeche Mode, Mariachi Zavala, MC5, Specimen, Los Fakires, the Clash, Belle and Sebastian, Miles Davis, Air, Tortoise, Maurice Ravel, Syd Barrett, Astor Piazolla, Jacqueline du Pre, Love and Rockets, John Lennon, Phillip Glass, Big Star, Massive Attack, Iron and Wine, Wire, Jose Gonzalez |
| Favorite Books | That's a long list. How about writers instead? Vladimir Nabokov, Martin Amis, Pablo Neruda, Saul Bellow, Joan Didion, Isabel Allende, Marcel Proust, Li-Young Lee, Nicholson Baker, Truman Capote, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, E.L. Doctorow, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jean Rhys, Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Julia Alvarez, J.G. Ballard, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Oscar Wilde, T.S. Eliot, Dorothy Parker, Mikhail Bulgakov, Anais Nin, Michael Ondaatje, Charles Bukowski, Thomas Hardy, Katherine Mansfield, Dorothy Parker, Henry Miller, David Sedaris, Tom Stoppard, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Seamus Heaney, Rainer Maria Rilke, Graham Green, Billy Collins, Sarah Vowell, Allen Ginsberg, Noam Chomsky, Sharon Olds, Kurt Vonnegut, William Carlos Williams, Howard Zinn, John Fowles, E.E. Cummings, Jeffrey Eugenides, Matsuo Basho, Jorge Luis Borges, Carolyn Forche, William Butler Yeats |
You forgot your mom's birthday! What can you make out of super glue and olive pits?
I can make my mother's heart break!