Allie
My blogs
Blogs I follow
| Industry | Student |
|---|---|
| Location | Brooklyn, New York, United States |
| Introduction | I have some stories. ...and some past dalliances. |
| Interests | (In no particular order) Travel, Poverty, Volunteerism, Community Politics, Organized Crime, The Machine, Rick Bragg, Flip Flops, Broadway, Celebrity Gossip, Wearing Long Sleeve Shirts with Shorts, Naps, Softball, Religions, Jazz and the Blues, Audrey Hepburn, Boston Red Sox, Forties, Trivia, Big Sunglasses, Live Music, Jokes, Extreme Akhim and the Bat of Justice, Alabama Basketball, Albert Einstein, Years in Review, Sneaking Alcohol into Movies, The Ivy League (but only as a sports league), Why Dogs are Better than Cats, Popular Culture, Popped Collars, Pop Lyrics, Macs, Funny Tshirts, Organic Farming, TV on DVD, Photography, San Francisco, Bet Movies, the Inside Story, Pre-noon Bloody Marys, Distance, Stand Up Comedy, "Best of" Issues in Magazines, Lists, Writing, Subtlety, More than One Level, Collages, Vespas, Quotable Quotes |
| Favorite movies | (In no particular order) Finding Neverland, Ray, Saved, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Garden State, In America. The Wedding Crashers, Any Given Sunday, Malibu's Most Wanted, Elf, Hustle and Flow, Charade, Beaches, Clueless, The Godfather Trilogy, Fresa y Chocolate, Bride and Prejudice, Gia, Forrest Gump, Good Will Hunting, ET, St. Elmo's Fire, Girls Just Wanna Have Fun, Bobby, Invincible, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Little Miss Sunshine, The Prestige, Finding Forrester, Scream, His Gal Friday, Casablanca, The Way We Were, Half Nelson, The Departed, My Tiny Universe, All the Real Girls, Manic, You Can Count on Me, 10 Things I Hate About You, PS, All About Eve, SLC Punk, For Love of the Game |
| Favorite music | (In no particular order) Ben Folds, Jack Johnson, The Game, Ben Harper, Dave Matthews Band and Dave Matthews (solo), John Mayer and John Mayer Trio, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Ani DiFranco, Counting Crows, Mos Def, Snoop, The Beatles, Coldplay, Brighteyes, Deana Carter, Pharrel, Kanye West, John Coltraine, Bob Dylan Covers, Norah Jones, Oasis (Yes, they are still a band), The Strokes, Outkast, John Butler Trio, Miles Davis, Charlie Parker, Nirvana, Elliott Smith, Traveling Jinn, The Grey Album, Aimee Mann, Matt Nathanson, Elton John, Gillian Welch, Jackson Waters, Piano Bars, Karaoke, Eminem, Dave Barnes, Corrinne Bailey Rae, Television Soundtracks, Movie Soundtracks, Damien Rice, Sheryl Crow, Dixie Chicks, Otis Redding, Sam Cooke, Martha Wainwright, James, James Morrison, James Brown, John Legend, Alicia Keys, Amy Winehouse, Nina Simone, the entire Marsalis family, Collin Hay, Herbie Hancock, Amos Lee, Ray LaMontagne, Ray Charles |
| Favorite books | (Still in no particular order) Way of the Peaceful Warrior, Life of Pi, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Working Poor, Motorcycle Diaries, Notes on a Compassionate Life, The Great Gatsby, For Communities to Work, Catcher in the Rye, All Over but the Shoutin', The Little Prince, Dreaming in Cuban, The Omnivore's Dilemma, Good Poems for Hard Times, Songbook, Naked Pictures of Famous People, Dry, The Metamorphosis, junIor, Party Monster, Perks of Being a Wallflower, Cold Sassy Tree, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Letters from a Nut, Dear Gangster: Advice for the Lonely-Hearted from the Gangster of Love, Traveling Light, Still Mostly True, Linden Hills, Blue Like Jazz, Special Topics in Calamity Physics |
You've written a hit musical! How will you avoid having fame go to your head?
i'll remember that writers are, "...famous but not recognizably so." and musical writers especially.