FrenchHen
| Gender | Female |
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| Location | Pasadena, CA, United States |
| Introduction | Not easily bored-there is just too much-out there to see - do - learn! |
| Interests | Reading, music, film, film history, art, art history, doing things with my husband, shelter adoptions, liberal politics, LGBT? rights, LGBT? right to marry, US healthcare reform, Los Angeles, Pasadena CA, Pasadena CA history, L.A. history, L.A. cultures, New York, The Gilded Age, New York City history, Chicago history, holidays, festivals, history of the Gilded Age, Europe, U.K., Canada, Toronto, Occupy, Vancouver, exploring L.A., exploring California, art history, medieval art, medieval art history, Romanesque art, Gothic art, ancient Roman art, classical art, American art history, modern art, South Asian art, Indian art, fashion history, fashion, cosmetics, m.a.c., Sephora, Christian Dior, Emilio Pucci, devices, nails, nail polish, jewelry design, Asperger's syndrome, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Scotland, Iceland, Celts, Celtic, Halloween, Christmas, Hogmany, writing, hanging out with friends, etc! |
| Favorite Movies | The Big Lebowski, Aleksandr Nevsky, L.A. Confidential, La Belle et La Bete, South Park: Bigger Longer & Uncut, Office Space, Sin City, Baby Face, Grand Illusion, Godfather I, Godfather II, Scarface(1932), Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Monty Python movies, This is Spinal Tap, Ed Wood, Dogma, Clerks, All the President's Men, Chinatown, 24-Hour Party People, The Marriage of Maria Braun, A Clockwork Orange, MST3K, Trembling Before G_d, Jesus is Magic, White Heat, 1930s gangster movies, The Seventh Seal, Repulsion, Zoolander, Golddiggers of 1933, 42nd Street, Jesus Camp, Maedchen in Uniform, The Marriage of Maria Braun, Wings of Desire, Ninotchka, The Last Man (also known as The Last Laugh), Control, The Age of Innocence, M, Shadow of a Doubt, All About Eve, Ghost World, indie documentaries, Good Hair, movies so bad they're good, early 1960s sex comedies, ...loads more... |
| Favorite Music | The Yardbirds, Radiohead, Fischerspooner, early David Bowie, New Order, Skrillex, Coldplay, LCD Soundsystem, Joy Division, Iggy Pop, The Stooges, New York Dolls, Goldfrapp, Adele, Roxy Music, Glitter, Glam, The Beatles, Boards of Canada, Smiths, 20s jazz, 30s jazz, Madonna, The Animals, British Invasion music, 60s pop, James Brown, Sly & the Family Stone, Led Zeppelin, Bach, Baroque music, early European music, TSOP (the genre), Parliament/Funkadelic, funk, Cocteau Twins, Smetana, Cole Porter, Sex Pistols, PiL, Beach Boys, more |
| Favorite Books | Thomas Hardy, The Return of the Native, Jude the Obscure, Tess of the D'Urbervilles, Jared Diamond, Collapse, Drift, Rachel Maddow, T.C. Boyle, Drop City, Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land, histories of L.A., histories of New York City, Vanity Fair, Jon Stewart, America:The Book, Stephen Colbert, I Am America (And So Can You!), Mark Kurlansky, Salt: A World History, The Big Oyster, Henry James, The Americans, The Portrait of a Lady, The Bostonians, Edith Wharton, Cecile Whiting, Stella Tillyard, Middlesex, Jeffrey Eugenides, Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace, With Amusement for All, LeRoy Ashby, James M.Cain, Raymond Chandler, Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture, Ariel Levy, The Blue Fairy Tale Book, the Betsy-Tacy books, Maud Hart Lovelace, lots more |