brunhilde
| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Industry | Human Resources |
| Location | United Kingdom |
| Introduction | Aging mother/wife/carer/student/dog owner. Main occupations: lying in bed reading/watching dvds. Walking. Eating. I hate reviews that give away plot, so my blog will be of little use to anyone but myself. Fortunately. Occasionally leavened by autobiographical moments of severely limited interest even to me. |
| Favorite movies | Les Enfants du Paradis, Bringing Up Baby, The Lady Eve, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Pandora's Box, All About Eve, Gone With the Wind, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Mephisto. Lost in Translation, Casablanca, Brief Encounter, Gigi, It's a Wonderful Life, anything with Fred and Ginger, anything with Fred, anything with Cary, Grosse Pointe Blanke, Strictly Ballroom, Rushmore, Ferris Bueller, Wonder Boys, Brook's Lear, Man For All Seasons, Welle's Macbeth, anything with Orson, Network, Klute, Chinatown, any Powell and Pressburger film, any Woody Allen film esp. Annie Hall and Hannah and her Sisters, State and Main, Strictly Ballroom,On the Waterfront oh god this is going to go on forever all I do is watch films |
| Favorite music | Wagner, Sinatra, Elvis, Mozart, Bach, Joni Mitchell, Dylan, Van Morrison, Sibelius, Rachmaninov, Scissor Sisters, White Stripes, Ray Charles, Sam Cooke, Ella Fitzgerald, Springsteen,Copland, Tom Waits, Ella Fitzgerald, Cat Stevens, Kinks, Martha Wainwright (Razorlight, Abba, Neil Diamond - don't tell anyone please), Vivaldi, Proclaimers, Doors, Peddlers, Lovin' Spoonful, Mamas and Papas, Rachmaninov |
| Favorite books | Middlemarch, War and Peace, American Pastoral, House of Mirth, Portrait of a Lady, Children of Violence sequence, poetry by Louis MacNeice, Eavan Boland, George MacKay Brown, Keats, W S Graham, Norman MacCaig, Tennyson; Friday's Child, Wyrd Sisters, Niccolo Rising, To the Lighthouse, Women in Love, The Idiot, All Families are Psychotic, The Radetzky March, Master and Margarita |