Sprezzatura
Blogs I follow
| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Occupation | Historian |
| Location | DC via Brooklyn NY, United States |
| Links | Wishlist |
| Introduction | "Only my friends call me Wop." ~ Angelo Maggio, From Here to Eternity |
| Interests | History, Public Memory, Italian Renaissance, NYC History, the Jazz Age, Eddie Izzard, Ab/Fab, Coupling, Cold Feet, Hotel Babylon, Movietone News, Nutella, Nonino Picolit, Biography/Memoir, Indie Film, Italian Neo Realism, Opera, Jazz, World Music, NPR, WQXR, Travel, British Humor, Antique/Used Book Stores, Museums, Photography, De La Vega, Giacometti, Magritte, Modigliani, Schnabel, the Bethesda Fountain, Cooking/Entertaining, Running, Hiking, Finding a decent cannoli/sfogliatelle/slice of pizza w/in the DC Beltway., And a proper egg cream wouldn't hurt, either. |
| Favorite movies | Seven Beauties, Umberto D, Bicycle Thieves, La Dolce Vita, Nights of Cabiria, The Time of Their Lives, Cinema Paradiso, La Meglio Gioventu, Y Tu Mamá También, The Lover, L'Ultimo Bacio, Pierrot le Fou, Casablanca, Citizen Kane, Goodbye Mr. Chips, Public Enemy, Angels with Dirty Faces, Lawrence of Arabia, Sunset Boulevard, Harold and Maude, Doctor Zhivago, The Red Balloon, The Godfather, History of the World, Gandhi, The Killing Fields, American Pop, Midnight Cowboy, Dr. Strangelove, Same Time Next Year, Sid and Nancy, Basquiat, It's The Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown, American Psycho, Fight Club, The Big Lebowski, Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas, High Fidelity, Lock Stock & Two Smoking Barrels, Same Time Next Year, Broadcast News, The Tempest, Badlands, Metropolitan, Barcelona, Trois Couleurs Trilogy, Before Sunrise/Before Sunset, Kissing Jessica Stein, Gray Gardens, The Jewel in the Crown, Pride & Prejudice (1995 version), The Forsyte Saga, anything w/, Anna Magnani, Bette Davis, Isabelle Huppert, Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, anything by:, Almodovar, Antonioni, Cassavetes, DeSica, Fellini, Mamet, Scorcese, Whit Stillman, Woody Allen, Mel Brooks, Spike Lee, Kevin Smith, Oh yeah...and, Valley Girl |
| Favorite music | Bach, Bhangra, Bossa Nova, Bebel Gilberto, Pink Martini, Nina Simone, Edgar Meyer,The Clash, Elvis Costello, Robert Johnson, John Lee Hooker, John Coltrane, Dave Brubeck, Buena Vista Social Club, Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, Morcheeba, Vanessa Daou, Sting, Patti Smith, Suzanne Vega, Moby, Pet Shop Boys, Trip Hop, House/Freestyle, Annie Lennox, Putumayo, Van Morrison, Simon & Garfunkel, Chris Isaak, John Mellencamp, Bryan Ferry, Roxy Music, Social Distortion, Lex Grey & the Urban Pioneers, Jill Scott, The Pogues, The Smiths, The Church, The Cure, Depeche Mode, Loreena McKennitt, Squeeze, Mono, Paolo Conte, Zucchero, Spaccanapoli |
| Favorite books | The Sun Also Rises, The Great Gatsby, Heart of Darkness, Lolita, The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy, War and Peace, Pride and Prejudice, Madame Bovary, Le Petit Prince, Siddhartha, The Prophet, The Raj Quartet, News From Nowhere, 1984, The English Patient, Night, Where The Wild Things Are, The Adventures of Asterix, Time and Again, 84 Charing Cross Road, The Bell Jar, Manhattan When I Was Young, Kafka Was the Rage, anything by:, Paul Auster, Albert Camus, Graham Greene, John Dos Passos, Ernest Hemingway, Hunter S. Thompson, Umberto Eco, Dave Eggers, Naguib Mahfouz, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Armistead Maupin, Jay McInerney, Camille Paglia, Howard Zinn |
You've been invited to a fancy ball but the only thing you have to wear is an orange wooly jumper. What shoes do you wear?
Lacroix, sweetie. Lacroix.