Cristina
| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Industry | Communications or Media |
| Occupation | Reporter |
| Location | Piercy, California, United States |
| Introduction | Descended from long line of eccentrics. Prominent proboscis, arid sense of humor. Harbor delusions of making fortune on “Jeopardy!” Favorite reading includes Lewis Carroll, Jane Austen, Jhumpa Lahiri, Langston Hughes, Sherman Alexie, and SF/fantasy. Fictional heroes: Atticus Finch and Elizabeth Bennet. Music preferences run the gamut from Milton Nascimento to Bach. Two children, one partner, assortment of mammalian companions. Love of movies bordering on obsession; will watch anything with Daniel Day-Lewis or Cate Blanchett. Believe Matt Damon’s reason for not joining the NSA in “Good Will Hunting” may be best film speech ever. Tendency towards verbosity. Predilection for puns, double entendres, homophones, palindromes, and other things linguistic. Speak Portuguese and Spanish, learning German; attempting to become true polyglot. Born, raised in Brazil. Have taken numerous road trips all over the West and a couple of foreign excursions. Words to live by: “If you would not be forgotten, when you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth the writing.” Wish to find distortion in space-time continuum, and take Leonardo da Vinci on a roller-coaster ride. |
| Interests | Reading. Writing. Traveling. Swimming. Watching movies. Baking. And more! |
| Favorite Movies | I don't know where to begin. Most recently? "Pan's Labyrinth." Since I was a child? "To Kill A Mockingbird." |
| Favorite Music | No gangsta rap. No death metal. No polka. No honky-tonk. No overproduced computer-generated pop crap. Everything else goes. |
| Favorite Books | "Pride & Prejudice"/Jane Austen, "A Tale of Two Cities"/Charles Dickens, "Tigana"/Guy Gavriel Kay, "Reading Lolita in Tehran"/Azar Nafisi, "The Ways of White Folks"/Langston Hughes, "Bullet Heart"/Michael Doane |