jillabuster

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About me

Gender Female
Industry Publishing
Occupation Education Specialist
Location St. Petersburg, Florida, United States
Interests Reading, writing, cooking, entertaining family and friends, FSU football, golf, boating/fishing, people watching, playing guitar badly, song writing, fighting cancer
Favorite Movies Rushmore, Diner, Swingers, Being There, THE BIG LEBOWSKI, Dazed and Confused, The Jerk, Enchanted April, Groundhog Day, O Brother, Where Art Thou? Shakespeare in Love, Blazing Saddles, Arthur, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Big Chill, The Princess Bride, Say Anything, Desperately Seeking Susan, Reservoir Dogs, Dogma, Last Days of Disco, Get Shorty, Garden State, Out of Sight, Chicago, Adaptation, The Player, Shankshaw Redemption, Nobody's Fool, Being John Malkovich, Coal Miner's daughter, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Tender Mercies, Working Girl, West Side Story, My Fair Lady Gone w/t Wind
Favorite Music Springsteen, Lounge music, Tom Waits, Ry Cooder, Paul Simon, Etta James, Talking Heads, Blind Boys of ALA, Lucinda Williams, Lyle Lovett, both the Elvis's, both the Sinatras (Frank and Nancy), Robbie Robertson, Ray Charles, Nat King Cole, Van Morrison, Marvin Gaye, Diana Krall, The Kinks, Little Steven and the DoS, Professor Longhair, Subdudes, Acoustic-driven rock and pop, Aimee Mann, Stan Getz, Coltrane, Something/Anything-TOdd Rundgren, Patti Smith, Jonathan RIchman-Modern Lovers, Stones, Kinks, Beatles, Prince.
Favorite Books Straight Man, (Richard Russo), Tortilla Flats, Cannery Row and Sweet Thursday, ( John Steinbeck), NOTE: I'm just going to list authors now--- Assume I read all their stuff! Carl Haissen, Elmore Leonard, TIm Cahill, Dave Marsh, Sara Vowell, David Sedaris, Pam Houston, Al Franken, Molly Ivins, Harlin Coben, Elizabeth George, Evelyn Waugh, P.G. Wodehouse, Lee Smith (Oral History and Devil's Dream, esp.), Edith Wharton, Bill Bryson, Kurt Vonnegut, John Kennedy Toole, Ken Kesey (Esp Sometimes a Great Notion), DOnald Westlake, Dave Eggers