Jill
My blogs
| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Industry | Education |
| Occupation | teacher, writer |
| Location | Chicago, Illinois, United States |
| Links | Wishlist |
| Introduction | Just read the blog. |
| Interests | writing, crafting, knitting, driving around aimlessly, travel, my dog Freud, migraines, alter-egos |
| Favorite movies | Beauty and the Beast, Dr. Zhivago, Eternal Sunshine, Fight Club, Napolean Dynamite, The Princess Bride, Citizen Kane, Charade, The Bicycle Theif, Finding Nemo, Tarzan, Singin' in the Rain, Apocalypse Now, Duck Soup, Annie Hall, Akira Kurosawa's Dreams, Pi, Shrek, Monsters Inc., The Usual Suspects, Clerks, The Big Lebowski, Fargo, Office Space, Incubus (starring William Shatner), any horrible Lifetime movie |
| Favorite music | Simon and Garfunkel, Cat Stevens, Tom Waits, Tom Petty, James Taylor, Don McClean, Bruuuce, Pink Floyd, Rolling Stones, Ben Folds, Ben Folds Five, Counting Crows (pre-2000, if that doesn't sound pretentious enough), Rufus Wainwright, Pearl Jam, Nirvana, Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Rosemary Clooney, Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, lots more jazz, Sondheim musicals, The Fantasticks, other musicals, Madame Butterfly, Carmina Burana, Shostakovich, Tchaikovsky, Bach |
| Favorite books | Speak Memory, Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, 100 Years of Solitude, Lolita, Yertle the Turtle, Strunk and White's Elements of Style, The Thurber Carnival, anything Edward Gory, Hamlet, Catcher in the Rye, Animal Farm, Matilda, The Golem by David Wisniewski, Frankenstein, the Penguin Rhyming Dictionary |