CecilyMontesque
My blogs
- The Cold Coffee Music Library
- The Benefits of Cold Coffee-A Music Review
- Silver Considerations
- The Mad Jazz Hour
Blogs I follow
| Gender | Female |
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| Location | Minnesota, United States |
| Introduction | An offbeat pseudo-intellectual always seeking to raise the bar. This year, raising the bar means gaining self-discipline in the world of writing, and expanding the horizons of my reading material. Writing spans my two blogs, one for the reviewing of music - though I prefer to call them appreciations. The other blog I use to post ramblings about books and perhaps other things. Writing for me also steps into fiction and occasional proper reviews on other sites. |
| Interests | books, music, writing, walking, listening, cooking, educating myself |
| Favorite Movies | Master and Commander, A Beautiful Mind, The Painted Veil, Girl with a Pearl Earring, Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet, Zeffirelli's Hamlet, Look Back in Anger (Branagh/Thompson), The Prestige, The Third Man, Out of the Past, Sunset Boulevard, Smoke, Kolya, The Story of Adele H, Run Lola Run, The Dark Crystal, Labyrinth, Mirrormask, Stardust, Princess Mononoke, Pride and Prejudice (Colin Firth version), Victoria and Albert, Safety Last, If I Were King, The Petrified Forest, Casablanca, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Die Hard, The Bourne films, The Sixth Sense, The Thing From Another World, The Man with No Name trilogy, A Hard Day's Night, The Night Stalker, Yes Minister, Midsomer Murders, Sherlock Holmes, Life on Mars UK, Sherlock, Don't Look Back, Ziggy Stardust: The Motion Picture, Richard Thompson Live at Austin TX |
| Favorite Music | Nick Drake, Richard Thompson, Richard and Linda Thompson, Fairport Convention, Roxy Music, David Bowie, Peter Murphy, Bo Hansson, Can, NEU!, Neil Young, Jethro Tull, Led Zeppelin, Patti Smith, The Creatures, Siouxsie and the Banshees, St. Vincent, The Velvet Underground, Lou Reed, Brian Eno, Tom Waits, Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, The Peculiar Pretzelmen, Beirut, Katell Keineg, Joni Mitchell, The Zombies, The Kinks, Gene Vincent, Muddy Waters, Tony Bennett, Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Ella Fitzgerald, Etta James, The Boswell Sisters, Lena Horne, Annette Hanshaw, Marlene Dietrich, Meret Becker, Art Blakey, The Baltimore Consort, Ensemble Sarband, Ofra Haza, George Abdo, Azam Ali, Niyaz, Vas, Natacha Atlas, Sevara Nazarkhan, Iva Bittova, Anouar Brahem Trio, Brahms, Rossini (Stabat Mater/conducted by Thomas Schippers), Bizet (Carmen/conducted by Thomas Schippers). |
| Favorite Books | War and Peace, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame, The Mayor of Casterbridge, The Master of Ballantrae, The Dean's Watch, We Took to the Woods, The True History of the Elephant Man, The Book Thief, The Stories of Anton Chekhov, The Complete Oscar Wilde, The Poems of Emily Dickinson, The Case of Sergeant Grischa, The Hollow Kingdom Trilogy, The Bartimaeus Trilogy, The Bromeliad Trilogy, The Wee Free Men, Them, The Shell Seekers, A Northern Light, Auster's Leviathan, Waiting for Godot |