bananafish

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About me

Gender Female
Industry Education
Occupation English Teacher/Aspiring Painter
Location United States
Interests reading, writing, movies, visual art, art of all types really, travelling, red wine, food, john ya ya, dark chocolate, music, laughter, lakes and sea, outside, adventure, family, friends
Favorite Movies No Country For Old Men, Children Of Men, Ishtar, Flirting With Disaster, Wild Strawberries, Yojimbo, Manhattan, Manhattan Murder Mystery, Strangers in Good Company, Crimes & Misdemeanors, Bottle Rocket, Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums, Lost in Translation, Dr. Strangelove, Ruben & Ed, Down By Law, Stranger Than Paradise, Underground, Black Cat White Cat, Waiting For Guffman, What About Bob?, and more...
Favorite Music Bowie, Pixies, Oneida, Bjork, Pogues, Art Blakey, Johnny Cash, Bob Dylan, Simon & Garfunkel, Django Reinhardt, Miles Davis, Tom Waits, Neutral Milk Hotel, Lightning Bolt, Indigo Girls, Happy Mother's Day I Can't Read, Noise Quean Ant, Arctic Universe, Seawhores, Skoal Kodiak, Seu Jorge, Niko, Cat Power, And more....
Favorite Books Bel Canto, Ahab's Wife, Franny & Zooey, The Cowboy & The Cossack, The Bean Trees, Pnin, The Bagthorpes, Borges, Tolkien (all), Laurie R. King (all), The Lighthouse, Jane Austen (all), Villette, Jane Eyre, Walt Whitman: Song of Myself, Elizabeth Bishop, A Wrinkle In Time, A Prayer for Owen Meany, Lonesome Dove, The Power and the Glory, and more, always more!

When you open your eyes underwater, do you ever worry that you'll drown?

Sometimes, then I hear "Hello Darkness My Old Friend" and I feel better.