Lucie Manette

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Gender Female
Industry Student
Location South Texas, United States
Introduction "I'm chipper all the day, happy with my life... how do I get that way? Look at what I've got: I got rhythm, I got music, I got my man who could ask for anything more? I've got daisies in green pastures I've got my man Who could ask for anything more?" Pretty much the story of my life.
Interests Violin, Costume Design, Sewing, Reading, Sherlock Holmes, The Chronicles of Narnia, Ireland, Fashion History, The Elizabethan Era, The Titanic, The Victorian Era, Orchestra Rehearsal, Life-Long Dream of going to Europe, England, Blogging, Politics, Anna Popplewell (she plays my favorite character in Narnia--Susan!!!), Moviemaking
Favorite Movies Prince Caspian, The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe, Bringing Up Baby, It's A Wonderful Life, David Copperfield (BBC Production), Amazing Grace, Sound of Music, Fiddler on the Roof, The Long Long Trailer, Around the World In 80 Days (1956 version), Friendly Persuasion, Mr.Smith Goes to Washington, Ben Hur, Nim's Island, Meet Me In St. Louis, The Nativity Story, The Andy Griffith Show, I Love Lucy, Drive Thru History, Robin Hood (1938), Wall-e, Disney's Earth, Up, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, A Tale of Two Cities (1935 David O. Selznick version), Night at the Museum, Ice Age (for the humor), The Swiss Family Robinson, Pat and Mike, Father of the Bride, Father's Little Dividend, Classic Movies in General. (It's got to be B&W from the '40s though), Take Me Out to the Ball Game, Sense and Sensibility, The African Queen, Arsenic and Old Lace, Pride and Prejudice (1930s version), A Night to Remember, Singin In the Rain, The Clock, The Young Victoria, The Red Danube
Favorite Music Celtic Woman, Celtic Harpestry, Huapango (Jose Pablo Moncayo), Billy the Kid (Aaron Copland), Vivaldi, Narnia Soundtracks, My Heart will go On (Titanic), Charlotte Church, Hayley Westenra, The Call, Joshua Bell, Can't Take it in (LWW soundtrack, Regina Spektor (most of the songs on her album FAR and of course The Call), Fritz Kreisler, Bartok's Roumanian Folk Dances, Andrews Sisters, Alison Krauss, West Side Story, Pretty much any musical from the 40-50's, Most of what I have on my MP3 is radio plays Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughn
Favorite Books Sherlock Holmes, The Westing Game, David Copperfield, A Tale of Two Cities, The Bronze Bow, Before You Meet Prince Charming, Augustus Caesear's World, Gone-Away Lake, The Chronicles of Narnia, Around the World in 80 Days, Oliver Twist, Eagle of the Ninth, The Silver Branch, Blood Feud, The Scarlet Pimpernel, The Mystery of Edwin Drood (concluded by Leon Garfield), A Proud Taste for Scarlet and Miniver, A Conneticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, The Sword and the Circle, Watership Down, Ivanhoe, Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Great Expectations

You have to dig a hole to China. Where do you start?

Hmmm..."in China" is probably a cliched answer for this one...