Katie
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Blogs I follow
| Gender | Female |
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| Occupation | Communications Specialist |
| Location | Carrboro, North Carolina, United States |
| Introduction | I work for a living. I have a couple of degrees - BA in Political Science from the U. of Mississippi. MA in Environment, Politics, and Globalization from King's College London. I play bass. No husband. No kids. No debt. No house. Seems like a good time to travel. |
| Favorite movies | Jules et Jim. Rushmore. Lawrence of Arabia. Royal Tenenbaums. Bottle Rocket. Annie Hall. Harold and Maude. Breakfast at Tiffany's. So I Married an Axe Murderer. Zoolander. Breathless. The Godfather. Gandhi. School of Rock. This is Spinal Tap. All David Attenborough nature documentaries. |
| Favorite music | Dan Melchior und Das Menace. In addition, alphabetically: Arab Strap, the Arcade Fire, the Beatles, Beck, Beirut, Belle &; Sebastian, Bjork, Black Star, Bo Diddley, Bob Dylan, Buddy Holly &; the Crickets, Buzzcocks, The Byrds, Cat Power, Cat Stevens, The Clash, Curtis Mayfield, David Karsten Daniels, Elton John, Elvis Costello, Elvis Presley, Faces, Gang of Four, The Ghost of Rock, Guided by Voices, Iggy and the Stooges, Interpol, The Jackson 5, Janis Joplin, Jeff Buckley, John Lennon, Joy Division, The Kinks, The Loners, Lou Reed, Love, Madonna, Mazzy Star, Mission of Burma, The Modern Lovers, Neil Young, Neutral Milk Hotel, The New Pornograhers, Nico, Otis Redding, Panjabi MC, Patti Smith, Paul Westerberg, Pavement, The Pernice Brothers, The Physics of Meaning, Pixies, The Prayers and Tears of Arthur Digby Sellers, Public Enemy, R.E.M., The Ramones, Ravi Shankar, The Replacements, The Rolling Stones, The Sea and Cake, Serge Gainsbourg, Sex Pistols, Shearwaters, Sigur Ros, The Small Faces, The Smiths, T. Rex, The Who, Wilco, X, The Young Idea, The Zombies. |
| Favorite books | In no particular order: A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth// The Things They Carried - Tim O'Brien//Siddhartha - Herman Hesse//Midnight's Children, The Ground Beneath Her Feet, The Satanic Verses - Salman Rushdie//Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides//Love in the Time of Cholera, One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez//Great Expectations - Charles Dickens//American Pastoral, Portnoy's Complaint - Philip Roth//White Noise - Don DeLillo//The Inheritance of Loss - Kiran Desai//The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath//Immortality, The Book of Laughter and Foretting, The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera//Poisonwood Bible, Prodigal Summer, Animal Dreams - Barbara Kingsolver // The Ecology of Commerce, Natural Capitalism - Paul Hawken//A Short History of Everything - Bill Bryson//Mountains of the Mind - Robert Mcfarlane//Cod - Mark Kurlansky//The Omnivore's Dilemma - Michael Pollen//Hope Human and Wild, The End of Nature - Bill McKibben//Guns, Germs and Steel - Jared Diamond//I like short stories in Granta and McSweeney's when I can get my hands on one. I like to read these magazines - The Economist, Dwell, National Geographic. |