RowanRaven

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Gender Female
Industry Education
Occupation Adviser
Location Portland, OR, United States
Interests Literature, film, philosophy, mythology & folk studies, linguistics, astronomy, quantum physics, medieval culture, art history, the Arctic, (and Antarctic!), amateur birding, pantheism, Nature. Love animals, but especially cats, bats, ravens, owls, turtles, moose, & bears. (Okay, all of 'em, really.) Dream destinations: Scandinavia, --particularly Iceland--, New Zealand, Vietnam, Patagonia, Nunavut. My favorite direction? North!
Favorite Movies Kubrick, Polanski, TheCoenBrothers, Lynch, Anderson, Herzog, Sayles, good indie/foreign/artsy, Blade Runner, Donnie Darko, 12 Monkeys, Dead Man, Lovers of the Arctic Circle
Favorite Music Wide range of tastes in bands, genres, styles... nearly anything sounds good live if the folks are talented enough. VU/Lou Reed, R.E.M., Radiohead, Patti Smith, Talking Heads, PJ Harvey, Mozart, Miles Davis, medieval choral music (e.g. Hildegard von Bingen). Give me rock, jazz, classical, choral, but keep the George Jones 8-track and other inspid country crap for yourself!
Favorite Books M O B Y - D I C K (and other Melville), Hawthorne, Auster, Borges, McCarthy, LeGuin, Palahniuk, and many, many, many more.