Leah
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| Gender | Female |
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| Industry | Student |
| Occupation | Madwoman and general Classics nerd |
| Location | Bolton, Ontario, Canada |
| Introduction | friends, romans, countrymen; lend me your ears Chronicling my five years as an undergraduate History/ Classical Studies major at York University in Toronto, Canada. 2008-2013 (hopefully!) |
| Interests | voicing my many radical opinions, being superior to most of the human population, studying the better world that is the past, giving mini history lectures to everyone i meet, attempting to reject everything our society has thrown upon us, immersing myself in literature and music of all varieties, waiting for the end of the world, idolizing the mortal man we know as Jesus, attending school because i WANT to, not being a pretentious and overall pathetic waste of space by spending my life partying and drinking, and hating pretty much everyone with the exception of a handful of people i know and maybe thirty or forty more famous individuals who i haven't had the pleasure of meeting. |
| Favorite movies | The Harry Potter movies, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, 300, A Clockwork Orange, Interview with the Vampire, Borat, Velvet Goldmine, Provoked, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Children of Men, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Battle Royale, Brokeback Mountain, The Da Vinci Code, Se7en, StarGate, The Phantom of the Opera, Fight Club, The Mummy, The Mummy Returns, The Magnificent Ambersons, Alexander, Troy, Cleopatra, Rasputin, X-Men, Wag the Dog, Elizabeth: The Golden Age, Vanity Fair, Meet the Spartans... etc. |
| Favorite music | Adagio, Aesma Daeva, After Forever, Amaran, Angtoria, APOCALYPTICA, Athena Burning, Avenged Sevenfold, Ayreon, Billy Idol, Billy Talent, Children of Bodom, Daniel Lioneye, DeVotchKa, Disturbed, Dream Theatre, Edenbridge, Elis, Epica, Eternal Tears of Sorrow, Forever Slave, Hevein, HIM, Imperia, International Victim, Jean Sibelius, Kamelot, Killer, KISS, Lacuna Coil, Lordi, Lullacry, Macbeth, Marilyn Manson, Megadeth, Metallica, Money Money, Negative, Nightwish, Octavia Sperati, Otep, Patrizia, Placebo, Poisonblack, Queen, Rasputina, Sepultura, Robin Black, Sonata Arctica, Stream of Passion, System of a Down, Tarja Turunen, Tiziano Ferro (<3 the man's amazing!), the 69 Eyes, the Dresden Dolls, The Rasmus, Tool, Tristania, Visions of Atlantis, Within Temptation, Voltaire |
| Favorite books | The Vampire Chronicles - Anne Rice, A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess, The Picture of Dorian Gray & Lord Arthur Savile's Crime & The Ballad of Reading Gaol (& anything else by him really) - Oscar Wilde , In Cold Blood - Truman Capote, The Magnificent Ambersons - Booth Tarkington, The Confessions of Georgia Nicolson - Louise Rennison, The Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants series - Ann Brashares, The Memoirs of Cleopatra - Margaret George, The Troy Game series - Sara Douglass, The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoyevskii, The Harry Potter series - J.K. Rowling, The Lord of the Rings trilogy - J.R.R. Tolkein, Notes from the Underground - Fyodor Dostoyevskii, Medicus - Ruth Downie, Roma - Steven Saylor, The Secret Magdalene - Ki Longfellow, Brave New World - Aldous Huxley, Children of Men - P.D. James, Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk, Haunted - Chuck Palahniuk, The Masters of Rome series & The Song of Troy - Colleen McCullough, poems by Catullus, Imperium - Robert Harris, The Gnostic Gospels - Elaine Pagels, The Constant Princess & The Other Boleyn Girl - Philippa Gregory, The Magdalene Legacy - Laurence Gardner |
How do you pronounce the 'g' in bologna?
What? Strange. Well the g is kind of silent... yet not. In combination with the n, it ends up making a "nyeh" sound. Like gnocchi and castagna (I'm Italian, could you guess?