Gabriel Blanchard
My blogs
| Gender | Male |
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| Location | Baltimore, Maryland, United States |
| Introduction | I am a gay Catholic bookworm (incorporated into the Anglican Use in 2013). Huge fan of indie and electronica, as well as Mediaeval, Renaissance, and Baroque music. I have a degree in Classics, and get paid to snark across an espresso bar. I can be reached by Nigerian princes who need my assistance at gabrielblanchard25@gmail.com. |
| Interests | Music, literature and literary criticism, church history, writing, theology, philosophy |
| Favorite movies | Almost Famous, Amadeus, Amelie, Apollo 13, Arrested Development (TV), Beauty and the Beast, The Big Lebowski, The Big Sleep, Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV), Casablanca, Charade, Clue, Firefly (TV), Grosse Point Blank, Kill Bill, The Lion In Winter, The Machinist, A Man For All Seasons, The Mission, Monty Python's Flying Circus (TV), The Moon Is Blue, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Pan's Labyrinth The Princess Bride, Run Lola Run, Sabrina, The Santa Clause, Spirited Away, The Station Agent, The Tick (TV), Twelve Monkeys |
| Favorite music | Amy Winehouse, Aqualung, Arctic Monkeys, Bach, Badly Drawn Boy, Beirut, Billie Holiday, Bon Iver, Byrd, Coldplay, The Cranberries, Dave Matthews Band, David Gray, David Guetta, deadmau5, Death Cab For Cutie, Depeche Mode, The Faint, Feist, Flobots, Florence + the Machine, Handel, Hot Chip, Imogen Heap, The Irrepressibles, Jonsi, Katy Perry, The Killers, Lady Gaga, Leonard Cohen, Loreena McKennitt, M83, Madonna, mewithoutYou, Mozart, Mumford & Sons, Muse, Owl City, Passion Pit, Psalters, Purity Ring, Queen, Regina Spektor, Sarah McLachlan, Shiny Toy Guns, Skrillex, St Lucia, The Strokes, Sufjan Stevens, Tchaikovsky, Two Door Cinema Club, U2, Vivaldi, Wolfgang Gartner |
| Favorite books | 'The Oresteia' by Aeschylus; 'Peter Pan' by J. M. Barrie; 'The Everlasting Man,' 'Saint Thomas Aquinas,' and 'What's Wrong With the World' by G. K. Chesterton; 'Geisha' by Liza Dalby; 'The Divine Comedy' by Dante; 'Loaves and Fishes' and 'The Long Loneliness' by Dorothy Day; 'Choruses from "The Rock",' 'Four Quartets,' and 'Murder In the Cathedral' by T. S. Eliot; 'The Prophet' by Kahlil Gibran; 'Brave New World' by Aldous Huxley; 'Dark Night of the Soul' by St. John of the Cross; 'The Discarded Image,' 'The Great Divorce,' 'Preface to "Paradise Lost",' 'The Problem of Pain,' 'The Screwtape Letters,' 'Surprised by Joy,' and 'Till We Have Faces' by C. S. Lewis; 'Wicked' by Gregory Maguire; 'Mourning Becomes Electra' by Eugene O'Neill; 'Gaudy Night' by Dorothy Sayers; 'Sexual Authenticity' by Melinda Selmys; 'The Hobbit,' 'Lord of the Rings,' and 'The Silmarillion' by J. R. R. Tolkien; 'Assuming the Position' by Rick Whitaker; 'The Descent of the Dove' and 'The Figure of Beatrice' by Charles Williams. |