Karen
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| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Occupation | retired/trailing spouse/barnacle |
| Location | Kenosha, WI, United States |
| Introduction | A flibbertygibbet, a will-o-the-wisp, a clown. |
| Interests | Reading, observing the complexities of human behavior, movies, college basketball, subversive cross stitch, half-assed crafting, fitness, travel, curling, art, kitty cats. |
| Favorite movies | Office Space, Blue Velvet, Hoosiers, Fargo, Now Voyager, Ghost World, Waiting for Guffman, Lovely and Amazing, Garden State, Blood Simple, All About Eve, Patton, Henry Fool, About Schmidt, The Good Girl, Trees Lounge, American Splendor, The Daytrippers, Napoleon Dynamite, Lost in Translation, Run Lola Run, Pi, The Station Agent, The Princess and the Warrior, Woman on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, 40-Year-Old Virgin, Talk to Her, The Dying Gaul, Metropolitan/Barcelona/Last Days of Disco, Husbands and Wives, On The Town, Bad Education |
| Favorite music | Bruce Springsteen (since 8th grade), Ben Folds (Five or Five-less), The Shins, Death Cab, Counting Crows, The Cure, Robbie Fulks, Johnny Cash (not Joaquin Phoenix), George Jones, The Jennings (Waylon and Shooter), Dianne Reeves, Nina Simone, Dinah Washington, Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, Imogen Heap, Lucinda Williams, Violent Femmes, Jonathan Coulton, Marshall Crenshaw, Uncle Tupelo/Wilco/Son Volt/Jay Farrar, The White Stripes, Elvis Costello,Lyle Lovett, The English Beat, Weezer, Liz Phair, Scissor Sisters, The Decemberists, The Killers, Augustana, The Fray, Barenaked Ladies, DMX, Rancid, and more! |
| Favorite books | Crossing California and The Washington Story by Adam Langer, Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon, any Richard Yates (esp. Revolutionary Road), David Sedaris (esp. Barrel Fever), Paul Auster (esp. Leviathan and The Brooklyn Follies), Zadie Smith, The Paperboy by Pete Dexter, Chuck Palahniuk (esp. Diary), Ian McEwan (esp. Atonement), Donna Tartt, Sylvia Plath, Lorrie Moore, Charles Baxter, Seven Types of Ambiguity by Elliot Perlman, The Light of Falling Stars by J. Robert Lennon, Peter Cameron (esp. City of Your Final Destination), The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri |
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