tangobaby

• Gender: Female
• Astrological Sign: Scorpio
• Occupation: Dilettante
• Location: San Francisco : California : United States

About Me

Other places you'll find me: http://calibersf.com http://iliveheresf.blogspot.com http://femmefotographie.com

Interests

• Argentine tango
• swing dance
• Lindy hop
• Charleston
• travel
• Paris
• vintage makeup and hairstyles
• makeup artistry
• social history of Victorian England and the Jazz Age
• biographies
• seamed stockings and fishnets
• shoes
• hats
• lipstick
• groomed eyebrows
• fake eyelashes
• Chanel No. 5
• Louise Brooks
• buying gourmet groceries that I'll never use but like to look at
• watching real chefs cook
• Iron Chef (Japanese version only
• thank you)
• Eddie Izzard
• Anthony Bourdain
• Carl Sagan
• the heyday of the American Space Program
• the Hubble telescope
• pre-code movies
• movies from the 1920s-1960s
• exotic chocolate
• sushi
• dim sum
• salty crunchy things
• flamenco
• photography
• fencing (with swords
• not fenceposts)
• old Vespas
• taking photos of everything I can
• my Canon PowerShot
• photography (did I say that already?)
• telescopes
• old movie theatres
• walking

Favorite Movies

• You Were Never Lovelier
• Casablanca
• Double Indemnity
• Trouble in Paradise
• The Apartment
• The Awful Truth
• Gilda
• His Girl Friday
• Dr. Strangelove
• Kind Hearts and Coronets
• The Ladykillers (1955)
• Grand Hotel
• Dinner at Eight
• Babyface
• The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
• Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
• Midnight (1939)
• Roman Holiday
• Rear Window
• Sweet Smell of Success
• Rosemary's Baby
• The Narrow Margin (1956)
• Twentieth Century
• Rififi
• The Asphalt Jungle
• La Belle et La Bete
• Amelie
• Sense and Sensibility
• Annie Hall
• Hannah and Her Sisters
• Election
• Dick
• Priscilla Queen of the Desert
• To Kill a Mockingbird
• Little Dorrit
• The Tango Lesson
• 2001
• Apollo 13
• Alien
• The Godfather
• Pulp Fiction
• The Life Aquatic
• The Royal Tennenbaums
• Raising Arizona
• O Brother Where Art Thou?
• Michael Palin's Himalaya and Sahara series
• Cosmos
• The Office (BBC)
• Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl
• Holy Grail
• Rivers and Tides
• The Elegant Universe (NOVA)
• anything with Harold Lloyd Laurel and Hardy
• The Little Rascals
• Duck Soup
• Horsefeathers
• Anything by Billy Wilder
• Ernst Lubitsch
• Preston Sturges
• A Christmas Carol (1951-Alistair Sim)
• A Christmas Story (1983)
• Harold and Maude
• Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
• Young Frankenstein
• The Importance of Being Earnest
• Superbad
• The Darjeeling Limited

Favorite Music

• The Beatles (esp. Sgt. Pepper's through Let It Be)
• George Harrison
• The Traveling Wilburys
• Bowie
• ABBA
• Queen
• Blondie
• Cat Stevens
• The Commitments soundtrack
• Roy Orbison
• Buddy Holly
• Aimee Mann
• Carla Bruni
• Harry James
• Glenn Miller
• Gene Krupa's drum solo in Sing Sing Sing
• Chopin's Nocturnes
• Satie's Gymnopedies
• Debussy
• Tango music
• di Sarli
• Pugliese
• Juan Carlos Caceres
• Lakme: Flower Duet
• Barber: Adagio for Strings
• Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony
• Nessun Dorma
• Schubert: Ave Maria
• Puccini: Un Bel Die
• Edith Piaf
• Charles Trenet
• Django Reinhardt
• Gotan Project
• Jill Sobule
• AND Tom Jones (he is The Man!)

Favorite Books

• Anything by Margaret Atwood
• George Orwell
• Ray Bradbury
• Shirley Jackson
• Madeline L'Engle
• M.F.K. Fisher
• Edith Wharton
• David Sedaris
• Sarah Vowell
• To Kill a Mockingbird
• Long Quiet Highway
• Operating Instructions
• Kitchen Confidential
• Foucault's Pendulum
• Cosmos
• Nicholas Nickleby
• The Log of the Sea of Cortez
• The House of Mirth
• Making Faces
• Complicated Women
• Max Factor's Hollywood Glamour
• The Little Prince
• Paris to the Moon
• The Turk: The Life and Times of the Famous Eighteenth-Century Chess-Playing Machine
• Napoleon's Buttons: How 17 Molecules Changed History
• The Lover
• Powers of Ten
• Grimm's Fairy Tales
• The Giving Tree
• The Singing Creek Where The Willows Grow
• The Tao of Pooh
• Dorothy Parker
• Oscar Wilde