Starr Markham
- Gender: Female
- Location: Raleigh : NC : United States
About Me
I'm in the entertainment industry. My background is lighting design and stage management for opera, theatre, and ballet. Although I don't get to design as much as I would like to, my business caters to this industry, so I can keep my fingers in the pie, so to speak.
Interests
- Scooters
- Cats
- Baseball
- Crossword Puzzles
- Traveling (but not necessarily the getting there part)
- Tinkering around my House
- Scuba Diving and Snorkeling
- Freshwater Fishkeeping
- Feeding the Birds
- Smelling the Roses.
Favorite Movies
- I'm a closet romantic compelled by movies like
- Howard's End
- Remains of the Day
- But I still get my kicks from the likes of
- Airplane
- Ferris Buellers Day Off
- Blazing Saddles
- I'm drawn to the quirky as well:
- Fargo
- Waking Ned Devine
- Pulp Fiction
- Wings of Desire
Favorite Music
- I've been in my (mostly dead) women blues phase for a long time now:
- Alberta Hunter
- Irene Reed
- Nina Simone
- Ruth Brown
- Etta James
- I've also become intrigued by the classic Cuban style of the
- Buena Vista Social Club:
- Ruben Gonzalez
- Ibrahim Ferrer
- Compay Segundo
- too bad they're all dead too.
- There's a few opera tunes out there that turn my crank too.
Favorite Books
- I've recently gone through a southern fiction writer phase:
- Clyde Edgerton
- T. R. Pierce
- but for some odd reason
- I keep coming back around to political non fiction/ biography every four years or so.
- Hmmm...go figure.
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