valiens
- Location: Naples : Florida : United States
About Me
I'm a homeschooling mom who grew up the artistic downtown trenches of SoHo in NYC in the '80s. That was how I became a Republican. Moderate, with libertarian leanings and a crunchy core. We took to the beach post-9/11. I can't say we don't look back, but life is very good.
The wicked backspin caught you off guard. How will you play it off without losing your footing?
Ball, change! Jazz hands!
Favorite Movies
- The Royal Tenenbaums
- Moulin Rouge
- My Neighbor Totoro (the pre-Disney version)
- Tremors
- Jim Jarmusch in general
- Blood Simple. Those are just off the top of my head
- they change.
Favorite Music
- Artctic Monkeys
- Barbarito Torres
- Radiohead
- John Coltrane
- Bjork
- Eliades Ochoa
- Young Marble Giants
- Mariza
- Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
- Krishna Das
- Amy Winehouse
- Lucinda Williams
- The English Beat
- Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong together
- miscellaneous Brazilian
- Biber
- Erykah Badu
- Dancehall
- and old House.
Favorite Books
- Pastoralia by George Saunders
- Black Rednecks & White Liberals by Thomas Sowell
- Mahabharata translation by Kamala Subramaniam
- love Garcia Marquez
- have fun with Neal Stephenson
- liked Karen Armstrong's Buddha
- I don't know--my list changes.
valiens's Blogs
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Funny Pet Photos | |
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Feminist Housewife's Home | |
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A Brain Like Mine: Diary of a Feminist Housewife |