Suzy D.

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Gender Female
Occupation prof d'anglais, apprenti-traductrice littéraire
Location Clermont-Ferrand, Puy de Dôme, France
Favorite Movies Kubrick (eyes wide shut, a clockwork orange, 2001...), Cohen brothers (O'brother, Big lebowski, Fargo, ...), Wim Wenders (Wings of desire, paris texas, land of plenty...)Scorsese (Taxi driver, Kundun, the last temptation of Christ...), Land and freedom, My own private Idaho, Dracula (coppola), Princess bride, Blow Up (antonioni), Apocalypse Now, Clint eastwood (A river runs through it, The covered bridges of madison country, Mystic river, the Unforgiven, ...), the virgin suicides, the marx brothers, Rio Bravo, the quiet man, truffaut's movies, ...
Favorite Music The beatles, the Kinks, the rolling stones, the Animals, the Them (I prefer Van Morrison in a group rather than solo), the velvet underground, the zombies, the sonics, the milkshakes, chuck berry, jerry lee lewis, Fats Domino, Buddy Holly, janis joplin, holly golightly, the Cure, the Libertines, the White Stripes, (I'm sick of writing 'the', I'll skip it from now on!!), strokes (their first album), kills, Coral, Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, the Jesus and Mary Chain (I am sometimes obsessed by them), Pixies, Interpol, Cardigans (when they're fun, not gloomy), Eels (until 'daisies of the galaxy' included), Jeff Buckley, beth Orton, Aimee Mann, Lauren Hoffman, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Brendan Benson, Jason Faulkner (his first album), Belle and Sebastian, Beck, Pavement, Beach Boys (until 'Pet Sounds' included, not their 70s/80s soup), Doors, Breeders, Garageland, Supergrass, Bob Dylan, BRMC, BJM, Weezer (blue and pink album), Sonic Youth, Blonde redhead, Modest Mouse, Pulp, Divine Comedy, Art Brut, Nouvelle Vague, Vaselines, Daniel Johnston, Moldy Peaches, Herman Düne (first albums), Pastels, Joy Division, Johnny Cash, Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, the go-betweens, tullycraft, beat happening, the concretes, talulah gosh, 14 iced bears, bearsuit, the primitives' "really stupid"...
Favorite Books Lewis Carroll's 'Alice in Wonderland', Marguerite Yourcenar's 'L'oeuvre au noir', William Styron's 'Sophie's Choice', Henry Miller, Anais Nin, DH Lawrence, Adolfo Bioy Casares's 'Morel's Invention', Albert Camus, Franz Kafka, Dickens, Austen, Doris Lessing, John Fowles's 'The French Lieutenant's Woman', James Joyce, Joseph Conrad, Virginia Woolf, Tom Wolfe's "I am Charlotte Simmons", George Orwell, HG Wells, Julien Gracq, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Dostoievski, Marcel Proust, Roald Dahl, CS Lewis, Wilkie Collins, Oscar Wilde, Fitzgerald, David Lodge, Tennesse Williams, Graham Greene, Jean Rhys, Le Clézio, Dino Buzzati, Julien Green, Stefan Zweig...