hilary

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Gender Female
Occupation Wine Nomad
Location Portland, OR, United States
Interests My husband, my friends, my family, my dogs, refreshing adult beverages
Favorite Movies The Sound of Music, Grease, To Kill a Mockingbird, Love Actually, This is Spinal Tap and subsequent Christopher Guest movies, Coen Brothers' movies (especially The Big Lebowski and Miller's Crossing), Peter's Friends, Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, PeeWee's Big Adventure, Guys and Dolls, Truly Madly Deeply, Office Space, The Graduate, Harold and Maude, When Harry Met Sally, Like Water For Chocolate, all of those great movies from the 80s...Pretty in Pink, The Breakfast Club, Sixteen Candles, Weird Science, St. Elmo's Fire, Better Off Dead
Favorite Music Ben Folds, Neil Finn/Crowded House/Split Enz, The Who, Lucinda Williams, Patsy Cline, Elvis Costello, Loretta Lynn, Old BNL, Detroit Cobras (thanks, Ali), Ben Lee, Asylum Street Spankers, Coldplay, Hank Williams the First and Third (No even numbers, please), Old 97s, Steve Earle, Neil Diamond, old U2, old Wilco, Bob Dylan, SIMRF, Young Fresh Fellows, Beth Ramsey, Van Morrison, The Beatles, Frank Sinatra, Rosemary Clooney, Ella Fitzgerald, '70s/'80s Billy Joel, rockabilly, Old REM, The Go-Gos, soundtracks, '80s alternative (Duran Duran, Tears for Fears, The Police, Stray Cats, Aztec Camera, The Cure, etc)...the list goes on...
Favorite Books Pretty much anything by Roddy Doyle, Harry Potter series, His Dark Materials Trilogy, Stones from the River, To Kill a Mockingbird, Middlesex, The Red Tent, anything that doesn't resemble an academic history book...13 years after graduating from college, and I still can't pick one up.

Your people want to make a statue in your honor. What will it be made out of and what victory will it commemorate?

To commemorate my benevolence to people who don't deserve it, a twice-life-sized statue of Parmigiano-Reggiano in my likeness will adorn every living room in America. Except the people who don't deserve it.