Healigan

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Industry	Education
Occupation	teacher
Location	United States
Interests	Where to begin? Where to stop? BOOKS! history, film, new music, books again, Asian art, Gothic cathedrals, the Monkey King, Alaska!, knitting, teenagers, adoptions, Asian lit and poetry, African lit and novels, my kids, shoes, flowers, all things nature, Monet, Pollock, Kandinsky, Li Po, Brancusi......
Favorite Movies	Any film by Kurasawa: Ran, Throne of Blood, Seven Samurai, Star Wars, Amelie, Ironman, The Dark Knight, V for Vendetta, Gentle Persuasion, Pride and Prejudice 2006, James Bond, Bend It Like Beckham, Rebecca, Exodus, the Grifters, all Coen Brothers, especially Raising Arizona and Fargo, Some Kind of Wonderful and anything John Hughes, Fight Club, Being John Malkovich, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Rear Window and all things Hitchcock, Scorsese, Tarantino, anything with Bruce Lee, Moonstruck, Pollock, Merchant Ivory films, Incident at Picnic Rock, Gunfight at the OK Corral, Tampopo, Tora!Tora! Tora!, The Departed, the Host, Hitchcock, Sin City, Watchmen, Spirited Away, Unbreakable, Signs etc etc
Favorite Music	Green Day, REM, Radiohead, Vusi Mahlasela, U2, Indigo Girls, Jack's Mannequin, Flobots, Chopin, Coldplay, Philip Glass, Grateful Dead, KD Lang, all Mozart, Rampal's recording of the 4 Seasons, Dave Matthews, Tuku music, the Roots, Rusted Root, Gypsy Kings, Ibrahim Ferrer, Ry Cooder, Gene Krupa, Paul Simon, Woody Guthrie, Bob Dylan, Nields, Jaydiohead, Stevie Wonder, Bruce Springsteen.......
Favorite Books	http://bit.ly/a9umVB, 1984, Jane Eyre, The Gabriel Hounds, Hamlet, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, The Glass Menagerie, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Chang Rae Lee's A Gesture Life, anything about King Arthur, Things Fall Apart, Rice without Rain, Beowulf, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Mary Oliver, The Golden Compass, Prodigal Summer, the Psalms, The French Lieutenant's Woman, Robert Frost, Dune, Flannery O'Connor, Tobias Wolff, On the Road, Much Ado about Nothing, Catch 22, Stephen King(no matter what other people say), etc, etc