GAK
My blogs
| Gender | Female |
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| Location | Chicago, IL, United States |
| Introduction | "A skull is more interesting than a naked woman." Blogs are like graffiti ...or pretentious preaching. Life would be a lot easier if we were allowed to kill ourselves ..without hellfire. |
| Interests | Art (drawing, cartooning, and painting badly), Hans Memling, Caravaggio, John Singer Sargent, Tilman Riemenschneider, Frans Hals, Ivan Albright, Michael Wolgemut, Albrecht Durer, Hieronymus Bosch, Giuseppe Arcimboldo, Edvard Munch, Van Gogh, etc.) Nature, Books, Literature, Letters, Journals, Opera, Animals (dolphin, elephant, squirrels, skunks, dogs, cats, mice, starlings, etc..)Theology, Animal Behaviorism and Welfare (Turid Rugaas, Victoria Stilwell, Jackson Galaxy, etc.) Philosophy, History, Historic Tours, old Architecture, Hiking, Lonnnng walks, Baking, Good conversation, Comedy (Bill Burr), Lectures, Education, Special Needs, Museums, Old Time Radio (Suspense, Light's Out, Jack Benny, The Great Gildersleeve, Our Miss Brooks, etc.), Silence, Bats, et cetera |
| Favorite Movies | Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Andrei Rublev, Juliet of the Spirits, The Ruling Class, Withnail and I, Fanny and Alexander, Divorce Italian Style, The Lion in Winter, Seduced and Abandoned, 8 1/2, The 3 Penny Opera, Carnival of Souls, Red Desert, Kwaidan, Kuroneko, Ugetsu, Charulata, Onibaba, The Lower Depths, (1957), Akira Kurosawa), Dr. Mabuse, The Gambler, The Testament of Dr. Mabuse, La Plaisir, Rififi, Festen, (The Celebration), Hobson's Choice, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Juno and the Paycock, Amadeus, Faust, (F.W. Murnau), Dr. Mabuse, The Gambler, The Seventh Seal, Yojimbo, Sanjuro, All About Eve, Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne, Don Giovanni, The Browning Version, Sunset Blvd., Autumn Sonata, A Clockwork Orange, The Blue Angel, The Virgin Spring, The Last Laugh, Sunrise, Wild Strawberries, Nights of Cabiria, A Delicate Balance, Diary of a Country Priest, The Importance of Being Earnest (1952), Duck Soup, Room Service (1938), The Gorgon, Seven Samurai, Bringing Up Baby, La Belle Et La Bete, The Cat People (1942), Metropolis, The Taming of the Shrew, The Rules of the Game, Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?, La Strada, Napoleon Dynamite, M, et cetera. BBC Shakespeare plays, Titus Andronicus, opera. The Three Stooges, The Munsters, The Addams Family, Fawlty Towers |
| Favorite Music | Classical WFMT, Opera (Don Giovanni, The Barber of Seville, Tamerlano, Le nozze di Figaro, Die Zauberflöte, Rigoletto, Don Carlo, Carmen, MOZART, Gioachino Antonio Rossini, Franz Schubert, Baroque, Handel, Carel Anton Fodor, Guiseppe Verdi, Bach, Georg Friedrich Händel Beethoven, Trad.Irish, Italian, music, Hildegarde, Cab Calloway, Bing Crosby, Delta blues (Son House, Mississippi John Hurt, etc.), hip hop (Kanye West, Talib Kweli, Eminem, Nas, Juassic 5, etc.), Indie, Liz Phair, Modest Mouse, Magazine, Klaus Nomi, Fiona Apple, Blind Melon, Nine Inch Nails, Belle and Sebastian, Radiohead, The Smashing Pumpkins, Babes in Toyland, Gregorian chant, death metal, et cetera. |
| Favorite Books | The Idiot, The Brothers Karamazov, Villette, The Aeneid, The Odyssey, Dracula, Emma, Kristin Lavransdatter, etc., History, Philosophy, Religion, the classics, Charlotte Brontë, Shakespeare (Titus Andronicus, The Taming of the Shrew, Macbeth, Much Ado..), Fyodor Dostoevsky, Anton Chekhov, Nikolai Leskov, Ivan Goncharov, Ivan Turgenev, Flannery O'Connor, Jane Austen, Alice Thomas Ellis, Sigrid Undset, Leo Tolstoy, Dante, Guy de Maupassant, Oscar Wilde, George Bernard Shaw, Edward Albee, St. Thomas Aquinas, Arthur Rimbaud, Evelyn Waugh, Edgar Allan Poe, Robert Hugh Benson, E.F. Benson, Nikolai Gogol, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Michael Hoffman, E. Michael Jones, Fr. Denis Fahey, G.K. Chesterton, etc. The Peanuts |
You forgot your mom's birthday! What can you make out of super glue and olive pits?
Something that would have been quite fitting for my mother.