rshams

• Gender: Female
• Industry: Student
• Location: United States

Why does the taste of pennies remind you of losing a tooth?

Ummm...metallic blues?

Interests

• good food
• politics
• Zionism
• Israel
• Judaism
• the proliferation of freedom
• American history
• Jewish history
• the Cold War
• John Locke
• the Haskalah
• Moses Mendelssohn
• media criticism
• literature
• independent film
• Commentary magazine
• the Daily Show
• modern art and architecture
• Deutsch
• aesthetics
• good juice blends
• satire
• appropriate irreverence
• sleeping in

Favorite Movies

• American Beauty
• Goodbye Lenin
• Run Lola Run
• Broken Wings
• Nina’s Tragedies
• Bananas
• 25th Hour
• Casablanca
• Some Like It Hot
• Shakespeare in Love
• Annie Hall
• Manhattan
• Monsoon Wedding
• The History of the World – Part I
• No Man’s Land
• Wonder Boys
• Analyze This
• The Producers (original)
• Kill Bill I and II
• One Day in September
• Good Will Hunting
• Philadelphia
• Love Actually
• The American President
• Bridget Jones' Diary
• Il Postino
• Amelie

Favorite Music

• Bach
• Schubert
• The Beatles
• Simon and Garfunkel
• Bob Dylan
• Moby
• David Gray
• Coldplay
• U2
• The Clash
• Rammstein
• Itzhak Perlman
• The Klezmatics
• Israeli folk
• Irish drinking songs
• cheesy Europop
• z'mirot
• bhangra
• show tunes
• anything danceable

Favorite Books

• anything by Amos Oz
• Bernard Lewis
• Dinesh D'Souza or Dr. Seuss
• Everything is Illuminated
• The Namesake
• The Interpreter of Maladies
• The Chosen
• The Remains of the Day
• The Reader
• Memoirs of a Geisha
• When I Lived In Modern Times
• Pride and Prejudice
• Emma
• Our Dumb Century - The Onion
• America (the Book)
• The Duel
• The Zionist Idea
• Israel: A History
• What's So Great About America?
• The Case for Democracy
• Home To Stay
• Poetry by Yehuda Amichai
• Heinrich Heine
• Walt Whitman

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