B. Paige Hansen

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Gender Female
Industry Student
Occupation Journalist
Location Mankato, Minnesota, United States
Introduction I recently graduated from Minnesota State University (MSU), Mankato with a BA in Mass Communications and Spanish. I completed my emphasis in journalism and served as the Reporter Assistant News Editor. I received a 2009 Minnesota Newspaper Association Award for Arts and Entertainment Reporting. I coordinated the first-ever 48-Hour Film Festival and LUNAFEST at MSU, a benefit short film festival by, for and about women.
Interests Film, music, vegetarianism, environmental issues, women's issues, feminism, journalism, documentaries, foreign films, independent films, minneapolis hip hop, folk, spanish, spain, madrid, art, salvador dali, sioux falls, south dakota, mankato, minnesota, Illville, playing four-square, pitch, Zuma, Ricochet Robots!, being way too busy for my own good, being cynical, competition cheerleading, yoga, pilates, going to shows, hookah, cranberry Juice. Thai food, Turkish food, Mediterranean food, falafel, duct-tape, mass communication, mass media, pop culture, social commentary, high heels, Karma, bunny-spotting, rabbits, bunnies, star-gazing, going to the zoo, thrifting, wine, good beer, theater, shakin' hips and bustin' lips.
Favorite Movies 21 Grams, A Clockwork Orange, A Nightmare Before Christmas, Abre los Ojos, Amelie, American Beauty, Amores Perros, Basketball Diaries, the Big Lebowski, Blow, Boondock Saints, Brazil, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Brokendown Palace, Cannibal the Musical, Chasing Amy, City of God, Clerks, Closer, Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys, Dark Crystal, Death to Smoochy, los Diarios de Motocicleta, Donnie Darko, Edward Scissorhands, El Crimen De Padre Amaro, Elephant, Empire Records, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Fargo, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Fight Club, Ghost World, Heathers, High Fidelity, Igby Goes Down, Interview With A Vampire, Kill Bill Vol. 1, Kill Bill Vol 2., the Labyrinth, the Life Aquatic of Steve Zissou, Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Lost in Translation, Mallrats, Memento, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Nosferatu, Office Space, Pi, Pretty in Pink, Punch-Drunk Love, Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs, Requiem for a Dream, Rocky Horror Picture Show, Roman Holiday, Sabrina, Se7en, Seventh Seal, Sixteen Candles, SLC Punk, Snatch, Some Like It Hot, the Breakfast Club, the Royal Tenenabums, the Seven Year Itch, the Slums of Beverly Hills, the Usual Suspects, the Virgin Suicides, Thirteen., Trainspotting, Waking Life, Welcome to the Dollhouse, Wet Hot American Summer, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, Y Tu Mama Tambien
Favorite Books A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers, Running With Scissors by Augusten Burroughs, Diary by Chuck Palahniuk, Me Talk Pretty One Day by Dave Sedaris, A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess, Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson, The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath, the Illuminatus! Trilogy by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson, White Oleander by Janet Fitch, The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge by Carlos Castaneda, A Separate Reality by Carlos Castaneda, anything by Chuck Klosterman.