cara

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Occupation student, part-time santa fe opera
Location United States
Interests light and shadow, imagination, and fantasy, all things innocent and strange, art, languages, history, ball jointed dolls, russia, china, parrots, animals
Favorite Movies the harry potter series, the twilight samurai, amadeus, honey and clover, the island (russian version), inuyasha, bright future, annie hall, the chosen, brideshead revisited, (1981 version!), spirited away, jesus of nazareth, another year, the last temptation of christ, my neighbor totoro, manhattan, hannah and her sisters, gandhi, beavers (imax documentary), apocalypse now, husbands and wives, gandhi, district 9, kiki's delivery service, the breakfast club, howl's moving castle, mighty aphrodite, the girl with the dragon tattoo, sex lies and videotape, anne of green gables series, the dark crystal, dead poet's society, brother sun sister moon, moonstruck, princess mononoke, the cat returns, grave of the fireflies, anything by miyazaki, eddie izzard, woman in white, city lights, and anything by charlie chaplin, the cruise (documentary), quentin tarantino films - when i am in the mood, into great silence, the orphanage, the mission, sense and sensibility - ang lee version, and all others by ang lee, fruits basket, sherlock, doctor who, louis ck, doc martin, anything stephen fry
Favorite Music the cure, joe hisaishi, elo, susumu hirasawa, the smiths, nick cave's movie music, mozart, the psychedelic furs, nick drake, jeremy enigk, beethoven, pink floyd, gregorio allegri, queen, echo and the bunnymen, ennio moriconne, social distortion, david bazan, tom waits' classic/early stuff, samuel barber, peter gabriel, elliot smith, r.e.m., henryk gorecki, gabriel faure, moody blues, sunny day real estate, some bert jansch, some donovan ...lots more to come.
Favorite Books rainer maria rilke, j.r.r. tolkien, antoine de saint-exupery, kobayashi issa, h.p. lovecraft, alan watts, c.s. lewis, john steinbeck, hermann hesse, emily and charlotte bronte, jk rowling, lord dunsany, andrew murray, george macdonald, j.d. salinger, neil gaiman, anthony demello, anne rice (sometimes), roald dahl, nana, yotsuba&!, fruits basket...