jadoerr
My blogs
Gender | Female |
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Industry | Education |
Occupation | Strategic Developer |
Location | Arlington, Mass, United States |
Introduction | I pay attention. |
Interests | History, sociology, art, sociology of art, elevating the mundane and mocking the lofty, running, eating, cooking, vino, dogs over cats, causegasmic-bashing, all those normal things. |
Favorite Movies | All the Star Wars (esp. ESB), Amadeus, Raising Arizona, The Passion of Joan of Arc, Rushmore, Moonstruck, Bugsy Malone, Two Women, Some Like It Hot, Ma femme est une actrice, Atanarjuat, Ponette, Les nuits fauves, 3 Amigos, Le Grand Aventure de PW, King Creole, Romeo & Juliet, Better Off Dead, Taming of the Shrew, Lenny, Meaning of Life, 8 Femmes, Dancer in the Dark, Le dernier metro, Joe vs. the Volcano, Gattaca, Jezebel, Stage Door, An American in Paris, 16 Candles, Grapes of Wrath. |
Favorite Music | Roots stuff, assorted hip hop, new wave, and arena rock and boogass, the Mighty Mr. Bowie. Elvis the First, GNR, all kinds of Motown, southern rock, old-skool country and dancehall, most blues, especially Delta and Detroit. Random citations: DFA 1979, Paris Combo, Daryl and John, Sadies, Mellencamp, Cure, Joy Div., Killers, Janis, Otis, Etta, James, Rosetta, Aretha, Neko, Prince, and sundry other women who wail and men who embrace their falsetti. Training is in classical/opera, of which I prefer: Verdi, Mozart, Bellini, Donizetti, Faure, Adams, Stenhammar, Grieg, Schumann (both), Wagner, Schubert, Puccini, Mendelssohn, and many others but NO freaking baroque as I'd rather eat hair. |
Favorite Books | Zola, Tolstoy, R. Doyle, ZN Hurston, PL Dunbar, Solzhenitzyn, Parmenides, bell hooks, Shakespeare, Marlowe, The Sun magazine, Nat'l Geographic, Othello in all its manifestations, Barbara Tuchman, stuff about physics, stuff about chemistry, stuff about the Supreme Court, stuff about biculturalism, stuff about WW1, stuff about architecture and photography |