Ms. Manitoba

• Gender: Female
• Industry: Arts
• Location: Oakland : California : United States

About Me

I was born on the prairies of Manitoba, Canada, in 1949. A good year. A lot of great people were born in that year. For example: Meryl Streep, Fanny Ardant, Jamaica Kincaid, Bruno Kirby (RIP), Frank Rich, Bruce Springsteen, Gil Scott-Heron, Pam Grier, and Tom Waits ... oh, and let's not forget -- Elivira, Mistress of the Dark.

Interests

• Mainly ... expressing myself in various ways
• Being a good good parent
• photography
• writing poetry
• talking about politics
• acting on my politics
• writing short essays or short autobiographical stories
• woods & ocean.

Favorite Movies

• Do the Right Thing
• My Life as a Dog
• Daughters of the Dust
• Bleu (from the Trois couleurs trilogy)
• Les Amants du Pont-Neuf
• Waking Life
• Before Sunset
• Shrek
• Antonia's Line
• Babette's Feast
• In the Mood for Love (Wong Kar-wai's)
• 25th Hour
• Howard's End
• Brideshead Revisited
• Hannah and Her Sisters
• Inside Man
• The School of Flesh
• Mostly Martha
• Dancer in the Dark
• Secrets and Lies
• 400 Blows
• Spirited Away
• Wild Strawberries
• Rushmore
• School of Rock
• Step into Liquid
• Facing Windows
• A Lot Like Love
• Bringing Up Baby
• The Lives of Others
• The Valley of Elah ... oh my ... I could go on and on. CURRENT RECOMMENDATIONS: Il y a longtemps que je t'aime (I have loved you so long)

Favorite Music

• Cassandra Wilson
• Barachois
• Prince
• Laura Nyro
• Aretha Franklin
• Stevie Wonder
• Marvin Gaye
• Bob Marley
• The Beatles
• Lhasa De Sela
• Dixie Chicks
• Rickie Lee Jones
• Lila Downs
• The Pretenders
• Paula West
• Rufus Wainwright ... again
• I could go on and on.

Favorite Books

• Rice (Nikky Finney)
• The World is Round
• Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader
• Housekeeping (Marilynne Robinson)
• Chasing Redbird
• Caramelo
• The House on Mango Street
• Generations: a Memoir
• Blessing the Boats: New and Selected Poems
• Gold Cell
• The Polysyllabic Spree
• The Year of Magical Thinking
• Jayber Crow
• The Healing (Gayl Jones)
• Lolita
• The Solace of Leaving Early
• The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse
• On Beauty
• Grace Notes
• Water for Elephants
• The Shock Doctrine
• Crusader's Cross
• Nickel and Dimed CURRENT RECOMMENDATION: Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie

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