Rubber Gloved Philosopher

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About me

Industry Arts
Occupation When the yellow gloves are off, I write.
Introduction I'm a housewife struggling to reconcile my eclectic taste, passionate idealism, and desire to write with way too much laundry. All of it makes me emotional.
Interests cooking and eating well with comical friends, perennials, intensity, flea markets, watching boxing, helping sons thrive, great books, traveling, opera, and the belief that everything can be interesting.
Favorite Movies Magnolia, Napoleon Dynamite, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, all David Lynch, all Lars von Trier, The Iron Giant, Super Size Me, The Good the Bad and the Ugly, Requiem for a Dream, Grizzly Man, The Seventh Seal, The Corporation, Grease, A Clockwork Orange, Touching the Void, Leolo...
Favorite Music Neko Case, Cat Power, Bach, Daniel Lanois, James Brown, Suzie Leblanc, Andrew Bird, Beethoven, Ray Lamontagne, Nina Simone, J.J.Cale, Wilco, K'naan, Patsy Cline, The Cramps, Radiohead, Glenn Gould, The White Stripes, Zemlinsky...
Favorite Books Novels: The Diviners, The Corrections, The Elegance of the Hedgehog, Disgrace, Blindness, The Scarlet Letter, Crossing to Safety, Never Let Me Go. Poets: Charles Wright, Paul Muldoon, Seamus Heaney, early Atwood, Charles Simic... Nonfiction: The Undertaking, 52 Ways of Looking at a Poem, On Boxing (Joyce Carol Oates), all Alain de Botton, the Writer and the City series published by Bloomsbury...