Beijing York

My blogs

Gender	FEMALE
Industry	Communications or Media
Occupation	Consultant
Location	Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Introduction	The following quote inspired me to create a blog: “You have come to a stage where you almost have to work on yourself. You know, on finding some tranquility with which to respond to these things, because I realize that the biggest risk that many of us run is beginning to get inured to the horrors.” – Arundhati Roy
Interests	alternative media, arts and culture, civil society, environmental protection, globalization, human rights, independent filmmaking, politics
Favorite Movies	Pieces of April, Requiem for a Dream, The Big Lebowski, My Son the Fanatic, Secrets & Lies, GoodFellas, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, My Life as A Dog, The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser, Melody, MASH, Midnight Cowboy, The Party, Dr. Strangelove, West Side Story
Favorite Music	Movies was hard enough!
Favorite Books	Life of Pi (Yan Martel), The Blind Assassin (Margaret Atwood), Barney's Version (Mordecai Richler), The Stone Diaries (Carol Shields), Jitterbug Perfume (Tom Robbins), Midnight's Chidren (Salman Rushdie), Gravity's Rainbow (Thomas Pynchon), In Cold Blood (Truman Capote), Brave New World Revisited (Aldous Huxley), 1984 (George Orwell), All My Sons (Arthur Miller), Eight Men (Richard Wright), The Children's Hour (Lillian Hellman), Long Day's Journey into Night (Eugene O'Neil), and many more including non-fiction