Miss J
My blogs
| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Industry | Technology |
| Occupation | software engineer |
| Location | My own private Rivendell, OR |
| Introduction | Otherworldly, intense, and silly. Compulsive truthteller. Poet disguised as geek (but only for the money). Queen of Grilled Cheese. |
| Interests | archaeology, art deco, art nouveau, british humor, camping, dada, dimly-lit eateries, historical fiction, holding court, indian food, losing it, magical realism, minoan & mycenaean culture, mythology, non-sequitur, old movies, poetry, preraphaelites, riding in the starcar, satyrs, scrabble, self-reliance, shoegazing, solitude, spectacles, surrealism, swimming, thai food, the absurd, the low countries, the sublime, theatre, tristesse, vaudeville, veggin' out, wine, wit, writing, xyzzy, your little problem |
| Favorite Movies | Barfly, Best in Show, Blue, Brazil, Brick, Children of Men, Chinatown, Coffee and Cigarettes, Delicatessen, Dreams, Easy Rider, Fahrenheit 451, The 400 Blows, Harold and Maude, The Last Picture Show, L'Auberge Espagnole, Logan's Run, The Maltese Falcon, Network, North By Northwest, Rear Window, River's Edge, Roman Holiday, Satyricon, Sideways, Suburbia, Tampopo, The Third Man, To Catch a Thief, Up In Smoke, Vertigo, Wings of Desire, Young Frankenstein |
| Favorite Music | ambient, blues, bluegrass, c-86, glam, new wave, postpunk, psychedelia, trip-hop |
| Favorite Books | Steve Kilbey - Earthed, Richard Brautigan - In Watermelon Sugar & Trout Fishing in America, Thomas Pynchon - The Crying of Lot 49, Italo Calvino - Invisible Cities & If On A Winter's Night A Traveler, Jeanette Winterson - Art and Lies & Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit & Sexing The Cherry, Apuleius - Asinus aureus, Mary Renault - The Bull From the Sea & The King Must Die & The Mask of Apollo, Roberto Calasso - The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony, Louise Erdrich - Love Medicine & The Beet Queen, A.S. Byatt - Angels and Insects, Thomas Love Peacock - Nightmare Abbey, Gerard de Nerval - Aurelia, Joseph Conrad - Heart of Darkness, F. Scott Fitzgerald - This Side of Paradise, Glen Cook - The Black Company, Terry Pratchett - Pyramids & The Color of Magic & Mort, Roger Zelazny - Lord of Light, Jean-Paul Sartre - Nausea |
When your science teacher smashed a frozen rose with a hammer, did you warm the petals to bring them back to life?
We never performed such heavy metaphorical acts in our science classes...