We're both writers, voracious readers, music and film lovers. Oh, and Lynn is addicted to chai and Kathy to coffee. Hey, everyone has some addiction, right?
Music
Placebo, HIM, David Bowie, Scissors Sisters, Mika, The Libertines, Steve Carlson, Jason Manns, Muse, The Fratellis, The View, The Streets, Arctic Monkeys, Dresden Dolls, Dirty Pretty Things, 69 Eyes, The Cure, The Police, Depeche Mode, Tears for Fears, Joy Division, New Order, The Partridge Family, They Might Be Giants, Peter Gabriel, Queen, The Clash, Rufus Wainwright, Flogging Molly, Dropkick Murphys. You get the picture, right?
Movies
Ten Inch Hero, The Leprous Menace, The Sixth Sense, Velvet Goldmine, Planet of the Apes (the original!), Rocco and His Brothers, 400 Blows, Jules and Jim, any of the Grant/Hepburn films, A Hard Day's Night, Rules of the Game, Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence, The Plight of Clownana, Two for the Road, Roman Holiday, Sabrina, My Man Godfrey, Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, Wings (yes, that's right, the 1927 silent film), The Twentieth Century, Casablanca (cliched to like it, yes - so sue me), Harvey, Elvira Madigan, Annie Hall, Breakfast At Tiffany's
Television
. . . Do we need to say anything else?
Books
Let's make this easier and do authors - Charles Dickens, Jonathan Swift, Lord Byron, Jane Austen, Mary Shelley, the Brontes, Henry Fielding and his sister Sarah, Laurence Sterne, Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Nikolai Gogol, Anton Checkov, Virginia Woolfe, Evelyn Waugh, Poppy Z. Brite, Neil Gaiman, Julian Barnes, Nick Hornby, Roland Barthes, Christopher Marlowe, Jean Baudrillard, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Julio Cortezar, Don DeLillo, Anne Rice - early Anne Rice - especailly Interview with a Vampire and Tale of The Body Thief
Heroes
Real people who just get on with it. Our kids.
Kathy and Lynn's Details
Status:
In a Relationship
Zodiac Sign:
Sagittarius
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About me:
Kathy and Lynn are both hardworking academics and unapologetic fangirls, which explains our current collaborative project: a book on fandom, convergence and community. Kathy's an English professor and Lynn's a Psychology professor at two universities on the east coast, a combination of backgrounds that gives us a unique perspective on the role of fandom in contemporary culture. We're also serious Supernatural fans, and working hard to get the fabulous film Ten Inch Hero out there where it deserves to be, for our friend Betsy and just because it's awesome! When we're not working, we're proud mums to four fabulous children and blessed with two of the best guys ever, who offer the male perspective on fandom from time to keep us grounded. :)
Kathy has been referred to, and fondly refers to herself, as a pop culture whore. Fortuitous, since it got her to thinking about the ways we interact with (or resist) the mainstream culture we all call home. Which led to teaching several classes on fame, celebrity, and fandom. Which led to the book. Which led her here. You can also find her on Facebook
Lynn is not known as a pop culture whore, however she IS known for a fascination with getting inside people's heads, which led to being a psychologist, and then to teaching and researching. Fortuitous as well, because that led to wanting to get inside the collective heads of the folks who have such an influence on what gets written/created/produced creatively -- the fans. Which also led (as everything seems to these days!) to the book.
Who I'd like to meet: We're meeting them every day! (OK - how corny is that - even if it is true. We've meet some amazing people over the course of the last year after all.) Of the ones we're not meeting though, Kathy would like to meet Tom Stoppard and her father (and how random is that!). Lynn will get back to y'all about who she wants to meet.
