Judith
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Not a hipster, but could play one on TV.
Female
102 years old
Berkeley, CALIFORNIA
United States
Last Login: 5/23/2007
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Judith's Interests
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| General | Tooth-gnashing. Plotting revenge. Fretting. Wool-gathering. Self-sabotage. Contradicting others. Interrupting. Reclining. Creating elaborate pessimistic scenarios. | | Music | 60s psychedelic, 70s funk, early R&B -- anything funky or groovy. Indie/Folk. Opera and other classical vocals. World/asian dub/fusion. Used to love David Bowie and the Ramones; just starting to be able to listen to that again.
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Listening to lately: Ray LaMontagne, Sufjan Stevens, Iron & Wine. Gogol Bordello, Velvet Underground, Mazzy Star, Aimee Mann, Tom Waits, Patti Smith, X, Nick Drake, Leonard Cohen, Bob Dylan, Hole, Lila Downs, Nusrat Fateh Ali Kahn, Bebel Gilberto, Ella Fitzgerald, Louie Armstrong, Carmen McCrae, Billie Holliday, George Clinton, Toots & the Maytals, Beck, Richard Thompson, Patty Griffin. (What a COOL chick, I hear you saying ...)
| | Movies | "Capote," "Last Days," "Sweet Sweetbacks Baadasssss Song," "Fargo," "The Sweet Smell of Success," "Who's Afraid of Virgina Woolf," Kubrick's "Lolita," "One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest," "Network." Actors: Steve Buscemi, Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Francis McDormand, Cary Grant, Bette Davis. Directors: Hitchcock, Altman, Fellini, Godard, Woody Allen, Mel Brooks, Stanley Kubrick, Sergio Leone, Jim Jarmusch, David Lynch, Eric Rohmer, Orson Welles. The Marx Brothers, W.C. Fields. Screwball comedy. Noir. Dean Martin's "Matt Helm" movies. Hope and Crosby's "Road" movies. The "Thin Man" movies. (Ever get that "trying-too-hard" feeling when you're on myspace?) | | Television | Don't watch it. Not against it, just don't watch it. Used to, though, plenty. May again one day. Radio, on the other hand, is another matter. I'm an NPR junkie. | | Books | Let's call this category "reading." The New Yorker, The New York Times, The New York Review of Books -- anything with New York in the title. Though these publications often pile up under my bed, unread, because of working, sleeping, working out, cooking and eating, and the internet. I used to imagine that it might be nice to be in prison so I could get a lot of reading done. I'm told prison doesn't really work that way, but that's the fantasy. I've talked to other people who have this fantasy; guess it's common to those who like to read.
I'm reading "Don Quixote" right now, but don't get the idea that I only read "the classics." I read a lot of stuff. Including comics. Writers I've liked or loved that pop into my head at the moment: Carson McCullers, Tennesee Williams, George Saunders, Wallace Stegner, Elizabeth Bishop, Henry James, Mark Twain, Dante (yup, almost got a PhD in Italian lit, except I forgot to write my dissertation), Flaubert, Pat Barker, Dorothy Parker, Jeffrey Eugenides, Seamus Heaney. I read "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," over and over again when I was a teenager. Secret shame: "Bridget Jones." Just read "Evening in the Palace of Reason," but it's rare that I read nonfiction cover-to-cover. I like big heavy art books with lots of plates, of the kind that George took into the bathroom on Seinfeld (hey, I was watching TV back then). Not that I buy them.
Oh, and the comics: R. Crumb, Peter Bagge, Daniel Clowes, Phoebe Glockner, Harvey Pekar, Viz, Mad Magazine of the 50s and 60s. That's it! My hero! Alfred E. Newman! This really is a voyage of self-discovery as well as one of self-promotion.
| | Heroes | Yup, Alfred. The one from MAD Magazine and also the one from Batman. Also, Dr. Smith from Lost in Space. |
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Judith's Details
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| Status: | Divorced | | Here for: | Networking, Friends | | Orientation: | Straight | | Hometown: | Chicago | | Body type: | 5' 3" / Slim / Slender | | Ethnicity: | White / Caucasian | | Religion: | Jewish | | Zodiac Sign: | Sagittarius | | Smoke / Drink: | No / Yes | | Education: | Grad / professional school | | Occupation: | Editor |
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About me:
There's nothing worth doing that can't be done in bed. That's really my motto. Didn't want to make that the headline, for fear of giving the correct impression, but I'm incapable of holding anything back. For instance, I'm not really 99 years old. I
- try to live sustainably.
- do not have a car (see above).
- sometimes rant about politics; the rest of the time just rant.
- believe work for its own sake is vastly overrated & that there should be more vacation time in the U.S & single payer health care for all.
- like to complain about my health while looking absolutely buff from working out & eating organic.
Favorite gesture: hands placed defiantly on hips. I need: my cat, my bike, & lots of snuggling. Aw, how cute ... but I hate cute!
(BTW, I got my layout at PAPERSCAPE.US.)
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Who I'd like to meet:
Not that Tom guy. That guy's a slut! Otherwise, I don't want to second-guess you 72 million out there. People I wouldn't ordinarily meet, of all ages, ethnic identities, & persuasions. People to speak Italian with. Pets, uh, companion animals, especially cats, welcome.
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