Art Deco, True Love, Gelatto, and Heaven Despite my Sins
Music
Paul Simon, The Searchers, The Zombies, The White Stripes, The Beatles, All things do-wop, Dave Brubeck, The Ramones, John Lennon, Blur, The Kinks, etc..
Movies
Vertigo, The Usual Suspects, Stigmata, Rear Window, The 39 Steps, North by Northwest, Psycho, silent films, Evil Dead Trilogy, And Soon the Darkness, Cowboy Bebop: Knocking on Heaven's Door, Gulliver's Travels (1939), The Dirty Dozen, The Third Man, Blinkande Lyktor (Flickering Lights.. it's Danish, you should check it out..), The Connery Era Bond films (notibly Goldfinger), La Dolce Vita, Capote.
Television
The Wild Wild West, The Twilight Zone, Ironside, Dragnet (1967), The Avengers (or anything else made during the Mod era in the UK), The Office (US), The Sopranos, Cops, CSI Vegas (I tried to resist, I really did..) Perry Mason, No Reservations, etc.
I have a worrysome 'Project Runway' obsession.. I may need to get help.
Love the Food network and checking everything that could go wrong on 'The Discovery Health Channel'. Word..
Books
Crime and Punishment, The Stranger, Walden, Walden, Walden, Dharma Bums, Live and Let Die (as well as the other Fleming novels), The Gunseller, Weetzy Bat, Typhoid Mary: An Urban Historical, 50's Era Earl Stanley Gardner (they aren't smart, but they're really fun.. ok, I'm trying to rationalize it, but there really isn't any resisting 50's pulpy noir novels..), Angela's Ashes, The Brothers K, etc
Heroes
Henry David Thoreau, Jack Kerouac, Ash (only when he has a fistful of boomstick), My sister and other legitimate artists, Melissa Limes (for doing everything I don't have the nerve to do), The Biehls
Mandy's Details
Status:
In a Relationship
Zodiac Sign:
Capricorn
Education:
Grad / professional school
Occupation:
Librarian
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"In space, they measure miles in light. I am shining now, but you don’t see it yet. A star’s cold is only distance. Come closer. Find a sun."
I usually feel out of place where ever I am.. I've been a nerd my whole life, and I'm not sure I want/need to change that. I love old stuff (movies, clothes, music) and I avidly plan to become one of those rockin' retro kids over time. I also have no idea how to sum up my life in a stupid myspace paragraph, so I hope the people who know me won't think worse of me because of what I write here (if anybody reads this drivel anyway.. doubtful). Also, I'd love to call people "dahling" (think Auntie Mame) but I think it sounds stupid (and awesome).. look out for me when I've had too much to drink..dahlings :)
Great Loves:
All things Literature (capital 'L')
My friends and family (by family I really only mean my sister)
Anthony Bourdain
self-deprecation
Simple food exquisitely prepared
Vintage Everything
James Bond
Interesting people who have a something legitimate to say
I will probably dislike you if you are:
White trash and use words like "bubby" and "sissy".. god, just typing it pisses me off!
Ian Fleming, Dorothy Parker, Henry David Thoreau, and Jack Kerouac. Maybe Betty Crocker if she's secretly a feminist who just happens to make a slammin' cupcake..
I've got two. :D The last name is Scottish, though. (Although, according to what I've heard, that's just by coincidence. The story I heard is that my great-great-grandfather changed his name from German to something that sounded more American, and that's where the family name came from. )
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