My Top Artists
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Interests
General
Music, especially live music, books, movies, food, socializing, visiting major cities around the world for no particular reason, my eternally fascinating men.
Music
(in no particular order except that of synapses firing) Beatles, Nick Cave, Nields, Hawksley Workman, Solipsistics, Old 97's/Rhett Miller, Andy Prieboy, Sun Ra, Ella Fitzgerald, Milt Jackson, Louis Armstrong, Dexter Gordon, Bud Powell, Thelonious Monk, Gerry Mulligan, Loud Family, John Southworth, Prince, Parliament/Funkadelic, Flaming Lips, Anton Barbeau, Nina Simone, Brad Mehldau, Jason Moran, Lester Bowie, Kristian Hoffman, Robyn Hitchcock, eels, Magnetic Fields, XTC, Sex Mob, and oh, so many, many more. There's not really a genre I entirely don't like, except jingoistic country. Our child will have to work really hard to upset us with his musical taste.
Listen to my Last.fm radio station, won't you? People freakin' love it, is why.
..Here's the latest stuff I've listened to.
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My last.fm page is here, if you crave more up-to-the-minute statistics.
Movies
Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Sunset Boulevard, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Say Anything, Princess Bride, This Is Spinal Tap, The Wedding Banquet, Punch-Drunk Love... those leap to mind as movies I can watch over and over. I will generally go see anything with Morgan Freeman in it because I love him so (this often does not work out well for me) or with Johnny Depp in it because I trust his artistic choices (this usually does). On the other end of the spectrum, Kevin Costner and Melanie Griffith are absolute dealbreakers for me - I couldn't even get through Costner's Robin Hood with Freeman AND Alan Rickman to balance him out.
Television
I love: Pushing Daisies, Daily Show, Colbert Report, Gilmore Girls, Project Runway, The Amazing Race, Wonderfalls, Monk, MST3K (before you ask: Joel) and of course The A-Team. I watch because I cannot help myself: American Idol, The Apprentice, Semi-Homemade With Sandra Lee.Books
I've been on a mystery kick for the last few years, ever since - and my husband laughs at me every time I say this but IT'S TRUE - I finished the classics. Or at least, I wrung everything out of the world's back catalog that I was likely to enjoy; I read about 3-500 books a year - eventually, you catch up. Favorite mystery writers include Donald E. Westlake, Lawrence Block, Keith Snyder, S.J. Rozan, Carol O'Connell, Ian Rankin, Denise Mina, Kinky Friedman, Laurie R. King, Barbara Seranella, Dennis Lehane, Jim Fusilli, Laura Lippman, and probably some other really obvious ones I can't think of. Don't like mysteries that have a lot to do with hairstyles, tea, or crime-solving cats, although I enjoy all three things in real life, and the fastest way to make me put a book back on the shelf is to start the back-cover plot summary with the words "A madman..." or "An operative..."
In the genre of "not mysteries," favorites include mid- to late-period Vonnegut, Douglas Adams, Peter Carey, Angela Carter, Michael Malone, Christopher Moore, David Sedaris, sometimes Nick Hornby and John Irving (but sometimes really not), I've got really high hopes for Cintra Wilson and Zadie Smith based on early returns, and again, a bunch of stuff I can't think of because I'm not in the room with the bookshelves.
Heroes
Audrey Hepburn, Ella Fitzgerald, Nina Simone, Stephen Colbert, Russ Feingold, Bryan Fuller, Russell Brand... and in fashion, Brett Somers.
Details
- Status: Married
- Here for: Networking, Friends
- Hometown: Pittsburgh, PA
- Religion: Agnostic
- Zodiac Sign: Scorpio
- Children: Proud parent
- Smoke / Drink: No / No
- Education: Some college
- Occupation: web designer/copy editor
Schools
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Franklin Regional Shs
- Murrysville, PENNSYLVANIA
- Graduated: 1983
- Student status: Alumni
1980 to 1983
Companies
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Beachbody
- Santa Monica, CA US
- QA Analyst/Proofreader
June 2009 -
Latest Blog Entries
- Sep 12, 2009 5:03 AM a good week.
- Jul 21, 2009 9:55 PM my little mantra.
- Mar 20, 2009 11:28 PM A viewing tip.
- Mar 11, 2009 3:54 PM The best 3:04 of my week so far
- Mar 10, 2009 10:11 PM I KNOW I said I wasn't going to do this...
Blurbs
About me:
Me: 42. Married to conductor/arranger/all-around swell guy Randy Brion. Mom to 4-year-old songwriter/raconteur. Very happily dwelling in Los Angeles after moving away enough times to drive home the concept that it's a terrible idea. Other places I've lived: Pittsburgh, Lima, OH, New York City, Atlanta, San Luis Obispo. NYC was not a terrible idea.
Professionally, I've split time between editorial work and website development; now I do both at once at my day job and mostly the latter as a freelancer. I'm also the editor of LAJazz.com, a rather heavily trafficked guide to jazz happenings in Southern California...
Still as heavily into music as I was in my youth, despite the odds against it; my social life revolves around live music, about which I manage to be both extraordinarily selective and very open-minded. (I don't care what genre you play, you've just got to be great at it.) I also go out to see a lot of "alternative" comedy (are they still calling it that? I think what they mean is "funny" comedy), because we've got such an amazing bunch of performers in LA that why would you NOT go, really?
Otherwise, I'm a vegan chef, connoisseur of carbonated beverages, compulsive reader, ophidiophobic, and devotee of any television series involving Bryan Fuller.
Also, I did not use the word ophidiophobic to be a big smartypants; I used it to keep targeted ads from posting nasty ol' photos of the thing that terrifies me.
Who I'd like to meet:
Mostly looking to catch up with old friends and find new work.
I don't accept friend requests from people who are not actually my friends (if your picture or name don't make it obvious, please send a note). I'm not trying to be standoffish, but the parts of my profile marked friends only are in fact personal. Sorry!
Friend Space (Top 39)
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Harold
Harold Lloyd
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Amy
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Jodi Arlyn
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Heidi
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Leslie
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Shelley
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The Solipsistics
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marie
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wiggli
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Anton Barbeau
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Marck
Marck Bailey
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Pam
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Angela
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Bambi
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pinktipps aka erika str…
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Uyen
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Jon Brion - The Officia…
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Stephanie Conn
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Greg
Greg Proops
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Paul F. Tompkins
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Greg Behrendt
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Russell
Russell Brand
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The Negro Problem
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Tommi Zender
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Jim Boggia
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Jennifer Christine
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Tim Finn
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Art House Cinema
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John Dunbar
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Dennis
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mair mair corsetiere
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George Clinton & Parlia…
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Rhett Miller
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Chris
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SUN RA
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SPARKS
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Mary Lynn Rajskub
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Rebekah Florence
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Eban Schletter
Comments
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Hey, btw, I know it's YOUR birthday, but would you mind sending me a bootleg mp3 of Fulsom Daycare Blues...I gotta hear that one! :-)
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