Filmmaking Idols:
Orson Welles, Ingmar Bergman, Sidney Lumet, Allison Anders, Rebecca Miller, Woody Allen (the old stuff), Dorothy Arzner, Bernardo Bertolucci, Frank Capra, Sydney Pollack, William Wyler, and Pedro Almodovar.
Writing Idols:
Eugene O'Neill, Tennessee Williams, Rebecca Miller, Ivan Turgenev, Lillian Hellman, Neil LaBute, Henry James, Thomas Hardy, Brian Friel, Dorothy Parker, and Arthur Miller.
IndieDiva's Interests
General
Writing, Reading, Film, Music, Art/Photography, Laughing and Sleeping.
Music
too many to list really :)
a few of my all time favorites:
Tori Amos, Sarah McLachlan, Heather Nova, Dido, Fisher, Liz Phair, Poe, U2, Sting, Joni Mitchell, Elton John, Coldplay, Peter Gabriel, and Nina Simone.
a few of my "oldies" favorites:
Beach Boys, Doors, Janis Joplin, CSNY, Greatful Dead, Simon & Garfunkel, and Jimi Hendrix.
a few of my "retro" favorites:
Nat King Cole, Rosemary Clooney, Mills Brothers, Boswell Sisters, Bobby Darin, Ella Fitzgerald, and Dean Martin.
a few of my classical favorites:
Vivaldi, Schubert, Mozart, Beethoven, Handel, Debussy, Chopin, Liszt, Satie, and Mussorgsky.
a few bands/groups/artists I am currently playing to death:
The White Stripes, Papercranes, Portugal. The Man, Sean Lennon, The Plain White T's, Emiliana Torrini, and Peter Cincotti.
I also have a serious thing for Fado, Bluegrass, Electronica, Salsa, Opera, and Celtic music!
Movies
I suspect I single-handedly keep Netflix in business, but a partial list of faves would have to include the following:
12 Angry Men, The Grey Zone, American Beauty, Inherit the Wind, The Royal Tenenbaums, Cinderella Man, The Big Kahuna, Network, Empire of the Sun, Crash, The Baxter, Love Actually, Billy Elliot, I (heart) Huckabees, Citizen Kane, Saraband, Penny Serenade, Like Water For Chocolate, Lawrence of Arabia, Bringing Up Baby, The Usual Suspects, Syriana, What Dreams May Come, Crossing Delancy, The Maldonado Miracle, The Hours, Lost in Translation, Kill Bill: Vol. 1, The Pianist, Good Night and Good Luck, Bee Season, 50 First Dates, Adam's Rib, The Affair of the Necklace, Dead Man Walking, The Others, Drugstore Cowboy, The Great Dictator, House of Sand and Fog, The Human Stain, A Price Above Rubies, A Place In The Sun, Philadelphia Story, Pulp Fiction, Secondhand Lions, Somewhere in Time, Sophie's Choice, Splendor in the Grass (1961), The Shape of Things, A Star is Born (1954), This Property is Condemned, Unstrung Heros, Woman of The Year, Vera Drake, Vanilla Sky, About A Boy, Annie Hall, Bus Stop, Clay Pigeons, The Dreamers, Everything is Illuminated, The Golden Bowl, Igby Goes Down, Indiscreet, Maria Full of Grace, Manhattan, Notorious, The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928), Personal Velocity, Smilla's Sense of Snow, Onegin, To Die For, Solaris, White Oleander, The Lady Eve, Leaving Las Vegas, Lolita, The Lover, One Hour Photo, Waiting for Guffman, and everything French (LOVE LOVE LOVE French Films!).
Television
Addicted to: The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, Letterman, Late Late w/ Craig Ferguson, HGTV, PBS, IFC, FSTV, Celebrity Fit Club, The Soup, Stargate SG-1 (and to a lesser extent Atlantis and Battlestar), and anything/everything about ghosts or sharks.
Books
Like the music question - there are really too many to list. Some (and I stress the word some) of my favorite writers include:
Isabel Allende, Turgenev, Steinbeck, Fitzgerald, Anne Sexton, Tennesee Williams, Eugene O'Neill, Kahlil Gibran, Shakespeare, Neil LaBute, Joseph Addison, Sophocles, Federico Garcia Lorca, Henry James, Anais Nin, Thomas Hardy, Annie Proulx, Jane Austin, Wendell Berry, Emily Dickinson, and Pushkin.
About me: Me? Um ... a human being of many interests and dubious talents.
Collector of most things abandoned, recorder of all things forgotten, admirer of people possessed of original interpretation, philosopher-poetess (of atrocious poetry), aspiring filmmaker, and completely content shower-singer.
What else can I say? Uh ... I collect antique diaries, gravitate toward almost anything to do with rabbits (born in the Chinese year of the rabbit) or snowflakes (born on winter solstice), and bake a mean apple pie (my grandma taught me how). I love to read, travel, see movies, listen to music, and all the other usual crap :)
In general, I'm a fairly quiet sort of person, but I do highly suggest you either worship me or get out of my way because patience is not one of my virtues, LOL :P
BECAUSE I AM TOO LAZY TO WRITE THE SAME THINGS TWICE HERE'S MY BLOG:
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I'm moving to WV again soon (lived there for a few years before, then in WA, and then back to my native CA). But as the saying goes - you can't go home again, and I'll actually be sort of glad to leave Cali this time. I will be living in North Central WV (Clarksburg, Fairmont, Morgantown area), and will be taking some classes in preparation for the WV Real Estate Exam (yes, I have dreams of making films, but a girl needs a day job too ya know). I hope/plan to be able to have the time and money to shoot my first film this coming summer (in California), and I am planning a short trip to Europe either this summer or in Spring of 09. Eventually, (sometime in 2009) I plan to start working on my degree again (through Goddard College) which will take me to Vermont for one week a semester. So really, I'd be interested in hearing from anyone, just about anywhere :)
Thanks for taking the time to add us on, girly. Cool page that you've got here. We hope that your weekend went well. We also wanna wish you the best with all your endeavors. Take care, -E
Hi IndieDiva-- Thanks so much for the kind note, and for befriending me and Paint It Black! Hope you like it. Wish you great luck in all your projects, good reading and many delights! all best, Janet F.
Hi! Just wanted to let you know that Filmaka.com's February's topic is "Mistaken Identity," and all 1-3 minute films must be uploaded by midnight PST, February 27, 2007. The annual grand prize is still a feature film contract! There's more info at www.filmaka.com
Filmaka.com's 2nd contest has just begun - the topic is "Family Gathering" and 1-3 minute films must be uploaded by January 29, 2007.
The grand prize is a feature film deal, and the jury includes great filmmakers like Herzog, Wenders and Schrader. It's a rare and exciting opportunity! www.filmaka.com
Hi! Just a reminder - the first Filmaka.com upload begins on December 15, and the final deadline is December 28. Herzog, Wenders, LaBute and Schrader will give the best director a feature film contract, so you should definately compete!
