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Kate's Interests
General
I am a landscape painter working in oil, and also do some etching. I love to cook. If I am away from my kitchen for a couple of days I get a bit loopy. I just got a food processor and I love it.
I practice Vinyasa yoga everyday and have studied Jivamukti and Iyengar yoga styles.
Ozomatli, Jurassic 5, Billy Bragg, The Clash/Joe Strummer, Django Reinhardt, Beastie Boys (up until the last album), Rodrigo y Gabriela, Johnny Cash, Those Legendary Shack Shakers, The Kinks, James Brown, The Pogues, Etta James,Ruth Brown, Sam Cook, David Byrne, The Tossers, The White Stripes, The Color Bars, Sean Lennon, DropKick Murphy's, The Tossers, Hank Williams.
Movies
Favorite Asian Films (in no particular order):
Favorite Gangster/ Criminal Element films:
Old Boy
Pulp Fiction
House of Flying Daggers
Snatch
Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon
Millers Crossing
Hero
Layer Cake
Jet Li's Twin Warriors
Killing Zoe
Prison on Fire
La Femme Nakita
City on Fire
The Usual Suspects
Drunken Master (Jackie Chan)
Sin City
Legend of Drunken Master
Reservoir Dogs
A Better Tomorrow
Lock, Stock and 2 Smoking Barrels
Kung Fu Hustle
The Departed
Fist of Legend
Zatôichi (The blind swordsman)
Favorite Classics (in no particular order):
Other Favorites (in no particular order):
Diabolique (1955)
Rabbit Proof Fence
Love Crazy
Dear Frankie
The Philadelphia Story
Kinky Boots
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
Little Voice
The Third Man
Children of Men
My Man Godfrey
Tokyo Godfathers
Jane Ere (1941)
28 Days Later
The Thin Man
Eat, Drink, Man, Woman
Pat and Mike
My Neighbor Totoro
You Can’t Take it with You (1936)
Porco Rosso
It Happened one Night
Shaun of the Dead
La belle et la bête (1946)
Flawless (the one w/ Philip Seymour Hoffman)
Night of the Hunter
Lives of Others
The Awful Truth (1937)
Favorite Documentaries(in no particular order):
Hands on the Hardbody,
The Control Room,
Fahrenheit 911,
Bowling for Columbine,
Murderball,
Shane McGowan: If I Should Fall From Grace
We just saw Be Kind Rewind- hilarious!
Television
Sigh, I wish there was more Dead Wood
Frak! I love BSG!
Dude Run! Ghost Hunters is on!
Books
I read all the time and just about any genre. Some favorite authors are Jane Austen, Paul Auster, Charlotte Brontë, Augusten Burroughs, Anthony Bourdain, Bill Bryson, Alexander Dumas, Gerald Durrell, Jeffrey Eugenides, John Irving, Christopher Moore, Farley Mowat, Tom Robbins, J. K. Rowling, Eric Schlosser, David Sedaris, and J.R.R. Tolkein, P.G. Wodehouse.
Just read: A General Theory of Love by Thomas Lewis, MD, Fari Amini, MD, & Richard Lannon, MD. It is about brain structure and chemistry and how that relates to the science of emotions.
Just finished: Labyrinth by Kate Mosse
Now reading: Year of Living Biblically by A.J. Jacobs
About me: I spent my childhood in the Midwest and New England. In 1992, I moved from Boston to Philadelphia in order to attend the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, where I studied printmaking and painting. I graduated from PAFA in 1996, and three years later received my B.F.A. from the University of Pennsylvania.
I taught first grade for four years at a private Quaker school, but now I teach drawing classes at an art school in Philadelphia - but work full-time for an engineering firm.
In my spare time, I'm a painter - mostly focusing on urban and pastoral landscapes. You can see some of my work at MundieArt.com
I have just become a mom and am learning to juggle motherhood and being an artist.
I like trains, train structures and architecture and I don't know why...
Who I'd like to meet: flying monkeys locked in a deadly aeronautical battle with flying pigs
I like your paintings very much - especially the Trains series. They remind me a lot of the few inner city paintings of Edward Hopper, but yours have a more enchanting and beautiful style I like even better :)
Well, the amount of ee, ii, ee ii oo's is dependent upon whether or not it's slaughter time at the Old MacDonald's farm... as you can imagine, the butchering GREATLY decreases the number of animals to ee ii about ;)
Kate hello...I was just over on your hubby's page to say hello and caught a glimpse of your profile photo and wound up here to say how much I love it and in so doing I have now not said anything at all to Jimbo.
Tell the Prof. Hello for me ;-)
I think the name "Declan" is terrific...isn't that Elvis Costello's real name? Judging from tiny Declan's hairdo I am thinking he too might be a musician ;-)
Although Jimbo might steer him into the CARNEY trade(?)...ha!
Well I am just about to leave Paris...and yes I enjoy being in my mountains again! I specially enjoy the silence, no people around, and that spiritual feeling when you are that close to the sky!
Haven't been on in a loooong time...just saw that you gave birth! Peace and Love to you and your family! Enjoy the enormity of it all... Babies teach Buddhanature!
Hi Kate, I should be leaving to the South in the coming days... but I am just waiting a more enjoyable weather. For the last 5 days we had heavy rains like in November! According to the new pics, happy to see you and the baby are doing well. S.
Hi Kate, Congratulations, came by to tell you about a great show at the MFA in Boston that I thought you'd like, Antonio Lopez Garcia. Sounds like you have your hands full right now, so just enjoy being a mom, but it'll be there until late July if you feel up to a trip. Take Care. :)
CONGRATS! On the new arrival! I'm really happy for you two...well three I guess. lol! I hope all is well; it looks like it is so be happy and enjoy your little one. Again COGRATS!!!
Welcome Declan! Go Kate! You are so awesome and your young lad is so awesome! And I cannot begin to tell you how happy I am for you. He is gorgeous, you are a champion, it's still not too late to consider "kathleen" as a name. Much love and admiration...ya done good kid!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY BABE!!! I hope you have a great day and have a lot of fun...just don't forget you can't get TOO drunk because of you know what...damn cops are out to get everyone drinking and driving. Apparently, especially if you're like 8 1/2 months pregnant or something. =/ damn pigs! LOL! Seriously though I hope you have a great day. Happy birthday MUAH!
