Reading, music, NBA playoffs, cooking, traveling, philosophy, history, sleeping, and tequila. Are you bored yet?
Favorite blogs/webcomics/sites: KRS, www.rampantbicycle.com/blog (an American Geek Girl's adventures in Canada), www.questionablecontent.net (hipsters in color), www.jezebel.com, www.chromewaves.net (an adorable comic book/indie music nerd tells it like it is), www.foodtv.com (yummy), www.xkcd.com (a webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language), www.goodreads.com (you can review books and see what your friends are reading), and frozenreality (bunnies!).
Music
Apples in Stereo, Audio Bullys, Badly Drawn Boy, Bangles, Belle and Sebastian, Ben and Louise, Bloc Party, Bratmobile, James Brown, Cake, Casiotone for the Painfully Alone, Cat Power, The Clash, Cornershop, CSS, The Decemberists, Dressy Bessy, Elefant, Feist, Fischer-Spooner, Guy Forsyth, Bebel Gilberto, Go-Gos, Gossip, Gravy Train, Neil Halstead, Ed Harcourt, Sarah Harmer, Gemma Hayes, Jolie Holland, Hoodoo Gurus, Hot Hot Heat, Iron and Wine, Ivy, Etta James, Mason Jennings, Daniel Dale Johnson, Ben Kweller, Ladytron, Lake Holiday, Le Tigre, Magnetic Fields (and all their other projects), Matt Pond, PA; Maybellines, Nellie McKay, Mount Sims, Ms. John Soda, Papas Fritas, Wally Pleasant, The Police, Pretty Girls Make Graves, Reindeer Section, Rhett Miller, Damien Rice, Shivaree, Show Me the Pink, Sleater-Kinney, Spoon, Stars, Stereolab (but I prefer them live to on CD), Stereototal, Sting, Tarkio, They Might Be Giants, Tokyo Police Club, Vampire Weekend, Vaselines, Voxtrot, Gillian Welch, Shannon Worrell, Rachael Yamagata, Young Marble Giants, and stuff. Plus, it's hard to go wrong with anything from SubPop records, Matador, Minty Fresh, Mowtown, Stax, Volt, or KRS.
Movies
About a Boy, Amelie, Beauty and the Beast (both the Cocteau version and Disney's), Brick, Brotherhood of the Wolf, Empire of the Wolves, Grifters, High Fidelity, Holy Grail (okay Monty Python in general), Indiana Jones (all 3), Legend, Labyrinth, Love Actually, Maverick, Mirrormask, Napoleon Dynamite, Pan's Labyrinth, Persuasion, A&E's Pride & Prejudice, Princess Bride, The Professional, Queen Margot, Shoot 'Em Up, Sliding Doors, Star Wars (yes, all of them), old French porn, um, and some others.
Television
I used to watch Gilmore Girls and Veronica Mars. I catch the occasional episode of the Simpsons and Daily Show. I'm currently addicted to Gossip Girl. If I could, I'd watch 30 Minute Meals daily. I can't wait for the NBA to kick back into high gear. SNUFF BOX!!! THE MIGHTY BOOSH!!! LOST, West Wing (Seasons I-IV), Battlestar Galactica. Clearly these are all on DVD.
Books
Pride and Prejudice (okay, all of Jane Austen, excepting maybe Northanger Abbey, and YES, I know it's a satire, but ugh), Alain de Botton (I can't just pick one), Bukowski's poetry, Tracy Chevalier, Roald Dahl (his adult short stories), Tim Egan (but especially SERIOUS FARM), Sophie's World (well, all of Joseph Gaarder), Stephen Hawking, anything by AM Homes (but I like the End of Alice), Robin McKinley (favorite: Blue Sword), Elizabeth Peters (particularly the Amelia Peabody stories), Elif Shafak (The Bastard of Istanbul) and Jim Thompson (The Killer Inside Me is my favorite). Rachael Ray and The I Hate To Cook Cookbook. Anything by Anne Perry, Chuck Klosterman, Laurie Notaro, Oscar Wilde, or Nick Hornby (High Fidelity is my favorite, closely followed by his two collections of book reviews); Narnia chronicles (I never got into Lewis's Perelandra series, and Surprised By Joy redeemed him from being a moronic misogynist), Hobbit & Lord of the Rings, anything by Madeleine L'Engle or David Eddings. Have you read Crossworld? or Candyfreak (Steve Almond also writes excellent novels) yet? Don't forget Harry Potter. Dorothy Gilman is a septagenarian espionage-y good time. I love the Mandragola and also Belfagor by Machiavelli. E. M. Forster (A Room With a View & Where Angels Fear To Tread, but not Howard's End) and of course C.S. Forester (Horatio Hornblower rules, but his other novels are also good). I like Carole Nelson Douglas's Irene Adler series. Clive Cussler and Jack DuBrul for a James Bond meets Indiana Jones with lots of misogyny good time. Susan Vreeland and Karen Essex for lavish historical fiction featuring art and politics. James Branch Cabell (what up Cousin??). Edith Wharton (Age of Innocence is one of my all time top tens). Mary Gaitskill. Elizabeth Hayden and Robert Rankin for doses of unreality. Lauren Willig. Special Topics in Calamity Physics. Alexander McCall Smith. George RR Martin. Jasper Fforde is my hero, I adore James Michener (the Source is the one to start with, although the Drifters might appeal more and is less weighty), and Jacqueline Carey writes a mean story.
Poetry: ee cummings, TS Eliot, Mary Oliver, Charles Bukowski, John Donne, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Constantine Cavafy, Roald Dahl, William Blake, Edward Lear, and Dr. Suess.
I love the written word and will read shampoo bottles if there is nothing else to hand.
Heroes
Machiavelli, Audrey Hepburn, Genghis Khan, Elizabeth I, Angelina Jolie, and Tina Fey.
University Of Dallas
Irving,Texas
Graduated: 1998
Student status: Alumni
Degree: Bachelor's Degree
Major: History
Minor: Medieval/Renaissance Studies/Languages
Clubs: Um, no.
1994 to 1998
Gulfport High School
Gulfport,Mississippi
Graduated: 1994
Student status: Alumni
Degree: High School Diploma
Clubs: Debate, NHS, French Club, Environmental Club, Rotary Club, and a couple others that I've forgotten since high school was a long time ago. And do you really care if I was president of this, or secretary of that, anyway?
About me: As the Empress of Evil, Machiavelli lives on.
Eye Color: brown--usually
Hair Color: sort of brown with a white streak
Your Heritage: Anglo (mostly English with some Scottish and Welsh for color)
Your Fears: dogs, bridges
Your Best Physical Feature: eyes (boys might say something else)
Do you Sing: to my embarrassment
What do you want to be when you Grow Up: dunno, i used to want to be a catologist, a translator for the UN, an ambassador, an archaeologist, an editor, a professor, a writer. Now, the Empress of Evil will have to do in the meantime 'til I sort things out.
What country would you most like to Visit: Turkey (followed by Chile and Antarctica, which I suppose isn't really a country, so I can complete my continent tour)
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I haven't the foggiest idea, my dear, but I will be in lovely Texas this summer, and OKC is but a short drive. I'm sure Charlie would be up for the road trip. I leave again for Iraq this July, so we'll have to do something 'fore then.
love, i only wish i had a story to tell... (and the initiative to reply to comments in a semi-timely manner...lol how is the life in musty ol' north texas of late?
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