Writing. Reading. Travel. What goes on in people's heads. Musicmusicmusic. Conversation when I'm in the mood. Moping when I'm not. Sewing sometimes. TV for the end of the day. Fiction for the end of the end of the day.
Müzik
Rap, not so much. Fusion, not at all. Everything else. Pop. (Pink. Madonna. Shakira) Punk. (Ramones. More Ramones. Blondie.) Swing. (Benny Goodman. Ella Fitzgerald. Glenn Miller.) Jazz. (Louis Armstrong. Oscar Peterson. Blossom Dearie. Lambert, Hendricks & Ross.) Other. (Tegan and Sara. Belle & Sebastian. Jim Campliongo.) Yeah, even Broadway musicals. Yet more horrifying, Gilbert & Sullivan. I have no shame. ABBA. Los Straightjackets. Aimee Mann. Steve Earle. Jenny Lewis. Little Willies. Avril Lavigne. De Phazz. Sheryl Crow. JET. Mosquitoes. Jayhawks. Dusty Springfield. The Carpenters. Dolly Parton. St. Germaine. Talking Heads. Dwight Yoakam. Frank Sinatra. Franz Ferdinand. Dido. Bette Midler. Apples in Stereo. Bee Gees. Simon & Garfunkle. Herb Alpert. My iPod is a close personal friend.
Filmler
Who can think of them all? Annie Hall Manhattan Broadway Danny Rose Crimes and Misdemeanors Hannah and Her Sisters etc. Anything Busby Berkeley, especially The Gang's All Here. Cast Away. All About Eve and pretty much anything with Bette Davis, camp or not. Ditto Jimmy Cagney. American Beauty. Ramones: End of the Century. Badlands. Some Kind of Monster. Midnight Cowboy. Adaptation. Election.
Televizyon
The Office. What Not To Wear. The Office. The Daily Show. The Office.
Kitaplar
Sinclair Lewis' Main Street once a year. Henry James over and over, also Edith Wharton. Jane Austen every few years. Mark Twain's Innocents Abroad a few times and Bill Bryson anytime. If you haven't read "A Short History of Nearly Everything," that is your next assignment. Nick Hornby and Anne Tyler. Sometimes Mary Gaitskill. Elizabeth Enright is comfort food for very bad times. I live by the values I learned in A Little Princess (Frances Hodgson Burnett.) I'll think of more later.
Read about my books at www.yankeechick.com
And no, I don't love Dr. Phil
Kahramanları
John Lennon. Edith Wharton. Henry James. Bill Bryson. Woody Allen (minus the creepy bits). What does it all mean?
The University Of Texas At Dallas
Richardson,Texas
Mezun Olduğu Okul: 2004
Öğrenci durumu: Eski Mezunlar
Derece: Bachelor's Degree
Ana dal: Psychology
Kulüpler: Dean's List, Friendship Project, Speech Perception Lab
2001 - 2004
Art & Design Hs
New York,New York
Mezun Olduğu Okul: 1976
Öğrenci durumu: Eski Mezunlar
Derece: High School Diploma
Ana dal: Illustration
Ek dal: Theater Arts
Kulüpler: Drama club geek.
My books:
The Making of Dr. Phil: The Straight-Talking True Story of Everyone's Favorite Therapist
The Yankee Chick's Survival Guide to Texas. www.yankeechick.com
I write about travel, health, fitness, psychology--you name it. Read samples at www.yankeechick.com. My work also is distributed by www.Featurewell.com
I'm a writer. That's what I do. I do almost nothing else except look after dogs and husband. Sometimes I travel. It's a life.
I blog almost every day and always try to be interesting or, at the very least, entertaining. One plus: I'm usually grammatical. I care. Come back soon, come back often.
Who are the party animals below? It's my 30-year HS reunion - the High School of Art & Design Class of 1976. We boogie oogie oogied 'til we just couldn't boogie no more.
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Kimle tanışmak isterim: The Beatles. Barring that, published writers. (Yeah, I'm a snob about it. So sue me.) Dedicated readers. Artists. Cranky people. Cynics. Shrinks. Musicians, although they can be pains in the ass. What do you call a lead singer without a girlfriend?
"Fashion! (Turn to the left.) Fashion! (Turn to the right.) Ooo, Fashion! We've got a goon squad And we're coming to town. Beep, beep!" (Men's hip fashion, circa 1972.)
"Dembling, you listen to me, and you listen hard. Two hundred people, two hundred jobs, two hundred thousand dollars, five weeks of grind and blood and sweat depend upon you. It's the lives of all these people who've worked with you. You've got to go on, and you've got to give and give and give. They've got to like you. Got to. Do you understand? You can't fall down. You can't because your future's in it, my future and everything all of us have is staked on you. All right, now I'm through, but you keep your feet on the ground and your head on those shoulders of yours and go out, and Dembling, you're going out a youngster but you've got to come back a star!"
Just paraphrasing your past to help you step into the future.
Welcome to the big 5-0. It hurts just a little at first, then you get used to it, then you hardly notice it at all. My advice...forget about red hats, try purple hair :) HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!
