Books, music, movies, travel, fashion, cities, languages . . . Radio! BBC, WFMU, lonely late night call-in shows. . . I speak rusty Russian, passable French and a little Spanish. I play bass in a rock band called Ruffian (www.ruffianrock.com). I like to try on outfits and dance around in my room. I get carried away making lists of things I like.
Music
I love all kinds of music: opera, punk, new wave, rock, grunge, jazz, classical, soul, disco, pop, country, hiphop, blues . . . Schubert, Bach, Elvis Costello, David Bowie, Joanna Newsom, Enrico Caruso, Beniamino Gigli, Talking Heads, Beck, Johnny Hartman, Billie Holiday, Fred Astaire, Neil Young, Bob Dylan, The Go-Betweens, Miles Davis, Lester Young, the Smiths, Tom Waits, Velvet Underground, the Beatles, Frank Sinatra, Gang of Four, Bessie Smith, Beastie Boys, Public Enemy, Bee Gees, Burt Bacharach, Jimmy Webb, Hank Williams, Lucinda Williams, Johnny Cash, the White Stripes, the Jam, Breeders, Hole, Nirvana, The Fall, Francoise Hardy, Black Sabbath, the Pogues, Sonic Youth . . .
Movies
L'Atalante, Annie Hall, Manhattan, Top Hat, It's a Wonderful Life, La Belle et la Bete, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Capote, Forbidden Games, The Philadelphia Story, Rear Window, Strangers on a Train, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Adaptation, The 400 Blows, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Smiles of a Summer Night, La Dolce Vita, The Lady Eve, The Wizard of Oz, Singin' in the Rain, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Some Like It Hot, The Shop Around the Corner, The Graduate, Le Rayon Vert (Summer), Mulholland Drive, Sixteen Candles, All About Eve, Stranger than Paradise, Nashville, Rushmore, The Godfather, Sullivan's Travels, Talk to Her . . .
Television
The Simpsons, old Columbo reruns
Books
Frances Hodgson Burnett (The Secret Garden), Beverly Cleary (Beezus and Ramona), Francesca Lia Block (Weetzie Bat), Cynthia Voigt (Homecoming), Louise Fitzhugh (Harriet the Spy), Betsy Byars (The Midnight Fox), James Marshall (Three by the Sea), P.D. Eastman (Go Dog Go), E.B. White (Stuart Little), Laura Ingalls Wilder (Little House on the Prairie), Arnold Lobel (Frog and Toad Are Friends), Natalie Babbitt (The Devil's Storybook), Else Holmelund Minarik/Maurice Sendak (Little Bear), Randall Jarrell (The Animal Family), Kate DiCamillo (The Tale of Despereaux), Philip Pullman (The Golden Compass), Louisa May Alcott (Little Women), Lucy Maud Montgomery (Anne of Green Gables),
J.D. Salinger (Franny and Zooey), Muriel Spark (The Girls of Slender Means), Charles Dickens (Great Expectations), Truman Capote (Breakfast at Tiffany's), Jane Austen (Emma), P.G. Wodehouse (Right Ho, Jeeves), Tama Janowitz (Slaves of New York), Laurie Colwin (The Lone Pilgrim), Ford Madox Ford (The Good Soldier), Dave Eggers (A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius), Stewart O'Nan (The Speed Queen), Richard Yates (Revolutionary Road), James Joyce (Dubliners), Leo Tolstoy (War and Peace), Ivan Turgenev (Asya), F. Scott Fitzgerald (The Great Gatsby), Ernest Hemingway (The Sun Also Rises) , Nicholson Baker (The Mezzanine), J.P. Donleavy (The Ginger Man), Mikhail Bulgakov (The Master and Margarita), Vladimir Nabokov, Nikolai Gogol, Alice Munro, Anton Chekhov, Haruki Murakami, Shakespeare, Pushkin
Heroes
Preston Sturges, Edward Everett Horton, Eric Blore, and many of the writers listed above.
About me: I write books for teens and children, including the DATING GAME series and ELLE WOODS. My next teen novel, HOW TO SAY GOODBYE IN ROBOT, will be published by Scholastic in fall 2009.
I've also written many books for younger readers, including THE BRAVEST DOG EVER: THE TRUE STORY OF BALTO and THE BEST LITTLE MONKEYS IN THE WORLD.
See my web site at
nataliestandiford.com
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Who I'd like to meet: Readers, writers, librarians, teachers, booksellers, editors, musicians, listeners, artists, viewers, eaters . . . anyone interested in books, music, making stuff.
I long to see the distant seas
And set foot on distant shores
And watch the sun caress the waves
With amber skies aglow
And watch the stars
Come out at night
Like fire flies in June
And string a blanket
Far and wide
And wrap around the moon
Hello Natalie. I just finished The Dating Game and it was really good. I should have a review up on my blog in the next week or so if you'd like to check it out. I can't wait to read the second book!
Hi Natalie! Thanks for the friendship! Good luck with "Robot." The sequel to my YA series, "Amigas and School Scandals," just debuted. I hope you'll check it out!
i love omg the dating game series and i finished parallel parking last week and when i was done their was not a sneak peak for the next book so i was wondering are u not continuing the dating game series plz comment back i really want to kno
