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My Profiles

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Favorite Categories

I read a little in most major fiction categories – but literary, classics, historical, fantasy and science fiction are primarily what I gravitate toward.  For non-fiction, I enjoy history, bios of historical figures, travel literature, and the occasional natural history or popular science selection.  Topics of special interest to me are mythology, folklore, archaeology, and anthropology, though I really haven’t scratched more than the bare surface in most of those categories.  My guilty pleasures are adventure novels, and one of my first loves was the Gothic.  They comfort me on rainy days or when I’m having a bout of melancholia. 

Reading Goals

I don’t like setting a number to my goals, but I thought I might challenge myself by putting in writing some reading goals I’d like to accomplish over the next several years:

·         Award winning Children’s Literature (using the Newbery and Carnegie lists)
US Presidents & Founding Fathers, includes Biography and books about First Wives (in process of collecting and making list)

·         Short Stories (not counting anthologies and bound collections) – usually 2 or 3 per week or 10 per month.

A sampling of songs and/or artists that I like

·         Everything so far by Snow Patrol

·         Death Cab for Cutie, Plans

·         Remote Part and Warnings/Promises by Idlewild

·         Engine Driver by the Decemberists

·         I Wish by This Ascension (I actually love everything on their Sever album)

·         This Woman’s Work by Kate Bush

·         Animal Instinct by the Cranberries

·         Another Time and Day and Night by Shroud

·         Night Ride Across the Caucasus by Loreena McKennitt

·         Darklands by Golden Palominos

·         Tyranny (of your company) and Eighty-Eight by Anna Domino

·         Sheep’s A Wolf and What I Hear You Can't, How Come? by Caterwaul

·         Hard Sun by Indio (I wish I could find this new on CD, but it is sadly out of print now)

·         Almost everything by Throwing Muses / Kristen Hersh

·         Sisters of Mercy when I’m in the mood for Goth

·         Xymox (Clan of Xymox) – another dark wave/goth band (just realized they used to open for DCD)

·         Dead Can Dance (unclassifiable and experimental) – Lisa Gerrard’s voice is an instrument

·         Peter Murphy / Bauhaus

·         M is for Millions by The Millions – a band from Lincoln, NE, and as far as I know they only made this one album. 

·         Poe’s Haunted CD – love everything on this one, but Wild is a personal favorite of mine.

·         Kristen Hall –In the tradition of the Indigo Girls (I get the impression Kristen and Amy et al are buds).  I have Fact and Fiction and Real Life Stuff.  

·         Michelle Malone’s Relentless album

Some of my favorite films

(in no particular order)

·         Hero (and several other Yimou Zhang films)

·         The Horseman on the Roof – 1995, with Juliette Binoche and Olivier Martinez

·         Les Miserables – 1995, with Jean-Paul Belmondo

·         Donnie Darko – 2001, with Jake Gyllanhaal

·         A Clockwork Orange – 1971, with Malcolm McDowell (must read the book someday, but I’ve put it off fearing I’d downgrade the film afterwards)

·         A Room with a View -1985, with Helena Bonham Carter and Julian Sands

·         North by Northwest and Vertigo (my favorite Hitchcock movies)

·         Spartacus – 1960, with Kirk Douglas and Jean Simmons

·         Any Peter Greenaway film, but esp The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover

·         Tom Tykwer’s films; The Princess and the Warrior is my favorite

·         Raising Arizona ranks as one of my favorite comedies

·         Harold & Maude for dark humor

More to be inserted, as I think of them.  I’m not at all current with most new music and films today.