analytical. empathic. pacifistic. introspective. progressive. intellectual. subversive. atheist. cajun. socialist. vegetarian.

Interests

• arts
• ballet dancing
• languages
• theatre
• computers

Music, Movies, and Books

Books:

A People's History of the United States, The Selfish Gene, The God Delusion, Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us, The Harry Potter Series, The Hunger Games Trilogy, In Cold Blood, Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America, Animal Liberation, Bright-sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America, Naked, Me Talk Pretty One Day, Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim, Let's Explore Diabetes With Owls, The Empathic Civilization: The Race to Global Consciousness in a World in Crisis

"When Columbus and his sailors came ashore, carrying swords, speaking oddly, the Arawaks ran to greet them, brought them food, water, gifts. He later wrote of this in his log: They...brought us parrots and balls of cotton and spears and many other things, which they exchanged for the glass beads and hawks' bells. They willingly traded everything they owned... . They were well-built, with good bodies and handsome features... . They do not bear arms, and do not know them, for I showed them a sword, they took it by the edge and cut themselves out of ignorance. They have no iron. Their spears are made of cane... . They would make fine servants... . With fifty men we could subjugate them all and make them do whatever we want."
Howard Zinn, A People's History of the United States

Movies:

{Animated}: The Emperor's New Groove, The Little Mermaid, Mary and Max, Persepolis, Shrek, The Triplets of Belleville

{Comedy}: Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie, A Mighty Wind, Best in Show, Hocus Pocus, Mascots, Saved!, Waiting for Guffman

{Documentary}: Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry, Amanda Knox, An Inconvenient Truth, Annie Leibovitz: Life Through a Lens, Attacking the Devil, Beware the Slenderman, Blackfish, The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975, Bowling for Columbine, The Case Against 8, Exit Through the Gift Shop, Fame High, Finding Vivian Maier, The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara, Food, Inc., Harlan County, USA, Hell House, Home, I Am an Animal, Jesus Camp, Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work, Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God, The Queen of Versailles, The September Issue, Sicko, Sketches of Frank Gehry, Small Town Gay Bar, Standard Operating Procedure, There's Something Wrong with Aunt Diane, This Film is Not Yet Rated, Witches: A Century of Murder, Who Killed the Electric Car?

{Drama}: American Beauty, Billy Elliot, Brokeback Mountain, Fried Green Tomatoes

{Foreign}: Delicatessen, Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain

{Horror}: Scream

{Independent}: Donnie Darko, Fargo, Hairspray, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, I Heart Huckabees, The Laramie Project, Little Miss Sunshine

{Musicals}: Little Shop of Horrors, Mary Poppins, Moulin Rouge!, Rent, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, The Sound of Music, The Wizard of Oz

{Science Fiction}: Contact, Prometheus

"How am I not myself?"
Brad Stand, I Heart Huckabees

Television shows:

American Horror Story, Seinfeld, The Catherine Tate Show, Little Britain, Come Fly With Me, Absolutely Fabulous, The Vicar of Dibley, Frasier, Will & Grace, Vicious, The Graham Norton Show, American Experience, Frontline, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Intervention, 3rd Rock From the Sun, Bob's Burgers, Family Guy, King of the Hill, Parks & Recreation, Who Do You Think You Are?, Miranda, Alan Carr: Chatty Man, Project Runway, Hell's Kitchen, Orange is the New Black, QI, Derek, The Office (UK TV series), Cosmos, Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List, Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey, Angels in America, Funny or Die’s Billy on the Street, Extras, Stranger Things

Music:

Nickel Creek, The Beatles, Michael Jackson, Joni Mitchell, Dolly Parton, Queen, Simon & Garfunkel, Iron & Wine, Adele, Elton John, Janis Joplin, Nirvana, Elvis Presley, Björk, Malvina Reynolds, Mumford & Sons, The Postal Service, Patsy Cline, Édith Piaf, Ladytron, Imogen Heap, Yann Tiersen, Thomas Newman, Fleet Foxes, Norah Jones, Miriam Makeba, Regina Spektor, Mates of State, Sufjan Stevens

"And the people in the houses
All went to the university
Where they were put in boxes
And they came out all the same"
Malvina Reynolds, Little Boxes

Food:

Pizza, Pasta, Lemon Meringue Pie, Honeycrisp Apples, Gumbo

Countries I’ve Visited

Canada, England, Scotland

Countries I’ve Lived In

England, United States

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