 My favorite diaries:
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brittania profile - diary |
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hulamoons profile - diary |
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linkology profile - diary |
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manchmal profile - diary |
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tealeaf5 profile - diary |
My favorite music: |
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Tom Waits |
| comments: Tom Traubert's Blues. Gets me every time. |
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Bruce Springsteen |
| comments: And Lucinda Williams (oh Lucinda). And Ani DiFranco. And Fishbone. And Michelle Shocked. Ah hells, there ain't no room to tell you everything. Moving on... |
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Joni Mitchell |
| comments: Blue is my all time favorite album. |
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American Music Club |
| comments: Mark Eitzel. I adore thee. Also: Jeff Buckley. And Tim Buckley. "Song to the Siren" |
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Will Oldham |
| comments: aka Palace, Palace Brother, Bonnie Prince Billy, et. al. His voice cracks. His songs are sad. Need I say more? |
My favorite movies: |
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The Heart is a Lonely Hunter |
| comments: Young Alan Arkin. All you need know. |
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Crimes & Misdemeanors |
| comments: Woody Allen at his serious best. I also love Annie Hall, Hannah & Her Sisters, Manhatten, and Manhatten Murder Mystery. |
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SF/Fantasy |
| comments: Star Wars trilogy (when Harrison Ford had a personality!), Alien & Aliens, LOTR, Crouching Tiger, Bladerunner, |
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Misc. Drama |
| comments: American Beauty, The Piano, Strawberry & Chocolate, Metropolitan, The Sweet Hereafter, Sex, Lies & Videotape, Olivier Olivier, The Ice Storm |
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Comedy |
| comments: A&E Pride and Prejudice, Best in Show, anything with Parker Posey (exception: You've Got Mail), Rushmore, Royal Tannenbaums, |
My favorite authors: |
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Poets |
| comments: William Matthews, Philip Levine, Li Young-Lee, Elizabeth Bishop, Stanley Kunitz, Stan Plumly, Naomi Nye, Enid Shomer, W.B. Yeats, Michael Blumenthal, Carolyn Forche, Eavan Boland, Lorca, Sherman Alexie, Pam Alexander |
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Mystery writers |
| comments: Laurie R. King, Elizabeth George, P.D. James |
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Young adult writers |
| comments: Robin McKinley, Madeleine L'Engle, Cynthia Voigt, Bruce Brooks, Robert Cormier |
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Short story-ists, Essayists |
| comments: Barry Lopez, David Sedaris, Pam Houston, John Cheever, J.D. Salinger, Richard Bausch |
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Novelists |
| comments: Michael Ondaantje (also a great poet), Toni Morrison, Keri Hulme, Tim O'Brien, Barbara Kingsolver, Milan Kundera, Chaim Potek, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Henry James, George Eliot, Jane Austen, Ian McEwan, Fred Chappell, M. Duras |
