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Mid 40's, red, and mixed up, just like the song says. I can talk to anybody I can recognize a tune within the first two seconds of hearing it I can identify your perfume--or at least tell you what makes it so effective I can make a mean gourmet meal if I'm left to my own devices to shop, meander around the kitchen, and just cook for hours, with no interruptions I can tell you what wine to serve with any food, even asparagus, chocolate, and ice cream I'm skilled at treating chronic diseases, even the deadly ones My singing in the car and in the privacy of my own home is unparalleled I can't look good in a photo to save myself--so I never take one I'm a botanicidal maniac, so I don't garden (but I support those who do) I have an opinion on everything. And I'm always willing to share it.

Movies I’ve been thinking about

Wong Kar Wei's
2046
In the Mood For Love
Fallen Angels;

(Wong Kar Wei I'm avoiding: My Blueberry Nights)

No Country For Old Men
and then, to re-evaluate,
all the Coen Brothers' films
(from Blood Simple onwards);

When The Levees Broke
and then, to re-evaluate,
The Inside Man
Mo' Better Blues;

Hitchcock
(mostly the full colour/icy blonde/Jimmy Stewart
and Carey Grant films from the 50's and 60's)

Denys Arcand, C.R.A.Z.Y., Mon Oncle Antoine, Being Julia, David Cronenberg

Films to which I have inexplicable loyalties:

Funny Face;

Shortbus;

Heathers;

Grace of my Heart;

Atanarjuat (The Fast Runner);

Six Degrees of Separation;

Crash (the one by David Cronenberg);

and an unknown little no-budget called Isabel

Books

What I'm reading:

Germaine Greer's Shakespeare's Wife

Margaret Visser's anything...and the latest, The Gift of Thanks

plenty of guilty pleasure magazines--Vanity Fair, Architectural Digest, Wine Spectator, Bitch, all a kind of junk food diet in print

Anthony Bourdain's books on food; cooking; life as a chef; life as a chef who travels; life as an angry celebrity chef, sheilded by modesty and the femur bone of what must have been quite a tall cow

Henry Rollins, John Irving, Brett Easton Ellis,
Thomson Highway, Michael Ondaatje, Douglas Coupland

Naomi Klein, Linda McQuaig, Hazel Henderson, and Marilyn Waring--4 women who ought to be running the world
(with me, naturally)

What I’m Listening to

Tom Waits (originals, and not covers--he's being covered to death lately);

David Sylvian, David Sylvian with Ryuichi Sakamoto, David Sylvian with Tweaker, David Sylvian with Fennesz, older David Sylvian, (shhh!)bootleg David Sylvian ...you get the idea;

Trouble, Until the Sun Turns Black
(Ray LaMontagne);

The girls who do retro (Jully Black, Amy Winehouse, Duffy);
The girls who are retro (Blondie, Hole; Jane Siberry, Kate Bush, Joni Mitchell and their "Trio of Magnificent Gerunds" recordings: The Walking, The Dreaming, and The Hissing of Summer Lawns, respectively);

Pavel Erokhin's choice of Eurovision Song Contest Contenders

Anything I can get my hands on, really--classics like Nina Simone and Robert Johnson and Ella Fitzgerald; old Cake; Italian pop tunes; Cesaria Evoria;

When no one's around: Marilyn Manson's
I Don't Like The Drugs
(But The Drugs Like Me)
and Nirvana's Been A Son

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