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| User: | atlossforwords (4158019) Self-contempt giving rise to comic form.
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| Name: | I bet you'd love to know. | |
| Location: | San Francisco, California, United States | |
| Bio: | "Later on in life you will learn that writers are merely open, helpless texts with no real understanding of what they have written and therefore must half-believe anything and everything that is said of them." Books: The Know-It-All, How I Became Stupid, A Confederacy of Dunces, Don Quixote, Is There No Place on Earth for Me?, The Bell Jar, Catch-22, Slaughterhouse-Five, 1984, Pride and Prejudice, Everything is Illuminated, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Peter Pan, All the President’s Men, Eats, Shoots & Leaves, the Harry Potter series (the fifth book is my favorite), and just about any biography. Authors/Writers: David Sedaris, Lorrie Moore, Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett, Lemony Snicket (Daniel Handler), Jane Austen, Kurt Vonnegut, Bernard MacLaverty, Bertrand Russell, Hugh Gallagher, Ambrose Bierce, Herb Caen, Anthony Lane. I detest Mitch Albom and Nicholas Sparks with a bloody vengeance. And I never cared for J.D. Salinger. Periodicals: The New Yorker, The New York Times Movies: Network, The Royal Tenenbaums, Big Fish, Kill Bill (I’m sure many will object if I don’t list both volumes as one movie), Closer, The Graduate, A Beautiful Mind (Ron Howard stopped to give me directions in Paris once!), Orange County, Annie Hall, any Monty Python film Plays/Musicals/Theatrical Productions: Much Ado About Nothing, The Misanthrope, Avenue Q, Wicked, The Vagina Monologues TV Shows: Though I maintain my opinion that television is the embodiment of all evil ... The Daily Show, The Office (the BBC version – none of that American rubbish), Daria … occasionally Gilmore Girls. (Don’t judge me. DON’T YOU DARE JUDGE ME.) Music: Tori Amos, Counting Crows, Imogen Heap, Damien Rice, Katie Todd, Aimee Mann, Sufjan Stevens, cinematic scores, showtunes | |
| Memories:: | 1 entry | |
| Interests: | 96: all things british, angry chick music, anti-romance, attention to detail, being in transit, being obnoxiously verbose, biographies, black comedy, blogging, books, british people, charming one-liners, children's literature, college-ruled paper, comedy, coming-of-age themes, countryside, cryptic latin phrases, dancing to my ringtone, england, etymology, exchanging youtube videos, exploring, fanfiction, feeling infinite, feigning indifference, feminism, french, grammar, greek mythology, happily-ever-afters, harry potter, honesty, jasmine green tea, jon stewart, kqed, lamenting my circumstances, languages, latin nonsense, london, lore, love/hate, lyrics, machiavelli, making people laugh, maps, modernism, montmartre, my laptop, my room, my tape recorder, new york, obsessively cleaning, organic food, perfecting my syntax, phantasmagoria, picking on tourists, plotting destruction, pointing out pretentiousness, pretentious vintage photography, pubs, quotes, reading into oblivion, real-life romance, realism, refusing to grow up, ricky gervais, riding my bike, ruminating over coffee, san francisco public library, scathing reviews, schadenfreude, shamelessly loitering bookstores, showtunes, skipping town, subtitles, talking to strangers, the american dream, the anti-hero, the british broadcasting corporation, the devil's dictionary, the internet, the meaning of life, the new yorker, the onion, the pacific ocean, the peter pan complex, thought-scribing, traveling, useless vocabulary, vainly pursuing perfection, verbal sparring, walter mitty, wikipedia, world war ii, writing | |
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| Account type: | Basic Account | |
