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Jen

About Me

little old lady meets trouble...

My Interests

bees and books. mixed tapes. postcards and mysterious packages from far away strangers. nashville in the off-season. seattle in the new year. new york anytime. true love. time travel.

I'd like to meet:

people who tell good jokes

Music:

sad music you can dance to.http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/bees/dances.html

Movies:

Nights of Cabiria, Pennies From Heaven, Hannah and Her Sisters, Buckaroo Banzai, PeeWee's Big Adventure, Kicking and Screaming (the Vassar version), Amelie, Donnie Darko, Stolen Kisses, Purple Rose of Cairo, Incident at Loch Ness, Love Streams, Shaolin Soccer, Chungking Express, almost everything involving Bill Murray, Jim Henson, Wes Anderson, Jim Jarmusch, and Buster Keaton.

Television:


You're Special Agent Dale Cooper. Your infectious enthusiasm makes up for the fact
that you're frequently incomprehensible. You
are smart, intuitive, clear-headed,
compassionate, and cute as hell -- about your
only flaw is your insane coffee consumption.

Which Twin Peaks character are you?
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What Artist Should Paint Your Portrait?

Books:

Right at this moment, as we speak, I am falling in love with In Persuasion Nation by George Saunders. I have also loved a number of other books including Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder, Lenny Bruce is Dead, Paris to the Moon, Pride and Prejudice, To Kill a Mockingbird, Franny and Zooey, Bee Season, The Shrinking of Treehorn, Gift of the Magi, His Dark Materials, Maira Kalman everything, especially her illustrated Elements of Style, and Ferdinand. The unbound works of Swann Mercury, Dame Effler, Simone de Boogie and Lady Munzels.

Heroes:

Walline Fuller, E.B. White, and Antoine de Saint Exupery.http://www.saulgallery.com/kalman/statement.html