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About Me

I play the cello with the brilliant Megan Hook (voice, piano, guitar) around town. Last gig was the Viper Room, before that the Rainbow Room. We're called the Bright, although I think we should be called Megan Hook.Do you play?What else... I'm a teacher of squirrelly pubescent 12 and 13-year olds. Tomorrow's lesson plan: the Cuban embargo! Don't believe NIH and FDA warnings about imported cigars. Lies and propaganda, I tell you.

My Interests

How bout: cello, rabbits. Good fiction, partially finished DIY projects, feeling under chairs and between seat cushions for lost things. Hello Kitty, adorable Asian female things. Tea, books. Unibrows. Dark chocolate, ovulating, procrastinating, sleep, flannel sheets, coffee.

I'd like to meet:

I've always wanted to meet a talking beaver.

Music:

Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, Haydn. Megan Hook. Astor Piazzolla. Dvorak. Mere Mortals = the best and only rock I listen to. Stravinsky, Brahms (of course)... the list goes on... Kronos, Emerson, American string quartets....

Movies:

_North By Northwest_ has the best action sequence involving cropdusters of any film ever made.

Television:

Don't have one. If you too don't have a TV, please enter my cave and let's chat a while over tea.

Books:

Just got a new one, _Pioneer Jews_ about Jews during America's westward expansion. I'm really excited. *nerdy snorting chuckles* Also just read _Changing Places_ David Lodge, really hilarious.

Heroes:

My dad. Who else... I just started with this myspace thing, let me get back to you. Okay I thought of one: my 90 year old cello teacher, Ed Geber, 40 years with the LA Phil, a true artist.

My Blog

My name is Bad Example

Okay my paper is due in 10 minutes, and what am I doing? Browsing myspace. Egad!
Posted by Ellen on Thu, 11 Jan 2007 11:54:00 PST

Mom! Cut it out!

My visit to Chicago over 2 weeks was basically one long diatribe from my mother about how I'm not married, with interruptions for sleeping and going to the bathroom. Here's a typical exchang...
Posted by Ellen on Wed, 03 Jan 2007 06:20:00 PST

OH THERE'S no place like home for the holidays...

Today my father spent a good part of dinner explaining a ritual of his youth, where people of his home town in rural North Korea were selected to judge a unmarried woman's ability to serve water with ...
Posted by Ellen on Thu, 28 Dec 2006 08:58:00 PST