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Benita

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About Me

My favorite thing about living in New York is driving through Times Square at 4 am.

My Interests

Shiny things

I'd like to meet:

People who understand why art and science are one in the same.

Music:

Eclectic. Sad. Old Jazz big band type of thing. Good beats. Traditonal folk. Classical. French.

Movies:

Amelie, Faces, Any Tati film (oh M. Hulot!), Cinema Paradiso, The Godfather, 8 1/2, Story of A Love Affair, Some Like It Hot, Half Nelson, Touch of Evil, Nights of Caberia, Blades of Glory, Last Tango in Paris,The Usual Suspects, Casa Blanca, Breaking The Waves, Shoot the Piano Player, Singing In the Rain, Snatch, Pride and Prejudice (A&E version), The Cable Guy, Monsters Inc, Shortcuts, Blood Simple, The Big Lebowski, O Brother Where Art Thou, Magnolia, Punch Drunk Love, Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind, Cinema 16: (the european version), China Town, Dancer In The Dark, and Breaking the Waves

Television:

makes my jaw hang open just enough to look like an idot

Books:

Lolita, Children's Hospital, Romeo and Juliet, The Sirens of Titan, The Master and Margarita, Tin Drum, Everything is Illluminated, The Bell Jar, A Heart So White, anything by Neruda, Dorothy Parker, The Idiot, A Tale of Two Cities, Cat's Cradle, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, Me Talk Pretty One Day, 100 Years of Solitude, War and Peace, A Fine Balance, The Idiot, Pride and Prejudice, WOT, Hyperspace, To Kill a Mockingbird, Mrs. Dalloway, Shame, The Great Gatsby, the Hours, The Enormous Room, Anthem, 1984, the Sun also rises, the Scarlet Letter, Dune, Memoirs of a Geisha, Harry Potter and The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy

Heroes:

Jaques Tati and Ricky Gervaiswww.wefeelfine.org

My Blog

Rambling Late Night Musings...

Normally I think this whole blog thing is a little bizare...but Dave's asleep so I have no one to tell it to. so there's my excuse. very convienent. does anyone else find it strange how so many p...
Posted by Benita on Thu, 25 Oct 2007 09:53:00 PST

HOUSE OF BERNARDA ALBA

Hi Everyone! So in one short week will be the premier of HOUSE OF BERNARDA ALBA at Manhattan Theater Source, where yours truly plays the tracially doomed-love sick youngest daughter. It'll be a g...
Posted by Benita on Thu, 07 Jun 2007 08:26:00 PST

SNOW DAY!!!!!!! and pancake stupor

I love love LOVE snow days! It's like winning the lottery without getting rich. It's the only thing that makes living in this freezing weather worth it. It's amazing to wake up, call the hotline, and ...
Posted by Benita on Fri, 09 Dec 2005 08:39:00 PST

Phone Numbers

For those of you that are my long lost friends (you know who you are) I dropped my cell phone in the snow a few weeks ago and lost everyone's number....so if you could do me the huge favor of emailing...
Posted by Benita on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST