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About Me

i am currently making audio recordings of my life here in jinja...a la this american life...of course, i have limited resources, but who needs that when you have electricity only 30% of the time anyway?

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

you and

Movies:

Favorite opening: Ishtar
Favorite disorienting opening: The Naked Kiss
Favorite ending: The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Favorite ambiguous ending: Barton Fink
Favorite imitation of Charlie Chaplin by aging star: Sunset Boulevard
Favorite single instrument soundtrack: The Third Man
Favorite reaction to onscreen beverage (champagne): Ninotchka
Favorite "only the French make these kinds of movies" love story: Read My Lips
Favorite Texas murder mystery love story: Lonestar
Favorite facial expressions: Queen Christina
Favorite doomed courtship adaptation: Age of Innocence
Favorite pre-code kiss: Grand Hotel
Favorite post-code kiss: Rear Window
Favorite underwater revelation: A tie between Respiro and L'Atalante
Favorite comedic love-driven attempted murder: I Love You to Death
Favorite writer with emotional problems: The Flower of my Secret
Favorite comedic new-age murder mystery: In the Spirit
movies about africa that aren't about some white woman moving to a farm in kenya and her trials and tribulations with the locals, and how she triumphes and decides to stay.

Television:

ugly betty, freaks and geeks, bleak house, the l word, buffy, twin peaks,sherlock holmes (the one with jeremy brent...he's brilliant!) pride and prejudice (bbc mini) lost (although it infuriates me), the jewel in the crown

Books:

no one belongs here more than you, what is the what, clown girl, the age of innocence, the shared patio, the oblivion seekers, middlesex the boy from lam kien, lynch on lynch, the lorax, the lover's discourse, pride and prejudice, The Secret History, 1984, Unbearable lightness of being, Perfume, Shadow of the Wind, Mists of Avalon, Alchemy of the Mind, Fountainhead, The constant gardener, Book of Illusions, The uses of enchantment, Salinger, wonder boys, me talk pretty one day, George Burns 100 Years 100 Stories

Heroes:

my cousin jessie, the mcloughlinator and

who i'd like to meet and

My Blog

My African Blog

My blog, with bloggy info
Posted by Hooten Annie on Sat, 30 Jun 2007 01:40:00 PST

Muddy delicious

I have not had a chance to get some photos taken or up, the internet use is infrequent and all according to power in the area. already, since i've been sitting here its gone out twice. i went to a vil...
Posted by Hooten Annie on Tue, 12 Jun 2007 06:40:00 PST

Jinja and soda

i am back at the source of the nile, just outside of fabulous jinja, living in a 'banda' (tin-roof hut), at a boozy campsite popular with kayaking drunkards. to say the least, it is great. i am popula...
Posted by Hooten Annie on Mon, 04 Jun 2007 01:45:00 PST

Fire Lights up Park Slope Sky OR My illegal roommate saved our lives...

Thank you Greg, my illegal roommate, for screaming "FIRE" into your phone, 3am tuesday night, otherwise, Eli and I may not have risen to see the flames of destruction light up a dark and chilly sky. A...
Posted by Hooten Annie on Fri, 30 Mar 2007 07:10:00 PST

New Book, i like new book

I just read a new book called CLOWN GIRL. its by a west coast author, named monica drake. it is one of the funniest things i've ever read, i was a laughing fool on the subways last week. i highly reco...
Posted by Hooten Annie on Mon, 19 Mar 2007 08:18:00 PST

SO THIS IS NEW YORK...

i've been back in new york city for nearly 5 days and this is what i know: lovely indie actress was murdered a week ago in the building next to where i am staying, because she asked the construction w...
Posted by Hooten Annie on Fri, 10 Nov 2006 06:36:00 PST