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Army of Harkness

Be daring, be different, be impractical. Be anything that will assert imaginative vision against the

About Me

Well, as I find myself in a new period of getting to know "me" again, what can I divulge to you, my lovely friends? I love dance, my family, my friends, and a really good piece of music...the kind that penetrates you to the core, and you have to listen to it again and again, and you can't get enough...and I can't resist a good glass of Pinot Grigio with a nice and sharp cheddar cheese. I believe in living the fantastical life, and all the excitement, and yes, heart ache that goes with it. I believe in living an interesting life, over a safe one. I believe that every day is a new day, and I love a really gooood night's sleep, or even a nice cat nap. I believe in dreaming bigger than reality could ever make possible, and I believe that a beautiful day, sky as clear blue as the eye can see, can sometimes be just what the doctor ordered. I believe in taking the road less traveled, but being confident enough to risk a stumble here and there. I believe in guardian angels, and I call to them when no one else can possibly hear me, and I've exhausted all options of fixing it myself. I believe in "one day at a time", and that time really can cure a wounded heart...if you stay out of it's way and let it do the job. I believe that if I try just hard enough, and laugh a lot in my life, that I will make it to 100! I believe in love and all it's trials and tribulations, and I believe that soul mates are sometimes discovered where you least expect them.

My Interests

traveling, camping, swimming, hiking, skiing (water and snow), reading as much as I can, drinking mai tais on a beach in Hawaii, baseball...go Giants!!!, anything Irish, Italy, particularly Isle de Capri and Pompeii, roses, lilacs, honeysuckle, being with family and friends, reading Archie Comics (my guilty pleasure), watching dance, Shaghai Rummy, taking long walks in Bidwell Park with my mom and our pup "Nate", summer evenings in Chico at the creek, visits to the chiroprator...yay getting "popped" back into place after rehearsal!!!, Bucks Lake (A.K.A "Heaven")

I'd like to meet:

Residents of the International Space Station, Founder of Bucks Lake, Queen Elizabeth the 1st, My Great Great Grandma Arleta (famous bootlegger and saloon owner of French Gulch, CA), and the person who invented toaster strudels...and my "hump island" residents...which means I may have to move to Europe sometime soon, because they all live there....I think....at least they all have hot accents...or can do a lot of accents really well...Oh Johnny Depp!!!

Music:

Really anything that inspires me to choreograph, but to name a few...The Beach Boys, Beatles, Elton John, Billy Joel, Madonna, Eroica Trio, Four Tet, Gaelic Storm, Cat Stevens, Tricky, Enya, Elvis Presley, Simon and Garfunkel, David Gray, Damien Rice, James Blunt, Prokofiev, Tchaikovsky, Mendelsohn, Beethoven, Chicago, Sigur Ros, Balanescu Quartet, DJ Shadow, Vanessa Mae, Johan Sebastian Bach, Tori Amos, Sarah McLachlan, Natalie Merchant, U2, Dave Matthews, Coldplay, Moby, Gypsy Kings, Shirley Bassey, Annie Lennox, Fiona Apple, Alanis Morrissette, Massive Attack, Dirty Dancing (greatest soundtrack ever made), Flaming Lips, 80's tunes, Craig Armstrong, Michael Nyman, Howard Shore, Rachel Portman, James Horner, Danny Elfman...LOTS of Movie Scores, anything Jason Corman gives me to choreograph to....and a whole lotta other crap....

Movies:

One True Thing, Elizabeth, Moulin Rouge, Almost Famous, Little Miss Sunshine, Friends with Money, The Good Girl, Wedding Crashers, 40 Year-Old Virgin, Anchorman, Singin' in the Rain, Sound of Music, Shopgirl, In America, Beauty and the Beast, Sleeping Beauty, Clue, Grease, Mannequin, Swiss Family Robinson, Anne of Green Gables, Little Women, Sideways, Before Sunset/Sunrise, Edward Scissorhands, Face Off, The Rock, Braveheart, Dirty Dancing, Legends of the Fall, Wizard of Oz, Mean Girls, Saved, About a Boy, Jerry Maguire, Love Actually, The Hours, White Oleander, Steel Magnolias, Dangerous Beauty, Bridget Jones Diary (the first one...number 2 was a tragic insult to a very funny book), Neverending Story, Labyrinth, The Princess Bride, Splash, Love and Sex, Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Indiana Jones and Back to the Future Trilogies, The Goonies, 50 First Dates, Life Aquatic, Practical Magic, Quiz Show, Teen Wolf, Man-Bottomless, Meh-Topless, Piggies in Egypt...and a whole lot more

Television:

Lost, Medium, Amazing Race, Survivor, America's Next Top Model, Friends, West Wing, Sex and the City, My So Called Life, Project Greenlight, Simpsons, Saved by the Bell, 90210, Jeopardy, Golden Girls, I Love Lucy, Mad About You, 24, Dick Van Dyke Show, Mary Tyler Moore Show, Law and Order, Da Ali G Show, Felicity, Project Runway, Arrested Development, Giants Baseball Games

Books:

anything by Philippa Gregory, Mary Higgins Clark, Jane Austen, and Shakespeare, Nathaniel Hawthorne's short story"The Birthmark", "One True Thing", "Little Women", "Mists of Avalon", "Lord of the Rings", "Chronicles of Narnia", "Gone With the Wind", "Pastures of Heaven", "Wizard of Oz", "Anne of Green Gables" series, Alfred Lord Tennyson's "The Lady of Shalott", and lots of others too, but those come directly to mind...I try to soak in as much as I can!

Heroes:

My mom, Charlotte, for her strength, charm, her natural beauty and shine, her grace under pressure, and her warm heart. My dad, Bill, for living life to the fullest, always giving everyone the benefit of the doubt, and for seeing beauty in the true treasures of life that money couldn't buy. I miss him everyday, but live my life in his honor, reminding myself to take time to appreciate the little things, rather than always worrying about what I haven't accomplished yet. He is truly my guardian angel.