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My Interests

I'd like to meet:

some Hobbits, the Little Prince, and some good faeries.

Music:

IN MY CD PLAYERS RIGHT NOW!: Grand Archives . CD's from the mixed CD club I belong to . Melanie . Gene Clark . the Flying Burrito Brothers . ......... . .. . .. ...... ON MY TURNTABLE: something that Shilough put on.. . . RECENT LOVES: Grand Archives (the best part of Band of Horses' new band. yaaaaay!). Loney, Dear. Sea & Cake. Small Sails. rogue Wave. Super Furry Animals. Magnolia Electric Co. . . . .. .......... . .THINGS THAT I'LL ALWAYS ADORE: Mojave 3. Cole Porter. Porter Wagoner. Dolly Parton. Elliott Smith. George Gershwin. the Magnetic Fields. Red House Painters (in moderation. Too much is lethal). the Carpenters. Gram & Emmylou. Gilberto Gil. the Clientele. Francoise Hardy. Gal Costa. Laura Nyro. the Fairport Convention.

Movies:

Fred & Ginger. Greta Garbo . anything Pre Code. I adore old movies that surprise me. Rafter Romance (the one with Ginger Rogers), Waterloo Bridge, Riptide, Employee's Entrance, Trouble in Paradise, the Thin Man, the Divorcee, and 42nd St. are some of my favorites... . ... .... .. .. I love Spanish movies these days, too: Pan's Labyrinth, Volver, the Devils Backbone... .. . ... .other than those, anything that I can't predict is OK by me.

Books:

Currently: the Plague . the Mitfords . Matthew .Recently: Adam Bede, Exile and the Kingdom, A Wrinkle In Time, A Wind at the Door, A Swiftly Tilting Planet, the Adventures Of Uncle Lubin, Aesop's Fables, the Secret History (again).Favorites: Albert Camus, PG Wodehouse, Balzac, any Thomas Hardy, Nancy Mitford or Evelyn Waugh. Peter Pan, the Wizard of Oz, and anything that Shilough & I read together while camping (Adam Bede was the one we read while camping this last time).

My Blog

a dream I had

This week has been full of so many interesting and mirthful things. Rummage sales, the new issue of Mojo, Indian pot-luck... And today I found an old notebook of mine with some dreams of mine written ...
Posted by La on Thu, 08 May 2008 08:53:00 PST

rainy february days

It's supposed to rain for the next few days. I'm unaccountably depressed about this. Cold, dark, and rainy. And the groundhog says that it'll be weeks and weeks before it gets any better. I think he's...
Posted by La on Mon, 04 Feb 2008 10:29:00 PST

Something pretty

I've been reading lots of pretty and interesting things recently and have been meaning to put them out there for others to enjoy:Between sky and roomSometimes our mirrorTakes the small earthlySun in i...
Posted by La on Sun, 16 Dec 2007 08:57:00 PST

hula hoops & jump rope

It's simple enough. If one can come home at the end of the day and do some good hula hooping and jumping of rope, is life really so terribly complicated? That is all.
Posted by La on Sat, 04 Aug 2007 10:44:00 PST

the best Wednesday ever

Juliana turned to me during one of the songs that the quintet was playing and said 'this is the best Wednesday ever'. And she, as always, was right.I spent the day in retail (17.76% off of everything ...
Posted by La on Fri, 06 Jul 2007 09:59:00 PST