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Sarah Murdoch

The Murdoch Effect

About Me

I don't use MySpace anymore because it sucks.

My Interests

Lots of interesting things. Ask and maybe I'll tell you about them. And no, there's no innuendo there. So please don't look for any.

I'd like to meet:

People who will amuse me.

Music:

The Eagles, Oasis, Barenaked Ladies, Gorillaz, Supergrass, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Maximo Park, Kayla Leigh, Puffy AmiYumi, Frou Frou, pretty much anything that's a talented rock band. Good lyrics and a melody required.

Movies:

The African Queen, Amelie, Arsenic and Old Lace, Basic, Ben-Hur, The Big Country, Big Fish, The Birds, The Blob (with Steve McQueen), Bonnie and Clyde, Born to Kill, The Bourne Identity (Supremecy), The Boys From Brazil, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Bringing Up Baby, Broken Saints, Buzz Lightyear of Star Command, Call Northside 777, Cape Fear, Capote, Casablanca, Castaway, Cat's Don't Dance, The Cat's Meow, Charade, The Children's Hour, The Constant Gardener, Corpse Bride, Crash, Dead Poet's Society, Death to Smoochy, Dial M for Murder, Edward Scissorhands, The Emporer's New Groove, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Everything is Illuminated, Finding Neverland, Funny Face, Gaslight, Girl; Interrupted, Good Will Hunting, Gosford Park, 21 Grams, The Great Escape, Green Mansions, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?, The Heiress, The Horatio Hornblower series, Hotel Rwanda, How to Steal a Million, Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte, (and a seperate movie) Hush, The Incredibles, It's Love I'm After, The Jacket, Keeping the Faith, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Labyrinth, Lemony Snickett's; A Series of Unfortunate Events, The Lion King, Love in the Afternoon, The Majestic, The Maldenado Miracle, The Man Who Knew Too Much, Marnie, The Medea Series, Mrs. Doubtfire, My Fair Lady, My Neighbor Totoro, The Nightmare Before Christmas, North by Northwest, The Nun's Story, Ocean's Eleven, Of Human Bondage, On the Waterfront, One Hour Photo, Out of the Past, Paris When it Sizzles, Patch Addams, Perfect Stranger, A Place in the Sun, The Philadelphia Story, The Picture of Dorian Grey, Primal Fear, Psycho, Rear Window, Road to Perdition, Robin and Marian, Roman Holiday, Rope, Rounders, Sabrina, Shadow of a Doubt, The Singing Detective, Sleeping Beauty, Sleepy Hollow, Some Like it Hot, Snow White: A Tale of Terror, Spellbound, Stay, The Strange Love of Martha Ivers, Suddenly Last Summer, Sunset Boulevard, The Talented Mr. Ripley, They Drive By Night, The Third Man, Treasure Planet, The Trials of Oscar Wilde, The Triplets of Belleview, The Trouble With Harry, Ultra Violet, The Unforgiven, V for Vendetta, Vanity Fair, Vertigo, Victor, Wait Until Dark, War and Peace, What Lies Beneath, The White Cliffs of Dover, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Woman Thou Art Loosed, To Wong Foo Thanks for Everything Julie Newmar, Zulu

Television:

Family Guy, American Dad, The Venture Brothers, Full Metal Alchemist, Lost, Robot Chicken, Mythbusters, various History Channel and National Geographic specials.

Books:

The Abhorsen Trilogy, The Ragwitch, A Clockwork Orange, The Nero Wolfe series, anything at all by Steven Brust (examples; Agyar, Freedom and Necessity [written with Emily Brust], To Reign in Hell, the Vlad Taltos books), The Adventures of Alice in Wonderland, Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There, The Chronicles of Narnia, Dreams Underfoot, Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Great Gatsby, Drowning Ruth, The Other Boleyn Girl, As Simple As Snow, The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy and Other Tales, Beauty Sleep, Melusine, Twelve Impossible Things Before Breakfast, Who P-p-p-p-plugged Roger Rabbit?, the Oh My Goddess! series, the Jing: King of Bandits series, (though technically not books...), the Hercule Poirot series, the Claidi Collection, the writings of Edgar Allen Poe, the writings of Jorge Luis Borges, His Dark Materials, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Jane Austin's books. Favorite plays; Getting Out, Marco Polo Sings a Solo, Shivaree, The Miss Firecracker Contest, Independance, As Bees in Honey Drown, Refuge, The Doll House, Three Sisters, Salome, Fences, M. Butterfly, A Life in the Theatre, After Ashley, and many, many, many, many, MANY more.

Heroes:

(Not so much heroes as people that I admire and strive to be like) My parents (it may sound cliche but they are the best parents I could ever want), Audrey Hepburn! Cary Grant, Jimmy Stewart, Gregory Peck, Katherine Hepburn (no relation to the other), Alfred Hitchcock, James Cagney, Garth Nix, Steven Brust, others...