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Paula

mother of invention

About Me

oh please...

My Interests

I like to make things.

I'd like to meet:

you, i guess.

Music:

all, still love the radio, like to get CD's that somebody mixed at home. dream of downloading my life away.

Movies:

Fanny and Alexander, Election, Tender Mercies, All About Eve, Monsoon Wedding, Gone with the Wind, Munich, Walkabout, Syd and Nancy, Blood Simple, Dead Man, Young Frankenstein, Godfather 1&2, Star Wars: Return of the Jedi, Muppets in Space, Ben Hur, Broadway Danny Rose, , Zelig, Husbands and Wives,The Buddy Holly Story, The Other, Gas Light, A Little Romance, 10 Little Indians, Waiting for Guffman, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Ghandi, Do the Right Thing, Opening Night, Fargo, The Limey, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, Baby Doll, Being There, Magnolia, Last Tango In Paris, Harold and Maude, Holiday Inn, Nashville, The Player, Kids, Out of Africa, Trainspotting, 7th Samuri, River's Edge, Cremaster Cycle, Crouching Tiger-Hidden Dragon, Apocalypse Now, Moscow Doesn't Have Time for Tears, Coal Miner's Daughter, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, Velvet Goldmine, Being John Malkavich, The Station Agent, Little Miss Sunshine, Trees Lounge, The Queen, The Ice Storm...

Television:

hum

Books:

for starters--Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter, Love in the Time of Cholera, Huck Finn, Atonement, Siddartha, Drugs are Nice, Complete Works of O'Henry, Letters to a Young Poet, East of Eden, Barrel Fever, Running in the Family, In Cold Blood, Krapp's Last Tape, Jane Austen/Complete Works (my 1st cheezy chik porn) Delta of Venus (my 2nd cheezy chik porn), I'm with the Band, Executioner's Song, Play it as it Lays, The Drifters, Electric Koolaid Acid Test, Look Homeward Angel (Thomas Wolfe) Trinity, Home at the End of the World, South Of No North/Women (most of Bukowski), Raymond Carver (all) James Ellroy (My Dark Place, my personal favorite), Hemmingway, Fitzgerald...By the look of it, it's time I read someone new...That said, The Killer Life by Christine Vachon is in fact a killer read.

Heroes:

The Loaded Ladies, Cocktail Club and Sweet Riders. Write Club. Gwendolyn Brooks, Robert Plant, Peggy Firestone, Shirley Chisholm, Team Mimi, Mountain Girl, Margaret Mead, Jane Goodall, Rick Rubin, Chrissie Hynde, Lilly Tomlin, Christine Vachon, Bill Gates, Spaulding Gray, G. Gomez Pena, Cindy Sherman, Michael Jordon, Carl Jung, the Dali Lama. ever cool: The guy who stopped his car to help me lift heavy furniture into my house.

My Blog

Sweet Ride Reviews/Annoyance Theatre, Chicago

CRITICS CHOICE/CHICAGO READERSWEET RIDE Paula Killen's twitchy, addled solo performances in the late 80s and 90s made you wonder whether she'd ever relax onstage. It seemed to calm her nerves a bit to...
Posted by Paula on Thu, 11 Jan 2007 01:11:00 PST

X-Mas essays worth reading

http://www.freshyarn.com/
Posted by Paula on Fri, 22 Dec 2006 01:57:00 PST

The Times 8/25/06

E-mail story   Print   Most E-Mailed THEATER BEAT 'Fully Loaded' and ready for laughs   'Fully Loaded' (Michael James) Theater, troupe, play title: Performance space:...
Posted by Paula on Thu, 31 Aug 2006 12:03:00 PST