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Johanna

My Interests

Music:

Brian Wilson, Elliott Smith, Elvis Costello, Bjork, Ben Harper, PJ Harvey, The beach boys, Bach, Wondermints, Heavy Blinkers, Smashing pumpkins,Tjajkovskij, Otis Redding,Aimee Mann,Cat Stevens

Movies:

Directors: Atom Egoyan,Woody Allen, Christopher Guest,George Cukor, Kathryn Bigelow,Stanley Donen, Vincente Minnelli, Nicolas Philibert

Television:

Angels in America,Homicide: Life on the street,Six feet under,The office,Extras, Jeeves and wooster, Inside the actors studio, Ricky Gervais Meets

Books:

Paul Auster, Sylvia Plath, Jd Salinger, Dostoyevskij, Dorothy Parker, Klas Östergren, Joyce Carol Oates, David Simon, Alain de Botton

Heroes:

JD Salinger, Cyd Charisse, Dorothy Parker

My Blog

dancers

Donald Hamilton Fraser tells it like it is about a dancer´s life: "Ballet is full of mysteries. Take the question of dancers´ health. Before company class starts every day at ten o´clock they straggle...
Posted by Johanna on Mon, 18 Jun 2007 02:51:00 PST

smoke

"About 25 years ago, a young man went skiing alone in the alps. There was an avalanche, the snow swallowed him up, and his body was never recovered. His son was just a little boy at the time, but the ...
Posted by Johanna on Sat, 16 Jun 2007 05:53:00 PST

John Guare´s "six degrees of separation"

"This is what I dreamt. I didn´t dream as much as realize this. I felt so close to the paintings. I wasn´t just selling them like pieces of meat. I remembered why I loved paintings in the first place-...
Posted by Johanna on Mon, 28 May 2007 02:33:00 PST

a few words of wisdom from Alan Alda...

"Love your work. If you always put your heart into everything you do, you really can´t lose. If your heart is in it, you probably will succeed, and if it isn´t, you probably won´t succeed. But the rea...
Posted by Johanna on Fri, 18 May 2007 11:35:00 PST

the complete prose of woody allen

If you have not read Woody Allens "Complete Prose", just go ahead and drop everything you´re doing, run- don´t walk- RUN out and get a copy, take a few days off work or a few nights off sleep (don´t w...
Posted by Johanna on Fri, 04 May 2007 07:41:00 PST

larry david

interviewer: "Do you miss doing standup?" larry david: "Well, as you know, I´m really only happy when I´m on stage. I feed off the energy of the audience. That´s what I´m all about- people and laughte...
Posted by Johanna on Fri, 06 Apr 2007 11:59:00 PST

karl pilkington

Karl: What were the things in Gremlings called...??" Ricky Gervais: "Karl!! THINK!!!"   Ricky: I was watching "Celebrity Love Island", and I thought; Where is a tsunami when you need one?"  ...
Posted by Johanna on Fri, 06 Apr 2007 12:10:00 PST