ABOUT ME
My site has been opened officially since June 09 but I first created it in November 08. It was originally opened as a place to store my videos in case my youtube account got struck down, but I now I use it for a variety of reasons.
What can I tell you about me? Well, I'm a middle child. I live near the shores of Lake Erie. I love books. I'm a tv and movie junkie. I enjoy fanvidding (watching, judging, and
making) immensely. But that's bland and doesn't really tell you anything, so here are more details. [If you're adventurous, you could also go the
route of watching my tagvids instead.]
AUTHORS: Jane Austen, Anne, Charlotte and Emily Bronte, Pearl S. Buck, Willa Cather, E. M. Forster, Elizabeth Gaskell, L. M. Montgomery, Toni
Morrison, Amy Tan, Laura Ingalls Wilder. Yes, I do have a bias towards female authors who generally write about the yesteryear. But I love all types
of literature from biography to poetry to plays.
BOOKS: Christy by Catherine Marshall, To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf, Song of Solomon and Beloved by Toni Morrison,
The Emily trilogy by L. M. Montgomery, Peony by Pearl S. Buck, Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, The Joy Luck Club by
Amy Tan, Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte, A Room with A View and Howards End by E. M. Forster, My Antonia and O
Pioneers by Willa Cather.
FEMINIST THEORY: This Bridge Called My Back and Haciendo Caras edited by Gloria Anzaldua, Outrageous Acts and Everyday
Rebellions by Gloria Steinem, Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde, In Search of Our Mother's Gardens by Alice Walker, A Room of
One's Own by Virginia Woolf, and The Sacred Hoop by Paula Gunn Allen, and Silences by Tillie Olsen. For more information on these
books, please consult my annotated bibliography.
FILM: Period dramas, musicals, oldies and Oscar-winning films. I also have a weak spot for summer popcorn flicks and romantic comedies. Really just
about anything except for certain horror films and extremely violent movies.
MUSICALS: Grey Gardens, Kiss Me Kate, On the Town, Ragtime, RENT, South Pacific, The Light in the Piazza. [In my opinion, a musical can't go wrong
if it's written by Berstein, Gershwin, or Rodgers and Hammerstein. Any musical that features the vocal talents of Audra MacDonald, Kristin
Chenoweth, Brian Mitchell or Kelli O'Hara is also worth buying.]
TELEVISION: Angel, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Burn Notice, Chuck, Everwood, Firefly, Frasier, LOST, Masterpiece Theatre, Pushing Daisies, Strong
Medicine, Road to Avonlea, The West Wing. But I'm a tv addict, so if it's very likely even if I haven't seen something I've heard of it.
MUSIC: Top 40, Broadway, Celtic, Classical, Soundtracks (film scores mainly) and World. If you've seen my videos, this won't be news to you already
that I like these types of music. :D
OTHER INTERESTS: Crocheting, politics (of course!), the news (CNN and The New York Times especially) as well pretending to be a pretentious and
erudite twat. I also am fascinated by European royalty and aristocracy--particularly Princess Grace of Monaco (formerly Grace Kelly), Princess
Diana, and The Duke and Duchess of Windsor. I also enjoy collecting coffee table books (on artists and art movements generally). Don't laugh! In
fact, my most prized books ones are My Book of Flowers by Princess Grace of Monaco and The Windsor Style [on David and Wallis, not
Diana] by Susie Menkes.
SITES: If it's listed in the affliates, I'm there. Networking is very important to me, so I try to make it a point to regularly visit sites that are
affiliated to mine. :D Also, Television without Pity, Hulu, and the Ingleside Forum.
Oh, and despite my site name, I do not have a garden. Nothing squicks me out more than earthworms and bugs and creepy-crawlies.
"We live our lives, do whatever we do, and then we sleep---it's as simple as that. A few jump out of windows or drown themselves or take pills; more die by accident; and, most of us, the vast majority, are slowly devoured by some disease or, if we're very fortunate, by time itself. There's just this for consolation: an hour here or there when our lives seem, against all odds and expectations, to burst open and give us everything we've ever imagined, though everyone but children (and perhaps even they) know these hours will be followed inevitably be followed by others, far darker and and more difficult. Still, we cherish the city, the morning; we hope, more than anything, for more."****from THE HOURS by Michael Cunningham
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