redgem
female, 56 |
Health/governmental
NYC / USA
member since 18.11.2007
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civil servant by day, poet, dancer, inner journeyer at other times. Raised one human person. What else ya wanna know?
OK, ok, let's see... movies: Diva, Ma Vie En Rouge, just was knocked out by Blame it on Fidel, by daughter of Costas-Garvas, Julie Garvas. American Film Noir: Bogie is the perfect film actor - he can't really act but, boy, can he SEETHE! Some Thai/Japananese film called "My Imaginary Life" (or something) was really good. And I DID like Amelie, no take-backs, so there! Aberdeen, a Scottish movie - a fabuolous sleeper. Recent Alice Neel bio made with reverance and objectivity by her grandson.
Music - Loreena McKennit, Cassandra Wilson, Patty Griffen, early Steve Earl. And I luurve Tom Petty, (tee-hee). A lot more... I'm eclectic. Classical is a lot of work for me - not having mastered an instrument or been exposed to anything beyond Gershwin and Tchakowski(sp). I would be a good candidate for the infomercial "Best Loved Classical Pieces" collection!
I prefer the dead poets. Dickenson, Whitman, Roethke, Shakespeare's sonnets. OK, I do admire some contemporary work: Bruce Smith, Michael Burkard, Ruth Stone, Louis Gluck, Mary Oliver, Marlena Morling.... - stuff that is rich and honest at the same time. Oh, yeah, I adore Michael Longley (he had a great poem in the New Yorker recently " Cloudberries") and who doesn't like Adam Zagajewski and Charles Simic, and Zymborska?
Fiction: my faves again: dead people like Charlotte Bronte, Jane Austen, George Elliot, Mr. Dickens. Was all over TC Boyle for a while, but, boy, he's such a factory - I wish he'd learn about denoument! He has these "whatever" endings to his novels, at least. I thought Atonement was largely boring. I thought Middlesex was contrived. I liked Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake, and others of hers. I guess I like poetry because of the instant gratification / low time investment. |
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