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About CleverElsie - Female

While I'm not nearly as clever as the real Clever Elsie, I AM fond of random musings and thoughtful conversation. Though a little reserved at first, I have an impulsive silly streak known only to my friends. A bit of a dreamer, I aspire to be poet laureate (well, okay, I'd settle for a 100 grand advance on a novel :)), but for now, I'm just the VP of Staring Out Windows. ;) On an average day, you might find me stirring the creative juices, enticing unsuspecting friends to go skating, defending my dahlias from the diabolical spawn of Bambi, forgetting my Russian to have the fun of relearning it, graciously accepting bribery in the form of truffles, chasing miscellaneous Widgets, nicknaming the world, breathing magic into my corner of it, and, when I have a spare moment, getting better acquainted with the Sand Man. I also won't turn my nose up at books, film, music, TV, photography, art, hiking trails, coffee shops, restaurants, local bars, amusement parks, beaches, mountain views, museums, gardens, theaters, NYC, starry skies, backyard porches, previously unexplored locations, animals of all varieties (except possibly reptilian), and natch, that unbeatable standby, friends & family. :) I look forward to yakking about some of the above topics with all of you here. Oh, and I just opened a Cafe Press shop called Gifts From the Sea with some nauseatingly sappy sunset-on-the-beach photo merchandise, but if you like that sort of thing, check out the link below. I just got it up and running and have very few items available, but lots more are on the way, so stay tuned.

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Favorite Music & Artists:

The Indie (American Analog Set, Arcade Fire, Beirut, Bloc Party, Death Cab for Cutie, Decibully, Doves, Franz Ferdinand, Hot Hot Heat, Interpol, Keane, Killers, M83, Modest Mouse, Mogwai, Mountain Goats, Neutral Milk Hotel, Postal Service, Secret Machines, Stars, Strokes, Sufjan Stevens, Travis, White Stripes, Wrens)...the Not So Indie (Barenaked Ladies, Beatles, Beck, Coldplay, Doors, Five for Fighting, Green Day, Madonna, Sarah McLachlan, Alanis Morissette, Radiohead, Simon & Garfunkel, U2)...the Danceable (BT, Armin Van Buuren, Ian Van Dahl, Paul Van Dyk, Paul Oakenfold, William Orbit, Orbital, DJ Tiesto, Underworld, Wellenrausch, and a bunch of others you've probably only heard once or never at all)...the Cinematic (John Barry, Randy Edelman, James Horner, Thomas Newman, Basil Poledouris)...and the Dead (Beethoven, Bizet, Chopin, Copland, Grieg, Mussorgsky, Ravel, Rimsky-Korsakov, Saint-Saens, Strauss, Tchaikovsky, and others).

Favorite Books & Authors:

For the sake of brevity, let's do fave authors. Contemporary: Aimee Bender, Andre Dubus (RIP), Dave Eggers, Jonathan Safran Foer, Mary Gordon, Nic Kelman, Nanci Kincaid, Nicole Krauss, Sheila Kohler, Diane Schoemperlen, Alice Sebold, and Amy Tan. To ask me to list them all would be intolerable cruelty. Truly. Canonical: the Bronte siters, Kate Chopin, Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Edgar Allan Poe, and Edith Wharton. I like books that aspire to artistry as well as entertainment, to enlightenment as well as emotion.

Favorite Movies, TV Shows, Stars & Directors:

Movies: The Arty (Adaptation, American Beauty, Before Sunrise, Before Sunset, Big Fish, Closer, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Exotica, Eyes Wide Shut, Girl with a Pearl Earring, Haiku Tunnel, I Heart Huckabees, Life Is Beautiful, My Life Without Me, The New World, Paperhouse, Pi, Picnic at Hanging Rock, Searching for Bobby Fischer, The Shape of Things, Wit), the Offbeat (Bartleby, Broken Flowers, Charlie & The Chocolate Factory, Donnie Darko, Gattaca, Groundhog Day, Haiku Tunnel, Pleasantville, Stranger Than Fiction, The Truman Show, What About Bob?), the Dramatic (A Beautiful Mind, Dances With Wolves, Dangerous Liaisons, Glory, The Graduate, Lady Jane, The Last of the Mohicans, Titanic (NOT for the Jack&Rose nonsense, I swear, for the historical detail!)), the Fantastic (Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Contact, ET, The Matrix, Star Wars, Superman), the Romantic (Green Card, The Lake House, The Man in the Moon, Pretty Woman, Romeo & Juliet, Starman, What Dreams May Come, You've Got Mail), the Musical (1776, Fiddler on the Roof, Flower Drum Song, The King and I, My Fair Lady, The Sound of Music, South Pacific), and the Childhood Favorite (Anne of Green Gables, Beauty and the Beast, Big, The Boy Who Could Fly, The Breakfast Club, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Home Alone, Labyrinth, The Little Mermaid, Splash, The Princess Bride), and many more. TV Shows: Arrested Development, Big Love, Da Ali G. Show, Dawson's Creek, Everwood, Felicity, Ghost Hunters, Gilmore Girls, Lost, Monk, Party of Five, Politically Incorrect, Saturday Night Live, Sex and the City, Smallville, Star Trek, Star Trek: TNG, and a generous helping of documentaries and occasional reality-dipping. Directors: Darren Aronofsky, Tim Burton, Atom Egoyan, Charlie Kaufman and Peter Weir. Actors: Jeff Bridges, Jim Carrey, Jennifer Connelly, Julie Delpy, Johnny Depp, Robert Downey Jr., Colin Farrell, Jodie Foster, Tom Hanks, Jude Law, Julianne Moore, Bill Murray, Sarah Polley, Meryl Streep, Kate Winslet, and Reese Witherspoon.

Favorite Web Sites:

http://www.cafepress.com/giftsfromthesea (external link) 
http://singletude.blogspot.com (external link) 
http://www.freekatie.net/ (external link) 
http://www.televisionwithoutpity.com/ (external link) 
http://www.absolutewrite.com/ (external link)

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