City: New York City
Hometown: Connecticut
Country: United States
Occupation: Dbl-degreed Linguist: Translator...
Schools: EOSmith in Storrs CT; Yale in N...
Companies: Now Freelance translating and ed...
Interests and Hobbies: mice, 911truth, internal (national) politics in general, tons more.
Movies and Shows: Die Sendung Mit Der Maus.
Music: I don't listen to the radio so I haven't encountered that much new popular music since about 1990. I am behind even my time. I like nice ol' rock'n'roll late 60s early 70s like Eagles, Peter Paul & Mary, Cat Stevens, James Taylor, Simon & Garfunkel, Stones. Crosby Stills Nash & Young. Then Disco is fantastic, which is funny because there is at least one generation of people who hate it ONLY because they have heard the phrase 'Disco is dead; Rock is rolling', which was an advertising coup! Disco is dance music with a fantastic beat. I like later rock as well, indeed the two sometimes mix, with Hard Rock mingling with Soft Rock often on the same album. I like Air Supply, Talking Heads, Queen, and concurrent pop music like Madonna, Prince and Michael Jackson. Then came acid rock and punk as well as New Wave-- did you know there was a short period of time when one popular musical category was No Wave? It was like recording doorbells ringing and dogs barking and other noises. Anyway New Wave started in this country with Andreas Vollenweider and continued in the tradition of soft fairy-like music with no words; later it was adapted with words starting with Enya. I like New Age; but the Harder that Rock gets, the less I like it, that is when it turned into Punk Rock and Acid Rock. But Rock in general is still great dance music which capitalises on the beat. You can't dance to New Wave. After that I had far less contact with new music except that a few good ones crept into my consciousness such as Tracy Chapman, Edie Brickel, and Melissa Etheridge. At this time there was also a movement called Trance, which you can dance to as if your entire body had novocaine in it. I have also recently started to enjoy more powerful female voices in the male-dominated music establishment, such as Pat Benetar, Bonnie Raitt, and creeping into Country, which we were encouraged to dislike--kind of like Disco- with Dolly Parton. Other than a song here and there I am not aware of much else.
Books: I like comic books in German and French, and I collect children's books with mice in any language. I read voraciously. Anything I can. Popular, Nonfiction, Novels, Classics, Comics, tooth paste tubes if I'm sitting there ; ) with nothing else to read. I think I read at 400 words a minute. I'm perfectly happy as an adult to skim through or read or reread a teenage novel. My first reading was Nancy Drew which books, by the way, were LESS sexist than the version they changed it to. I read the whole lot in Kindergarten, finding out to my shock later that they are targeted to an audience of age 13-14 years! I'm sure I missed a lot, as when I was reading classics such as Charles Dickens at ten.
Website: http://ny911truth.org