Andi
My blogs
| Gender | Female |
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| Occupation | Editor, Writer, Professional Reader, Virtual Book Tour Host, Wannabe Travel Writer |
| Location | Is-This-Land-Really-Free, United States |
| Introduction | So, here I am... ***This blog was Established 2005*** And I am slowly reestablishing it. I love English Lit! I have a fascination with puns, satire and tropes. I relish sharing the latest logic puzzle I've found. I advocate for education reform. I read Spanish much more fluently than I speak it. I know a lot of German. I dabble in SEVERAL languages .... including writing, history and knowledge of cultures. I am very interested in urban farming and self-sufficiency. Huge Douglas Adams, Roger Zelazny and Piers Anthony fan. I like reading Stephen King/Richard Bachman. I could spend hours with Terry Brooks and Shannara. T.S. Garp and I would get along famously. Avid Armchair Traveler ... especially Italy and Mongolia. Miicroadventures rock! I homeroast green coffee beans ... my fave are those from Chiapas, Mexico. I try new teas and those from Scotland make me smile. Friends and family are AWESOME! I hope that something made you smile today!. Non-spammers can contact me: coffeehobby AT yahoo.com |
| Interests | Anglophile/Britophile, carbon offsetting, castles, catacombs, Cezanne, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Crippled Inside-John Lennon, cystallography, CuriousityStream, driftwood, English Country Shabby decor, fairytales and folklore, Garfield, Go-Chu-Jang sauce, Charlton Heston, high fantasy/epic fantasy, Iberian Peninsula, interior decorating, lepidoptera, nonlinear narrative novels, Old English Script, pop culture essays, Christopher P. Gardner, Cirque du Soleil, coffee shops, coloring books, comedy, digital photography, Elvis, embroidery, environmentally-friendly sports cars, film cameras, faux grapes, flair shows, Flash Gordon, flowers, folk music, playing sock football, Friends of the Viking Ship, ghost shrimp, golf, Golden Gate bridge, good champagne...hard to find, great women writers, grilled cheese sandwiches, guitar, guppies, Helen Hayes, Hellina (the comic), horses, International Women's Day, Irish Civil War of 1922–23, Jeb Bush, Judge Dredd, Little House on the Prairie, looking at motorcycles, Loveland Castle in Ohio, marbles, medieval England, the Middle Ages, Munchkin, Munchkin Impossible, Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom, Native American mound preservation, New York ... the city that never sleeps, Nikolaustag, Persian rugs, poetry, political thrillers, Pol Roger, pot roast, Wolfgang Puck, rainbows, ranching, Renaissance literature, running monologues(Theater), saltwater aquariums, Santa Maria(Azores), Second Life (my avatar is Thebluestbutterfly Writer), self-improvement, Shi, skateboarding, Starry Night by vanGogh (I have seen it in person), StarWars Magnolias (pretty pink), techno-thrillers, The Last Temptation comic series, tall ships, Thai takeaway, Tom Hanks. Top Chef, Snarf (Thunder Cats), urban farming, water features (outdoor and indoor), windchimes, woks, The Writer Magazine, zoos |
| Favorite Movies | The Accidental Husband, Armageddon, Back to the Future, Bad Boys II, Black Cat by Janet Jackson, Blade, Blazing Saddles, Bubba Ho-tep, Bubbleboy, Chaos Theory, Charlton Heston Presents the Bible (series), Children of Men, Coal Miner's Daughter, ConAir, Constantine, Disney's Robin Hood, Doom, Dragon:The Bruce Lee Story, Flash Gordon, GiGi, Gigli, Girl Interuppted, Groundhog Day, Gunshy, Heathers, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Inglorious Basterds, Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back, Jersey Girl, Jingle All the Way, Kate & Leopold, Man of La Mancha (with Sofia Loren), Misery, My Fair Lady, Pretty in Pink, Pulp Fiction, Rocky Horror Picture Show, Rushmore, Scanners, Seven Years in Tibet, Shawshank Redemption, She's Funny That Way, Shout, Sound of Music, Star Wars, The Breakfast Club, The Bucket List, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, The Fly Boys, The Hours, The Legend of Billie Jean, The Lion King, Mannequin Two: On the Move, The October Sky, The Pursuit of Happyness, The Wizard of Oz, That Thing You Do!, UHF, V is for Vendetta, Vanilla Sky, War Inc., We Were Soldiers, Wing Commander, You Know My Name(Sam Elliott) |
| Favorite Music | Adam Ant particularly the Manners & Physique album, Alice Peacock (I met her briefly and she encouraged my guitar-learning), Along Came Jones by Ray Stevens, Always on My Mind, The Big Bopper, Billy Joel (It's Still Rock and Roll to Me, A Matter of Trust, Scenes from an Italian Restaurant, Uptown Girl), Blank Slate by The National, Blues Brothers, Bring Me Edelweiss(Edelweiss), Brobdingnagian Bards, Cheek to Cheek(sung by Fred Astaire), Christopher Robin's Dead by Mas Rapido, Cool Kids(Echosmith), Crippled Inside by John Lennon (there is a 2010 remaster), "Did You Feel the Mountains Tremble?", Dolly Parton, Edelweiss, El Shaddai, Elvis, Emigrate, Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons, Grendel, Hank Williams Jr., Have You Ever Seen the Rain? (sung by Joan Jett), Hippy Hippy Shake, Interpol, classic INXS, Kentucky Woman by Deep Purple, Kumbia Kings, Leader of Men by Nickelback, Leaving On a Jet Plane as sung by John Denver, Lithium Flower from Ghost in the Shell, Maldroid, Lovin' You Lots and Lots(Norm Wooster Singers), Mao Tse Tung Said(Alabama 3), George Martin, Moonshadow by Cat Stevens, My Chemical Romance, My Fair Lady musical, November Rain, OOMPH!, Otis Redding, Peace in the Valley(Alabama 3; Track 12 from Exile on Coldharbour Lane), Rain on the Scarecrow-Mellencamp, Rammstein, Rasputina, Reba, Redemption Song by Bob Marley, Roxette, The Airborne Toxic Event, The Commitments, The Iroc-Z song, The Miracle of Love by Eurythmics, The Offspring, The Scientist by Coldplay, the song Shout, Tille Lindemann, To Be with You by Mr. Big, Too Late for Goodbyes by Julian Lennon, Tough as John Jacobs (Maylene and the Sons of Disaster), Trouble by Pink, Video Killed the Radio Star, Wild World (cover) by Mr. Big, Wild World by Cat Stevens, Moxy Fruvous, Queen, Queen Live at Knebworth Park 1986, Warren Zevon, Wheatus, Within Temptation |
| Favorite Books | 1984, The Salmon of Doubt, A Slob in the Kitchen, Bring Me the Head of Prince Charming, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, Canterbury Tales, Caesar at the Rubicon, The Dead Zone, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency(read by Douglas Adams), Don't Bet on the Prince, Dr. Faustus, Ender's Game, Evangeline:A Tale of Acadie by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Henge by Realm Lovejoy, The Importance of Being Earnest, In Search of Stones by Scott Peck, Of Mice and Men, Patton by Carlos d'Estes, Stranger in a Strange Land, Thank You for Smoking, The Bible, The Five Love Languages by Gary Chapman, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The Last Defender of Camelot, The Last Druid(The Fall of Shannara #4), The Lottery (a short story), The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana, The Odd Couple (the play), On a Pale Horse, The Princess Bride, The Reader by Bernhard Schlink, Recessional by James A. Michener, The Regulators by Richard Bachman, Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption by Stephen King, The Tightwad Gazzette (Complete Set), The Wicked Day by Mary Stewart, The World According to Garp, Wuthering Heights |