Corinne Allan
- Gender: Female
- Industry: Technology
- Occupation: Self-Employed - Semi-Retired
- Location: Ottawa : Canada
About Me
Canadian living in the shadow of Parliament Hill. A grandmother (as may be obvious by the name of my blog) who cares about the future of everyone's grandkids. Concerned about issues related to war, occupation, racism, secret trials, government/media lies.
Interests
- computers
- books (especially philosophy)
- movies
- music (all kinds except some heavy metal and rap)
- yoga
- art
- politics - the latter always seeming to get in the way of everything else these days.
Favorite Movies
- Where the Spirit Lives
- Stand by Me
- Missing
- Dances with Wolves
- Wait until Dark
- Reds
- Gandhi
- Motorcycle Diaries
- Fires in the Mirror - Anna Deavere Smith
- Norma Rae
- Steel Magnolias
- West Side Waltz
- Amadeus
- What about Bob
- Capricorn One
- And Justice for All
- Rosemary's Baby
- The Lucky Star
- Under the Piano ...
Favorite Music
- Anything from Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier (but NOT played on the organ)
- Adagietto from Mahler's 5th
- swing
- gospel
- blues
- ethnic - especially Latin Greek Gypsy Zulu jive Klezmer
- 50's rock'n'roll ...
Favorite Books
- "The Perennial Philosophy" - Aldous Huxley
- "The Tao of Physics" - Fritjof Capra"
- "Ideas and Opinions" - Albert Einstein
- "The Bolivian Diary" - Che Guevara
- "The Gospel of Thomas"
- "The OTHER Bible"
- "The Passover Plot" - Hugh J. Schonfield
- "Memories Dreams Reflections" - C.G. Jung
- "Foucault's Pendulum" - Umberto Eco
- "And No Birds Sang" - Farley Mowat
- "Cats Eye" - Margaret Atwood
- "The Stone Angel" - Margaret Laurence
- "The Fountainhead" - Ayn Rand
- "The Fight for Freedom for Women" - Rose Tremain
- "Resistance Rebellion and Death" - Albert Camus
- "Battle for the Mind" - William Sargant
- "The Pursuit of the Millennium" - Norman Cohn
- "Beyond Chutzpah" - Norman G. Finkelstein ...
Blogs
| Blog Name | Team Members | |
|---|---|---|
| YayaCanada - Blog2 |