Corinne Allan

• Gender: Female
• Industry: Technology
• Occupation: Retired
• Location: Ottawa : Canada

About Me

Blogging since 2003 (formerly yayacanada.com). 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.

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 ...

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