13 insanely interesting facts about myself
1.) I read too much and I talk about reading too much. I even enjoy talking about books I’ve read about reading.
2.) I like to cook and to bake. A lot. I love Martha Stewart. In fact, her cupcake book changed my life. This is not a joke.
3.) The first ten of my favorite authors to come to mind are: Colson Whitehead, MR James, Nathan Englander, China Mieville, Kelly Link, John Steinbeck, Italo Calvino, Ngugi wa Thiong’o, Tana French, and Philippe Claudel.
4.) I used to want to go to film school. I’m still a film snob. Ten of my favorite directors off the top of my head: Hiyao Miyazaki, Jim Jarmusch (except not so much his recent work), John Sayles, Terry Gilliam (except, again, not so much his recent work), Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Pedro Almodovar, Akira Kurosawa, Gillian Armstrong, Stephen Frears (a lot of the time and especially in Dirty Pretty Things or when he’s adapting stuff by Roddy Doyle), and Stephen Chow.
5.) I don’t watch much television but what I watch I tend to watch obsessively: Buffy, Homicide, Veronica Mars, Deadwood, Dead Like me, Seinfeld, Doctor Who, anything that is a British cop show.
6.) Some favorite bands/ singers, randomly selected by blindly reaching into my CD collection: Andrew Bird, Bright Eyes, Otis Redding, Lhasa, Jim White, Spoon, Bats for Lashes, The Temptations, Pink Martini, Nellie McKay.
7.) I don’t think I’ve ever written a short story that doesn’t mention coffee. I may be addicted to coffee.
8.) There’s a cake I once had and still dream about. I think if anyone ever found me the recipe, it would be my Cinderella with the shoe moment.
9.) I write a lot. I overwrite some might say (should probably say).
10.) I like monsters and ghosts.
11.) I can read backwards and upside down writing at about the same speed as forwards and right side up writing. This comes in handy.
12.) I believe that REDzine is the absolute greatest Literary and Arts journal of ALL time. I am in no way biased.
13.) I overuse the words “insanely” and “interesting.” Very often, I overuse them in conjunction with each other; in fact if I put them together, you can be most certain that what is to follow will not in any way be interesting.
