Nightshade057 Professional member

Interests and Activities

reading, cooking, eating, bike riding, dancing tango or swing, drawing, painting, sculpting, filming, studying theology, debating theology, playing the piano, watching movies, having deep conversations, having pointless conversations on a sugar high, breaking out into song, giving and getting hugs, self-improvement, the holy Rosary.

Favorite Movies

Amadeus, Il Vangelo Secondo Matteo, The Miracle Worker (1962), El Laberinto del Fauno (Pan's Labyrinth), The Crucible (1996), Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, Hard Candy, Smultronstället (Wild Strawberries), City Lights, Crash (2004), Romero, Edward Scissorhands, The Ring, Casablanca, The Sixth Sense, The Exorcism of Emily Rose, Big Fish, The Passion of the Christ, Chicago, Batman, Batman Returns, Batman Begins, The Song of Bernadette, As Good As It Gets, Little Shop of Horrors, Interview With A Vampire, The Witches, The Parent Trap (1998), A.I., Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Matilda, Mean Girls, Hook, The Goonies, Mrs. Doubtfire, The Prince of Egypt, The Witches of Eastwick, The Addams Family, Addams Family Values, My Cousin Vinny, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion The Witch and the Wardrobe, The Sound of Music, Disney's Beauty and the Beast, Sleeping Beauty, Gremlins, etc.

Favorite TV Shows

Family Guy, The Colbert Report, The Twilight Zone, The Nanny, Phil of the Future, Good Eats, The Barefoot Contessa, Everyday Italian, Paula's Home Cooking, Keeping Up Appearances (it's a Britcom), and occasionally the History and Discovery Channels

Favorite Books

Phantom by Susan Kay; Le Fantome de l'Opera by Gaston Leroux; the Bible (especially the synoptic Gospels); Macbeth by William Shakespeare; The Crucible by Arthur Miller; Brave New World by Aldous Huxley; The Screwtape Letters, Mere Christianity, and The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis; The Complete Works of Edgar Allen Poe; Lord of the Flies by William Golding; Alice in WonderLand and Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll; Roald Dahl books; Grimms' Fairy Tales; I HATE THE DA VINCI CODE. Just thought I'd tell you. :-)

Favorite Music

Gregorian chant, Green Day, The Decemberists, Flogging Molly, The Mediaeval Baebes, The Cranberries, Queen, Goo Goo Dolls, Snow Patrol, Peter Gabriel, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Glenn Miller, Nat King Cole, Bing Crosby, Depression era music, Celtic music, Swing music, Classical music, Christmas music, sad music, Disney music, klezmer, tango. I'll experiment with different things but I don't really care for country, rap, or heavy metal (with a couple exceptions)...oh, and I LOATHE reggaeton. I LOVE movie soundtracks! The more unusual (or ethereal, or dark) the better. My favorite film score composer is Danny Elfman but I also really like John Williams and Marc Shaiman. Also, I listen to alot of Broadway stuff (mostly Phantom, Wicked, Jesus Christ Superstar, Sweeney Todd, and Les Miserables).

Favorite Talent

Tim Burton, Danny Elfman

Favorite Quotes

"He is a [sane] man who can have tragedy in his heart and comedy in his head." - G.K. Chesterton

"The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science. Whoever does not know it and can no longer wonder, no longer marvel, is as good as dead, and his eyes are dimmed." -Albert Einstein

"Thus, a good man, though a slave, is free; but a wicked man, though a king, is a slave. For he serves, not one man alone, but, what is worse, as many masters as he has vices." - St. Augustine

"There is nothing as frightening as ignorance in action." -Goethe

"A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." - Gene Wilder's Willy Wonka

"Truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it." - Flannery O'Connor

"In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act." - George Orwell