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Dec 2004

The Lou! (St. Louis, MO), and Tusa, Sicily

Hmm... a box factory, crazy deli (Applegate's!!), other random jobs.. Now I'm a Professor. Professoressa Perrone.

http://profiles.friendster.com/14801606

Rhode Island School of Design (MFA), Southern Illinois University, Carbondale (BFA Painting, BA Art History, BA French), Clayton High (if you must know)

Rhode Island School of Design, Attended 2004 - Present, Class of 2006, Master's Degree, Printmaking

Artist

www.serenaperrone.30art.com, www.cadetompkins.com, and, www.myspace.com/serenellabella

Spending hours in my studio, being a coffee shop bum, reading, writing, eating (bulgoki, kim chee, Tuscan food, truffles and lamb, sushi, red wine and tons of French cheeses, Lemongrass restaurant...), going out for drinks with my friends (vino rosso... Sambucca, so-ju, vodka tonic with olives, and good old beer), traveling!!! Talking about traveling, cello playing, Salsa dancing (with a guy who knows how to lead), singing in my car which I unfortunately left in the Lou.

Air Guitar by Dave Hickey, The Name of the Rose, Baudolino (Any Umberto Eco), The Alchemist, Haruki Murakami, Italo Calvino, Carole Maso (The Art Lover, Ava), Borges, Kenzaburo Oe, Sartre, Marguerite Duras, Vonnegut, all Get Fuzzy books. Hmm... I'll have to come back to this one to make sure I don't leave any good ones out...)

In America, Donnie Darko, The Princess Bride, Hero, Life is Beautiful, Respiro, Cinema Paradiso, The Crow, Old School, Goonies, Neverending Story, Waking Life, Fellini movies (Amercord, 8 1/2), Delicatessen, City of Lost Children, Attack the Gas Station!, Spirited Away, Nosferatu, all Christoher Guest, John Waters, and David Lynch, I like Parker Posey (the House of Yes), But I'm a Cheerleader, Rushmore, Election, any Eddie Izzard DVD's - Circle is great, Amelie, Silence of the Lambs, Rocky, Suicide Kings, Boondock Saints, Run Lola Run, The Godfather trilogy, the Leopard

Lucinda Williams, The Be Good Tanyas, Hope Sandoval, Hooverphonic, Morcheeba, Cibo Matto, Rolling Stones, Velvet Underground, La Buena Vida, Yo La Tengo, Manu Chao, Blonde Redhead, Tricky, Otis Redding, Sam Cooke, Smashing Pumpkins, Nirvana, Poncho Sanchez, Diana Krall, Etta James, John Lee Hooker, Billie Holliday, Ella Fitzgerald, Joshua Redman, Wynton Marsalis, Bebel Gilberto, Omara Portundo, Ruben Gonzales, Pizzicato Five, Travis, Figurine, Budapest, U2, GNR, Outkast, Bad Italian music, Bad Korean music (yeah DJ DOC and TURBO!), Tori, Rufus Wainwright, Bob Marley, Nelly (its a Lou thing), Black Eyed Peas, Jurassic 5, Postal Service, Ben Harper, Verdi, John Pizzarelli Trio, hmmm.. too much to list. Mainly Jazz, Cuban Jazz, Salsa, Blues, and other random things... No country except for Robert Earl Keene- it's not my fault! I was in Texas, I had to... (Ok, you get the idea...)

Curb Your Enthusiasm, The Office, Ghost Hunters, the Sarah Silverman Program, Queer Eye, Conan, Family Guy, Cosby Show, Voltron, old ER reruns in the middle of the night on Sundays, and old the Practice reruns (also late night Sunday) with Dylan McDermott...Cops, America's Most Wanted, World's Scariest Police Videos, shows about north sea oil rig workers or alaskan crab fishermen, oh- and decorating shows and Iron Chef.

Scorpio

I'm a pretty open and eclectic person, I've traveled most of Europe and the US and am pretty independent. I'm very close with my family so I'm lucky in that respsect. I don't like bullshit or useless protocol. I'm small and Italian-American! I speak Italian and French, understand a good amount of Spanish, and am picking up Korean here and there. I'm a sweet and loving person with a good sense of humor even though I can't tell jokes, but others seem to enjoy that. I love meeting new people and am always looking forward to new experiences. I'm pretty laid back most of the time and like to socialize, although I can also be a loner - I like my alone time too. As a creative person, I need that time to regenerate. I go places by myself and I like to observe life. I am sincere and generous, passionate and don't forget feisty (I am a Sicilian-Scorpio, after all...). I love to laugh. I love blood moons, tornadic weather, and eating saltine crackers in the snow. They're better that way. For more info check out my myspace profile, I've got a little blog-thingy goin' there:

www.myspace.com/serenellabella

Anyone who is similar to me or the opposite, as long as you are kind and intelligent and have a good sense of humor. Sincerity and tenderness combined with sarcasm and wit is a winning combination in my eyes. I'm crappy at telling jokes (actually, I only have one, it is about a panda bear who kills a waiter- trust me, it sucks), so I leave the 'being funny' to other people. I'm funny unintentionally, I've been told... I don't like people who are pretentious or take themselves or anything too seriously. Be honest and yourself and we'll probably get along.