Lisa O'Keefe

Iowa State University, DePaul University, French Pastry School

Ne'er do well

Flirting with dogs, chocolate and confection making, old tin windup animals and robots, tomatoes, watermelon, wine, white beer, hidden gems, collecting lithographs, and old yearbooks, alpacas, tennis, pandas, stereoscope cards, exercise tempered with sloth, microbes, art of Mark Ryden and Mitchell Wiebe, Basque culture, Otis and Eddie, old graveyards, long dinners, secret menus, style over fashion, road food, epidemiology, the Plague of 1348, Lake Michigan in bad weather.

Pigtopia, Doomsday Book, Jude the Obscure, Return of the Native, Post Office, Anne of Green Gables, Dry, Running with Scissors, Portofino, An Infinity of Little Hours, Zermatt, The Glass Castle, Left Hand of Darkness, Kitchen Confidential, Confederacy of Dunces, Women, Name all the Animals, Index of Differential Diagnosis, My Life in France, Geza Csath's short stories, anything by Ann Patchett.s, anything by Ann Patchett or John T. Edge, The Glass Castle, Calvin Becker trilogy, An Infinity of Little Hours, whatever I happen to be reading

Science of Sleep, Little Miss Sunshine, Dogfight, Slingblade, American Movie, Beavis and Butthead Do America, Spellbound, Raising Arizona, Trading Places, Billy Elliot, Fargo, Amelie, Rainman, Elf, Dancer in the Dark, Donnie Darko, Being There, What's Eating Gilbert Grape?, Silence of the Lambs, Salesman, Office Space, The Graduate, Amadeus, Welcome to the Dollhouse, Ghost World.

A mix of old school and underground rap, punk, garage, opera, classical, very old gospel, soul and such. For example: Sam Cooke (with or without the Soul Stirrers), Death From Above 1979, Al Green, Pavarotti, Fiona Apple, Be Your Own Pet, Public Enemy, Buzzcocks, Joy Division, The Safes, Lupe Fiasco, The Coup, Chopin, Mozart, Mendelssohn, David Bowie, Toussaint McCall, Matt Haimovitz, Michael Franti and Spearhead, Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy, Sugar, The Grouch, Cee-lo, Ray Charles, McLusky, Morrissey, Dilated Peoples, Wu-Tang Clan, Dead Prez, George Jones, NSYNC (yeah, you heard me), Patsy Cline, Dirty Pretty Things, Perceptionists, Xiu Xiu, Swan Silvertones, The Thermals, Gnarls Barkley, Sugar.

Project Runway, The Office, King of the Hill, America's Next Top Model, Top Chef, Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares, Freaks and Geeks, Arrested Development, The French Chef, Mary Tyler Moore Show. Can I put This American Life here? I know it's not television.

Capricorn

I don't panic at the sight of blood and I give great restaurant recommendations.

Clumber Spaniels and sighthounds.