Sophia Malamud

UPenn all the way, man!

linguistics professor

friends (family included), tango, any sort of dancing;art photography &any other "body cult" arts, poetry and verbal art of all kinds(books!), hiking beautiful places, games, yoga, lately also TV(ok, mostly crime TV) and movies, `mastering the web'

Master and Margarita, Left Hand of Darkness, other Ursula Le Guin books, Strugatsky brothers, Lord of the Rings (& Tolkien in general), Middlesex, Stranger in a Strange Land, Dovlatov's short stories, Dina Rubina's short stories, Jhumpa Lahiri, etc...

Lord of the Rings (particularly, Fellowship), The Hours, In the Mood for Love, Crying Game, La Vita e Bella, Amelie, Robin Williams feel-goods, same for Julia Roberts&Audrey Hepburn, Soviet cinema classics(Obyknovennoe chudo, Solaris, Ironija sud'by, Strely Robin Guda), Tri oreshka dlja Zolushki (Czech children's classic)

a wide range of stuff. some of the ones i can spell off the top of my head are Alik Alabin(proud to be his friend!), B.G., Manhattan Transfer(and other such jazz!), Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Jethro Tull, (etc.), Bla Fleck, Belle and Sebastian, bossa nova, tango music(Piazzolla!), Prokofiev, Suk, Poulanc, Dvorak, Bach, Saint-Sans, Beethoven, (etc.), Scherbakov, Nikitiny...

Without a Trace, Law and Order: Criminal Intent, almost any other crime tv that doesn't show gore, the Simpsons

I guess my interests (and favourite books) say pretty much everything about me.

i'm an obsessive-compulsive student and dancer,

I LOVE dance and other artforms dealing with human form (Rodin!),

and I LOVE books (especially fantasy/sci-fi, but i love "deep stuff", like Ursula Le Guin or Strugatsky brothers (although I still enjoy shallow yet engrossing adventures).

I'm an ardent hiker, and I like writing (mostly poetry), and making webpages (hello, procrastination).