Lysandra

I was born in Honduras, grew up in Virginia and moved to Austin about six months ago. I have traveled some but not nearly enough. I've tried horseback riding, tennis, acting, juggling, bellydancing, fiddle-playing, and filmmaking, and I keep coming back to writing.

Hobbies:

reading, writing, watching films, boxing, tennis, cooking and wine and beer

Favorite Movies:

Any and all Coen Brothers, Charlie Chaplin, Marx Brothers, Eddie Izzard, Charlie Kaufman, Christopher Guest, Monty Python, Robbie Rodriguez and Rick Linklater. Little Miss Sunshine, Snakes on a Plane, The Edukators, Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas, O Brother Where Art Thou?, Raising Arizona, The Man Who Wasn't There, Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid, Bonnie & Clyde, Natural Born Killers, The Third Man, The Seventh Seal, The Salton Sea, Thirteen, Metropolis, Casablanca, Harvey, The Philadelphia Story, Roman Holiday, The Birds, Pi, Nightmare on Elm Street, The Exorcist, Dr. Strangelove, Lolita, The Cuckoo, True Stories, Everything is Illuminated, Clerks, Clerks 2, Brazil, Dogville, Lost in Translation, I Heart Huckabees, Capote, Brokeback Mountain, Crash, Citizen Kane, Winged Migration, March of the Penguins, Triplets of Belleville, Army of Darkness, Blue Velvet, Ed Wood, My Dinner with Andre, Walk the Line, Baraka, Coffee & Cigarettes, Rent, Lost in La Mancha, The Jerk, Love Actually, Say Anything...

Favorite TV Shows:

Lost, Arrested Development, M*A*S*H, the Simpsons, Futurama

Favorite Music:

Gogol Bordello, Bright Eyes, Gomez, Ani DiFranco, Jack Johnson, Violent Femmes, Spearhead, DJ Tiesto, Ferry Corsten, Arctic Monkeys, Bob Dylan, Dixie Chicks, Belle & Sebastian, They Might Be Giants, Decemberists, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, the Arcade Fire, Coldplay, Wilco, Ozomatli, Bob Marley

Favorite Books:

Teacher Man, Dharma Bums, Unbearable Lightness of Being, Zen & the Art of Motorcycle Maintenence, Catch-22, Like Water for Chocolate, Walden, Chimera, Steppenwolf, The Great Gatsby, This Side of Paradise, Slaughterhouse-5, Cat's Cradle, Frankenstein, Zorba the Greek, The Last Temptation of Christ, anything by TOM ROBBINS and PAOLO COEHLO