Mia Northwest

Gender: Female

Country: USA

Quote: It's very hard to take yourself too seriously when you look at the world from outer space - Thomas Mattingly, Apollo 16 Astronaut

Age: 43

City: Beaverton

State: OREGON

Occupation: Engineering

Hobbies: Reading, writing, movies, comics, drinking coffee

Fav. Music: Outlandish, Sami Yusuf, Native Deen, James, Modest Mouse, Johnny Cash, Sun Kil Moon, The Cure and alternative and local (Portland) music like The Decemberists and Pink Martini

Fav. Movies: Batman Begins, Kal Ho Naa Ho, Venus, Love Actually, High Fidelity, Shop Girl, Miss Potter, L'Enfant, Moulin Rouge (Baz Lurhmann version), Amelie, The Dark Knight, Penelope, The Crow, Rab ne Bana de Jodi, The Message

Fav. Books: Al-Qur'an, The Road by Cormac McCarthy, Q & A by Vikas Swarup, Old School by Tobias Wolfe, Clash of Civilizations over an Elevator in Piazzo Vittoro, anything by Pablo Neruda, Demon Moon and Demon Night by Meljean Brook (A northwest writer, yay!) Any book at all by Haruki Murakami

Fav. TV shows: Frontline, Nature, Meet the Press, Nova, Secrets of the Dead, The Office, HIMYM, My Hero, The Gilmore Girls and Globetrekker (can you tell I don't have cable??)

Bio: Another Californian transplanted to Oregon

Fav. website: http://mianorthwest.blogspot.com/