Chrysanthe's Page

Your name on Tribe.net:

Chrysanthe

Location:

Seattle

Gender:

female

Age:

in my 40s

Your Tribe profile:

http://people.tribe.net/chrysanthe

Your online business:

http://seattletutors.com

Additional web addy:

http://www.last.fm/user/Chrysanthe_SEA

Your email address (optional, to share with members):

gwnsea@yahoo.com

Relationship status:

officially married

Fav food:

Cuisines: Middle Eastern/Near Eastern/Mediterranean, Greek, Italian, Indian, Ethiopian/African, Southern (sans pork), Jewish, Japanese and Thai.

Chocolate: Theo, 84% Ghana
On a Budget Wines: Zinfandel, Cab, Syrah/Shiraz, Sake
Beer: Hefeweizen with lemon
Bar food: buffalo wings
Ice cream: Snoqualmie Dairy "Mukilteo Mud"
Cheese: Blue Stilton
Pie: Sweet Potato
Dessert: German/NY/kosher/deli-style cheesecake (the kind that is a five inches tall slice that a fork cements in--none of this neo cheesecake flimsy stuff)
Meat: Lamb, NW wild salmon, chicken
Nuts: raw almonds
Fruit: tree-ripened peaches (with cream), off the vine summer tomatoes, local strawberries (with cream), blackberries, huckleberries, cherries, figs, Bartletts and Fujis...a really good orange (hard to find in the NW), avocados...
Vegie and herbs: Potatoes, broccoli, summer local green beans, cucumber, mixed greens salad with olive oil and balsamic, shiitake shrooms, green peppers (really under fruit), patty pan squash, jalapenos, cooked greens, watercress, fresh basil, onions, garlic, cilantro, Italian parsley, rosemary, tarragon, sage
All round spices: peppercorn, red chili flakes, Madras curry...
Weird Stuff: Kimchee, pickled herring
Hot scale: ***

(I am hungry now)
(I like food)
(It shows)

Fav TV:

(Limited by lack of expanded cable)

Dead Body TV:
Law & Order, Law & Order SVU, Law & Order Criminal Intent, Medium, Criminal Minds, Columbo, Prime Suspect, The Border (Canadian), CSI, Monk...

Sci Fi:
Star Trek (especially TOS), X-Files, B5...

Educational: Nova, anything Dinos, Dirty Jobs, Survivorman, Man vs. Wild

Hypochondriac TV: Mystery Diagnosis & Medical Mysteries

Chicago Hope or ER?: Chicago Hope

Twisted Animation: The Simpsons, South Park, Family Guy, King of the Hill, American Dad

Oldies but Goodies: M*A*S*H, Bewitched, Seinfeld, Northern Exposure, Twilight Zone and Outer Limits (originals), Night Gallery, Dark Shadows, All in the Family...

Guilty Pleasures: Xena (kickass cheesy), I Dream of Jeannie (very sexist but who can resist a young Barbara Eden in a harem outfit?), 24--especially Season 5 ("Republican Torture TV" "Jack Bauer Power Hour"), The Red Green Show (VERY corny, embarassingly corny), Dirty Jobs (er...appropriately titled)...

Would watch just for: Batman for Eartha Kitt as Catwoman.

Fav music:

For feeling hope and optimism: Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

For "Oneness": Mercan Dede

Transcendence: Ghazal (a Kurdish-Iranian and Indian duo)

Melancholic Chills: Djivan Gasparyan

For current interest genres: Classical/Folk of Persian/Irani/Turkish (including overlapping Kurdish, Georgian and Armenian). North African, Algerian, Arab, Nubian, Sufi. Flamenco, Sephardic and Fado. Balkan and Greek. Classical Chinese and Japanese music.

Also: Blues, Blues-Rock, 60s and early 70s British Rock and British Folk Rock, Rockabilly, Traditional Gospel, Irish/Celtic, Cajun, Latin Rock, Latin Jazz. PowWow drums. Jazz, Classical, Early Music, Medieval. Klezmer. African, Caribbean, Brazilian.

Beethoven (especially #9), Bach, Vivaldi, Pachelbel, Custer LaRue, Anne Azema,
Loreena McKennitt, Clancy Brothers, Silly Wizard, Pentangle, Sandy Dennis, Led Zeppelin, Eric Clapton (and every group he has been in), The Beatles (all 4 of them), The Stones, Cat Stevens,
Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, Neville Brothers, Dr. John, Santana, Stevie Wonder, Joan Baez, Joni Mitchell, James Taylor, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Allman Brothers, Beausoleil (fell in love with their music from "Belizaire the Cajun"), Ravi Shankar,

Winds for the Soul and Percussion for the Heart. Strings for the Mind.

Fav holiday:

Halloween, Rosh Hashanah, Mardi Gras

Thing(s) you'd save / treasure in the post-apocalypse:

Family, Friends, Animals, Nature that made it through, Gardens, Artwork and Literature and Science not destroyed.

Thing(s) that should be wiped from the face of the earth:

Hate, Intolerance, Narrow-Mindedness, Cruelty, Arrogance, Greed.

Person(s) on your awesomeness list:

My Mom and her partner, my husband and my brother.

My friend Andy who always sets me back on course.

My friends John, Shirley, Kip, Jenika, Geri, Wally...

My belly dance instructor Nadira
http://nadira.com/

Michelle (Missy) Young (owner) of Animal Talk Rescue
http://www.animaltalkrescue.org/

My nephews and niece. The remaining part of my dad that is not yet a pod person for neocon ideology (this is a great sadness for me).

Person(s) that should be rocketed to the sun:

Look to the daily news for a daily selection of hateful, intolerant, narrow-mindeded, cruel, arrogant and greedy "actors" and "actresses" on this All-the-World's-a-Stage.