Name: Christina
Known Aliases: Mei; The Mei-Meistress; Dances-with-Cows; Cashew; Marvy Mei; Nosher of Rice Crackers
Age: 19, going on 47.
Occupation: webmeister; ex-video game addict; Joshua Bell fan; UC Davis student; photo-doctoring maven; personification of Unrequited Love.
Hobbies: playing violin badly; playing fiddle less badly; drawing; painting; writing short stories; writing poetry; playing badminton badly; listening to classical music; listening to folk music; jewelry-making; photo-doctoring; wasting all my time online at message boards; lucid dreaming
Vices: chocolate desserts; Oxford scene music from The Red Violin; men in breeches
Pets: Popo, the preccocious, persnickety, perfidious pug puppy...
Pet Peeves: people who say classical music sucks; shed dog hair on my violin case; desserts with peanut butter in them; studying; discovering a Joshua Bell CD is out of print; die-hard Andre Rieu fans; homework; MTV.
Favorite Color: all shades of green, but in particular lime green, secondly moss green, and thirdly a shade between forest and emerald green. Emerald Forest green? Nevermind.
Favorite Things: guys who are passionate about classical music; ICQ; anything that has anything to do with violins; PDQ.
Favorite Foods: chocolate (and that's dark chocolate, mind you, none of that milk chocolate bizzo); sushi of all kinds; pesto; curry; soba noodles; anything with taro in it
Favorite 18th-Century Crumpet: Horatio Hornblower, as played by Ioan Gruffudd
Favorite 19th-Century Crumpet: Fredric Pope, as played by Jason Flemyng
Favorite 20th-Century Crumpet: I refuse to tell, except that it's not Joshua Bell.
Favorite Musician: Joshua Bell, hands down.
Favorite Musicians Who Aren't Joshua Bell: since so many of you wonder... Ian Bostridge, Arthur Grumiaux, Fritz Kreisler, Maxim Vengerov, Sergei Nakariakov, NewGrange
Dude, don't you listen to any mainstream musicians? I will when thay have something worthwhile to offer.
Favorite Beads: those 6mm round garnet beads from India; green transparent seed beads
Favorite CD: Ian Bostridge's recording of Schumann lieder
Favorite Movie: The Red Violin
'Happy Place': composing pieces in my head; dreams about guys in 18th century colonial period costume...
Member of: Seafoid Cruthanta, the amateur Celtic/classical fusion ensemble
Favorite Quote:
"Pay no attention to what critics say. There has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic."
--Jean Sibelius
