I'm Masha, and I am very random.
I was born in Moscow, Russia, and I moved to the U.S. at a very early age. Nonetheless, I definitely consider myself to be just as Russian as I am American, because I grew up speaking, reading, and writing Russian in a Russian family, and at one point, I went to Russia every summer.
If you are honest about yourself, I am interested in getting to know you, no matter if we share interests or not. People are my main interest, and I love hearing anyone's beliefs/story/interests, even if I don't agree with them.
I am Here for:
Communicating with people!
Most likely YouTube people, as I don't know of anyone else who uses Stickam.
Hobbies:
Creative things (writing, reading, acting), friends and family, people of all sorts, silliness, concert-going, lying on the grass and looking at the sky, correcting the grammar mistakes that nobody notices, summer, traveling, being thoughtful about things not worth thinking about, random dancing, cities, lots o' books...
Favorite Movies:
Clever comedies, interesting and well-acted dramas, entertaining musicals, foreign films, whatever. If it is artsy, quirky, and colorful, there is a good chance that I will enjoy it. In no particular order, I like: A Fish Called Wanda Airplane! Amelie American Beauty The Apartment The Big Lebowski Bullets Over Broadway Butterfly Effect Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind Fargo pretty much everything directed by Francois Truffaut Girl, Interrupted (perhaps) The Graduate The Illusionist (and most other things with Edward Norton) The Italian Job (new) Junebug Little Miss Sunshine Ma Vie En Rose Maria Full Of Grace most everything Mel Brooks most things Monty Python (esp. Meaning Of Life) The Mummy (don't ask me why...) Office Space The Others Pan's Labyrinth The Pianist The Producers (old and new) Pulp Fiction Rat Race The Royal Tenenbaums various Russian children's movies and cartoons Saved The Science Of Sleep Sixteen Candles Some Like It Hot Spiderman This Is Spinal Tap Strana Glukhikh (Land of the Deaf - Russian) Stranger Than Fiction Thank You For Smoking Thirteen The Virgin Suicides Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory Yellow Submarine ...the list would go on, but my memory does not serve me as well as I'd like.
Favorite TV Shows:
Not a huge fan of TV, but watch it every once in a while.
Comedy Central Stand Up
Family Guy
Grey's Anatomy
I Love The 80's (before it got old)
Music Videos (I wish I had Fuse...)
Psych
Project Runway
Room Raiders (not sure exactly why)
SOME Saturday Night Live (older)
The Simpsons
Flight Of The Conchords
South Park
Scrubs
The Office
Top Chef
Whose Line Is It Anyway?
Favorite Music:
ABBA AdamRichman Air AlkalineTrio AllAm.Rejects AmyWinehouse AndrewBird AntiFlag ArcadeFire ArcticMonkeys ArtBrut AstorPiazzolla BEATLES Beirut Beck Brahms Baumer BeachBoys BennyGoodman Bjork BlackHeartProcession BreakingBenjamin Blink182 BlondeRedhead BlocP. Blur BrightEyes Boston Blindside BeeGees BillyReid Cake CocteauTwins ColdWarKids Coldplay CraigDavid Clash CSS DaftPunk DeathCabForCutie Decemberists Detektivbyran DresdenDolls ELO ElliottSmith Enon Elefant FranzFerd. Faint FloggingMolly FinalFantasy FionaApple FountainsOfWayne FrouFrou Futureheads Fratellis Fujiya+Miyagi GreenDay Gorillaz Goldfrapp Guster GogolBordello Heatmiser HardFi Haydn HolyFuck ImogenHeap Interpol Jet JupiterSunrise JuniorSenior JustinT. JonathanCoulton KEANE Killers Kinks KellyClarkson KTTunstall KaiserChiefs KateNash LedZep LouisPrima LadySovereign LinkinPark MCR MarilynManson Muse MarsVolta Maroon5 Mozart ModestMussorgsky Mae Mika NIN Nirvana NinoRota OFMONTREAL OKGo Offspring Oasis OingoBoingo PlainWhiteT's PhantomPlanet PlayRadioPlay PostalService QueensOfTheStoneAge Queen Rooney RockKillsKid RHCP RelientK RubenGonzalez Ramones RufusWainwright Radiohead RobThomas ReginaSpektor RickJames RiloKiley RogueWave Royksopp SOAD Sublime Spoon SexPistols SondreLerche Spoon Strokes Simon+Garf. Santana Servant SigurRos SnowPatrol Shins SufjanS. Slagmalsklubben SmashMouth Stills Stars TokyoPoliceClub Toadies TATU Tchaikovsky Turtles ThirdEyeBlind Tegan+Sara Unwrit.Law Voxtrot Weezer Who YannTiersen YoYoMa YACHT Zox +/-
Favorite Books:
I love to read.
"The Giver" by Lois Lowry
"Speak" by Laurie Halse Anderson
"The Princess Bride"
"Troy" by Adele Geras
"One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest" by Ken Kesey
"Dry" by Augusten Burroughs
"Magical Thinking" by Augusten Burroughs
"Holes"by Louis Sachar
"Lovely Bones" by Alice Sebold
"Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy" by Douglas Adams
"The Count of Monte Cristo" by Alexandre Dumas
"The Oxford Book of Supernatural Stories"
"Memoirs of a Geisha" by Arthur Golden
"Up the Down Staircase" by Bel Kaufman
"Fast Food Nation" by Eric Schlosser
"Coraline" and other things, by Neil Gaiman
a lot of stuff by Lewis Carroll, especially "Alice In Wonderland"
almost everything by Roald Dahl
"Gone With The Wind"
"Lolita" by Vladimir Nabokov
"The Stranger" by Albert Camus
"Saturday" by Ian McEwan
His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman
and, admittedly, Harry Potter.
And a lot more that I can't think of right now.
A variety of Russian children's books from my childhood.
The New Yorker.
I Love:
Um...look at my hobbies for that.
I Hate:
As little as possible.
