Basia Kalin

I've covered an entire Jethro Tull album on a dare, joined a Klezmer group and learned, to a degree, Yiddish so I could sing AND play piccolo in the band and founded an orchestra and concert band. I survived - with most of my brain cells, a disco band. I have been a very busy mad piccolo player. I play at churches, wedding, receptions, bars, wherever I can whip out the flute or piccolo (or, on occasion, the viola) BUT I have other interests besides being the center of attention on the band stand.
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I love the Chicago Cubs - because they are family. I grew up down the street from Wrigley and you love your family no matter what. So there, Cubbie un-lovers.
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Being an aging single babe, I of course have the obligatory cats '" you can't be a mad piccolo player aging Cubs fan and not have cats.
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I love to garden but, being a city dweller am limited to my big back porch. I have grown hot peppers, tomatoes, tons of basil (my pesto kills) and of course pretty, pretty flowers.
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Another benefit of growing up in Chi-town is that the local PBS station used to run silent movies on the weekends. I got very addicted to them as a child and try to get to see them at the Chicago Silent Film Society when I can.
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Silent movies lead one to foreign films '" trust me, they do. And so, I must admit that the overwhelming majority of films I watch are foreign. I love America, but the majority of films made here are aimed at ADD teen-agers who want to see things blow up or women chain-sawed or worse. To each her own, but that doesn't float my boat so, off to France or Iran or Ireland or -- for my movie fixes. I've even got my aged moms watching them.
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Add to the above my eclectic taste in books. I must be on the FBI and CIA lists if only for all the books I checked out from the library on serial murderers. You see, I find the human mind fascinating. I am not as interested in the "what" of murders but the "why" '" why did this fellow or that become such a beast?