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Deaf Mute Heroine

I am here for Friends

About Me


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MUSIC FOR EXPERIMENTAL FILM (excerpts from new DVD)

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About me:
As I keep receiving job offers through MySpace, I take this opportunity to make it clear that my current work (swordwoman) is full-time, thus preventing me from accepting other attractive and highly rewarding jobs, such as au-pair, porter or selfless mother of two orphan children who suddenly turn into five, etc., which I would be otherwise delighted to perform, provided that I could take my sword always with me, of course.
However, I must insist on the point that this is not my place for networking. Strange as it may seem, even people as despicable as me do sometimes put down their swords or use them just to do their nails, trim the bangs of a good friend or crack some nuts.
As regards my much-trumpeted card collection, it consists of photographs of hicks dressed in their traditional regional costumes, though I must say it is now already complete (hurrah!) and I am not trading with it anymore. As a matter of fact, as I was running out of space, I have decided, in an unselfish gesture that does me credit, to donate this invaluable collection to SERGI , a Galician non-profit organization devoted to the welfare of certain abused or neglected animals, namely rodents.


My Interests

Art, literature, cinema, music, good wine, Seville, Oaxaca, Guilin, NYC, Madrid. Strolling around Barcelona with Candela and Rusty and discovering unknown, haunting places, like this:

Arte, literatura, cine, música, buen vino, Sevilla, Oaxaca, Guilin, Nueva York, Madrid. Pasear por Barcelona con Candela y Rusty y descubrir lugares desconocidos y alucinantes como este:


Continuously slapping Vera ’s neck with the palm of my hand –she is such a little girl, always muddling everything up!
Collejear constantemente a Vera –¡es tan pequeña, siempre enredando!



I'd like to meet:

Who I'd like to meet:

At this stage, I guess it is as useless as preaching in the desert, but I would prefer that anyone thinking about sending me a friend request or a message, did it because they have first had a look at my profile and think that we share similar interests (i.e. he or she is arapahoe/is here for picture card exchange, etc.). I do not intend to add as many people as possible, as if my life depended on it. So what? In any case, thanks for the incovenience.
A estas alturas, supongo que es tan inútil como predicar en el desierto, pero me gustaría que cualquiera que esté pensando en enviarme un "friend request" o un mensaje, lo hiciera porque ha echado antes un vistazo a mi perfil y cree que tenemos intereses similares (es arapahoe, está aquí para intercambiar cromos, etc.). No pretendo añadir amigos a troche y moche, como si me fuera la vida en ello. ¡Ea! En todo caso, gracias por las molestias.



Current time in:


Barcelona Hong Kong London

Los Angeles Mexico City Nairobi

New York St. Petesburg Tokyo

Music:



In no particular order: Lou Reed / The Velvet Underground , Tom Verlaine / Television , Beck , Jon Spencer Blues Explosion , PJ Harvey , Steve Wynn , Tom Waits , Rickie Lee Jones , Marianne Faithfull , Laurie Anderson , David Bowie , Nick Drake , Jeff Buckley , Antonio Vega / Nacha Pop , The The , Joy Division / New Order , Talking Heads , The Clash , Richard Butler / The Psychedelic Furs , Echo And The Bunnymen , Brazzaville , Richard Hawley , Aimee Mann , Cat Power , Low , Willard Grant Conspiracy , Chuck Prophet , Jenny Lewis And The Watson Twins , Camera Obscura , Underworld , Death In Vegas , Leftfield , Nina Simone , John Coltrane , Ornette Coleman , Raynald Colom and many more...

Movies:

'The Wind' (Victor Sjostrom, 1928), 'A Room At The Top' (Jack Clayton, 1959), 'El ángel exterminador' by Luis Buñuel (1962), 'The Deaf-Mute Heroine' (Wu Ma, 1971), 'El desencanto' (Jaime Chavarri, 1976), 'Arrebato' (Ivan Zulueta, 1979), 'The Tenant' by Roman Polanski (1976), 'Rumble Fish' (Francis Ford Coppola, 1983), 'Stranger Than Paradise' (Jim Jarmusch, 1984) 'Trouble In Mind' (Alan Rudolph, 1985), 'Der Himmel uber Berlin' (Wim Wenders, 1987), 'Crimes and Misdemeanors' (Woody Allen, 1989), 'Miller's Cross' (Joel Cohen & Ethan Cohen, 1990), 'Unforgiven' (Clint Eastwood, 1992), 'The Usual Suspects' (Bryan Singer, 1995), 'In The Mood For Love' (Wong Ka-Wai, 2000), 'Mullholand Drive' (David Lynch, 2001), 'Memento' (Christopher Nolan, 2001), 'Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind' (Michel Gondry, 2004).


Television:

I don't usually watch TV, but Candela got me into 'Lost' and Rusty into 'Heroes.'

No suelo ver la televisión, pero Candela me aficionó a 'Lost' y Rusty a 'Heroes'.

Books:

Here is my bright side: The Life and Opinions of Tristam Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne (1759), Histoire comique des États et Empires du Soleil by Savinien de Cyrano de Bergerac (1657/62), any book by Diderot, Voltaire, De Quincey, Swift or Butler –who ever said satire was a minor genre?
And here is my dark side: Nightwood by Djuna Barnes, The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot, Poems and Prophecies by William Blake.
Fiction: Ficciones by J.L. Borges; and non-fiction: Mémoires d'outre-tombe by F.R. Chateaubriand.
Any good essay on literature, or art in general.

Heroes:

Obviously, The Deaf Mute Heroine .

The Unknown Rebel

Not exactly heroes, but some people I really admire: Voltaire , Laurence Sterne, Djuna Barnes , Tina Modotti , Joe Strummer , Tom Verlaine , Dan Stuart A.K.A. Danny, Steve Wynn A.K.A. Dusty.

Danny & Dusty – The Word is Out

Live at the Music Machine, West Los Angeles, CA 1986-02-01

MY Details

Status: Nobility
Only here for: Picture card exchange
Orientation: Landscape, preferably
Hometown: A Town Called Walker
Shoe size: 7
Ethnicity: Arapahoe (50%) and Chinese (50%)
Religion: The true one
Sign: Pisces
Smoke / Drink: Sometimes / Sometimes
Parents: Proud daughter
Education: Misspent
Occupation: Swordwoman

My Blog

Vidas reescritas II: El Sr. Amorós

La semana anterior a su llegada, me había llamado la secretaria del Sr. Amorós para que me acercara a su oficina a ver sus cosas. Por lo visto, quería que decidiéramos juntas qué se llevaría su j...
Posted by Deaf Mute Heroine on Mon, 24 Sep 2007 03:44:00 PST

Vidas reescritas I: Yanagita

Yanagita era nuestro director de administración y finanzas. Probablemente no era el mejor director de administración y finanzas que podíamos tener, pero me gustaba pensar que, al menos, sí era el más ...
Posted by Deaf Mute Heroine on Wed, 29 Aug 2007 02:46:00 PST

Deaf Mute Heroines Own Absurd Questionnaire

Why answer other people's boring questions? Who wants to be labelled like a vulgar sardines can?I have always hated questionnaires, since I was a child. Lately, I have been receiving and reading in My...
Posted by Deaf Mute Heroine on Wed, 14 Mar 2007 07:48:00 PST

Cuestionario absurdo propio de la Heroína Legendaría

Siempre he odiado los cuestionarios, desde bien pequeñita. ¿Por qué responder a las aburridas preguntas de gente extraña? ¿A quién le gusta que le etiqueten cual vulgar lata de sardinas?Estoy harta de...
Posted by Deaf Mute Heroine on Tue, 13 Mar 2007 01:23:00 PST

Best albums of the year

It is the end of the year and, of course, music magazines and web sites are already publishing their exasperating lists of so-called 'best albums of 2006.' There is also the usual debate going on in m...
Posted by Deaf Mute Heroine on Fri, 24 Nov 2006 03:41:00 PST

A Guide to Television (the band) in MySpace

This blog was first posted in November 15, 2006, when there was no official Tom Verlaine or Television page at MySpace. I am happy to have to swallow my words, as there is "a Tom Verlaine sanctio...
Posted by Deaf Mute Heroine on Tue, 14 Nov 2006 03:03:00 PST

Who is The Deaf Mute Heroine?

'A rhythmic hypnotic drumbeat cascades over the solitary female character silhouetted against the blood red background. The pace of the drumbeat is quickened as she is surrounded by a large group of m...
Posted by Deaf Mute Heroine on Fri, 03 Nov 2006 04:09:00 PST