i am not an effortless girl...not at ease in the world...
*"There comes a time when one asks, even of
Shakespeare, even of Beethoven, is this all?"
-Aldous Huxley
*...the inevitable danger of something so beautiful.
writing, photography, roller derby, modified bodies, naked ladies, fuzzy animals, film noir, the color green, indian food, autumn, coffee, tea, exposed brick, trains, rainy days, abandoned buildings, napping during thunderstorms, overcoming apathy
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*Tell me something dangerous and true.
*"Lovers and madmen have such seething brains..."
*"When someone else's truth is the same as your truth, and he seems to be saying it just for you, that's great."
-Bukowski
Baxter, Snatch, Hurly Burly, A Bout de Souffle, Teeth, The Orphanage, Thank you for Smoking, Cidade de Deus, Secretary, The Royal Tenenbaums, Taxi Driver, Odishon, Devil's Rejects, Garden State, Hero, I ♥ Huckabees, Harold and Maude, Four Rooms, Pecker (and other Waters' films), Last House on the Left, Lady from Shanghai, Kiss me Deadly, Un Chein Andalou, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, M
The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Flannery O'Connor's short stories, Foxfire, Ishmael, Like Water for Chocolate, Island of the Blue Dolphins, The Prophet (and other Kahlil Gibran), The Hanged Man (and other Francesca Lia Block), Kafka, Things Fall Apart, Raymond Chandler novels, The Storm (short story by Kate Chopin), Catcher in the Rye, Herland, and The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, A Collaboration with Nature by Andy Goldsworthy (art book), A Scientific Romance, Less Than Zero, The Fifth Child, Bukowski
Why are all our heroes so imperfect,
Why do they always bring me down?