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Lian

Actually, technically what he was mostly playing would more accurately be classified in the ragtime

About Me


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My Interests

Weimar cinema, silent films, the lost art of letter writing, Natacha Rambova, the 1920s, LibraryThing , Dawn French, kitchen-sink realism vs. Noel Coward, wayward young kitties, Rudolph Valentino, and Lebanese food.

I'd like to meet:

jack nance. abe vigoda.

Music:

b-52s "mesopotamia", angelo badalamenti

Movies:

Metropolis, Pandora's Box, Diary of a Lost Girl,Prix de Beaute, Brideshead Revisited, Blue Velvet, Heavenly Creatures, Shallow Grave, Ghost World, Grey Gardens, Picnic at Hanging Rock.

Television:

Twin Peaks, Days of our Lives

Books:

Brideshead Revisited. The Upstairs People. Blind Assassin. LuLu in Hollywood. Madam Valentino. Loitering with Intent. Cold Comfort Farm. The Parade's Gone By. Babylon Revisited: And Other Stories. Sisters by a River. The Juniper Tree. The Ha-Ha. Currently reading Picnic at Hanging Rock, The Diary of Laura Palmer, and The Skin Chairs.

Heroes:

Jim Springer Borck, Doris Eaton Travis, Little Edie, and Wesley that time he saved me from falling off a cliff.

My Blog

happy virago day

I wrote a long blog this morning but lost it through my own stupidity. So, here's a link to a nice article I just read because I'm too lazy to remember and type what I typed earlier. Virago's 30th an...
Posted by Lian on Tue, 29 Apr 2008 12:38:00 PST

swiss chalet

Wes took me to St. Francisville this weekend. We walked around a graveyard for a long time and then looked at antiques (this is about the only thing you can do in St. Francisville). He bought me ...
Posted by Lian on Mon, 28 Apr 2008 06:35:00 PST

Dear Microsoft Access,

You go to hell. You go to hell and you die!
Posted by Lian on Fri, 25 Apr 2008 08:44:00 PST

where i come from, the birds sing a pretty song

I think I may start coming in later on Fridays. I'm not sure exactly when I officially fell asleep last night or when exactly I officially woke up (for good) this morning but I do know that not a lot ...
Posted by Lian on Fri, 25 Apr 2008 06:48:00 PST

hello yucko

Do you hate the last guy you talked to?no. i probably didn't even know him, actually. When is the last time you took a nap?the day before yesterday.Do you only drink bottled water? not only, no. What ...
Posted by Lian on Fri, 25 Apr 2008 05:18:00 PST

Sweden, I want to be on you...

Did anyone catch this last night? It was interesting. Sweden is better than us....
Posted by Lian on Fri, 18 Apr 2008 06:19:00 PST

orange crush

I'm drinking Cafe L 'Orange with a little bit of whole milk in it and it is yummy. I'm so tired today. I think I fell asleep around midnight. I was going to wash all the dirty dishes and do laundry b...
Posted by Lian on Tue, 15 Apr 2008 06:38:00 PST

thats hot

i've always liked to believe that at the end of the film when he's having that awkward sloppy make-out session with molly ringwald that he's really thinking about spader...i am not even kidding. ...
Posted by Lian on Tue, 15 Apr 2008 08:00:00 PST

teryaki asthma

First of all, you should chop red onions, red bell pepper, yellow bell pepper, and orange bell pepper. Then, You should chop baked tofu into cubes and saute them with the peppers, onion, and hea...
Posted by Lian on Tue, 15 Apr 2008 05:48:00 PST

catch-up

Okay, if you send me a message and I don't respond in a timely fashion, it could be for two reasons. The first reason is that I'm on my second week of my new job and I'm a bit preoccupied and I don't ...
Posted by Lian on Mon, 14 Apr 2008 09:54:00 PST