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Cynthia

I'm not crying. I just have something in both my eyes.

About Me

I like riding bicycles no-handed and Otter Pops. So much magical stuff...

Oscar Wilde said, "Ambition is the last refuge of failure." I'm fine, thanks.

My Interests

beauty
simplicity
decadence
eccentricity
intelligence
elusiveness
capture
humor
darkness
light
mystery
revelation
opposites
confluence

I'd like to meet:


We are indebted to the English author Horace Walpole for the word serendipity, which he coined in one of the 3,000 or more letters on which his literary reputation primarily rests. In a letter of January 28, 1754, Walpole says that "this discovery, indeed, is almost of that kind which I call Serendipity, a very expressive word." Walpole formed the word on an old name for Sri Lanka, Serendip. He explained that this name was part of the title of "a silly fairy tale, called The Three Princes of Serendip: as their highnesses traveled, they were always making discoveries, by accidents and sagacity, of things which they were not in quest of...."

Who I'd Like to Meet:

A horse whisperer,
Jareth, the Goblin King,
Nietzsche (so I can take him to Disneyland),
people who get my headlines,
and every single member of The Polyphonic Spree...

Music:

neil young
jeff buckley
verve
boards of canada
keane
aqualung
pete yorn
leonard cohen
nine inch nails
iron + wine
neko case
dead can dance
david sylvian
elbow
air
zero 7
godspeed you black emperor!
electric light orchestra
filter
the cult
faith no more
and the carpenters

Movies:

stranger than fiction
stardust
district B13
batman begins
birdy
star 80
house of sand and fog
city of lost children
the eye
american psycho
spring summer fall winter and spring
goodbye lenin
volver
the pianist
secretary
the big lebowski
the neverending story
the princess bride
mccabe and mrs. miller
one true thing
orlando
xanadu
labyrinth
the secret garden
the secret of roan inish
(anything with secrets)

Television:

carnivale was my life.

Books:

the alchemist
grimm's grimmest
shel silverstein
kafka
tom robbins
john irving
vonnegut
oscar wilde's fairy tales
tennessee williams' short stories
where the wild things are
a heartbreaking work of staggering genius
the satanic verses
the griffin and sabine trilogy
his dark materials trilogy
the sandman series

Heroes:

the velveteen rabbit
the little prince
keyser soze

My Blog

Mmmh! That's a good cookie."

"...I just figured if I was gonna make the world a better place, I would do it with cookies." ...
Posted by Cynthia on Sun, 15 Jul 2007 02:29:00 PST

Mystery

Mystery suck-my-titstery. Oh, I'm sorry. Did I give myself away? Well, get used to it cuz that's how this bitch rolls. See what I did there? That's what's called a justification in point. Or at least ...
Posted by Cynthia on Sat, 07 Apr 2007 07:47:00 PST

dreams on stage

where do they come from? where are they born, and what is the first incarnation? do they go through evolutions in our consciousness sort of like rehearsals for the play they will produce once we close...
Posted by Cynthia on Mon, 19 Mar 2007 01:53:00 PST

Coming home

An unfortunate situation has recently arisen that has given me the opportunity to take an unguided, magical tour down the lane of memory which has left me somewhat starved and confused with its tenden...
Posted by Cynthia on Mon, 22 Jan 2007 02:39:00 PST

"Hurled to the center of the earth again"

I remember being a teenager, hating to get up from the bed from sleeping. My mom used to have to pull the covers off me with a rush of cold air somehow making it all of a sudden undesirable to stay in...
Posted by Cynthia on Thu, 11 Jan 2007 10:55:00 PST

because bunnies bite

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Posted by Cynthia on Sun, 15 Oct 2006 02:48:00 PST

Sophonax

we are made of electricity and water. elements that normally interfere with each other but coexist and drive each other within our bodies. see through, MOVE THROUGH the spaces that exist between ...
Posted by Cynthia on Wed, 19 Jul 2006 01:39:00 PST

lucid dreaming

in the dream, i was standing on the balcony of my dad's apartment over the marina. there were no boats in the water when in reality there isn't an empty slip to be seen. and the balcony was right next...
Posted by Cynthia on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Barry Manilow revisited

Driving to work this morning, I heard an apparently new song on the radio by The Strokes. I like this band, have one of their albums, and although I don't really watch their progress in any ...
Posted by Cynthia on Tue, 09 May 2006 03:37:00 PST

shadows v.2

yep, since then i've seen another human-shaped shadow in my room that made me jump out of bed and run into the living room trying to breathe and slow my heart before i gathered my senses and returned ...
Posted by Cynthia on Tue, 21 Mar 2006 09:53:00 PST