"Scornful" - Egon Schiele
Music music music. Listening/playing/singing. Film - old, indie, arthouse, foreign. Photography. Art. Literature. Poetry. Ballet (check out my videos in my video section). Creativity. Web-design, wine & cheese, silence, rainy days, good food, dreaming about travel - incessantly, wine & cheese, people with beautiful souls, solitude, good company, coffee, depth, conversations with mature and intelligent people, geek-shit, jewellery-making (wire wrapping), philsophical and esoteric ponderings, metaphysics, spending money at Amazon and iTunes... and did I say wine & cheese?
I have a fondness for vintage poster-art and postcards:
"Race to the Market, Tahiti" - Nicholas Chevalier
I'd like to meet:
People who dance to the beat of a different drum. See above ... creative people, intelligent people, original & authentic people. Music/film/book buffs. Lovers of cheese, red-wine and soul. But the one thing I require is integrity. You don't have it ... dont' come knockin'.
“So much depends on human beings
at this moment finding each other:
though like different worlds they meet,
they should in unity create great things.â€
— Rudolf Steiner
"Relativity" - MC Escher
*** On Friend Requests ***
I am interested in meeting like minded people here. I'm NOT interested in friend requests from random people simply because you like my profile pic, want me for your wall'o'whores, want me to boost your numbers (Nobody has 1000 friends), want me to read your blog, or any other reason other that we may have some things in common and might become friends. Hence my small-ish list. I don't accept requests for the sake of it. And I will no longer accept requests if you are set to private and I can't see your profile.
"Creación de las Aves" - Remedios Varo
"La Tentación de San Antonio" - Salvador Dali
Music:
Myspace finds Imogene, Montoya, Belle Atmos. Yo La Tengo, Belle & Sebastian, Velvet Underground, Pink Floyd, The Moody Blues, The Doors, Donovan, The Beatles, Cat Stevens, Midnight Oil, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The Clash, The Stranglers, The Living End, Buzzcocks, The Stooges, Siouxsie & the Banshees, The Cure, Public Image Ltd, Les Claypool, Ween, Sonic Youth, Pixies, Frank Black & the Catholics, Radiohead, Portishead, Bjork, Lamb, Air, Oslo, Interpol, Editors, Cat Power, Emiliana Torrini, PJ Harvey, Fiona Apple, Liz Phair, Lou Rhodes, Sia, Lelia Broussard, Frou Frou, Groove Amarda, Hans Zimmer, Lou Reed, Herbie Hancock, Jeff Buckley, Nick Drake, Elliot Smith (what is it with the beautiful tortured departed souls??), Debussy, Ravel, Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff, Mazzy Star, Nina Simone, Penguin Cafe Orchestra, Ravi Shankar, Gustavo Santaolalla, Thievery Corporation, trip-hop occasionally, you want more????
Peter Max posters
"Tritons" - Rupert Bunny
Movies:
Jim Jarmusch, Spike Lee, Fellini, Bertolucci, Robert Altman, the Coen Bros, Scorsese, Wim Wenders, Francis Ford Coppola, David Lynch, Monty Python, Akira Kuwosara's Dreams, A Woman Under the Influence, Blue in the Face (Paul Auster & Wayne Wang), Crash, 21 Grams, Hideous Kinky, The Piano, Basquiat, Downtown 81, Being John Malkovich, Groundhog Day, The Lord of the Rings trilogy, Donnie Darko, Amadeus, Excalibur, Kundun, Baraka, Iranian movies, Bollywood movies, Amores Perros, Monsoon Wedding, Salaam Bombay!, The Motorcycle Diaries, Like Water for Chocolate, Amelie, Y tu mamá también, funny old B-movies (eg Faster Pussycat Kill! Kill! and Forbidden Planet), Blacula, Picnic at Hanging Rock, Walkabout, My Brilliant Career, Sirens, Ten Canoes, Muriel's Wedding, A Passage to India, My Fair Lady, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Breakfast at Tiffanys, An Affair to Remember, The Party, I Love You Alice B. Toklas!, American Graffiti, Harold & Maude and a million more I can't think of at this second.
'The Icebergs' - Frederic Edwin Church
"It's All Right By Me" - Tom Waits, directed by Jim Jarmusch. From the "Down by Law" Critierion Collection dvd.
It's All Right With Me
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"Pan" - Sydney Long
Television:
is something you plug a dvd player into. Oh okay, I admit ... I do turn it on ... but!! primarily to watch only TCM, Fox Classics and World Movies. The only appointment tv for me is the British series Most Haunted. I do miss: Northern Exposure, Star Trek, Seachange, Friday Night Creature Features, The Twilight Zone, Tales from the Crypt, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Sex & the City, Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, Catweasel, The Goodies.
Books:
I unashamedly love books. I particularly love old books - the older the better. I can actually get high on the smell of them. There is nothing like having an old, smelly book in your hands :-) Bliss. Reading is not just about your eyes. It's about the smell of the book, and the feel of the pages ... and language. I love language. Ever wondered why a lot of opera singers are fat? Because singing is a sensual oral experience ... like the sensual experience of food. Same with language for me ... good language rolls around in your mouth. Reading The God of Small Things is like eating ripe juicy mangoes.
Faves: The Awakening - Kate Chopin. The Diary of Anais Nin. Siddhartha - Hermann Hesse, The God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy, 100 Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Life of Pi - Yann Martel, House of Leaves - Mark Z Danielewski, The History of Love - Nicole Krauss, The Inheritance of Loss - Kiran Desai, Australian authors Thea Astley, Tim Winton, Kate Grenville, Peter Carey. Carlos Castaneda & JRR Tolkein (lumped together because I first read LOTR and the first 5 Castaneda books when I was 13 - can you imagine how that blew a 13yo mind? lol), Hunter S. Thompson, Jack Kerouac, Nietzsche, The Poisonwood Bible - Barbara Kingsolver, Jane Austen, Goethe, Edgar Allan Poe, Sylvia Plath, Pablo Neruda, The Oxford Book of Gothic Tales, The Oxford Book of Ghost Stories, John Steinbeck, Eric Maisel's coaching books on creativity, Original Self: Living with paradox and originality - Thomas Moore, Rudolf Steiner (occasionally - he is very heavy going), Stephen King's older works, basically anything that catches my fancy. Oh ... and (blush) I collect old 'pony' books. Young girls books from the 30s, 40s, 50s and 60s about ponies and horses. A leftover from my childhood. As is the penchant for ghost stories.
"Flamingos" - Sydney Long
Heroes:
My creative web - my writer friends, my musician friends, my artist friends - who all inspire me. Truth-tellers, soul-lovers, deep-thinkers and people with integrity of self--most importantly.
"Mystery and Melancholy of a Street" - de Chirico
"Sex Without Love"
- Sharon Olds
How do they do it, the ones who make love
without love? Beautiful as dancers,
gliding over each other like ice-skaters
over the ice, fingers hooked
inside each other's bodies, faces
red as steak, wine, wet as the
children at birth whose mothers are going to
give them away. How do they come to the
come to the come to the God come to the
still waters, and not love
the one who came there with them, light
rising slowly as steam off their joined
skin? These are the true religious,
the purists, the pros, the ones who will not
accept a false Messiah, love the
priest instead of the God. They do not
mistake the lover for their own pleasure,
they are like great runners: they know they are alone
with the road surface, the cold, the wind,
the fit of their shoes, their over-all cardio-
vascular health--just factors, like the partner
in the bed, and not the truth, which is the
single body alone in the universe
against its own best time.
Medicine (Hygieia) - Gustav Klimt
"Elle Loge La Folie" - Robert Matta
Premonicion - Remedios Varo
