Izzy, reading, writing, dreaming & music
Things that strike my fancy:
Plenty o' sunshine & BOOKS & BOOKS & BOOKS & BOOKS &
(Sweet) Melissa & Little Martha & Little Ivey & Izabella & Claudine & Cheap Thrills & Barefoot Ballet, names, sticks & twigs, REBELS, extraordinary boys, glint in eyes, SMIRKS, dreams, chance, Zs and Vs, Claudine + Renaud, Lazy Afternoon, genteel poverty, libraries, Pluto's, Wade's, headphones, listening to music in the dark, the darkness of movie theaters, New England sunshine, old flames, Phil-and-Vinca, Sarah-and-James, true colors, poems, steady love, teenage love, Elaine + Richard, Tene-and-Guy, Keechie + Bowie, the lovely loving and the hateful hates, the kisses and the bites, love that's made of fire,
my screwy & oddball family, the backseat, the backyard, the Big Apple (sometimes), magnetism, muses, dirty little secrets, paperbacks, the smitten, the bug bitten
Things that pluck my nerves:
Rules, people telling me what to do, dead of winter, unrequited love....
I'd like to meet:
Anyone that can say, and mean it, too: "I think I can deal with everything going through your head."
Romanticists and idealists, poets, writers, artists, true-blue Cancers, INFPs, and bibliophiles.
Music:
Music turns me on like no other!
"Music makers, thanks so much for the songs you bring..."
Some of my favorite artists:
Hope Sandoval &
Prince ("Some people tell me I got great legs/Can't figure out why u make me beg")
&Feist ("...undo my back zip...") &
Joe Bonamassa & Jimi Hendrix & Abbey Lincoln & Sade & Norah Jones & Beach House &
Esthero (BFA: "I got more than you know...") &
Esthero (WLG: "Set myself on fire; anything to turn your head...", "...liked him cause of all of the books that he read...")
Trespassers William ("...waiting for you's nice...") &
Anna-Lynne Williams of Trespassers William &
Shivaree ("I'm Looking for a melody to hold me...") &
Billie Holiday & June Christy & Sue Foley & Anita Baker & The Allman Brothers & Mazzy Star &
Torrez -- !!!! (The Evening Drag) &
Leona Naess ("All I want is the king of stone who's got me sprung and then thrown...") &
Vikter Duplaix & Helen Merrill & No Doubt & Portishead &
I love J.J. Cale's voice (mmmm!), especially on the tunes A Thing Going On & Magnolia & Crazy Mama
Movies:
I love movies with Jeanne Moreau, especially Jules et Jim and La Notte.
And, I love, love, love, love Francois Truffaut's The Woman Next Door.
Screwball comedies
Hitchcock
Oh, and I love Mystic Pizza
Television:
Young and the Restless & As The World Turns & Guiding Light & According to Jim & George Lopez & The King of Queens
Books:
I'm always hunched over some book; reading is my fix. I loooove fiction, short stories & poems. I love books & stories by Colette & Eudora & Katherine Mansfield.
I can't get enough of Fyodor Dostoevsky & Booth Tarkington & Anton Chekhov & Thomas Hardy & Jane Austen
Heroes:
Izzy, Jo Jo the Nympho, the jolie-laide, the funny valentine, the true-blue dreamers, artists starving and fed.
