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blaire

deerling.

About Me



in the desert
i saw a creature, naked, bestial,
who, squatting upon the ground,
held his heart in his hands,
and ate of it.
i said: "is it good, friend?"
"it is bitter - bitter," he answered;
"but i like it
because it is bitter,
and because it is my heart."

- stephen crane

My Interests

nostalgia, chainsmoking, short stories, witchy wifey, new moons, loving/being loved, ἔρως.

I'd like to meet:



Music:

fleetwood mac, the beach boys, cluster & eno, nick cave, xtc.

Movies:

the 400 blows, badlands, fanny and alexander, princess bride, strictly ballroom, grey gardens, in the realms of the unreal, a woman is a woman, suspiria, mommie dearest, whatever happened to baby jane?, through a glass darkly, donkey skin, weekend, vivre sa vie, jules and jim, straw dogs, the secret garden, a little princess, morvern callar, closley watched trains, persona, the tin drum, little otik, palindromes, the squid and the whale, ali: fear eats the soul, man bites dog, repulsion, juliet of the spirits, marie antoinette, stranger than fiction.

Television:

'house' with rhys! also: man vs. wild, dirty jobs, mythbusters, survivor man, i shouldn't be alive.

Books:

all of the 'best american short story' and 'o. henry award' collections, dostoyevsky, sartre, carver, goethe, sacher-masoch, mansfield, boyle, atwood, o'connor, sexton, (both of the) bowles, mccullers, cocteau, rhys, plath, ondaatje, capote, oates, munro, bukowski, mcewan, jackson, kundera, lawrence, moore, bass, garland, nin, jelinek.

Heroes:

literary wives.

My Blog

naming names:

   carlotta is right. it might as well be the thirteenth century. communication is an abstraction. the city is walled and the bricks are falling. we are besieged by charlatans and thieves. we ...
Posted by blaire on Wed, 18 Jun 2008 10:04:00 PST

like a heart:

  "her eyes filmed over with brief ghostly uninspired hallucinations now and then, but she believed this had nothing to do with the barbiturates she took to sleep, or the amphetamines she took...
Posted by blaire on Wed, 21 May 2008 05:50:00 PST

national poetry month:

boo, foreverspinning like a ghoston the bottom of a    top,i’m haunted by allthe space that iwill live without    you. - richard brautiganfull fathom five ...
Posted by blaire on Wed, 09 Apr 2008 10:02:00 PST

my loves, lately:

   '"normal courtship, normal proposal," martin said. he took off his shirt and pants and shoes. he lay on the bed in just his socks and underwear and pressed the length of his body against he...
Posted by blaire on Tue, 19 Feb 2008 06:46:00 PST