Arcana mundi, gardening. Puns and wordplay. To further: Los Angeles, Dublin, New Orleans, history, punk rock, New Wave, books, books and books, movies and films, gnosis, synaptic leaps, symbols, signs, hoodoo, reading, clothes, smart people, shoes, jewelry, mythology, travel, art, thelema, reading, writing, food, fashion, perfume, pearls, gems, baubles, true will, love.
I'd like to meet:
Matter resolved; I've met him.
Salt, sulphur, mercury to compliment mine. Smart, funny, self-supporting, self-aware. Enjoys food, travel, fashion, art, music, shopping, pop culture of ALL eras. Can read books, write in complete sentences and use tools. Math/science is kinda hot, too. Quick wit, conscious humanity, empathetic not pathetic. Good driver, able to find parking places and to leap traditional synaptic functions in a single bound. Minimal sports gene. Openminded. Tolerant of non-traditional religious practices, if not knowledgeable about them. Uncruel, non-mean, easy going, direct, okay with pets, able to think for himself and not need others to think that way too.
Music:
Love, X, Social Distortion, BOWIE, Frank Sinatra, Boomtown Rats, The Last, Leaving Trains, T. Rex, Patti Smith, To Damascus, Mott the Hoople, Neil Young, Horslips, U2, Undertones, Blondie, X Ray Specs, the Runaways, Buzzcocks, AC/DC, early Van Halen, Stones (pre-Altamont), early Baroque dance music, the motets of J de Pres, Hildegard of Bingen, Glen Gould variations, Cole Porter, the New Wave Muzak at the Gelsons down the block-- I could just push my cart up and down the aisles for hours.
Movies:
Kiss Me Deadly, Black Widow, Pale Rider, Foxes, The Good the Bad and the Ugly, The Bad and The Beautiful, The Killers, Out of the Past, The Big Sleep (Howard Hawks, dir), Kingdom of Heaven, Leave Her to Heaven, Phantom of the Paradise, Glitter, Once is Not Enough, Valley of the Dolls, Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia, ALL SAM FULLER,All About Eve, Petulia, The Beguiled, Point Blank (both versions), Breathless (perversely both versions, but the remake for its just sick wrongness), Freaks, Of Human Bondage (1934), Saboteur, Man Who Knew Too Much, No Man of her Own, Mildred Pierce, Postman Always Rings Twice (orig), Body Double, Heat, Panic in Needle Park, Die Hard (all), The Jackal, Who'll Stop the Rain, Pretty Poison, Lord Love a Duck, Last Man Standing, Ninth Gate, A Bronx Tale, Good Fellas, Casino, Once Upon a Time in America, Destry Rides Again, ALL DOUGLAS SIRK, anything with lots of explosions, guns, fistcuffs, dust-ups, car crashes and/or laughs.
Television:
The O.C., Beverly Hills 90210, The Addams Family (for those domestic hints); historical documentaries; Deadwood; Rome. Best quote from Rome: Brutus visits Julius Caesar in Gaul, and Caesar greets him by saying, "Age suits you, Brutus."
Books:
Never met a book I didn't judge by its cover. Correctly.
Heroes:
Caresse Crosby, Liane de Pougy, Florence Farr, Maude Gonne
