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Hexotica

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My Interests

Collecting and making costume jewellery, travel, sewing. painting, interior decorating, reading literature and philosophy; politics, dancing, martial arts, and long-distance running.

Music:

My eyes start crossing when I read people's music lists so I'll just sum up: The song of my soul is The The's "Something Else This Way Lies" ; I like Noise, EBN, post-rock, electro, alternative rock, dark psy, world music, old jazz and even more ancient cabaret Old School Favorites:The The, PJ Harvey, Sonic Youth, Radiohead, God Speed You Black Emporer, Kurt Weill New School Favorites: The Streets, The Presets, Hot Chip, The Knife, God is an Astronaunt

Movies:

The Terminator, The Matrix, The Cell, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Brotherhood of the Wolves, Hero, House of a Thousand Daggers, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Farewell My Concubine, Death Becomes Her, City of Lost Children, Desperado, Kill Bill, Pulp Fiction, Natural Born Killers, Baraka, Henry and June, Pi, Orlando, Pan's Labyrinth, Party Monster, Zoolander

Television:

Ok I confess I'm a SBS addict--Dateline, Insight and Hot Docs are all I need to get along in the world and maintain my non-postal demeaner.

Books:

Currently Reading: a lot of business and finance books; too quickly to list here. I'd read again and again: Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer and everything else, Anais Nin's diaries, Marguerite Duras' The Lover, the Beats, Maxine Hong Kingston's Tripmaster Monkey, Gilles Deleuze, Nietszche, Oscar Wilde, JK Huysmans' A rebours, Bataille, Erica Jong, Germaine Greer, Yukio Mishima, Rimbaud

Heroes:

Anais Nin, Henry Miller, Nietzsche, Virginia Woolf, Germaine Greer, Noam Chomsky, Maya Angelou

My Blog

Bath and London

My last memory of Dublin--looking out the bus window and seeing the Oscar Wilde rock, the one on which a statue of the witty dandy is stretched out in a most immodest pose, a wry smirk on his face, "h...
Posted by Hexotica on Fri, 12 Oct 2007 01:26:00 PST

Amsterdam to Dublin

Its been a bit of a rush for me ever since I left Berlin; I seem to be meeting people a lot more and when I do get the chance to get on the net I don't have a lot of time or I can't really afford it a...
Posted by Hexotica on Thu, 04 Oct 2007 11:16:00 PST

Addicted to the shisha--aint gonin nowhere!

Well damnit I have to leave Berlin for Amsterdam tonight and I feel like I hardly scratched the spray-painted surface of this huge funky city! RRRR! Ina gave me a tour and a half of 3 or 4 of the funk...
Posted by Hexotica on Mon, 17 Sep 2007 01:51:00 PST

BERLIN

OK, its just my first day here but, it was so exciting stepping off the train after four hours and hearing "welcome to BERLIN" that I have to get out some impressions already or there will be too much...
Posted by Hexotica on Thu, 13 Sep 2007 09:57:00 PST

Bamberg

From Munich I took the train up two hours to a little quaint town famous for its jumbled styles of buildings and cute little bridges over rushing rivers. If you have ever imagined a German town with a...
Posted by Hexotica on Thu, 13 Sep 2007 09:08:00 PST

Munich

OH GOD IT FEELS GOOD TO SIT DOWN !!!!!!!!!!! I spent all day yesterday on my feet from 8 in the morning till 9 at night exploring this neat and lively city, with its grand palace I enjoyed more than V...
Posted by Hexotica on Sun, 09 Sep 2007 07:56:00 PST

Luxembourg -Land of fairy tales

One thing I absolutely love about travel is how a little blip on a map that you might know nothing about and travel to with only a vague hope that it will be something interesting turns out to be the ...
Posted by Hexotica on Fri, 07 Sep 2007 11:33:00 PST

More cities, more beer

While still staying in Brussels, I took a few day trips out to the medieval towns of Bruges and Ghent on the trains this week. I climbed some old Belfrys but did not find any hunchbacks, then visited ...
Posted by Hexotica on Tue, 04 Sep 2007 01:06:00 PST

Too much beer in Brussels!

I am staying with a funky architect Greek born girl named Antigone in Brussels now and since the night I arrived it has been BEER BEER BEER! This place pisses beer--literally! As the theme of pissing ...
Posted by Hexotica on Sat, 01 Sep 2007 02:47:00 PST

Paris

bonjour! This keyboard is a bit weird so sorry about the mistakes!so far Paris has been tres tres jolie and just as stunningly beautiful as it is in the imagination. when I arrived it reminded me of n...
Posted by Hexotica on Sat, 25 Aug 2007 11:49:00 PST