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Belle

If you never did, you should. These things are fun, and fun is good. ~Dr. Seuss

About Me

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.. now icon i'm the kind of girl who wears all her silver jewelry at once, who likes to blow soap bubbles during business meetings, and who can rarely commit to a haircolor for longer than a month, unless it's out of sloth.
i'm seldom speechless except when i first get up. some people think this is a good thing and some do not.
i once drove all the way across the US by myself, and i'm inordinately proud of that fact. in retrospect, however, the last month of my vow of celibacy could've been better timed so as not to overlap with that trip. sorry, colorado through illinois.
as a girlfriend who should know once remarked, there are no innocent feathers in my home.
i love the moon in all Her faces, and i want to see fireflies again and am prepared to drive till i do (i looked it up: according to the encyclopedia they don't live west of the Rockies; this means road trip).
i'm very loyal and steady as hell for those i consider my friends, but also very much a gypsy sagittarius who drops in and out of 'real' life. i love skin and body art from henna to ink to steel*. i'm the kind of girl who always has bookmarks in 3 books at the same time.
possibly these things are related, but polyamory completely fascinates me*.
i also read too much; people don't believe me when i say so, but i know it's true. i love me some books, y'all....science fiction, mystery, fantasy, historical, speculative fiction....the kinds of stuff Dark Carnival http://www.darkcarnival.com would sell.
if you like this kind of thing too, or in the unlikely event you like some of the BOOKS i listed below - oh my yes, i want to know you.
i'm kinky in some pretty deep ways, and i don't choose to share the details with almost anyone i know. we aren't talking about my patent leather fetish here, although i suppose that qualifies as kink. i will say that one of my ambitions is to do voice-over work in anime porn - admittedly that ain't all that kinky, but it'll have to do for now. the rest is on a need-to-know basis.
i never met a jacuzzi** or a piece of dark chocolate i didn't like*.
i also like to do perverse things with dessert toppings, letters, red cherry stems and punctuation. if i like you and you're lucky, maybe i'll show you one or more of those talents....i'm told that dessert toppings and punctuation go particularly well together.
* i'm still doing research, though.
** even if i run up a $400/month electric bill investigating.

My Interests

pirates, maidens, wenches, whipped cream, cats, kilts, the sin city that never sleeps (vegas, baby!), feathers, things punk, things cyberpunk, things tarot, things that sparkle, magic, magick, ska music, singing to myself because i'm shy, better living through chemistry, celebrating 4:20, baking magic brownies, stamping out diabetes, reading speculative fiction, writing speculative fiction, okay, actually getting up the nerve to write speculative fiction; insomnia; sleep; dream interpretation; dreams; camping out amongst the big trees, drinking mimosas in the morning, hot tubs, hummingbirds, henna painting, hair braiding, crimson, velvet, shiny things, black things, polyamory, vorpal things, people who know what vorpal things are without benefit of google, fireflies, astrology, moonlight, fishnets, lingerie, bondage, tickling, hair dye, black liquid eyeliner, driving, las vegas, sex furniture, mirrors on the ceiling, fairies, love bites, dragons, dragonflies, butterflies, eating flowers, immoral acts involving dessert toppings, immoral acts not involving dessert toppings, tying cherry stems into knots with my tongue, chocolate-covered strawberries, chocolate, music, pinball, kissing, kissing on pinball machines, love, lust, cherry-flavored bubble bath, sin, and finding ways to combine as many of the above at once as possible.

Music:

Portishead, Bad Brains, Rusted Root, the Clash, the Cramps, Shaggy, Sinead O'Connor, Ani Difranco, Ministry, Guns N Roses, Dead Kennedys, Bjork, Gorillaz, Cowboy Junkies, Dead Can Dance, Dead Milkmen, Depeche Mode, Desmond Dekker, Eminem, Black Flag, Faith No More, Fishbone, the Sundays, the Specials, the Ramones, Alice in Chains, Operation Ivy, Jane's Addiction, Billie Holiday, Indigo Girls, Peter Murphy, Mazzy Star, the Dickies, Jimmy Eat World, Dramarama, Led Zeppelin, Love and Rockets, Rancid, Iggy Pop, Bauhaus, Rush, Massive Attack, Modest Mouse, Meat Beat Manifesto, Sex Pistols, Prodigy, Primus, Madness, Prince, New Order, Nickel Creek, Offspring, Orbital, Pink Floyd, Poe, Queensryche, Patsy Cline, Prince, Blur, Soul Coughing, Red Hot Chili Peppers, the Selecter, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Smashing Pumpkins, the Smiths, the Cure, the Police, Sublime, Stone Temple Pilots, Metallica, Rasputina, Jimi Hendrix, Talking Heads, the Specials, They Might Be Giants, Vandals, Violent Femmes, Weezer, Snoop Dogg, Van Halen, Aphex Twin, fIREHOSE, Barenaked Ladies, Beck, Black Crowes, Bloodhound Gang, Concrete Blonde, Eve, Foo Fighters, NIN, FSOL, BT, PiL, REM, LL Cool J, Notorious B.I.G., XTC

Movies:

my all-time favorite movie is Dangerous Liaisons with its alternate versions Valmont and Cruel Intentions.
others: Juno, American Beauty, American Pie, Blade Runner (especially the director's cut), Bound, the Pillow Book, Chasing Amy, Clerks, Dogma, Pulp Fiction, House of Flying Daggers, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, the Crow, the Lost Boys, Princess Mononoke, the Princess Bride, Pirates of the Caribbean, the Name of the Rose, the Incredibly True Story of Two Girls in Love, the Usual Suspects, Alfred Hitchcock movies, James Bond movies, Nightmare on Elm Street movies, Indiana Jones movies, Spike Lee movies, Fantasia, Fight Club, Grosse Pointe Blank, Half Baked, Friday, Fried Green Tomatoes, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Clueless, Buffy the Vampire Slayer (no, not the TV show....the movie where Paul Reubens plays a vampire), Real Genius, Ocean's 11, LA Confidential, Labyrinth, Run Lola Run, Angel Heart, Akira, Bring It On, Dark City, Cool World, Ghost World, Go Fish, Heavy Metal, Creepshow, Jacob's Ladder, Office Space, Pee-Wee's Big Adventure, Rocky Horror Picture Show, Sin City, Se7en, Scream, Slums of Beverly Hills, Suburbia, Underworld, Twelve Monkeys

Television:

most of this box exists as a place to hide myspace profile codes. i do occasionally like watching law & order, sifl n olly (ROCK!), beavis & butt-head (huh huh huh) and old episodes of friday the 13th the series or the twilight zone.

Books:

at last, i get to find out how long these spaces really are....
Waking the Moon, Love in the Time of Cholera, Snow Crash, Stranger in a Strange Land, Memory & Dream, The Temple of My Familiar, Neuromancer, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistlestop Cafe, Name of the Rose, Rubyfruit Jungle, Dangerous Angels (the Weetzie Bat books), the Prince, e.e. cummings, the Thieves' World series, American Gods, Burning Bright, Vanishing Point, Dreamsnake, The Sparrow, Kushiel's Dart, The Prince, 100 Years of Solitude, Titan, Wizard, Demon, The Ophiuchi Hotline, Ender's Game, Resurrection Man, Mockingbird, the Night Watch, Burning Chrome, Mona Lisa Overdrive, Nevernever, Bordertown, Finder, the Snow Queen, Starfarers, Swordspoint, Tabitha King's novels (Stephen King's wife and I like her writing at least twice as much) One on One, Pearl, Freedom and Necessity, Practical Demonkeeping, Good Omens, the Anubis Gates, Earthquake Weather, Expiration Date, Last Call, Dune, The Black Dahlia, L.A. Confidential, A Wizard of Earthsea, In the Garden of Iden, The Thread that Binds the Bones, Past the Size of Dreaming, Bone Dance, Tea from an Empty Cup, Zodiac, Falcon

Heroes:

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My Blog

without Jesus, the dinosaurs would still be terrorizing us all!

I've been lectured this week about drinking chai to help open my eyes in the morning ("the church says you shouldn't drink coffee or tea!") and got into a little mini-debate ("everyone gets the right ...
Posted by Belle on Fri, 13 Jun 2008 12:50:00 PST

invasion of the redheaded couch snatcher

I woke up this morning and stumbled towards the kitchen, but stopped short at hearing a chirpy "good morning Belle!" from the redheaded twelve-year-old perched in my living room watching what passes f...
Posted by Belle on Mon, 02 Jun 2008 03:27:00 PST

no shit, Im Nietzsche.

I got sucked into the evil quiz-filled vortex of okCupid tonight once I was done with today's portion of munchkin-preparatory housework. My score on The What Political Philosopher Are You? Test: Fre...
Posted by Belle on Tue, 20 May 2008 12:02:00 PST

the plane...the plane, boss!

In four days, I will be picking up my partner's very religious Mormon mother-in-law and his son at the airport.  Oh boy....no pressure.  Pardon me, I need to go bite my nails now....
Posted by Belle on Mon, 19 May 2008 10:58:00 PST

nifty science-themed tattoos

I ran across this science-themed colllection of tattoo photos tonight. carlzimmer.typepad.com/sciencetattoo Some of these are darn cool.  There’s a picture of someone with a glottal st...
Posted by Belle on Thu, 10 Apr 2008 10:12:00 PST

a whole different KIND of wii controller....

http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/41/superpiipii.html (wow.  just....wow.)...
Posted by Belle on Tue, 01 Apr 2008 02:55:00 PST

of suspense, sweet tea, and spam

The judge has ruled that my partner’s son is coming out to live here with us, but the paperwork is taking an eternity to come through, so we’re living in a weird transitional state.  ...
Posted by Belle on Tue, 01 Apr 2008 10:35:00 PST

other people’s pets, depression and the blues

I recently heard that my late father's cat had to be put down, and it's upsetting me much more than it probably should.  It's been years since he passed on, you know?   By way of comfo...
Posted by Belle on Wed, 13 Feb 2008 11:37:00 PST

the best event of my week so far....

I got a phone call from Corinne and Laurel - surprise, they were just down the street (and yes, I'm still in California - thus the surprise!)  We got to spend a while catching up, talking ab...
Posted by Belle on Fri, 11 Jan 2008 04:06:00 PST

ho ho ho!

I'm doing a bit of counting my blessings today. Rather to my surprise, I'm having a lovely holiday season.  I received a wonderful gift from my partner, the kind that keeps on giving - ...
Posted by Belle on Thu, 27 Dec 2007 01:56:00 PST