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Axel von Auersperg

I am here for Friends

About Me

Organizations: completely disorganizedHobbies: Absolutely noneReligion: Baudelairean CatholicMarital status: Wedded to deathFavorite gadget: There is nothing in this life we can truly call our ownFormerly listed in Who's Who (till they decided I was no longer a promising figure. But how can I list my pseudonymous publications in my homonymous bio?)Personal Quote: "Live? Our servants will do that for us." (Axel, by A. Villiers de l'Isle-Adam. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *"But after we have reached a certain age our loves ... are begotten of anguish; our past, and the physical lesions in which it is recorded, determine our future." (Proust, Remembrance III 515) * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * AD MAJOREM GLORIAM FOEMINARUM* * * * * * * * * * * * "Il nous faut des exclamations, des interjections, des suspensions, des interruptions, des affirmations, des négations; nous appelons, nous invoquons, nous crions,nous gémissons, nous pleurons, nous rions franchement..." * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Fellini's homage to Hoffmann: Olympia! * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Please click to see Axel's desk: Trois coupes de 'cordon rouge' !* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * THIS ENDS with the crowned skull from the Capuchin crypt where Franz-Josef, Elisabeth, and Rudolf lie buried—but the skull has been washed up on the beach of the Waste Land.

My Interests

Women, horses, dogs, Poe, Hoffmann, Barbey d'Aurevilly, Baudelaire, Gabriele d'Annunzio, Proust, Mario Praz, women, society portraiture of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, nudity, women, Fellini, Visconti, twin sisters, Venice, women, baroque architecture,and women.

I'd like to meet:

Sara, Hauteclaire Stassin, Oriane de Guermantes, Fanny Ardant playing Oriane de Guermantes, Isabella Inghirami, Coré, Teresa Raffo, Jennifer O'Neill playing Teresa Raffo, Diana Rigg playing Emma Peel, Nico playing Nico, Mary Keene, Lee Miller, Deirdre Day, Caroline Blackwood, Greta Garbo, Romy Schneider, Capucine, Virginia Oldoini di Castiglione, Cristina Trivulzio di Belgiojoso, Sylvie Guillem, Plum Sykes and Lucy Sykes * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * UND NUN ein bißchen amerikanische Kultur! (WARNING: The management is not responsible for other videos in this person's playlist!)

Music:

Bach, Buxtehude, Mozart, Wagner, Brahms, Franck, Debussy, Glinka, Tosti, Charles Marie Widor * * * * * * * * * THE GREATEST PRELUDE: * * * * * * * * THE GREATEST FUGUE:

Movies:

Anything with corsets and gondolas, Kristin Scott-Thomas and Serena Scott-Thomas, Isabelle Adjani, Fanny Ardant, Catherine Deneuve and Françoise Dorléac, Nicole Kidman, Stefania Sandrelli, Laura Antonelli, Chiara Mastroianni, Cate Blanchett, Jill Hennessy and Jacqueline Hennessy, Laila Robins, Emanuelle Béart, Gillian Anderson, Ornella Muti...

Television:

Classic Arts Showcase, The Prisoner, Chapeau melon et bottes de cuir

Books:

In preparation.

Heroes:

They are unfashionable, and it would be a scandal if I...

My Blog

Taking a breather

Sorry, I'm not leaving posts on the pages of my lovely friends just now. I finished a draft a few days ago, and am resting. For just a little while. Thanks.
Posted by Axel von Auersperg on Thu, 12 Jul 2007 04:05:00 PST

Ms. Oliver's Poetry

[A spontaneous and unsolicited review of  Where the English Housewife Shines by Alexandra Oliver, 76 pp., published by The Tin Press, 2007]   Perhaps contemporary letters would be well ...
Posted by Axel von Auersperg on Mon, 11 Jun 2007 09:28:00 PST

Warning

Auersperger's Syndrome sufferers are dispossessed barons with marked deficiencies in social skills, obsessive intellectual preoccupations, and difficulty with transitions or adjusting to change. They ...
Posted by Axel von Auersperg on Thu, 07 Jun 2007 04:00:00 PST

Villiers de lIsle-Adam dines with Wagner

I watched the full nine-hour version of Tony Palmer's Wagner biopic starring Richard Burton yesterday and today. It contains wonderful odd things, such as William Walton playing the somnolent Elector...
Posted by Axel von Auersperg on Mon, 04 Jun 2007 06:22:00 PST

Why is Axel posting pictures of Ettore Manni on everyones page?

Ettore Manni, that "aging Hercules," played il Dottore Sante Katzone ("Santino") in Città delle donne, Fellini's 1979 film commemorated elsewhere on this page. The doctor is Snaporaz's savior and prot...
Posted by Axel von Auersperg on Thu, 24 May 2007 03:07:00 PST

The lady who claimed she was romantic and sensible.

The obvious question: how can you be both?   "Sensibly romantic?"   I've combed MySpace far and wide to find my valued friends. On the way, I've seen abominable things. Every cliché ever u...
Posted by Axel von Auersperg on Thu, 24 May 2007 03:04:00 PST

WANTED!!! European Wax Museum Expert! Please help!

I badly need an expert on European wax museums, 1890-1939.  Not some wacky semiotician who marxofreudoblathers about wax museums as the pop culture precursors of Hollywood movies, but a real hist...
Posted by Axel von Auersperg on Sun, 20 May 2007 03:07:00 PST

This electronic Axel's Castle now has a picture gallery just for Axel's friends.

Some of Axel's experiments and life and art can now be seen. But this will not be a penny amusement for the vulgar. Rest in peace, Isabella Blow.  A great burden now falls to Persephassa, the key...
Posted by Axel von Auersperg on Fri, 11 May 2007 03:58:00 PST

"The Girls of Hooters" want to be my friend?

I don't think so. They will not send me pictures of Wittelsbach sisters and chromolithograph calendar images. They do not watch Fellini. They will not read the fascinating blog I am going to have some...
Posted by Axel von Auersperg on Mon, 07 May 2007 05:35:00 PST

Eheu amicam perdidi

Alas, I have lost a friend! Not a MySpace friend. A tender-eyed one from elsewhere,  unused to the great nihilist spectacle, now disillusioned by a glimpse of this page.  I suppose my l...
Posted by Axel von Auersperg on Wed, 18 Apr 2007 09:23:00 PST