Joanna - ProfilesArchive

About Me

. I'm willing to share all the best bits of the books you can't be arsed to read.
. Baby, I can listen to you talk all damn day.
. All of my dreams take place in the greater Toronto metropolitan area, as if there's an ulcerous executive in my head shouting "I don't care where it's set, it's cheaper to film in Canada, goddamnit!"
. I just moved to Brookline, and it fuckin rocks.
. Favorite places: Pete's Candy Store, Spofforth, Satellite of Love, Portsmouth NH, the roof of my old apartment building, the Buddhist Hell Theme Park in Saigon, Joshua Tree National Park, Henry Urbach Architecture, Greenwood Cemetery, your mom's house.
. I am a practicing Pastafarian.
. Letters of recommendation presented upon request.
. I gots me a job! Come visit me at Lorem Ipsum Books, near Inman Square. We don't actually get any customers, so the company would be much appreciated.

My Interests

You're the only song I want to hear...

I'd like to meet:

Whiskey priests; scryers; lads of the UK persuasion; someone who can explain the Merovingians without resorting to pop etymology; those who bear striking resemblance to Antonin Artaud, pre-hospitalization; anyone from Boston; someone to play Mage with; people who'll go to team trivia at Tommy Doyle's with me on Tuesdays; boys who watch Chris Marker movies; beleaguered smokers; visionaries; pen-pals; the curious.

Music:

sad bastard music

Books:

If you're looking for fiction recommendations, StoryCode is Teh Awesome!
Loneliness of A Long-Distance Runner; The Fall; The Man Who Was Thursday; Under a Glass Bell and Collages by Anais Nin (get that Cities of the Interior piffle away from me); Three Christs of Ypsilanti; Crusoe in New York; Notes from Underground; Hitchhiker's Guide to the etc.; Theatre et Son Double; Situationist City; Urban Magick; Lipstick Traces; The Third Policeman (hot! bicycle! action!); Theatre of the Absurd; Hellblazer; Middlesex; Acme Novelty Library; Valis and Time Out of Joint by Philip K Dick; Invasion of the Space Invaders by Martin Amis; Neverwhere, Sandman, and everything by Neil Gaiman besides Stardust (Worst Comic Ever); Book of Lies, the Disinfo Guide to the Occult; Sex and Rockets, the Jack Parsons Story; everything by HP Lovecraft, particularly He; Woyzeck; Valentines Manuals of New York.
Mostly I read in self-defense, in the same way you might, for example, attempt to eat your way out of an avalanche of chocolate pudding.

Heroes:

Between skin and skin, only light. --John Fowles, 'The Magus'

My Blog

Hot! Theremin! Action!

So my roommate Steve just bought a theremin, making us - no word of a lie - a two-theremin household. I feel like we should have to register somewhere. Anyway, it's a great toy, providing mirth and sq...
Posted by Joanna on Sun, 14 Aug 2005 03:19:00 PST

Because you can't be arsed: volume 2, July 28

July 28 Bulletin from the book world: Rat Scabies of the Damned co-wrote a book about the Merovingians. Rat Scabies. Merovingians. Sweet Lord! My head a splode! Everyone go buy this book right no...
Posted by Joanna on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Because you can't be arsed, volume 1: July 24th and 25th

So I've started working 11-hour shifts lately. For those of you panting to know how a fine lady spends 11 hours at a small, lovable, failing bookstore, I humbly offer my story instead.Sunday, July 24G...
Posted by Joanna on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Ah, ah, Boston you're my home

So the vague threat of moving to Cambridge has finally come to pass. What have I learned so far? .Driving in Boston is like living on a decaying glacier - when you wake up, the roads that you've tra...
Posted by Joanna on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST