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About Me

This Is Just to Say

I have eaten
the plums
that were in
the icebox

and which
you were probably
saving
for breakfast

Forgive me
they were delicious
so sweet
and so cold

-William Carlos Williams

The artichoke arrived and I began to peel it away, fold by fold, layer by layer, dipping it. There is no secret about eating artichoke, or what the act resembles. Nothing else gives itself up so satisfyingly towards its centre. Nothing else promises and rewards. The tiny hairs are part of the pleasure.

What should I have eaten? Beetroot, I suppose.

A friend once warned me never to consider taking as a lover anyone who disliked either artichokes or champagne. That was good advice, but better advice might have been never to order artichokes or champagne with someone who should not be your lover.

-Jeanette Winterson, The Powerbook

My Interests

poetry
reading
writing
art
punctuation
grammar
literary translation
photography
stained-glass
confusing music
dancing
cultural clash and confusion

I am a fish eating spaghetti.
I am absolutely adorable. You want to pick me up and squeeze me until noodles come out of my nose.

I'd like to meet:

poets and artists

Music:

amon tobin
ascii disko
autechre
blonde redhead
bjork
the breeders
ceven key
dulce liquido
edith piaf
fantomas
hanzel und gretyl
haujobb
ohgr
perez prado
radiohead
raymond scott
say hi to your mom
sigur ros
velvet acid christ

Movies:

la cite des enfants perdus (the city of lost children)
the man without a past
la haine (hate)
noi the albino
dogville
delicatessen
anything by lynch
pi
the pillow book
the king of hearts
the lost skeleton of cadavra

Books:

favourite authors include
joyce mansour
vincent eggericx
charles simic
bukowski
italo calvino
neil gaiman
frank miller
edward gorey
thomas ott
umberto ecco
serge pey
gary widger
camus
plath
winterson
ha jin

My Blog

4 things that kick ass

Just came back from Infest. It was astounding. Caustic, Soman, Painbastard, Apop, and VNV Nation all put on really tight shows. I am wonderfully tired and sore from two nights of non-stop dancing. Ki...
Posted by tanya on Tue, 28 Aug 2007 03:47:00 PST

Theo Jansen

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Posted by tanya on Sun, 29 Jul 2007 05:27:00 PST

louche

louche adjective : not reputable or decent Example: Her novels are populated by louche characters wasting their days in brothels and seedy bars. "Louche" ultimately comes from the Latin...
Posted by tanya on Wed, 06 Jun 2007 02:02:00 PST

overstand

For Mr Walters: overstand, v.2 1. trans. and intr. To understand. Now used (esp. in Caribbean and African-American usage) to avoid the negative connotations of under, perceived as incomp...
Posted by tanya on Sun, 27 May 2007 04:19:00 PST

That's it

That's it, no more excuses about too much work and not enough time. I am getting off my behind and starting to get more involved with poetry around here.
Posted by tanya on Sat, 26 May 2007 04:52:00 PST

last weekend - a list

06.04.07coffeepick up rental carexperience holiday weekend trafficsee stonehenge be amazed at tourist volumesee aveburywonder why none of the tourists seemed to have made it therebe amazed at how narr...
Posted by tanya on Wed, 11 Apr 2007 09:53:00 PST

initialism versus acronym

initialism " noun an abbreviation consisting of initial letters pronounced separately (e.g. BBC).acronym " noun a word formed from the initial letters of other wo...
Posted by tanya on Sun, 25 Feb 2007 03:26:00 PST

Sleep research

For those of you who wonder what Brian does in sleep research - they talked about a study he worked on on NPR this morning:http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId =6612904
Posted by tanya on Tue, 12 Dec 2006 02:37:00 PST

the "living room" is now the box room.

my glass is here! my glass is here! my glass is here! my glass is here! my glass is here! my glass is here! my glass is here! my glass is here! my glass is here! my glass is here! my glass is here! my...
Posted by tanya on Mon, 10 Jul 2006 11:41:00 PST

two weeks of trains

and surprisingly we only came out of it with a bruise the size of an apple and two stiches. (aside, of course, from fascinating experiences and beautiful sights)it was a wonderful time. ... now to sta...
Posted by tanya on Tue, 20 Jun 2006 02:02:00 PST