POE AND CYNTHIA's FAVRORITE THINGS:Sorcery and Magick; Astrology; Metaphyics; Talking to Dead People. Cynthia loves the TAROT. Fortunately for her, the TAROT loves Cynthia back. Edgar prefers people who are halfway between alive and dead. Cynthia prefers those are dead, stay that way; but who continue to touch base now and then. Edgar likes fooling people about his Magickal Powers; Cynthia prefers to show them off whenever possible.GODS AND GODDESSES:Both Edgar and Cynthia are infatuated with Artemis/Diana/Cynthia...though clearly, Pan/Bacchus/Dionysus and Lord Hades, Persephone and Gaia, Venus/Aprodite, are way up there. (As above; so below.) Poe could not deal well with Hecates. Poe dealt well with Pan, Mercury, Apollo and Hades, since he personified them. As did Poe's "personal God," George Gordon, Lord Byron.
I'd like to meet:
EDGAR POE: I am always edgar, ahem..eager, to meet, and become intimate friends with--women writers, poets or actresses of any age. I am neither mysogynistic, nor ageist; nor sexist. Sadomasichistic, perhaps, in your colloquial lingo. I also like to meet woman who will both mother and smother me in their bosoms, as well as those longing for a loving tete a tete.
A woman must be able to tolerate me during my darkest nights of the soul; most outrageous drunken bouts; my philandering ways; and my complete inability to speak the truth about anything from my age to my shoe size. Strong women are always welcome; but I am equally partial to the weak, sickly and pathetic.
Women who are half alive, or half dead, are always preferable, as there is nothing so poetic as the death of a beautiful young woman....CYNTHIA CIRILE, Poe Webslinger: There are many dead people I would like to meet, and a few, especially Warren Zevon, who I curse myself for having missed meeting on this plane. Ah, the yearning! I don't disdain the living. But, sometimes feel I have met one too many people in the flesh. What I like most about dead people is that they cannot destroy you by pulling the rug from under our reality.
However, I will admit that Eddy has done this to me over and over again--which ultimately, disproves my theory entirely. Do I contradict myself?
Well. naturally.
Music:
CYNTHIA CIRILE: MUSICAL ICONS:
Warren Zevon, Poet Laureate of the 20th/21st Century; Patti Smith, The Eternal Goddess of Rock and Roll; The Band (Levon Helm; Robbie Robertson; the late, great Rick Danko; Neil Young: Crosby, Stills and Nash....CSNY...The Grateful Dead; Melanie; Jimi Hendrix; RichVan Morrison; Aretha Frankin; Janis; and Peter Noone; Stephen Foster Collins; Ben Harper; we admire the supernatural talent at the harp of John Popper; we dig Melanie; Springsteen; Dylan (Zimmerman, not Dylan Thomas;) Gerard Way (a fine lyricist;) Jim Carroll; Julie Andrews. The Weavers, and the inimitable Pete Seeger. Pavarotti; Mario Lanza; all GREAT musical theater. And we can never forget POCO, the Buffalo Springfield, and, the everlasting Richie Furay. (Praise the Lord for Richie!)
Movies:
ACTORS POE ADMIRES:Junius and Edwin Booth. Eliza Poe and David Poe, naturally. Fanny Kemble and her father; Edmund Keene; Sarah Siddons, Edmund Keane; William MacReady-- the entire Darley acting clan (esp. ELEANORA Darley and John Darley) the entire Sully acting clan, but especially Matthew Sully, father of Thomas Sully--who was in love with our dear lost mother, Eliza. The Ushers, of course, who succored our mother; Agnes Pye Usher and her tragic brother...victim of the House of Usher.ACTORS CYNTHIA ADMIRES:
Carole Lombard; Clark Gable; Errol Flynn; Garbo; Valentino; Chaplin; We both love and detest Loretta Young. We love her talent and her beauty, but detest her treatment of her love child with Clark Gable;) the great JOHN GARFIELD; John Barrymore, Lionel Barrymore; Edward Arnold; Eugene Pallette; Ronald Colman; Oliva de Havilland; Mary Pickford; Houdini (on and off screen;) Lillian and Dorothy Gish; James Cagney; Charles Laughton. Jean Harlow; William Powell. Montgomery Clift.And more recently:
Woody Allen; Ben Stiller; Brando; Doris Day; James Dean; James Garner; Bogart; Peter Falk; Alan Arkin. ALL TIME FAVE FLICKS: Birth of a Nation; all Lombard or Gable vehicles; all Frank Capra films; "Humoresque," starring John Garfield. "My Man Godfrey," Lombard/Powell/Gregory De laCava;" Robin Hood," "Captain Blood," "The Sea Hawk," Errol Flynn starrers; "Red Dust," "San Francisco," "The Misfits," and especially, Capra's Gable/Claudette Colbert starrer, "It Happened One Night." "The Heiress," a thinly disguised version of Poe's doomed affair with Sarah Helen Whitman, based on Henry James, "Washington Square."FAVORITE POP COMEDIES:
Love and Death,The Mystery Men, Zoolander
(Poe shudders at the inclusion of the last two films on his website. Sorry, Eddy...at least you would have liked, Love and Death.)
Television:
Sid Caesar; Your Show of Shows; Mary Tyler Moore; Dick Van Dyke; Rowan Atkinson/Hugh Laurie et al., BLACK ADDER (BBC) The Eternal Monty Python's Flying Circus--and ALL the Pythons (John Cleese; Terry Gilliam; Eric Idle; Terry Jones, and the late great Graham Chapman. Larry Sanders Show; Larry David, Curb Your Enthuiasm; Fresh Prince of Bel-Air and Roseanne--some of the best written television shows of all time.Mr. Poe cannot comment on his fave television shows at this time.
Books:
OTHER WRITERS WHO ARE NOT EDGAR A. POE:Edgar A. Poe; Nathaniel Hawthorne; Charles Dickens; Herman Melville; Walter Pater, Dante Gabriel Rossetti; Christina Rossetti; Algernon Charles Swinburne; Charles Baudelaire (half brother of Poe, must be-- take a look at them!) The Brontes (aka, THE BELLS!!) Kahlil Gibran; Alexandre Dumas; George Lippard; Leslie Fiedler; Dave Barry; Thomas Paine; Amy Lowell (neice of James Russell Lowell!) Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, (though we publically pretend to hate each other for publicity purposes only. We (EDGAR!) publically hate ANYONE from Boston or even Lowell, Mass, also for pubicity (and safety) purposes, but really, we are are Brer Rabbit--and they, our Briar Patch.Webslinger is enamored with Oscar Wilde; Henry James; D.H. Lawrence, James Joyce and Dostoevysky, especially, Crime and Punishment.Most recently--Webslinger is infatuated with all the writings of the modern-day Thomas Moore, author of Soul Mates; and most recently, The Dark Night of the Soul.Poe would have enough meeting this down to earth Thomas Moore as well as his own eponymous hero.
Heroes:
POE-tically speaking: Edgar A. Poe--of course, or why would we be here??
We appreciate (Eddy and I) Lord Byron; Thomas Moore (the Irish song-writer; though Cynthia loves the spiritual writer of the same name;) Walt Whitman; John Keats (Junketts!!) Percy Bliss Shelley; Shakespeare (duh!) Elizabeth Barrett Browning, The Noblest of her Sex; James Russell Lowell (immensely); Henry Beck Hirst; Park Benjamin; Sarah Helen Whitman; and of course, our lady love, Frances Sargent Osgood. Cynthia is fond of Emily Dickenson and Alfred Lord Tennyson. Poe and Cynthia are great admireres of William Wordsworth.A twist:
THOSE WHOM WE HATE WITH A PASSION:RUFUS WILMOST GRISWOLD; Michael Moore; MARGARET FULLER; Anne C. Lynch; Thomas Dunn English (but we start out liking him a great deal!) ELIZABETH FRIES ELLET (she KILLED our Virginia!!); GHANDI (okay, a joke, pardonne...but not joking about Michael Moore.) We also agree to publically disdain the Great poet James Russell Lowell, whom we actually regard as a brother. We ostensibly detest John Howard Payne, father of my half-sister, Rosalie. But, this may not be at all true.
Griswold!!!
EDDY and CYNTHIA: MUTUAL FAVE ARTISTS:Our dearest friends, Felix Octavius Carr Darley (the Father of American Illustration;) and Thomas Sully (the greatest American portrait painter of the 19th century;) John Sartain, (artist and engraver; we ADORE Sartain--but we are not at all sure if we like him personally;) ALL PEOPLE NAMED SULLY OR DARLEY; Most certainly, everyone named PEALE. From Charles Willson Peale to all the others...but especially, REMBRANDT PEALE. GUIDO; DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI (though we are not suppoed to know him or his work.) The great Emmanuel Leutze. We suppose we like BOZ, though of course, he is second rate compared to our Darling Darley. David Hunter Strother, a fine illustrator, and cousin of our dear friend, Philip Pendleton Cooke. Of course, he does not have the pen of a Darley...CYNTHIA: PERSONAL FAVE ARTISTS
Darley and Sully; Michaelangelo and DiVinci; Raphael; Van Gogh; Georgia OKeefe; Watterston; Dante Gabriel Rossetti; Holman Hunt; Edward Millais and William Morris; Elizabeth Siddal. Artemisia (nice name!) Gustave Dore (bien sure!) and anyone else who ever illustrated POE!)PEOPLE WE LOVE DEARLY WHO HAVE SOMEHOW MISSED MENTION:Virginia PoeMy Dear Muddy (Eddy)My Dear Muddah (Cynthia)
