Nova Lani - ProfilesArchive

About Me

i like baths, i like drinks, i like tea, i like mini golf, i like palm trees, i like sepia, i like the idea of things being turquoise,i like not owning a cd player, i fancy the notion of tortured artists, i like that i used to live in squalor and now i prefer a home, i like the way pages feel,i like boone's farm on warm afternoons,i like hot tubs in the snow, i like mexico, i like running away as a plan b, i like bad weather with nothing to do,i like "balmy", i like engaging in late night music, i like turning nouns into verbs and adjectives, i like a person that can dance with me, i like any era but this one, i like people who dont bore me,i like cynics,i like clear and colorful vs. matte and opaque,i like believing in horoscopes,i like the sound of fans in summer,i like the filth of cities, i want a gramophone,i like that 19th. century photos creep me out enough to be fascinated,i like how sharks scare me enough to watch programs about them, i like words,i like technology, i like to read the dictionary, i like asking my grandmother to see the old family photos every time i see her,i like cemetary picnics, i like the peace of libraries and museums, blah blah...popsicles...blah i hate complications,i don't like shopping for pants, i hate technology,i hate new furniture especially if it is beige, i dislike silence,i don't like caring too much, i hate those that think that there really are better things to be doing than sitting in a bar

My Interests

i like the rain and night swimming (night swimming *in* the rain?), i like to read and write, i like watching atrociously bad programs on the tele, i like peeking into mausoleums, i especially enjoy eating constantly, i like champagne,antiques and old books, i love bev nap art, i like falling off of my barstool from laughing so hard

I'd like to meet:

more hedonists

Music:

bowie, t rex, beatles , 'Appetite' guns n roses, the cure, the smiths, the cars(ahh '80's new wave), patsey cline, sam phillips, brian eno, all of my friends that make good music, prince, sam cook, john lennon, the buzzcocks ,neutral milk hotel, stones, zombies, roxy music, the sparks, roy orbison, otis redding , undertones, jack scott, both sinatras....django, elvis presely, elvis costello, clyde mcphatter, buddy holly, billie holiday, ella fitzgerald, jonathan richman, chuck berry, elliot smith, nick lowe, cyndi lauper, roky ericcson---anything Stiff, ELO, santo and johnny, nouvelle vague, edith piaf, louie armstrong. jazz.reggae.doo wop. brazil. france... there are always new things

Movies:

edward scissorhands, beetlejuice, harold and maude, rocky horror, cold mt.,pecker,eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, garden state,secretary,ELVIRA, bram stoker's dracula,addicted to love, the aviator, ghost world, lost in translation.next stop wonderland.

Television:

hbo is my new hobby

Books:

currently reading:stephen king whatevers

Heroes:

Bartelby the scrivener. virginie gautreau

My Blog

all of our little black books

i lifted a book, only to ultimately realize that we all keep these records...quietly or publicly. with or without torment. but mostly, with torment, i should think. when the pain subsides and the ple...
Posted by Nova Lani on Thu, 23 Aug 2007 03:16:00 PST

iced coffee lacking a flavor

absolute madness on a friday afternoon. i am trapped in a brewery alone. it is downright rotten; in fact, it is insufferable. i was informed the other day by a colleague that you can time "when doves ...
Posted by Nova Lani on Fri, 01 Jun 2007 12:02:00 PST

a moment close to dawn

i was thinking tonight about the possibilities of the elusive epiphany...what does such a thing entail? the realization of something that means something to some person specifically??? my epiphany wou...
Posted by Nova Lani on Thu, 12 Apr 2007 02:30:00 PST

provinciality (to soul)

i had a rather stressful night last night due to the fact that i almost died more times than i can remember.on my way to my doom i became lost in a subdivision and in a marriot parking lot, and instea...
Posted by Nova Lani on Thu, 05 Apr 2007 12:01:00 PST

musings of a sunday

Hers was a smell that permeated everything. She was one of those girls whose perfume lingered on her every belonging. Upon lifting the folded scarf that I found left behind, I could smell the light an...
Posted by Nova Lani on Mon, 19 Feb 2007 09:09:00 PST

hungover anxiety

She let the apathy rise in her until it choked her down to a level that only brought her back up to a level of calm resignation. The weights that found themselves attached to her mind allowed her to s...
Posted by Nova Lani on Wed, 14 Feb 2007 08:48:00 PST

on pale ales

so, out of curiosity i would really like to know what the big deal is about these godforsaken pale ales?! they are all aptly entitled exotic names such as, "india pale," or, "sierra nevada,"...
Posted by Nova Lani on Fri, 09 Feb 2007 11:42:00 PST

what's my subject

sitting in the office at work ,(or whatever one might want to label going to a place regularly to sit around with no heat or customers), i can't seem to stop giggling to myself. perhaps i am fin...
Posted by Nova Lani on Thu, 08 Feb 2007 06:03:00 PST

warn the whiskey guzzlers

do not ever enter teleportation devices while consuming alcohol, after consuming alcohol, etc, etc.....you may very well get spliced with a fly. as always, i love you; jeff goldblum...
Posted by Nova Lani on Sun, 30 Oct 2005 02:07:00 PST

this is what life is all about...

"you can't just walk outta here with a weiner dog under you arm!" my dearest friend Adam said this to me while i was at work one night....we went on to name a drink "weiner dog under my arm" --wh...
Posted by Nova Lani on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST