All beloved beings
Are vases of venom we drink with our eyes closed.
-Baudelaire
Inane Inventories: medieval whatnot, shipwrecks, magical thinking, goggling into the trees, vaudeville, sincerity, playbills, Wikibinging, cathedrals, stunt journalism, stilettos, the Pre-Raphaelites, lamentable attempts at baking, murder ballads, Tamara De Lempicka, reading medical studies I'll never fully understand, storms, martial arts, Renaissance sculpture, gibson girls, books with maps, sea shanties, red shoes, red anything, narrative poetry, potboilers, word roots and unusual turns of phrase, epistolary novels, people watching, BIG cats, crossword puzzles, bonfires, villanelles, villainesses, traveling, culture and technology, burlesque, wisecracks, knocking things about in the dark, buried treasure, bridges, libraries, hot jazz, orchards, museums, SCIENCE, multiple typefaces, anachronistic reference manuals, opera, mythology, old train stations, abandoned places, carefully-addressed envelopes, possibility, trouble, and the future.
1. The genuine; the kind; the curious.
2. Big hearts and open minds.
3. Songbirds and scoundrels.
4. Maybe a trapeze artist or two.
Billie Holiday, Goldfrapp, Descendents, She Wants Revenge, Depeche Mode, Frou Frou, Etta James, Camille O Sullivan, Morrissey, Rilo Kiley, Fad Gadget, Ella Fitzgerald, Detroit Cobras, Stars, Postal Service, The Arcade Fire, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Patsy Cline, The Tears, New Order, Smokey Robinson, The Walkabouts, Nina Simone, Magnetic Fields, Nick Cave, Anita Lane, The Tindersticks, Johnny Cash, etc.
The Lion in Winter, Edward Scissorhands, The Lives of Others, Dangerous Liaisons, Flesh and the DEVIL, Control, It Happened One Night, Rushmore, Quills, The Philadelphia Story, Secretary.
My mother's old mystery shows, History and Discovery Channels, Family Guy, LA Ink, BBC, Adult Swim.
Guilty Pleasure: The Tudors.
W. Somerset Maugham, Kurt Vonnegut, Virginia Woolf, Joan Didion, Thomas Hardy, Louise Erdrich, Anais Nin, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway.
C. S. Lewis, Simone de Beauvoir, Cristina Garcia, Stevie Smith, James Joyce, Elizabeth Inchbald, Craig Thompson, Gustave Flaubert, Fanny Howe
I like to read letters.
St. Lidwina of Schiedam People who struggle and survive without bitterness. Eleanor of Aquitaine