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Diana

Who rang that bell?

About Me

"You believe in a palace of crystal that can never be destroyed--a palace at which one will not be able to put out one's tongue or make a long nose on the sly. And perhaps that is just why I am afraid of this edifice, that it is of crystal and can never be destroyed and that one cannot put one's tongue out at it even on the sly.
You see, if it were not a palace, but a hen-house, I might creep into it to avoid getting wet, and yet I would not call the hen-house a palace out of gratitude to it for keeping me dry. You laugh and say that in such circumstances a hen-house is as good as a mansion. Yes, I answer, if one had to live simply to keep out of the rain."
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from the Underground, 1:X

My Interests

Music, literature, teaching (when they're good). Lenticular postcards. Burritos and flan. Long road trips beyond the reasonable.

I'd like to meet:

those whom I will be glad to have met, whoever they might be.

Music:

Leonard Cohen, Souled American, Radar Bros., Art of Flying, Granfaloon Bus, Sonny Smith, Bart Davenport, Aesop Rock, Ed's Redeeming Qualities, The Roches, Ferron, Camper Van Beethoven, Dirty Three, Wingdale Community Singers, Dieselhed, Pixies, Tom Waits, Bob Dylan, Bowie, Breeders, Townes Van Zandt, Willie Nelson, Laurie Anderson, Beethoven, Berlioz, Bach, Handel, Gilbert & Sullivan, Arvo Pärt, Paco Peña, Carlos Montoya, Elton & Betty, Robyn Hitchcock, and some great music that I'm just now getting to or getting deeper into, though it may have been around for a long long time.

Movies:

Schizopolis, The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, Pierrot le Fou, Mulholland Dr., Schizo, The Celebration, My Architect, Japón, Pedicab Driver, The Man Without a Past, Andrei Rublev, Withnail & I, The Wizard of Oz, and that's it! I don't like any other movies. Just kidding.

Television:

disappointing

Books:

Gogol, Cortazar, Neruda, Merrill, E.B. White, Sophocles, A. A. Milne, Lewis Carroll, Faulkner, Hesse, Heller, Carver, Tobias Wolff, Flannery O'Connor, Brautigan, Ionesco, Lawrence Durrell, D.H. Lawrence, Will Self, Daniil Kharms, Aristophanes

Heroes:

"I never met a hero I didn't like. But then, I never met a hero. But then, maybe I wasn't looking for one." --Lester Bangs (not my hero)