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~ Piccolina ~

To know a little is a dangerous thing...to know nothing at all, that is fatal.

About Me

My life is this enchanting, perplexing, endearing mix of being both an open book and a locked vault.

~ I'm Endlessly writing, perpetually learning, forever loving, eternally asking why, and adoring the gorgeous madness of this journey we so nonchalantly call life ~

My Interests

~ Writing

~ Poetry

~ Memories

~ Peace

~ Literature

~ Art

~ History

~ Science

~ Health

~ Photography

~ Animals (I have an infinite love of bulldogs)

~ Creativity

~ Crafts

~ Dolls (*Especially Blythe Dolls*)

~ Music

~ Cooking

~ Gastronomy

~ Retro

~ Vintage

I'd like to meet:

    ~ My late uncle (RIP dear soul, whom I never got the chance to embrace)

    ~ Allen Ginsberg

    ~ Hunter S. Thompson

    ~ Fyodor Dostoevsky

    ~ Each of the Beatles

    ~ Jim Morrison

    ~ Bryan Adams

    ~ Leonardo Da Vinci

    ~ Richard Dawkins

    ~ Steven Colbert

    ~ Jon Stewart

    ~ Anthony Bourdain

    ~ Gordon Ramsey

    ~ Henri Cartier-Bresson

    ~ Myself in both the past and the future

    ~ Innovative, wise, creative and artistic souls from all walks of existence

Music:

{ ~ A small snippet of the many artists who have touched and inspired me through out the years ~ }

~ Bryan Adams

~ Aerosmith

~ Fiona Apple

~ Louis Armstrong

~ James Blunt

~ Andrea Bocelli

~ Johnny Cash

~ Eric Clapton

~ CCR

~ Tom Cochrane

~ Bing Crosby

~ Sheryl Crow

~ Miles Davis

~ Diamond Rio

~ Bob Dylan

~ Eminem

~ Melissa Etheridge

~ Fleetwood Mac

~ Gypsy Kings

~ Billie Holiday

~ Mozart

~ Charlie Parker

~ Tom Petty

~ Bruce Springsteen

~ Chris Isaak

~ Janis Joplin

~ Maroon 5

~ Muse

~ Nickelback

~ Live

~ Savage Garden

~ Frank Sinatra

~ Patti Smith

~ The Beatles

~ The Doors

~ The Eagles

~ The Rolling Stones

~ Led Zeppelin

Movies:

~ Adaptation
~ American Beauty
~ American History X
~ American Psycho
~ As Good as It Gets
~ Big Night
~ Blow
~ Bowling for Columbine
~ Catch Me If You Can
~ Dead Poet Society
~ 8mm
~ Fahrenheit 9/11
~ Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
~ Fight Club
~ Gone in 60 Seconds
~ Grosse Point Blank
~ Ground Hog Day
~ High Fidelity
~ La Dolce Vita
~ Life Is Beautiful
~ Matchstick Men
~ Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
~ Ocean's 11
~ Office Space
~ Philadelphia
~ Reservoir Dogs
~ Schindler's List
~ Sicko
~ The God Who Wasn't There
~ The Life of Brian
~ The Pursuit of Happyness
~ The Pianist
~ The Thomas Crown Affair

Television:

~ American Dad

~ CSI

~ CSI New York

~ CSI Miami

~ Dr Quinn Medicine Woman

~ Family Guy

~ Family Ties

~ Law and Order

~ Nash Bridges

~ Politically Incorrect

~ Road to Avonlea

~ Sex In The City

~ Six Feet Under

~ South Park

~ The Colbert Report

~ The Daily Show

~ The Simpsons

~ The X Files

~ What Not to Wear

Books:

{ ~ Please note, this list is arranged by author, not by title...and that it is a rather tiny selection from what is a tremendously large list ~ }

~ Allen Ginsberg

~ Bill Mahar

~ Douglas Adams

~ William Blake

~ William S. Burroughs

~ (Lord) George Byron

~ Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

~ Douglas Coupland

~ Richard Dawkins

~ Charles Dickens

~ Fyodor Dostoevsky

~ Umberto Eco

~ Jack Kerouac

~ Primo Levi

~ Michael Moore

~ Edgar Allan Poe

~ Henry Rollins

~ J. D. Salinger

~ William Shakespeare

~ Hunter S. Thompson

~ Walt Whitman

~ Tom Wolfe

Heroes:

~ My Mother (I am everything that I am because of your nurturing care)

~ My husband (♥ I love you with all of my being, amore ♥)

~ People who live with chronic pain & illness

~ Domestic and childhood abuse survivors

~ Artist of all types

~ Free souls

My Blog

Paging MC Hammer, paging MC Hammer

By Jessica Cangiano I've sat idly by over the last couple of years as the fashion world dug out the proverbial equivalent of its older brother's ninth grade Hamlet book report and tried to pass it off...
Posted by ~ Piccolina ~ on Thu, 12 Apr 2007 12:22:00 PST

Staring at who I am

What if I let myself exist, pure, unadulterated. Peeled back the layers of brittle, shoe polish brown scar tissue stood inside the nude, curious proximity of my own soul. Left the steamer trunks of f...
Posted by ~ Piccolina ~ on Sat, 16 Dec 2006 01:59:00 PST

Project Runway is not the hardest fashion challenge out there: Enter my perplexing world

By Jessica Cangiano I have come to believe that the fashion gods are against me. Despite my loyal devotion to them since I was old enough to utter the words "high heels", no matter my attempts to bui...
Posted by ~ Piccolina ~ on Thu, 22 Feb 2007 07:44:00 PST