something about Pompeii. the cool spot on the pillow. bottles of ink. laughing red tulips. violin fingers. storytellers.
assassins. mimes. thieves. lunatics. unicyclists.
My Friend Space
I have lethal friends
She'll take your apple, too.
He asked me to leave when he found i was sleeping with his typewriter
i never saw a wild thing sorry for itself
An epic story of mad love and spilled ink.
When we were children, we dug up gardens together
My sister will break your face.
Best.
..ment.
Snapdragon
A red envelope can carry twice its weight.
Even Athenais will be a pirate sometimes.
Don't ever ask the same thing twice.
A good woman.
Stephanie by any other name is still (thankfully) not Shakespeare
Wish-making is a bit like book-making.
You'll wish you knew this man.
Out of bounds
We used to live here.
What i do.
When she grows old, she will be a tree and a river.
Ingesting cadmium yellow can make you crazy.
photo-gasm
Queen of Hearts (made of paper)
jai jai
the band
It's like this.
i work here
The world is a clever, clever place.
It's good to know that someone knows where your skeletons are.
These memories are both fleeting and intrepid. Which makes them more wonderful than fig trees.
View All of My Friends
All your nonsense
composers: Bizet (Carmen), Vivaldi (late violin concertos), Bach (especially the violin sonatas), Verdi (La Traviata, Il Trovatore, , Chopin (nocturnes and cello sonatas), Berlioz (Le Carnaval Romain), Peraza, Cardoso, Monteverdi (L'Orfeo, madrigals), Mozart, Brahms, Bellini (Il Pirata), Beethoven, Rossini (Armida), Liszt, Gounod (etc.)
mmmm, opera.
La Traviata.
Nabucco
Aida
Carmen
Tosca
Otello
Un Bello in Maschera
Stratonice
Armida
Il Trovatore
L'Orfeo
the fado from the districts of Lisbon.
dark cabaret
bebob jazz, spoken word, public radio, traditional Cigany (Tsgaine) music
some of it more often than most: Persephone's Bees, Circus Contraptionthe Deadfly Ensemble, Jill Tracy, the Taste Watchers, Vagalatschk, a Particularly Vicious Rumor, Sarah RabDAU and Self-Employed Assassins, Vermilion Lies, Jason Webley, Josephine Baker, Amelita Galli-Curci, Yma Sumac, Oum Kalthoum, Nina Hagen, Gypsy Sound System, Frank London, The Raspoutine Smoked Band, Gogol Bordello, Regina Spektor, Montserrat Caballe, Rosa Ponselle, Cinema Strange, Shanghai Triad, Skip james, Ella Fitzgerald, Mado Robin, the Ekros Ensemble, Theodore Bikel, Kalyi Jag, Susheela Raman, the Grand Arnaque, Faramarz Payvar Ensemble, Vujicsics, Kid Ory, Miles Davis, Charlie Parker, Brubeck, Duke Ellington, Billie Holiday, Denali, Brian Eno, T-Rex, Lemonheads, Mirah, the Faint, Madonna, Joan Jett, Dresden Dolls, Neutral Milk Hotel, the Figgs, the Kills, Carla Bruni, the Paper Chase, the Decemberists, Dinosaur Jr., Leonard Cohen, Johnny Cash, Coco Rosie, Juno Reactor, Tom Waits Secret Chiefs 3, Love and Rockets, Ms. John Soda, the Books, of Montreal, Awry, Cat Power, Blonde Redhead, the Eels, Sigur Rós, the Kinks, Amalia Rodrigues, Mars Volta, Mogwai, Hot Hot Heat, Tilly and the Wall, Crooked Fingers, Nancy Apple, Cowboy Bob and the Bounty Hunters, the Cure, My Bloody Valentine, Sebedoh, Nick Cave, the Libertines, Elvis Costello, Azure Ray, the Pixies, Built to Spill, Venus 6, Little Red Rocket, Portishead, Rasputina, the Reindeer Section, Belle and Sebastian, Arab Strap, Betty Serveert, Franz Ferdinand, Cursive, Small Brown Bike, the Inkwell Collective, Kasey Chambers, the Arcade Fire, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Bauhaus, Pet, Coil, Joan of Arc, the Folk Implosion, Diamanda Galas, Cocteau Twins, the Campfire Girls, Concrete Blonde, Massive Attack, the Breeders, Eyedea & Abilities, Atmosphere, Nonprofits (Sage Francis), Jessey Moss, Blacklicious, etc.; ETC, ETC
some: the House of Yes, Delicatessen, Little Miss Sunshine. the Pillowbook [director: Peter Greenaway]. Sin City. Mirrormask. Fight Club. the Cook the Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover. Mary Poppins. Nightmare Before Christmas. Eulogy. Beetlejuice. Pandora's Box [silent film, 1929]. I &hearts Huckabee's. Who Killed Bambi?. Some Like it Hot. City of Lost Children. Amelie. the Last Minute, Breakfast At Tiffany's, Saved, V for Vendettta, Most things directed by Kubrick, Wes Anderson, Jean-Luc Godard and Jean-Pierre Jeunet.
not so much, thank you.
Q: how many surrealists does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
A: red.
some authours: Rimbaud, Camus, Anais Nin, Sartre, Vonnegut, Homer, Maurice Blanchot, Postumius Rufius Festus (Avienus ), Don DeLillo, Henry Miller, Atwood, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Goethe, Robert Desnos, Tom Robbins, Kerouac, Ginsberg, Lovecraft, Raymond Chandler, Charles Baudelaire, Desnos, Lautreamont, Byron, Andre Breton, John Ashbery, Bukowski, Baudelaire, Joyce Carol Oates, Muscio, Burroughs, Morrow, Wurtzel, Sylvia plath, Ted Hughes, E.E. Cummings, Dostoyevsky, Winterson, Dickinson, Jorge Borges, Maya Angelou, Kafka, Stéphane Mallarmé, Sndor Mrai, Imre Kertsz, Magda Szabo, W Somerset Maugham, (etc.)
books about pre 20th century geisha culture, symbolism in literature, hinduism, general linguistics, Mesoamerican culture, Japanese ghost stories, dadaism, the mechanics of typewriters, bondage, bizarre fairy tales, taoism, making a ruckus (crimethinc), pirates, fashion, graffiti, and philosophy, moths, human anatomy, classical music, psychology, the making of shoji screens, native american history, the Cigany (Tsigane), the Tartessian language, the Cynetes, indigenous Portugal (i am searching for information from before the second century BC), bellydance, visual arts, erotica, building things, taking things apart, language, disenchantment, trains, the possibility of the existence of mermaids,
surrealist nonsense
satirical fiction
good poetry, bad poetry
comics and graphic novels (i feel sick, the preacher series, from hell, ghost world, lenore (and other roman dirge work), sandman, etc.)
existentalist psychobabble
discarded love letters often found in waste baskets and gutters
this, and the Remington SL3 Tom Robbins threw out the window.