Nonprofessional eremite who draws and writes and creates lemniscates.
Ferry boats, forests, ink, books, vintage living (1930s), glamourous 1930s films, the occult/mysticism/metaphysics (particularly thelema and hermetics), love, paradoxes, ufos, extraterrestrials/interdimensionals, alien abduction, William Dewolf Hopper Jr.'s supreme gorgeousness, being boring, being socially inept, promoting absurdity and beauty and LOVE, surreptitiously shaving the beards of 'debunkers', frolicking in nature, snow and winter, vegetarianising British cookery, enjoying the work of artists like Edward Gorey, Dame Darcy, Erté, John Singer Sargent, Jacek Yerka, Steele Savage, George Grie, Tamara de Lempicka, Jeff Hoke, loads of early 20th century illustrators... dot, dot dot...
Transdimensional others who enjoy the things I enjoy. Una Merkel naked. Allen Jenkins. Oh and Glenda Farrell. And Ross Alexander the night he was writing poetry and crumpling it up and then throwing it into the fire. Also.
1920s-1950s big band (Larry Clinton's and Ray Noble's orchestras are my favourites), jazz & love songs (Bea Wain, Satchmo, Cab Calloway, Al Bowlly, Jimmie Lunceford and co., Andy Kirk and his Twelve Clouds of Joy, Winifred Shaw, Jo Stafford, Fred Astaire, Billie Holiday, King Cole Trio, The Boswell Sisters, Ruth Etting, Bing Crosby, Maxine Sullivan, Mildred Bailey, Hal Kemp and co., Helen Forrest, Mel Tormé, Art Jarrett and co., Artie Shaw and co., and more) bossa nova, mediaeval, baroque, hearts of space/new age, atmospheric and/or nightmarish, some celtic (or celtic-ish), some goth, french accordion, harp etc...
Mostly stuff from 1930-1939, especially '32-'34. Early Busby Berkeley musicals. '40s-'50s noir, too. Actors/actresses: Joan Crawford, Kay Francis, William Powell, Dick Powell, James Cagney, Fay Wray, Gene Raymond, Leslie Howard, Clark Gable, Barbara Stanwyck, Myrna Loy, Margaret Lindsay, Ross Alexander, Fred MacMurray, Charles McGraw, Joan Blondell, Louise Beavers, Constance Bennett, David Manners, Winifred Shaw, Jean Harlow, Hattie McDaniel, Glenda Farrell, Gail Shikles Jr., Frank McHugh, Humphrey Bogart, Allen Jenkins, Una Merkel, Warner Baxter, Edward G. Robinson, Helen Broderick, Erik Rhodes, Eric Blore, Chester Morris, Carol Hughes, Theresa Harris, Nat Pendleton, Edward Brophy, George E. Stone, Isabel Jewell, Ann Sothern, Edmund Lowe, Lyle Talbot, Leila Hyams, Ruth Donnely, Helen Chandler, Miriam Hopkins, Laura La Plante, Mischa Auer, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Clarence Muse, Sterling Holloway, Nancy O'Neil, Thomas E. Jackson, Carole Lombard, Warren William, Ann Dvorak, Dick Purcell, Anne Nagel, Grady Sutton, six-hundred thirty-eight thousand or so more...Miscellaneous favourite films: Blood of a Poet, Vampyr, 42nd Street, Footlight Parade, The 39 Steps, Amelie, Harry Potter III, IV, &5, The Thin Man, Double Indemnity, Page Miss Glory, Man Wanted, Nancy Drew & the Hidden Staircase, The Gay Divorcee, Jewel Robbery, Hard to Handle, Forsaking All Others, Top Hat, Gold Diggers of 1933, It Happened One Night, A Slight Case of Murder, Gold Diggers of 1935, Red-Headed Woman, LOTR (all), Star Wars IV & V, Public Wedding, The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse, My Man Godfrey ('36), Footsteps in the Dark, The Deadly Mantis ('56 version), I am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang ('32), Smartest Girl in Town, The Life of Jimmy Dolan ('32)
Perry Mason (1957-1960 series in particular), Peter Gunn (1958, first series), Poirot (original BBC series), UFO programmes sans skeptibunkies (UFO Hunters is often good, UFO Files is always good)
The Holy Terrors - Jean Cocteau; Charlotte Sometimes, William and Mary, Castle of Bone - Penelope Farmer; The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde; Cat's Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut; Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell - Susanna Clarke; pretty much any Mike Shayne mystery (by the many Brett Hallidays); most (if not all) stories by Raymond Chandler; Harry Potter series - J.K. Rowling; The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald; The Magic of OZ - Frank Baum; Story of the Eye - Georges Bataille; Jitterbug Perfume - Tom Robbins; The Holographic Universe - Michael Talbot; Claudine at School - Colette; Illusions - Richard Bach; The Seven Mysteries of Life - Guy Murchie...
Mr Earbrass, Luna Lovegood, Morihei Ueshiba, Shunryu Suzuki, Mr Daniel Talbert (Who is Daniel Talbert? Is such a personage easily obtained?), superhumans, good-natured feyfolk.
Miss Xanthippe Svanstrom's Details
Status:
In a relationship
Here for:
Friends, Networking
Body Type:
5' 2"
Ethnicity:
Aetheric cuckoo of all colours
Religion:
Pantheistic Solipsist
Sign:
Pisces
Smoke / Drink:
Sometimes / Sometimes
Children:
Not for me.
Occupation:
Illustrator, Writer