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About Me

Overheard at a dinner party, Brazilian model to mezzo-soprano:
I love Wagner! Who is this man? He pulls the sound from the air and he shapes them!! And you must listen!! He is a genius!! He is like Versace!!

Hence, I am like Versace.

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

I think I already did...

Music:

tigerlillies//shrine for the black madonna//faith//pj harvey//antony + the johnsons//diamanda galas//patti smith//grace jones//radiohead//shuggie otis//bowie//nina simone//ennio moriconne//queen esther//ben charest//hans eisler//muthawit//goldfrapp//dragons of zynth//howard shore (naked lunch)//ute lemper//david shea//serge gainsbourg//chocolate genius//philip glass//mudville//shuttle 358

Movies:

fellini satyricon::frederico fellini/// portrait of jason::shirley clarke/// swoon::tom kalin/// jesus christ superstar::norman jewison/// the servant::joseph losey/// memories of underdevelopment::tomas guttierez alea/// in the mood for love::wong kar wai/// la jettée::chris marker/// the bitter tears of petra von kant:: rainer fassbinder/// in the garden of the finzi-continis::vittorio de sica/// the conformist::bernardo bertolucci/// alphaville::jean luc godard/// umbrellas of cherbourg::jacques demy///

Television:

R O M E

Books:

the palmwine drinkard::amos tutuola|| vurt::jeff noon|| cobralingus::jeff noon|| the invisibles ::grant morrison|| white bone::barbara goudy| collected poems::ted hughes|| a word from the loki::maurice riordan|| i'll let you go::bruce wagner|| instantanées::alain robbe-grillet||

Heroes:

St. Joan Crawford

My Blog

LOVEMAD>> RELOADED

I've just revamped the web presence for an earlier work 'LOVEMAD>>five parallel universesa bout with homemade psychedelics transforms an already warped dynamic between a couple into a police investig...
Posted by the memorexe on Wed, 31 Jan 2007 07:43:00 PST

The Birthday Party (novel excerpt)

It is Margaret who answers the door. Her face falls immediately, I instantly recognize the extent of the sabotage-- I am no longer fat--or chubby enough to enforce the hierarchy of the skinny.... But ...
Posted by the memorexe on Sat, 20 Jan 2007 01:06:00 PST

There Are No Civilians In Outer Space

My mother with mysterious foresight set the stage for my celebrity twinkle suit. It stems from a Kodak moment in 1972: the tenth (or ninth or eighth) man has landed once more on the moon, my mother ca...
Posted by the memorexe on Fri, 19 Jan 2007 11:03:00 PST

The Princess Di(e)s

Dreams are trickier than Celebrity sightings, because they smack of prescience. And you believe them. We have learnt not always to trust the media, but dreams...Dreams are personal. They have Truth. T...
Posted by the memorexe on Thu, 18 Jan 2007 12:13:00 PST

Meeting Mr. Bradbury

It had to have been early in 1990. It was a Friday evening, my younger brother and I were watching TV when it was announced that Sci-Fi writer; Ray Bradbury had died that day. So moved was I by this i...
Posted by the memorexe on Tue, 16 Jan 2007 11:07:00 PST

What Would Joan Crawford Do?

As a teen, I was fascinated with MGM star, Joan Crawford. As an adult, my enthrallment grew..this after having seen and read 'Mommie Dearest' and other scandalous exposés.Such was the depth of my invo...
Posted by the memorexe on Mon, 15 Jan 2007 04:29:00 PST

Jack Nicholson

In a dream last night, I was supposed to meet up with friends for dinner in Fort Greene. All I had to do was walk down the hill-- but was impeded by the fact that the heels of my shoes kept snapping ...
Posted by the memorexe on Sat, 13 Jan 2007 01:22:00 PST

Summer's End

Survived Dia de Los Muertos/Samhain/Halloween with little or no hassle from the ancestors. While there are many who might romanticize their connection with relatives past--I've come to understand them...
Posted by the memorexe on Fri, 03 Nov 2006 09:42:00 PST

EVERY MEMORY IS PROGRAMMABLE

M E M O F R O M: THE MEMOREXE T O: ALL MYSPACE DENIZEN R E: M E M O R Y Dear Friends, EVERY MEMORY IS PROGRAMMABLE. The next time an unpleasant one surfaces, don't squander it away with...
Posted by the memorexe on Sat, 04 Feb 2006 02:34:00 PST

Company Girl

COMPANY GIRL Its funny, you get to some floors and its just women Only women? You know the kind leftover from the Eighties I used to wonder what happened to all those...
Posted by the memorexe on Tue, 24 Jan 2006 11:11:00 PST