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escapeartist

Be obscure clearly.

About Me

Transcendentalist, hedonist, poet.
Modernist, hypnotist, lucid dreamer.
World-wanderer, whip-cracker, aesthete.
Spellbinder. Frolicker. Fun drunk.
Musically-clued up, technologically inclined.
Feng Shui Master. Fantasizer. Muse.
Addicted to cliffdiving sans parachute:
trusting my wings won't fail me...

Escapeartist.

My Interests

Deconstructing the human character.
Stringing Words Together Creatively
Getting caught up in the moment: forgetting it all the next morning.
Narciso Rodriguez, Patron Anejo, La Perla, Ellen Von Unwerth, Andrew Blake, Freud.
Expansive vocabularies, abstract art films, foreign accents.
Double life leaders, lucid dreamers, poets.
Wirelessness, fearlessness, OCD, caller ID.
Downtempo electronica that depresses most people.
1000+ tc sheets, finely hand-crafted leather restraints.
THE WORLD (and exploration thereof).
Wielding my power as a hot chick with a brain.

I'd like to meet:


People that do things.
Especially people that do things exceptionally.
The unabashed yet undiscovered.
Those that romance with the pen.
Romancers that got it down to an art.
Expressionists who speak without saying a word.
Foriegners with bona fide Social Security numbers.
Martini Drinkers with steady hands.
Millionaire Jet Setters that love me for my mind.
Complex creative types who appreciate multiple personalities.
People with 76 friends.
Creators--Thinkers--Visionaires.
The good.
People with the passions for the stuff
who raise the bar in whatever they do.
Always.

Music:

zero 7
massive attack
theivery corp
the dining rooms
federico aubelle
elliot smith
morphine
the verve
air
miguel migs
tricky
coldplay
sounds of om
radiohead
k&d
moby
gus gus
aya
stephane pompougnac
morcheeba
moloko
yo la tengo
bebe gilberto
the orb
love and rockets

various dub, sometimes breakbeat, definitely not hip hop, lots of intelligent electronica and any downtempo beat that feels good to drunkenly make out to...

Movies:

Stuff w/ subtitles.
Andrew Blake's genre.
The inverse relationship between budget and quality filmmaking.
Specifically: the exorcist, requiem for a dream, buffalo '66, eyes wide shut, xanadu, memento, waking life, mulholland drive, boogie nights, edward scissorhands, zoolander, 25th hour, jacob's ladder, kids, garden state, donnie darko, trainspotting, basquiat, the black stallion, secretary, y tu mama tambien, the motorcycle diaries (and anything involving Gael Garcia, my regrettable ex-boyfriend).

Television:

The static channel so the white noise could drown out the sounds of my gay neighbor getting it on. Constantly.

Books:

The System
The Art of Seduction
The Diary of Anais Nin
The Thesaurus

Heroes:



I will never know again who I am,
what I am,
what I love,
what I want.
Your beauty has drowned me, the core of me.
You carry away with you a part of me reflected in you.
When your beauty struck me,
it dissolved me. Deep down,
I am not different from you.
I dreamed you,
I wished for your existance.
I see in you that part of me which is you.
I feel compassion for your childlike pride,
for your trembling unsureness,
your dramatization of events,
your enhancing of the loves given to you.
I surrender my sincerity because if I love you
it means we share the same fantasies,
we share the same madnesses.

if you do not cry out in writing,
or sing in writing, then don't write,
because our culture has no use for it.

- Anais Nin

My Blog

The Taboo Moment

I had 45 minutes to say goodbye before heading to the airport.Dad's last request before I left was to help him with "the voices." Apparently, the neighbors next door were keeping him awake at night wi...
Posted by escapeartist on Thu, 16 Aug 2007 08:50:00 PST

Know When To Fold

There were things said after and things said before and words left hanging in between, but what I can most remember about mentally quitting my job today was his Zoloft façade; Two vacant windows upon ...
Posted by escapeartist on Fri, 17 Mar 2006 01:55:00 PST

Wish You Were Here

.. Cut off as I am, it is inevitable that I should sometimes feel like a shadow walking in a shadowy world. When this happens I ask to be taken to New York City. Always I return home weary but I have...
Posted by escapeartist on Sat, 07 Jan 2006 12:23:00 PST

"...an island never cries."

"I have my books And my poetry to protect me; I am shielded in my armor, Hiding in my room, safe within my womb. I touch no one and no one touches me." Shortly after my parent's divorce I ...
Posted by escapeartist on Wed, 05 Oct 2005 05:20:00 PST

Right Now.

What you need to know about the past is that no matter what has happened, it has all worked together to bring you to this very moment.  And this is the moment you can choose to make everyt...
Posted by escapeartist on Tue, 30 Aug 2005 05:51:00 PST

Memorizing Epitaphs

Tonight was strange. tonight was a night i had been dreading for weeks. Tonight was the eve before I move back in with my husband, the man I chose to leave no less than 2 years prior, yet still owe ...
Posted by escapeartist on Sun, 28 Aug 2005 04:45:00 PST

Touched.

The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.  ~Anaïs Nin "incredible.It is one thing to be beautiful and quite another to be truely i...
Posted by escapeartist on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Lovegurus

future escapeartists. "On the first date, you tell each other lies, and that usually gets you interested enough to go for a second date."-Milla, age 10 "You know it's love if someone orders ...
Posted by escapeartist on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

imposter

930-940am Enjoy 2.5 songs on the ipod, downtempo sad stuff that makes me feel good. Ride the F. Covertly observe. Read over people's shoulders, stare at their details. Try to avoid their eyes (fa...
Posted by escapeartist on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Tossing Baby Alive

"I never wanted to get married. Never." My admirable coworker and confidant L. stated with unfaltering conviction. "And he was a good guy, the Mr.Right type. The kind my parents would like to see...
Posted by escapeartist on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST