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..could this really be me, in thee body..

About Me


I've read too many novels and watched too much French new wave. Please humour my quaint (archaic?) charms and desires — my lubricated abyss of silly chaos. In the next life I'm Jeanne Moreau seducing Jean-Paul Sartre over an existential glass or twelve of chardonnay; while Gustave Flaubert reincarnated as a stuffed parrot with a moustache sails by overhead. Say hello.
'Then I was drunk for many years, and then I died.' — F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1936.
'If someone were to tell me I had twenty years left and ask me how I'd like to spend them, I'd reply, "Give me two hours a day of activity, and I'll take the other twenty-two in dreams".' — Luis Buñuel.
'It's a lucky man who leaves early from life's banquet, before he's drained to the dregs his goblet-full of wine; yes, it's a lucky man who has not read life's novel to the end, but has been wise enough to part with it abrupty.' — Alexander Pushkin, 1827.
'The door opened, but the God was a spider. He came up to me and I saw his face. It was a terrible, stony face. He scrambled up and tried to penetrate me — but I defended myself. All along I saw his eyes. They were cold and calm. When he couldn't penetrate me he continued up my chest, up into my face and onto the wall. I have seen God.' — Ingmar Bergman, 1961.
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My Interests

K.

I'd like to meet:



(Or: people who write, listen to bass-heavy blues and drink too much whisky.)

Movies:

  • eraserhead.

  • cries and whispers.

  • inland empire.

  • the discreet charm of the bourgeoisie.

  • stalker.

  • fellini satyricon.

  • le mépris.

  • scenes from a marriage.

  • la dolce vita.

  • persona.

  • tetsuo: the iron man.

  • the diary of a chambermaid.

  • the birds.

  • sunset boulevard.

  • the gospel according to st. matthew.

  • spirited away.

  • viridiana.

  • wild strawberries.

  • faster, pussycat! kill! kill!

  • amarcord.

  • my neighbour totoro.

  • belle de jour.

  • alien.

  • lady and the tramp.

  • les parapluies de cherbourg.

  • repulsion.

  • the exterminating angel.

  • salò; o, le 120 giornate di sodoma.

  • fritz the cat.

  • monster.

  • return to oz.

  • that obscure object of desire.

  • citizen kane.

  • sgt. kabukiman n.y.p.d.

  • cabaret.

  • rebel without a cause.

  • little otik.

  • bonnie and clyde.

  • roujin z.

  • un chien andalou.

  • capote.

  • the toxic avenger.

  • l'age d'or.

  • the sound of music.

  • lolita (kubrick).

  • downfall.

  • the damned.

  • shadow of a doubt.

  • the passion of joan of arc.

  • last tango in paris.

  • the silence of the lambs.

  • the elephant man.

  • grave of the fireflies.

  • akira.

  • querelle.

  • the texas chainsaw massacre.

  • carrie.

  • le mepris.

  • woman of the dunes.

  • delicatessen.

  • requiem for a dream.

  • wilde.

  • taxi driver.

  • edward scissorhands.

  • crash (cronenberg).

  • natural born killers.

  • le souffle.

  • mulholland drive.

  • rear window.

  • dancer in the dark.

  • 2001: a space odyssey.

  • the shining.

  • blue velvet.

  • quills.

  • the phantom of liberty.

  • don't look now.
  • celine and julie go boating.

  • lost highway.

  • rosemary's baby.

  • faithless.

  • le voyage dans la lune.

  • le temps qui reste.

  • monty python's life of brian.

  • monty python and the holy grail.

  • tristana.

  • masculin féminin.

  • jules et jim.

  • through a glass darkly.

  • dr. strangelove; or, how i learned to stop worrying and love the bomb.

  • a streetcar named desire.

  • happiness.

  • reservoir dogs.

  • the silence.

  • bay of angels.

  • the cook, the thief, his wife and her lover.

  • a history of violence.

  • harold and maude.

  • la belle et la bête.

  • the four hundred blows.

  • la ardilla roja.

  • les valseuses.
  • onibaba.

  • the french connection.

  • the secret adventures of tom thumb.

  • emmanuelle.

  • the city of lost children.

  • i am frigid...why?

    • Television:

  • monty python's flying circus.
  • twin peaks.

  • this life.

  • six feet under.

    • Books:

  • fyodor dostoevsky - the idiot / crime and punishment / the devils.

  • george orwell - 1984 / down and out in paris and london / coming up for air.

  • oscar wilde - the picture of dorian gray / the importance of being earnest / vera; or, the nihilists / salomé / de profundis.

  • salman rushdie - the satanic verses / midnight's children / fury / shalimar the clown.

  • gore vidal - myra breckinridge / myron.

  • william golding - lord of the flies.

  • gustave flaubert - sentimental education / madame bovary.

  • friedrich nietszche - thus spake zarathustra / the antichrist / ecce homo / the birth of tragedy / human, all too human / twilight of the idols.

  • witold gombrowicz - cosmos.

  • iain banks - the wasp factory.

  • milan kundera - the unbearable lightness of being / immortality / ignorance.

  • virginia woolf - orlando: a biography.

  • f. scott fitzgerald - tender is the night / the beautiful and damned / the great gatsby / the diamond as big as the ritz.

  • zelda fitzgerald - save me the waltz.

  • voltaire - candide.

  • joris-karl huysmans - against nature / the damned.

  • giovanni boccaccio - the decameron.

  • ernest hemingway - to have and have not / for whom the bell tolls.

  • vladimir nabokov - lolita / bend sinister / despair.

  • truman capote - in cold blood.

  • donna tartt - the secret history.

  • p.g. wodehouse - the inimitable jeeves.

  • dodie smith - i capture the castle.

  • maxim gorky - my childhood / my apprenticeship / my universities / fragments from my diary.

  • leo tolstoy - anna karenina / war and peace.

  • mary shelley - frankenstein; or, the modern prometheus.

  • masuji ibuse - black rain.

  • jeffrey eugenides - middlesex.

  • charlotte perkins gilman - the yellow wall-paper.

  • banana yoshimoto - goodbye tsugumi / kitchen.

  • william shakespeare - henry iv, parts 1 and 2 / the tempest / the rape of lucrece.

  • francis wheen - karl marx.

  • nikolai gogol - dead souls / diary of a madman.

  • raymond carver - elephant.

  • homer - the iliad.

  • jean-paul sartre - nausea.

  • yasunari kawabata - the lake.

  • jun’ichiro tanizaki - the key.

  • robert c. o’brien - z for zachariah.

  • jean cocteau - les enfants terribles.

  • william burroughs - naked lunch / junky.

  • ken kesey - one flew over the cuckoo’s nest.

  • marc almond - tainted life: the autobiography.

  • gabriel garcia marquez - one hundred years of solitude / love in the time of cholera.

  • katherine frank - indira: the life of indira nehru gandhi.

  • james joyce - a portrait of the artist as a young man / dubliners / ulysses.

  • benazir bhutto - daughter of the east: an autobiography.

  • marquis de sade - justine; or, the misfortunes of virtue / the one hundred and twenty days of sodom / philosophy in the boudoir / dialogue between a priest and a dying man / the crimes of love.

  • arundhati roy - the god of small things.

  • kurt vonnegut - cat's cradle.

  • george and weeden grossmith - the diary of a nobody.

  • aleksandr solzhenitsyn - one day in the life of ivan denisovich.

  • franz kafka - metamorphosis / the trial / the castle.

  • charles dickens - bleak house / a tale of two cities.

  • alexander pushkin - eugene onegin.

  • t.s. eliot - the waste land.

  • stephen fry - the liar.

  • frank zappa and peter occhiogrosso - the real frank zappa book.

  • allen ginsberg - howl.

  • denis diderot - the nun.

  • bret easton ellis - american psycho.

  • julia voznesenskaya - the women's decameron.

  • harper lee - to kill a mockingbird.

  • sylvia plath - the bell jar / ariel.

  • aleister crowley - the book of lies.

  • zadie smith - white teeth / on beauty.

  • dante alighieri - the divine comedy.

  • john cleland - fanny hill; or, memoirs of a woman of pleasure.

  • arthur rimbaud - illuminations.

  • charles baudelaire - les fleurs du mal.

  • christopher marlowe - the tragical history of doctor faustus.

  • joan didion - slouching towards bethlehem / the white album.
  • h.p. lovecraft - the call of cthulhu / the whisperer in darkness.

  • ray bradbury - fahrenheit 451.

  • gail godwin - father melancholy's daughter.

  • evelyn waugh - a handful of dust.

  • stephen davis - hammer of the gods: led zeppelin.

  • valerie solanas - s.c.u.m. manifesto.

  • kazuo ishiguro - never let me go.

  • jean benedetti - the real bluebeard: the life of gilles de rais.

  • roger pearson - voltaire almighty: a life in pursuit of freedom.

  • albert camus - l'etranger.

  • anton chekhov - ward no.6 / three years.

    • My Blog

    Courage is a feminine intuition; or, pyramid skull

    Courage is a feminine intuition; or, pyramid skull.Tell me about your crystal shipThe one that cuts into the quickSoon Gods are learning how to flyWhile I am learning how to sinkMarch me in cuffs to s...
    Posted by ktn on Wed, 16 May 2007 05:19:00 PST

    The apotropaism instrument

    The apotropaism instrument.A ghost at noon.In a black wig.Wrapped in a towel of contempt.Silenzio.10 May, 2007....
    Posted by ktn on Thu, 10 May 2007 10:55:00 PST

    Golden hoofs of imperial sheathed horses tear the fabric of heaven as we ride through space

    Golden hoofs of imperial sheathed horses tear the fabric of heaven as we ride through space.Slumber personifiedIs dreaming of an angelIn chains, on the wheelRotating in eclipsesLike Goya's death-brus...
    Posted by ktn on Mon, 30 Apr 2007 06:17:00 PST

    Of natural causes (a lullaby for jan luyken's suffering)

    I.The Virgin and the Son of EternityOf the post-apoplectic worldA utopia of scripturesA bibliography of curses.II.We danced until we diedWe sung until we sighedThen your passage alightedMy spiderwebb...
    Posted by ktn on Mon, 19 Mar 2007 10:50:00 PST

    Inland empire

    Tonight Chris and I went to see Inland Empire. My god, I thought it was never going to end; my buttocks were numb by the half-way point.It was a fascinating film though.Actually, at first I wasn't sur...
    Posted by ktn on Wed, 14 Mar 2007 08:15:00 PST

    Insane ramble; or, jeanne d'arc + the anachronistic sorcerers

    I subtracted my raped face and patterned it on the golfball moon.I whispered vulgar truths to the sleeping children's ears at noon.I grit my teeth when I spake a liar's subliminal happ...
    Posted by ktn on Fri, 09 Mar 2007 06:34:00 PST

    Trent reznor lyric school

    Trent Reznor is a strange one. He's definitely talented, but his talent certainly isn't in writing lyrics. Nor is it in melody. I suppose his talents lie in producing and engineering, and sonic manipu...
    Posted by ktn on Mon, 05 Mar 2007 06:10:00 PST

    Hymn for the apostate of the reprobate

    Cut out my face from the mirror's shade.It'll serve as a mask in the afterworld.That was the guise we devised.Down here in the drunken gallows.With the worms and the spiders.I feast on the smoke...
    Posted by ktn on Fri, 23 Feb 2007 01:43:00 PST

    Mother

    Mother, I have passed away.My skin lies limp in my hands.My smile burned to cinders.Death is on my lashes.In every loving glance I give.It disgusts all I see.Mother, my days are number...
    Posted by ktn on Sun, 18 Feb 2007 02:26:00 PST

    Janitor of lunacy

    I scanned in this incredible photo of Nico from the new issue of Uncut. She's still incredibly beautiful here, but you can see the signs of heroin starting to errode her. I love the ice...
    Posted by ktn on Sun, 18 Feb 2007 06:40:00 PST