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M is for Michele

Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth. --Theodor Adorno

About Me



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My Interests

Incredibly self-conscious, stilted prose; documentaries; digital photography; creative collaboration; David Lynch; complicated international travel; complicated backyard travel; serendipity; symbolism; Artemisia Gentileschi; drive-in movies; fairy tales; ghost stories; Moroccan belly dance; Edward Gorey; romance languages; Marc Chagall; anything with espresso in it; horoscopes; Gustave Courbet; cooking; collages; charcoal/graphite sketches...even incomplete ones.

I like: editing menus and signs; writing plays that will never see the light of day (ditto screenplays); supporting the Evil Empire of Starbucks; ranting on Media Bistro; singing harmony; dressing up for Halloween.

I do not like: SUVs; peppers; talking on the phone; cigarette smoke; sitting through films that are style over substance; "business speak"; driving in the suburbs.

Who Should Paint You: Gustav Klimt
Sensual and gorgeous, you would inspire an enchanting portrait..
With just enough classic appeal to be hung in any museum! What Artist Should Paint Your Portrait?

I'd like to meet:

Know-it-alls, snobs, and critics.

You Are an Espresso
At your best, you are: straight shooting, ambitious, and energetic

At your worst, you are: anxious and high strung

You drink coffee when: anytime you're not sleeping

Your caffeine addiction level: high What Kind of Coffee Are You?

Music:

pandora.com

Poe, Nina Simone, Regina Spektor, The Cure, The Doors, Les Nubians, Dalida, Edith Piaf, Peter Murphy, Mazzy Star, The Smiths, The Doors, Sarah McLachlan, Depeche Mode, DMB, Morcheeba, Ella Fitzgerald, Portishead, Ben Harper, Moloko, Kate Bush, Billie Holiday, Radiohead, Handsome Boy Modeling School, Bauhaus, Tegan & Sara, Stereolab, Belle and Sebastian, Bjork, Nick Cave, Bob Dylan, Counting Crows, Amy Winehouse, Beck, Hurts to Purr, Plumb, Indigo Girls, The Dresden Dolls, Janis Joplin, underground 80s, Broadway.

Movies:

Pan's Labyrinth, Adaptation, The Birdcage, Mulholland Drive, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Lila Dit Ca, Clue, Angel-A, Run Lola Run, Chinatown, Goodfellas, Amelie, Brick, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Young Frankenstein, The Importance of Being Earnest, Heavenly Creatures, Gone with the Wind, V for Vendetta, Dirty Pretty Things, The Red Violin, Happenstance, Henry & June, Reservoir Dogs, A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy, Match Point, Chocolat, The Hours, Memento, Before Night Falls, Crumb, Crash, The Doors, Cassandra's Dream, The Dark Crystal, Office Space, Photographing Fairies, The Machinist, The Last Unicorn, Aimee & Jaguar, The End of the Affair, Secretary, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Swimming Pool, The Princess Bride, Hilary & Jackie, The City of Lost Children, The Legend of Billie Jean, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead, Being John Malkovich, Fight Club, High Art, The Last Supper, Splendor in the Grass, But I'm a Cheerleader, Rear Window, City of God, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Quills, Total Eclipse, anything by Almodovar and Lynch; *almost* anything by John Hughes; and the acclaimed short film, "Union."

Television:

Twin Peaks, Real Time With Bill Maher, and anything on the National Geographic, Discovery, or History Channels.

Books:

my 'read' shelf:
Middlesex, My Name is Red, Affinity, Perfume, Madame Bovary, Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Les Miserables, Jitterbug Perfume, The End of the Affair, The Princess Bride, Lolita, The Lover, Interpreter of Maladies, The Kite Runner, Great Expectations, The Human Stain, Enemies: A Love Story, The Color Purple, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Memoirs of a Geisha, The Hundred Secret Senses, The Red Tent, Gone with the Wind, the Harry Potter series, The Sound and the Fury, The Virgin Suicides, The Time-Traveler's Wife, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Stop Kiss, Six Characters in Search of an Author, A Confederacy of Dunces; fairy tales and myths; poetry by Neruda, Rimbaud, Olds, Baudelaire, Yeats, Brautigan, Ashbery, and Akhmatova; short stories by Carver, Lovecraft, and Poe; anything by Michael Cunningham, Orhan Pamuk, Neil LaBute, Sarah Waters, David Sedaris, Margaret Atwood, David Mamet, Anais Nin, Edward Gorey, William Blake, Richard Lederer, Henry Miller, and A. S. Byatt.
"Some editors are failed writers--but so are most writers."
--T. S. Eliot
"Manuscript: Something submitted in haste and returned at leisure."
--Oliver Herford
"No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft."
--H. G. Wells
"No man should ever publish a book until he has first read it to a woman."
--Van Wyck Brooks
The Dante's Inferno Test has banished you to the Seventh Level of Hell!
Here is how you matched up against all the levels:

Level Score
Purgatory (Repenting Believers) Very Low
Level 1 - Limbo (Virtuous Non-Believers) High
Level 2 (Lustful) High
Level 3 (Gluttonous) Low
Level 4 (Prodigal and Avaricious) Very Low
Level 5 (Wrathful and Gloomy) Low
Level 6 - The City of Dis (Heretics) High
Level 7 (Violent) High
Level 8- the Malebolge (Fraudulent, Malicious, Panderers) Moderate
Level 9 - Cocytus (Treacherous) Moderate
Take the Dante's Divine Comedy Inferno Test

Heroes:

J. K. Rowling, Artemisia Gentileschi, Charlie Kaufman, Neil LaBute, David Mamet, Jim Henson...people who create on their own terms.

My Blog

10 things you should know about John McCain (but probably dont)...

For all the coverage this week of Senator John McCain's background, there are some important things you won't learn about him from the TV networks. His carefully crafted positive image relies on peopl...
Posted by M is for Michele on Mon, 07 Apr 2008 02:07:00 PST

I hate white chocolate.

I would have thought I'd be the caramel macchiato... If you were a coffee drink, what would you be? Mark down your answers and read below for your analysis. 1. You have a little bit of time to kill so...
Posted by M is for Michele on Mon, 07 Jan 2008 01:02:00 PST

No sleep till...

Just got the "unofficial" news from the realtor that we passed the co-op board interview and are approved to move into our new apartment in Brooklyn Heights. So, as long as the seller doesn't give us ...
Posted by M is for Michele on Thu, 15 Nov 2007 12:52:00 PST

Colby John Bavaro

Colby John Bavaro was born at 11:10 a.m. on 22 October 2007. He weighed in at 7 lbs, 4 oz, and is 20 inches long. Both mother and baby are doing fine, and will be at Morristown Memorial until Thursday...
Posted by M is for Michele on Tue, 23 Oct 2007 08:28:00 PST

Career change...

I've finally found my calling...latte artist.http://cosmos.bcst.yahoo.com/ver/223/popup/index.php? cl=3995715
Posted by M is for Michele on Fri, 07 Sep 2007 09:01:00 PST

Sopranos finale

After spending too much of my day arguing against the simplistic "Tony is dead" theory, I decided to post my impression of the ending. Originally, it was this:I had the initial impression of his death...
Posted by M is for Michele on Tue, 12 Jun 2007 04:30:00 PST

It's this.

...plus removal of a stray fragment of bone, which requires them to take out a section of vertebrae first.http://www.understandspinesurgery.com/video_partial_lu mbar_discetomy.asp
Posted by M is for Michele on Thu, 03 May 2007 09:47:00 PST

Go ahead, I dare you...

Watch this entry for Tribeca Film Festival and DON'T keep humming it for hours afterward. ...
Posted by M is for Michele on Tue, 01 May 2007 06:27:00 PST

Film festival

Joe's film, "Union," has been selected for the 2007 Garden State Film Festival. The festival's website is: http://www.gsff.org; the schedule can be found here: http://www.gsff.org/schedule.html; and t...
Posted by M is for Michele on Tue, 13 Mar 2007 06:33:00 PST

Why I won't be posting photos from Paris...

I won't be posting photos from my trip to Paris this Friday because I won't be going.(I'm feeling very sorry for myself right now. Just a warning.)For those of you who don't know already, I was rear-e...
Posted by M is for Michele on Tue, 06 Mar 2007 09:37:00 PST