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?
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?
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.
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."
Twin Peaks, Real Time With Bill Maher, and anything on the National Geographic, Discovery, or History Channels.
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
J. K. Rowling, Artemisia Gentileschi, Charlie Kaufman, Neil LaBute, David Mamet, Jim Henson...people who create on their own terms.