cataclysms and ruthless, ferocious living. doing what i want. feathers. sparklers. drinking with gloria frym. also, the alphabet.
here's a few things:
*frey vs. fling
*while i hold your body against mine
*rooftops
*star births
*bar stool confessionals
*catholic seduction
*perfunctorily nodding
*language & silence
*pitfalls like oceans
*bridge builders
*bingo doppers
*"sorry for the trouble"
*thoughts in solitude
*parking ticket paper airplanes
*photograms
*writing in cement
*high octane pole dancing
*left of center
*martinis
*giga-bytes
*cousins
I'd like to meet:
WANTED: Somebody to go back in time with me. This is not a joke. P.O. Box 1227, Bloomington, IN 47402. You'll get paid after we get back. Must bring your own weapons. Safety not guaranteed. I have only done this once before.
TALLULAH BANKHEAD
also:
Train Conductors, Playwrights, Bohemians, Spiritualists, Window Washers, True Atheists, Dancers, Fag Hags, street artists, hand models, karaoke champions, beautiful souls, people of color, people who are uncolored, angry people, Klaus Kinski, castrado opera singers, trannies, albinos, Wittgenstein, moms, the radical, the different, the absurdly boring, someone to take me sailing, the guy Dick Cheney shot, revolutionaries, bearded poets, Cecilia Vicuna, the guy who shot Werner Herzog, the heavily tattooed, all leatherdaddies, priests, bears, CPA's, paranormal investigators, tri-lingualists, manly-men, rugby players, people with movie preview voices, heterosexual men who love rent and/or moulin rouge, homosexual men who don't, film noir stars, exhibitionalists, the guy who taught me how to play the bass drum in the turkish circus, sigmar polke, dick tracy, mac addicts, junkies, coal miners, non-republicans, bee keepers, volcanologists, scientologists, handsome meteorologists, all ologists, bridge builders, monks, peace keepers, non married college graduatesfemale astronauts, blind cyclists, those who have had hiccups for more than a week straight, nuns in habit, a team of professional boci ballers, bi-sexual mormons, oxymorons, Lady MacBeths, typists, angels, communists, creative problem solvers, Irish-Mexicans, animal loving yet feather boa wearing divas in denial/conflict that feathers come from birds, hard workers, hard hitters, go getters, the fabulous, the unexpected, the decadent, the unruly, the brave.
oh wait, just kidding...i know you all already.
Music:
Nina Simone, Rilo Kiley, the Watson Twins, Good Jazz [as opposed to bad jazz], Fleetwood Mac, Feist, Regina Spektor, Nellie Mckay, Lena Horne, Joni Mitchell, the decemberists, Lucinda Williams, goldfrapp, Jimmy Scott, Pixies, Postal Service, Hem, Patty Griffin, Keren Ann, Stevie Nicks, Bonnie "prince" Billy, Iron and Wine, Kate Bush, Judy Collins, Dido, Coco Rosie, Patsy Cline, Neko Case, Nick Drake, Damien Rice, Rose Polanzani, Lucinda Williams, Martha Wainwright, and Rufus...My Morning Jacket, Portishead, Sissor Sisters, Sigur Ros, Sufjan Stevens, Gillian Welch, Whispertown2000, Johnny Cash, Kronos Quartet....oh and on and on...
and OPERA: Puccini, Verdi...Turandot, La Boheme, and Cossi Fan Tutte, Tosca...
Movies:
Turtles Can Fly, Pan's Labyrinth, City of God, Blue Velvet...
also, casablanca, just because i still need to believe in romance sometimes.
the saddest music in the world, because prosthetic glass legs filled with beer are pretty fucking awesome.
"This is love, isn't it? When you notice someone's absence and hate that absence more than anything? More, even, than you love his presence?"
"Hes weird. Hes strange. Hes sloppy. Hes a total nightmare for women... I cant believe I havent slept with him yet."
"Hurt him. Hurt him to save him. There is no other way. The show must go on. We are creatures of the underworld. We can't afford to love. "blah blah blah that sort of crap
www.mirandajuly.com ))o(( back and forth. forever.
Books:
currently: Cecilia Vicuna, Paul Celan, Clarice Lispector, Amiri Baraka, Harryette Mullen, Baudelaire, Max Jacob, Jaroslav Hasek's The Good Soldier Svejk, Jorge Luis Borges' Ficiones, Vaclav Havel's plays, H.D.'s Trilogy, Zukofsky, Hopscotch
The Famished Road, aphrodite, Becoming Abigail, Cane, The Kite Runner, Writer's Book of Cures and Spells, Life of Pi, Way to Rainy Mountain, Ceremony, Dictee, Autobiography of Red
POETRY: Anne Carson: Men in the Off Hours, Decreation, Fragments of Sappho, Gertrude Stein, Baby Precious Always Shines, Four Saints in Threes Acts, Cummings: No Thanks
DRAMA: Woyzeck, Angels in America, Top Girls, A Doll's House, Zoo Story
Other favs include: Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, The Grammars of Creation, Leonard Shlain, Art & Physics, The Alphabet Versus the Goddess Marquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Love in the Time of Cholera, Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet, The Great Gatsby, This Side of Paradise, Plath, The Bell Jar, The Budda of Suburbia, Allende, House of Spirits , Art & Fear, The Agony and The Ecstacy, Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses, The Ground Beneth Her Feet, Gertrude Stien How To Write, Walker Percy, Howard Gardner's Theroy of Multiple Intelligences, Howard Zinn A People's History of the United States, Frankenstein, Jack Kerouac, On The Road, Othello, Hamlet, Richard III, King Lear, To Kill a Mockingbird, Pride and Prejudice, Candide, James Joyce, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, The Dubliners, The Time Traveler's Wife, Ishmael, Death of a Salesman, a Streetcar Named Desire, Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot, Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness, Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Ernest, A Picture Of Dorian Gray, Lady Windermere's Fan, Edward Albee, The Goat or Who is Slyvia, Who's Afraid of Viginia Woolf, A Delicate Balance, Eugene O'Neill, A Long Day's Jouney into Night, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, Tom Stoppard, Private Lives, David Ives, Steve Martin's Picasso at the Lapin Agile, The Little Prince, Harold and the Purple Crayon, and The Bad Girl's Guide to the Open Road.
Heroes:
people who don't try to fix me. abe lincoln & amelia earhart. julie congdon, dominic robert gardetto, sammy the shop keeper across the street, my totally hot bikram yoga teacher, gertrude stein
