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Lady Arianna

i want to wreck my stockings in some juke box dive

About Me

"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself." - Friedrich Nietzsche

i dance in the street

My Interests

music, fine loose leaf teas, tacky costume jewelry, photography, crossword puzzles, philosophy, vintage glamour, antiques, textiles, snowflakes, road trips, oversized sunglasses, magnificent artworks on any scale, boudoirs, cowboys and indians, pirates, laduree macarons, robots, dinosaurs

I'd like to meet:

anyone who can do the frug! someone to talk nothing with. people with grand thoughts. someone to finish the other half of crossword puzzles.

"I want neon signs to appear, huge arrows that point at him flashing FLAW, FLAW, FLAW. I like flaws and feel more comfortable around people who have them. I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions." - Augusten Burroughs


Music:

johnny cash, joni mitchell, regina spektor, death cab for cutie, hot chip, the smiths, the cure, camille, hellogoodbye, rilo kiley, metric, aaron long, sufjan stevens, supertramp, fall out boy, cold, blondie, bob dylan, yeah yeah yeahs, glassjaw, head automatica, him, joanna newsom, kate bush, nickel creek, simon and garfunkel, ted leo and the pharmacists, tegan and sara, the postal service, the stranglers, kenna, nine inch nails, nirvana, the walkmen, tilly and the wall, panic! at the disco

Movies:

walk the line, almost famous, amelie, anchorman, casablanca, clue, dogma, donnie darko, harold and maude, moulin rouge, office space, run lola run, the hudsucker proxy, the princess bride, transamerica, willow, zoolander

Television:

black adder, daria, family guy, jonathan creek, monk, oz, red dwarf, six feet under, south park, the simpsons, twilight zone

Books:

down and out in paris and london, the unbearable lightness of being, a heartbreaking work of staggering genius, ender’s game, le petit prince, l’etranger, naked, neverwhere, stardust, the bell jar, the lovely bones, the master and margarita, to kill a mockingbird, on the road

Heroes:

"... the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes "Awww!"" -- Jack Kerouac, On the Road

My Blog

clarification

for the record, i hate being right. it does not provide me pleasure. it does not make me feel smug, righteous, or justified. almost always just makes me sad. i wait in eager anticipation to be proven...
Posted by Lady Arianna on Wed, 07 Feb 2007 05:42:00 PST

travel

i want to go to egypt, japan, russia, thailand, india, & china. so who's coming with me?
Posted by Lady Arianna on Fri, 27 Oct 2006 08:50:00 PST

rediscovering that which was discarded

i'd forgotten that i have a deviantart account... so i just uploaded with some more recent photography. all of the things i uploaded back in 2003 and 2004... quite funny really... certainly come a lon...
Posted by Lady Arianna on Wed, 25 Oct 2006 06:23:00 PST

i can't take my mind off of you

so i'm now twenty, spent my birthday in cyprus, still in cyprus, slightly sunburnt... the water is gorgeous, the scenery is surreal. speedboating is my new favourite hobby. it is very strange to list...
Posted by Lady Arianna on Sun, 20 Aug 2006 05:56:00 PST

what ever happened to your heroes?

"Man can will nothing unless he has first understood that he must count on no one but himself; that he is alone, abandoned on earth in the midst of his infinite responsibilities, without help, with no...
Posted by Lady Arianna on Wed, 28 Jun 2006 08:36:00 PST

dopplegangers...

funny what a small world we live in, when we're not seeing people we know, we're seeing people who look like people we know. or do we just try to see the world through our own preconceived notions of ...
Posted by Lady Arianna on Wed, 28 Jun 2006 07:42:00 PST

postmodernist, hmm?

You scored as Postmodernist. Postmodernism is the belief in complete open interpretation. You see the universe as a collection of information with varying ways of putting it together. There is no abs...
Posted by Lady Arianna on Wed, 07 Jun 2006 08:00:00 PST

if i move my place in line, i'll lose

1.Choose a band/artist and answer ONLY in titles of their songs:death cab for cutie2. Are you male or female:technicolor girls3. Describe Yourself:champagne from a paper cup4. How do some people feel ...
Posted by Lady Arianna on Thu, 09 Mar 2006 05:24:00 PST

and the superficial sighs are the borders of our lives

ever since i was about seven, and i saw a large number of van gogh's paintings on special exhibition in the national gallery in london while visiting my grandparents, i have been in love with impressi...
Posted by Lady Arianna on Mon, 06 Mar 2006 04:46:00 PST

breathing just passes the time

i feel like i spend all of my time on public transport. or waiting for it. interesting phenomenon: when a bus/subway is crowded, someone will sit/lean anywhere, the closest place... however, when ...
Posted by Lady Arianna on Tue, 21 Feb 2006 04:08:00 PST