la boheme --
[noun]:
A beat poet working the streets
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"All men are lonely. But sometimes it seems to me that we Americans are the loneliest of all. Our hunger for foreign places and new ways has been with us almost like a national disease. Our literature is stamped with a quality of longing and unrest, and our writers have been great wanderers."
“It is a curious emotion, this certain homesickness I have in mind. With Americans, it is a national trait, as native to us as the roller-coaster or the jukebox. It is no simple longing for the home town or country of our birth. The emotion is Janus-faced: we are torn between a nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.â€
Carson McCullers.
Europe. History. Film making. Acting. Writing. Poetry. Art. Music. Photography [ HIDEOUS KINKY PHOTOGRAPHY ]. People Watching. Reading. Philosophy. Diversity. Psychology. Hypnosis. Metaphysics. Various religions. Beauty. Tragedy. Random weirdness. Bookstores. Seediness. Coffee shops. All things urban. Dialog/Monologues. Whiskey and other vices. Southern eccentricities. Sarcasm. Humor. Obscurity. Mystery. Creativity. Late night conversation. Romance. Vintage/Retro clothing or anything actually. Discovering. Observing. Escaping. Recovering. World peace. etc, etc...
I love the bohemian subculture that grew out of places like, Paris, Russia, Berlin, and New York in the 1920s. The beatnik era in the 1950s is something I'll always regret missing out on. And the fact that I don't belong to anything resembling "The Factory' keeps me awake at night..but nevertheless it doesn't keep me from dreaming...
Raining men.
Artists. Musicians. Bohemians. Oddballs. Rebels. Actors. The unlabeled. Gypsies. Poets. Circus freaks. People who keep their innocence no matter how corrupted they are. Rockabillies. Evil Geniuses. Beautiful minds. Filmmakers. Folk heroes. Someone with connections. Villains. Vagabonds. The unloved, Writers. Models. Weirdos. Gods and Goddesses. Surrealists.Tortured souls. Outlaws. Eccentrics. Vamps and tramps. Photographers. Faeries. Pinups. Dead Celebs. Mob Bosses. The unwanted. Beatniks. Social lepers. The anti-social. Flappers. Alter-Egos. Non-Conformists. Cannibals. Outsiders. Hippies. Rockstars. Royalty. Vampires. Zombies. Pirates. People with open minds. People with open hearts,...
People from distant lands...
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Mr. Right, Mr. Right Now, or Mr. Make Right (AKA Knight in shining armor here to save me) can look else where...
I don't date.
Unless you are an artistic French speaking Italian man made of marble, who chain smokes, and looks good in a suit...
Then I'm a total whore..
Music...MUSE-ic inspires.
Everything you ever wanted to know about me you can learn from my music.
CYANNAGillian Welch, The Breeders, Tom Waits, Silverchair, Heart, The Killers, Patsy Cline, Secret Machines, Bloc Party, Blind Melon, Hooverphonics, Cream, The Beatles, Wilco, Letters To Cleo, This Mortal Coil, The Velvet Underground, High and Low, My Chemical Romance, Sleep Today, Social Distortion, Lucero, Metric, American Aquarium, Feist, Blondie, Billy Idol, K's Choice, LCD Soundsystem, The Subways, Johnny Cash, The Concretes, Bush, Radiohead, Ryan Adams, Bjork, The All-American Rejects, Portishead, Cat Power, Bob Dylan, Lydia Lunch and Rowland S. Howard, Azure Ray, Ozzy, LIVE, Pat Benatar, Lorretta Lynn, Elvis, Bush, Jewel, Billy Joel, Cory Branan, T Bone Burnett, REM, 7 Year Bitch, The White Stripes, Blonde Redhead, Fiona Apple, Roger Hoover And The Whiskey Hounds, Arlo Guthry, Ani DiFranco, The Blow, The Wallflowers, Blink 182, Steve Earl and the Dukes, The Sex Pistols, The Steve Miller Band, Liz Phair, , Garbage, No Doubt, Aerosmith, Sia, The Grateful Dead, The Flaming Lips, King Missile, Poe, Tracy Bonham, Suzanne Vega, Sound Garden, The Cranberries, The Red Hot Chili Peppers, Nirvana, Ween, Weezer, The Rentals, Blur, Elysian Fields, Cyndi Lauper, Broken Social Scene, The Cars, Lush, Madonna, At The Drive-in, Mazzy Star, Mirah, David Bowie, Leonard Skynard, Jefferson Airplane, Mick Jagger (solo as well as w/ The Rolling Stones), Peaches, Ben Folds Five, Blessed Union Of Souls, Greenday, Rancid, The Jim Carrol Band, Flyleaf, The Vines, Blues Traveler, The Strokes, Jet, The Cure, Evanescence, Prince, Primitive Radio Gods, Shenade O' Conner, AC/DC, The Who, Dashboard Confessionals, Hole, Joan Osborne. Lit, Violent Femmes, Julianna Hatfield, Jimmy Eat World, The Go Gos, Veruca Salt, Belle And Sebastian, Sonic Youth, Thursday, The Beach Boys, The Donnas, Elton John, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Pink Floyd, Save Ferris, The Butthole Surfers, Everclear, Alanis Morissette, Dido, Led Zepplin, Simon And Garfunkel,
And on and on..and on and on…ditto, and so forth..
.. - Get Your Own
Film = Love
I hope to make lots of love one day :P
Velvet Goldmine, Chasing Amy, Trainspotting, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Factotum, Pretty In Pink, The Theory Of Fight, The Goonies, Fight Club, To Kill A Mockingbird, I Heart Huckabees, Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums, Snatch, I Shot Andy Warhol, Adaptation, The Philadelphia Story, The Godfather I, and II (not III), Orgasmo, Igby Goes Down, Garden State, Legend, The Neverending Story, Donnie Darko, Breakfast At Tiffany's, Roman Holliday, The Sting, 200 Cigarettes, The Opposite Of Sex, Me Without You, Casablanca, Chaplin, Edward Scissorhands, 21 Grams, Closer, Braveheart, The Pick up Artist, The Exorcist, Empire Records, The Craft, Jerry Maguire, Party Monster, It Happened One Night, Carrie, The Shawshank Redemption, Goodbye Mister Chips(original), To Sir With Love, That Thing You Do, Beauty, Clerks (1 and 2)Pretty Baby, Mullholand Drive, The Quiet, Clockwork Orange, Rocky Horror Picture Show, Thelma And Louise, Mad Love, Primal Fear, Pretty Woman, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Crazy/Beautiful, Monster, Spaceballs, Uncle Buck, Brewster McCloud, Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill (1 and 2)The Secret Of Roan Inish, The Matchmaker, Team America World Police, What About Bob, Barefoot In The Park, Heathers, Clueless, Reality Bites, The Name Of The Rose, Mall Rats, Bringing Up Baby, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, All 3 Indiana Jones movies, Eyes Wide Shut, Lolita (original and new), Niagara Niagara, Queen of the Damned, The Breakfast Club, The Lord Of The Rings Trilogy, KIDS, Moulin Rouge,Gummo, Down With Love, Interview With The Vampire, Natural Born Killers, Ghost World, Blue Car, White Oleander, SLC Punk, Scream, Girl Interrupted, Sweet November, Ray, Chicago, The Whole Wide World, The Cell, Closer, Beautiful Girls, The Doors, 16 Candles, Songcatcher, Jaw Beaker, Bridget Jones (both), Bastard Out Of Carolina, Seven, Vanilla Sky, Frida, 12 Monkeys, All the Austin Powers movies, Wayne’s World, Saved, The Secret Life Of Alter Boys, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, American Beauty, The Usual Suspects, Now And Then, Francis Farmer, Cool Hand Luke, Rebel Without A Cause, Key Largo, Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte, Now Voyager, Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas, Flight Of The Navigator, The Secrets Of The Ya Ya Sisterhood, Blazing Saddles, Haunted Honeymoon, Young Frankenstein, Bram Stoker's Dracula, 2 weeks Notice, Love Actually, God's And Monsters, The Elephant Man, Harvey, All the Harry Potter movies, Silence Of The Lambs, Nell, House Of Spirits, Sophie's Choice, Hackers, The Matrix, Alice's Restaurant, Brokeback Mountain, Oh Brother Where Art Thou, Alphie, AI, Taxi Driver, Confessions Of An American Girl, Almost Famous, Nosferatu, East Of Eden, Wild At Heart, Bonnie And Clyde, Harold And Maude, Saving Private Ryan, Castaway, The Last Unicorn, Lady And The Tramp, Go, Inventing The Abbots, The Village, Signs, Heavenly Creatures, The Life Of David Gale, Finding Neverland, Some Like It Hot, Jane Eyre (Orson Welles as well as William Hurt), Bedknobs And Broomsticks, The Incredible Mr. Limpet, True Romance, Bringing Out The Dead, Cape Fear (original), Giant, The Children's Hour, Lucas, The Piano, Firelight, Singing In The Rain, Little Women (Katherine Hepburn as well as Winona Ryder), How To Make An American Quilt, The Color Purple, Beloved, Glory, Passions, Valmont, The Man And The Moon, The Lost Boys, Crash, Very Annie Mary, Pride and Predjudice (Colin Firth)....
More will be added as they come into my life or into my head..This is a list with no beginning or end.
One of the best monos ever....(sigh!)
Mostly TCM and AMC, The History and Learning channels, Bravo, BBC America, and of course the movie and indie networks...
(Some VH1 and MTV as well, just whateva...)
Grapes of Wrath and East of Eden by John Steinbeck, Anything by Carson McCullers or Anya Seton, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith, Catcher in the Rye-JD Salinger, The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco, The Da Vinci Code and Angels an Demon's by Dan Brown, Gone with the Wind- Margaret Mitchel, Prozac Nation- Elizabeth Wurtzel, The entire Vampire Chronicals/Mayfair Witches by Ann Rice, The Alienist- Caleb Car, Pillars of the Earth- Ken Follet, Pope Joan by Donna Woolfolk Cross, The Borgia Bride- Jeanne Kalogridis, The Courts of Love by Jean Plaidy, Eleanor of Aquitaine: A Life by Allison Weir, The Book of Eleanor: A Novel of Elanor of Aquitane- Pamela Kaufman (Will pretty much read anything about this woman), The Lady and the Unicorn and The Virgin Blue by Tracy Chavalier, Bastard out of Carolina and Cavedweller by Dorothy Allison, Crime and Punishment by Fyordor Dostoevsky, etc..
and of course various poets..
The Elephant Man (AKA Joseph Merrick), Diane Arbus, Man Ray, The beautiful genius that is Charlie Kaufman, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Eleanor of Aquitaine (AKA the Legendary Queen/Barebreasted-Badass), Katherine Hepburn, Gillian Welch, King Arthur (So?), Gandhi, Frida Kahlo, Edvard Munch, Brigitte Bardot, The tragic but beautiful Vivienne Leigh and Francis Farmer, Salvador Fuckin' Dali, Edward Steichen, David Lynch, Women who rock (literally), People who rock (In general), Edward Gorey, Jack Kerouac (As if his name rhyming wasn't cool enough, he had the balls to write "I am God" and call it poetry), Lon Chaney (Man of a Thousand Faces),Clementine, Ophelia, Marla Singer, and AMELIE..