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francine

The Mint Cycle..(Not The Blue Period)

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Israel Regardie......Baudelaire..Quentin Crisp.... Eddie Izzard....Rumi...Ugly Betty..Klaus Nomi..... Paul Laffoley...Alan Watts...Noam Chomsky ...Omar Khayam

Movies:

..Farinelli ...Gattaca ....The Following .....Death in Venice ......Stranger than Paradise ..,....Man Bites Dog ......Dog Day Afternoon ...The Village of the Damned ......The Loved One .......Dr. Strangelove .......Fight Club ...Ludwig .....Croupier .....Aberdeen .......Run Lola Run ...2001 .......La Strada ...The Bad Seed ....Audition .....Ratcatcher .....Vagabond ....Zero Effect ....The Vanishing..(the orig) .....Memento ......Tron ......Get Carter (the original) ...Norfolk .....Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind ....Morven Caller ....Dear Frankie .... Battle Royale .....2046 ....Jonathan Millers "Alice in Wonderland" ...Videodrome ..A guide to Recognizing Your Saints..

Television:

Boston Legal... Rome... Nip and Tuck...

Books:

(art books) ..Carravagio..Bacon...Remedios Varo..James Ensor....Gustave Moreau.. and I LOVE reference books........ also....Castaneda, The Narnia books,Jim Thompson, Shirley Jackson, Patricia Highsmith,

Heroes:

Sonny..in "Dog Day Afternoon"..and Vincent in"Gattaca" ..

My Blog

Sarabands

Saraband'She sleep in the rivers bed, drunk of her sadness her head head the dwelling of deepest torment, of deepest lament caressing the water like ice, she shakes her head until her spirit finds the...
Posted by francine on Sun, 10 Jun 2007 11:09:00 PST

Mercury in retrograde

There are so many things I want to say..but don't. It's hard to have a conversation in a club when the music is so wonderfully loud. Even without that excuse, I find it difficult to speak my mind. I...
Posted by francine on Tue, 29 May 2007 07:11:00 PST

Our true nature

"We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people" ~ Arthur Schopenhauer What would you say if you didn't care what others thought of you? What would you do if you weren't afraid...
Posted by francine on Mon, 26 Feb 2007 06:29:00 PST

Once again! It must be true!

You scored as Satanism. Your beliefs most closely resemble those of Satanism! Before you scream, do a bit of research on it. To be a Satanist, you don't actually have to believe in Satan. Satanism ge...
Posted by francine on Tue, 09 Jan 2007 08:49:00 PST

The elephant of mist

I just had a conversation with an old friend who brought up an event that happened many years ago. He had had a conversation with two other old friends about the same event....and each person had a d...
Posted by francine on Sat, 21 Oct 2006 09:42:00 PST

ambassador peep peep

the tension at my job has been so thick..you could cut it with a knife.we had been working on mailing postcards for our relocation sale...rushing to get it done...for days. there had been many scream...
Posted by francine on Wed, 28 Jun 2006 06:22:00 PST

is it just my paranoid imajination..

or is just everyone sick including me..and its probably germ warfare and or birdflu and we will all die?just a thought.happy easter
Posted by francine on Sun, 16 Apr 2006 10:31:00 PST

Oscar Wilde...De Profundis..(pissed off letter)

"I determined to commit suicide on the very day on which i left prison. After a time that evil mood passed away, and i made up my mind to live, but to wear gloom as a king wears purple; never to smile...
Posted by francine on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

my favorite

Amazon.comFans of Lewis Carroll's classic novel for children will be fascinated by this startling 1966 interpretation by Jonathan Miller, a noted British theater director. Influenced by surrealism and...
Posted by francine on Mon, 20 Mar 2006 04:31:00 PST

I am a guerilla gardener

very very rarely do i buy plants....i steal seeds and cuttings off of other peoples plants...its much more satisfying and much cheaper..i have an unruly jungle now..neigbor does not like it cause all ...
Posted by francine on Sun, 20 Nov 2005 08:04:00 PST