About Me

I had rather hear
my dog bark at a crow
than a man
swear he loves me.

She is a useless ornamnet - a plaything - a bird of passage - a momentary aurora.
• I am slightly terribly old fashioned. I like my films silent, my cigarettes in a holder, and my music coming from a gramophone. I flirt with old gentlemen because they know how to talk to a lady, and because I like to find out how handsome they used to be when they produce worn black & white photographs from their wallets. ♥
• I am a complete and utter bookworm with a tendency to talk 'Shakespearean' and an obsession with quoting.. I love finding beautiful Renaissance poetry and French lyrics that can portray what is going on inside my head better than I will ever be able to with my own words. Yes, I'm really very tragic, I know it. :)
• When If I grow up I want to run away with the circus, or be a sleazy blues singer in a seedy, rundown jazz club, but for now I am quite happy to waste my days drinking entirely too much coffee, sleeping excessively so that I can analyze my dreams, and studying my beloved literature knowing it will get me absolutely nowhere in life. ♥

My Interests

Drinking tea, William Shakespeare, falling in love with dead film stars, low necklines & high heels, Day of Defeat, chain-smoking, spiritualism, Manchester United, Henry VIII & his six wives, Alfred Lord Tennyson, silent films, red lips & red nails, being English, haunted castles, ÃsatrÃº, living in the past, The Wiggles, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, etc, etc, etc!

I'd like to meet:

Music:

Strictly rap & hip hop to dance to: e-40, Three Six Mafia, Tech N9ne, Brotha Lynch, et cetera.

Dancing aside...
Acid Bath, Annette Hanshaw, Atreyu, Bessie Smith, Bic Runga, Bijou Philips, Billie Holiday, Buddy Holly, Damia, Deftones, Edith Piaf, Emiliana Torrini, Frehel, Girls Aloud, Glassjaw, George Harrison, Graham Nash, Guild of Funerary Violinists, Helen Kane, Il Divo, Irving Aaronson & His Commanders, Jamie Cullum, John Lennon, Joni Mitchell, Josephine Baker, Katie Melua, Lee Wiley, Lucienne Boyer, Lys Gauty, Madeleine Peyroux, Marion Harris, Metallica, Michael Buble, Mistinguett, Oasis, Paul Whiteman & His Orchestra, Pink, Pink Floyd, Poison the Well, Ray LaMontagne, Ruth Etting, Staind, The Beatles, The Byrds, The Eagles & The Kinks... ♥

Movies:

Silents! Sherlock Jr, Orchids and Ermine, The Sheik, It, City Lights, Little Annie Rooney, Camille, Our Hospitality, The Eagle, A Fool There Was, Ella Cinders, The Circus.. Et Cetera.

Books:

♥Philippa Gregory♥
Meridon
Wideacre
Fallen Skies
Virgin Earth
Earthly Joys
The Queen's Fool
The Wise Woman
The Virgin's Lover
The Favoured Child
A Respectable Trade
The Other Boleyn Girl
The Constant Princess
The Boleyn Inheritance
& Random..
Fanny Hill; John Cleland
Delta of Venus; Anais Nin
Moll Flanders; Daniel Defoe
Camille; Alexandre Dumas Fils
Gatsby's Girl; Caroline Preston
The Marriage Debt; Louise Allen
A Million Little Pieces; James Frey
Complete Works; William Shakespeare
Naked Lunch/Junky; William Burroughs
Selected Poems; Alfred Lord Tennyson
Loving Will Shakespeare; Carolyn Meyer
The Six Wives of Henry VIII; Alison Weir
Lords of the White Castle; Elizabeth Chadwick

Heroes:

• Mae West
• Anne Boleyn
• Tallulah Bankhead

My Blog

A Woman of No Importance

MRS. CAROLINE: The Ideal Man? Oh, the Ideal Man should talk to us as if we were goddesses, and treat us as if we were children. He should refuse all our serious requests, and gratify...
Posted by Lady Gunpowder on Thu, 01 Feb 2007 03:39:00 PST

Body's Beauty

Of Adam's first wife, Lilith, it is told(the witch he loved before the gift of Eve,)that, ere the snake's, her sweet tongue could deceive,and her enchanted hair was the first gold.And still she sits, ...
Posted by Lady Gunpowder on Fri, 29 Dec 2006 04:41:00 PST