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About Me


yorkshire rose.
elisabeth...
- hails from harrogate, north yorkshire, in england, but currently resides in chicago, illinois.
- adores reading- especially classic french and russian literature.
- has this weird affinity with the number seventeen.
- appreciates wabi sabi aesthetics. the things she usually likes the most about people are usually the things they most dislike about themselves.
- is heavily tattooed, but still classy.
- seems to be utterly incapable of committing to a long-term relationship.
- loves cars (especially vintage ones) but doesn't know how to drive. up until very recently had never even sat behind the wheel of a car!
- drinks gin. she's a bombay sapphire girl.
- works in the gold coast catering to the whims of people with more money than sense.
- adores freckles. wishes she had some.
- loves old jazz and swing. wishes she could have been a lounge singer in the twenties/thirties.
- misses europe terribly.
- has curly hair. which you will never see because she straightens it religiously.
- has terrible eyesight (an astigmatism and nearsighted) but wears contact lenses (unless she's exhausted or hungover).
- likes lists (obviously).
- never manages to stay single for long, apparently.
- smells of 'coco mademoiselle' eau de parfum.
- only ever wears skirts and dresses- does not own a single piece of denim or pair of trousers.
- would eat pomegranates every day if she could.
- is utterly unimpressed by money and material possessions.
- rather adores the writings of charles baudelaire.
my current obsessions include:
music in hebrew, vintage schwinn cruisers, betsey johnson dresses , kewpie dolls, bánh chuoi hap , those laminated 'holy cards' featuring various obscure saints, boiled peanuts , and kombucha tea.

My Interests

the number 17, abandoned buildings, alice in wonderland, androgyny, art deco, billie holiday, bjork, boston terriers, bubble tea, buddhism, camden, chanel, cherry blossoms, chicago, classic cars, crooked teeth, darger, darkrooms, donnie darko, england, film noir, french bulldogs, furikake, geta, ghost in the shell, grey skies, h.p. lovecraft, hairdressing, hayao miyazaki, henry darger, hokusai, house hippos, house of leaves, howl's moving castle, iain banks, infj, isao takahata, italian, italy, japan, japanese, jazz, kitsch, latin, learning, lewis carroll, lithography, london, lush, mac cosmetics, macs, marxism, metal casting, metalsmithing, miserable weather, motorcycles, nautical stars, nihongo, nostalgia, old school tattoos, orchids, overpriced art education, painting, photography, pinstripes, polka dots, printmaking, pronto plates, protruding collarbones, punk rock, roald dahl, rockabilly, rotofugi, running, scary toys, screenprinting, sewing, shiba inus, sigur rós, skulls, the smell of green soap, sock monkeys, spaced, speaking french, stars, stretched earlobes, stripes, studio ghibli, tattoos, the thirties, the nightmare before christmas, the smashing pumpkins, the vivian girls, thick-rimmed glasses, tim burton, tofu, tokyo, tokyo geijutsu daigaku, troglodytes, ukiyo-e, vivienne westwood, vogue, wabi sabi, welding, yorkshire, zombies

I'd like to meet:



Music:

old jazz, old punk, old rock. anything old.

Movies:

only indie/foreign/silent. anything pretentious or subtitled.

Television:

is full of advertisements to make you feel inadequate and unhappy.

Books:

irvine welsh, iain banks, chuck palahniuk, mark danielewski, augusten burroughs.

Heroes:

henry darger.

My Blog

relocation: logan square.

moving again. logan square. at least for a little while.i won't have internet access much in the coming weeks, though.
Posted by la rovina dell'uomo on Wed, 30 Apr 2008 09:37:00 PST

if you have to go, don’t say goodbye...

Beginn, Thomas Corey BEGINN Thomas Corey Born 12-4-1984 Died 4-4-2008 Our wonderful son whose life was tragically taken. We will never forget you and you will never know how much you are loved and mis...
Posted by la rovina dell'uomo on Wed, 16 Apr 2008 09:21:00 PST

she doesnt miss much, she never stays too long.

i have this strong desire to visit paris right now. i just want to ride the metro, drink a ton of wine, read baudelaire in some ancient cafe, and walk through montmartre.i love the intro to my current...
Posted by la rovina dell'uomo on Mon, 31 Mar 2008 07:12:00 PST

lost your head, now you sleep on the floor...

...what you said, I don't want anymore.- obscured, the smashing pumpkins.
Posted by la rovina dell'uomo on Sun, 09 Mar 2008 06:40:00 PST

vivienne...

why does vivienne westwood always bring out a new line of super cute (super mini) and almost affordable handbags when i'm so bloody broke?argh!...
Posted by la rovina dell'uomo on Fri, 15 Feb 2008 06:30:00 PST

vivienne westwood eyewear...

i want these glasses. i want them so much i am willing to end my ten plus year streak of only wearing chanel eyewear. i love vivienne westwood....
Posted by la rovina dell'uomo on Mon, 26 Nov 2007 10:10:00 PST

homesick.

this is the town where i grew up (mostly).it's been nearly two years since i left england. i really miss it these days....
Posted by la rovina dell'uomo on Tue, 25 Sep 2007 10:44:00 PST

eyes...

i always used to hate my eyes. they're not quite light and not quite dark. sort of  blue-greyish with yellow flecks around the pupil. i always wished i had blue eyes. i thought my eyes were borin...
Posted by la rovina dell'uomo on Sat, 26 May 2007 12:54:00 PST

of niqabs and nail polish.

the other day i was engrossed in my book; reading lolita in tehran, and someone i know began talking about women in arab countries being so oppressed, being forced to wear niqabs or hijabs (face/body ...
Posted by la rovina dell'uomo on Wed, 02 May 2007 10:48:00 PST

love.

'it is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. instead of being a sudden impulse full of ardor and reverie, it becomes a distastefu...
Posted by la rovina dell'uomo on Fri, 30 Mar 2007 11:31:00 PST