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Maure

do this long enough, you get a taste for it

About Me

I tend to go in this order: Superbia, Gula, Ira, Acedia, Luxuria, Avaritia, Invidia.
Or, contrarily, in this order: Humanitas, Liberalitas, Castitas, Patientia, Industria, Humilitas, Temperare.

My Interests

eating your brains and gaining your knowledge

I'd like to meet:

the antidote

Music:

yes

Movies:

Bringing Up Baby, the Abominable Dr. Phibes, the Shawshank Redemption, His Girl Friday, Gattaca, Titus, Love in the Afternoon, the Village, Se7en, Punch Drunk Love, the Incredibles, Jane Eyre, Unbreakable, the Return of the Pink Panther, Brick, Love Me If You Dare, Pride and Prejudice, the City of Lost Children, Secretary, Hearts in Atlantis, King Kong, Notorious, L.A. Confidential, the Purple Rose of Cairo, Strictly Ballroom, Ravenous, La Reine Margot

Television:

I don't really watch much television.

Books:

biographies, short fiction. Richard Feynman, Neil Gaiman, Raymond Chandler, Harlan Ellison, Mark Helprin, Jonathan Carroll, A.C. Doyle, Saki, Roald Dahl, Haruki Murakami, Angela Carter, E.A. Poe, Alan Moore, Warren Ellis, Christopher Moore, Ray Bradbury, Gene Wolfe, Jane Austen, Jasper Fforde, Rudyard Kipling, Gerald Kersh, Patricia Highsmith . . . I like books. A lot.

Heroes:

If there is a way to find you I will find you.

My Blog

Modern Day Birthday Savagery at Martyrs’

The planets aligned and the Universe conspired to book Modern Day Savage at Martyrs’ on April 17th. Everyone knows what that means: it’s your chance to buy me a birthday uisge beatha and w...
Posted by Maure on Thu, 27 Mar 2008 04:31:00 PST

youre counting my feathers as the bells toll

here. Here is where I will live:..I will wear shiny silver-green spaceman jumpsuits when I go outside the castle walls, just in case someone is looking who has the inevitable preconceived notion that ...
Posted by Maure on Sun, 02 Sep 2007 10:08:00 PST

a map, unmarked

I couldn't wait any longer, and started writing the novel today. Actually, I spent most of the time just doing word doodles as exercises, tricks and games I learned in various workshops, but then out ...
Posted by Maure on Wed, 04 Jul 2007 05:19:00 PST

death (having lost) put on his universe

and yawned: it looks like rain(they've played for timelessnesswith chips of when)that's yours;i guessyou'll have to loan me painto take the hearse,see you again.Love (having found) wound up such prett...
Posted by Maure on Tue, 03 Jul 2007 07:55:00 PST

Baby, I think we just need to take a break.

whoa . . . I never got one of these before: Request Limit Reached IMDb aims to be fair to all users. There have been an unusually high number of pages requested by you (or from your organization's w...
Posted by Maure on Wed, 31 Jan 2007 11:05:00 PST

How satisfying it is when we come across something that perfectly fits the curve of our desire.

Jonathan Carroll's observations, sometimes.Coke Zero Body By Victoria underthings specific sentences by Mark Helprin Elfman's "Death!" and "Ice Dance"purple Sharpies big black leather bear hugs from M...
Posted by Maure on Mon, 11 Dec 2006 12:29:00 PST

Worst Day Ever

Today is the worst day ever:My electric tea kettle is a major electrical fire hazard; it's from Ireland, and as such, required a US outlet adapter which apparently has become lax in regulating the ele...
Posted by Maure on Sat, 02 Dec 2006 11:17:00 PST

Optometrically Entangled

I just got home from an eye exam. Everything is woozy. My pupils are wide, wide, and I can see all the atoms moving in frenetic dances of constriction and lust. Maybe that last bit isn't true, but I r...
Posted by Maure on Thu, 19 Oct 2006 09:34:00 PST

I want to eat your skin like a whole almond.

I want to eat the sunbeam flaring in your lovely body,the sovereign nose of your arrogant face, oh, fuck.
Posted by Maure on Thu, 12 Oct 2006 12:55:00 PST

Abandoned Places

These are lovely, and creepy, together at once. Sunday is my last day in the city for two weeks. That's right -- I bought my ticket, and am out of here Sunday night! My cats will be Abandoned Creatur...
Posted by Maure on Tue, 19 Sep 2006 07:58:00 PST