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Miss Library

I don’t deal in messages... I deal in ideas and the effect of ideas

About Me


my work in progress: Mondo Bizarre Magazine
(editor)

A Sample Of Things
(writer)

Gold Kissin'
(editor)

Prateleira Desarrumada
(editor)

Vertigo 451
(editor)


Bruce Weber

Duane Michals

David Hurn

Irving Penn

Bruce Davidson

Willy Ronis

David Bailey

Lillian Bassman


My Interests

Things I Like:
Vintage & retro clothes and shoes; vintage & retro furniture and fabrics; photography (specially black & white); architecture; fashion; illustration; art; vintage magazines; design.

I'd like to meet:

My shadow.

Music:

Chet Baker; Aretha Franklin; The Clash; The Buzzcocks; The Stooges; Nick Cave (with & without The Bad Seeds); Frank Sinatra; Manic Street Preachers; Graham Coxon; LCD Soundsystem; Queens Of The Stone Age; The Gossip; Einstürzende Neubauten; The Supremes; The Shirelles; The Smiths; The Diplomats Of Solid Sound; David Bowie; The Vicious Five; Mark Lanegan; The Velvet Underground; Edith Frost; Mudhoney; Stealing Orchestra; Lounge & Exotica; Gallon Drunk; The Makers; Devendra Banhart; Patty Smith; Oneida; Animal Collective; The Maharajas; New Order; Andy Williams; The Rolling Stones (until Exile On Main Street); The Kinks; Sleater-Kinney; April March; Belle & Sebastian; The Crown Royals; 13 & God; Dead Kennedys: Chad Vangaaleen; Micah P Hinson; Jeff Hanson; Josh Rouse; Why?; Shirley Bassey, Franz Ferdinand; Jens Lekman; Divine Comedy; Kurt Weil; Belle & Sebastian; Lightning Bolt; Joy Division; Untamed Youth; Enio Morricone; Cansei de Ser Sexy; Klaxons; Blood Brothers; Old Jerusalem

Movies:

Fahrenheit 451; Get Carter; Rocco E I Suoi Fratelli; Chunking Express; Vertigo; Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf?; Le Samourai; Freaks; Suddenly, Last Summer; The Night of The Hunter; Nosferatu; Il Gattopardo; Sunset Boulevard; Casablanca; Rear Window; Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari; Butterfield 8; Citizen Kane; Cat on a Hot Tin Roof; Bonnie and Clyde; Touch of Evil; Der Himmel über Berlin; Once A Thief; The Thin Red Line; Roma, Città Aperta; Apocalypse Now; Playtime; Le Gout Des Outres; Dune; Reservoir Dogs; Ran; Un Condamné à Mort s’est Echappe; Blow-Up; Lost In Tranlation; Little Odessa; Ice Station Zebra; Platoon; Manhattan; La Haine; Match Point; Man With A Movie Camera; The Bridges of Madison County; A Cidade de Deus; The Outsiders; Battleship Potemkin; 25th Hour; North by Northwest; Fight Club; Bullet Ballet; Rumble Fish

Television:

Black Books; The West Wing; Rome; Band Of Brothers; Little Britain; Daily Show; Brideshead Revisited; CSI; House; The Jewel in the Crown; Naked City; 24; ER; Dr. Who; Lost; The League Of Gentlemen; Absolutely Fabulous; Northern Exposure; Twin Peaks; Bottom; The Inspector Lynley Mysteries; Spooks; Silent Witness; Black Adder; Verano Azul; Les Galapiats; Shooting Stars; Red Dwarf

Books:

Les Infants Terribles; The Picture Of Dorian Gray; Fahrenheit 451; 1984;A Cidade e as Serras; The Big Sleep; Brighton Rock; In Cold Blood; Confessions d'un Masque; German Autumn; The Heart is a Lonely Hunter; La Chute; Lunar Caustic; Motel Chronicles; The Virgin Suicides; Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium; Hamlet; High Fidelity; Satyricon; The Trojan Women; The Magical Mountain; Sylvia Plath; T.S. Elliot; Auden; Cavafis

My Blog

poem 8

for you i resign my power it is one thing or the other, not bothno, not both. so sadly one can not have both...in the orange stripped roller-coasterthe simplest of things, so hard to spella sly fellow...
Posted by Miss Library on Fri, 25 May 2007 04:57:00 PST

poem 9

tell me, what was the point of it all?the fuzz and the thrill of  methodically collectprecious unique thingscreating layers of amazeness never give away, never lend, never let gostash in boxes, p...
Posted by Miss Library on Fri, 25 May 2007 07:06:00 PST

poem 7

it is almost there, it is almost there all set aside, brightly shaped, soon to be taken the silver bus on the side lane awaits for the never to be unfolding drama here my will is broken, such a confi...
Posted by Miss Library on Tue, 10 Apr 2007 07:34:00 PST

an older poem . 1

it's not the smile I want but the marble flash no time to waist, please lay by my side let's play that game of wanders as your poem rises when it sets, a moment of pause, and then, let's move on...
Posted by Miss Library on Sat, 07 Apr 2007 06:06:00 PST

poem 6

crushing parties, crushing parties, crushing parties all night, no stop leap forward, leap forward, leap forward back into my arms sing a nasty song, sing a nasty song, sing a nasty song crush me abov...
Posted by Miss Library on Tue, 03 Apr 2007 12:25:00 PST

poem 5

box the books, cage the cats, come up a dressing-table full of talcum powder laying my back on the kitchen floor and, funny, the ceiling is spinning my special speciality unravels and the unacceptab...
Posted by Miss Library on Tue, 27 Mar 2007 01:58:00 PST

poem 4

I miss going abroad and get a kick out of it I miss gigs in impossible places shut down by the police I miss pulling a vodka bottle out of my bag and sharing it I miss handle you a glass full of jack...
Posted by Miss Library on Tue, 27 Mar 2007 12:44:00 PST

BRETT ANDERSON - Brett Anderson (Drowned in Sound)

It is ironic that Brett Anderson first solo album comes out in spring. This is, without a doubt, a fall record. To be more accurate it is the winter of our discontentment. We have been the bravado and...
Posted by Miss Library on Fri, 23 Mar 2007 06:33:00 PST

AMY WINEHOUSE - Back To Black (Island)

Having a bad temper and a short fuse, hit boyfriends and fans, is all just fine to turn up in the tabloids and those many celebrities web sites and magazines. Still, with Amy Winehouse, even it does h...
Posted by Miss Library on Wed, 21 Mar 2007 06:40:00 PST

poem 2

take me through the flesh claded forest along schematic landscapes of rubble there are a million stop signs in the city crimson as hate blood tea is served in the motorway detour the sassy girl say...
Posted by Miss Library on Mon, 19 Mar 2007 05:33:00 PST