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About Me


A staunch character. S T A U N C H
I punctuate and capitalize things sometimes arbitrarily. I'm bilingual - Ya govoryu po Russky! I like spicy cornbread and shiny shoes. I'm lactose intolerant. I have a hard time pacing myself. I like sleep but never get enough of it. I'm messy. I will point a camera at you, but will stop if you ask me to. I once saw a ghost. Gypsies almost kidnapped me when I was a child. I left offerings for the electricity gods. I believe in vampires and werewolves, but think zombies are pretty damn stupid and implausible. I'm fidgety. I use a lot of chapstick. I'm addicted to perfume and scented oils. I say odd things that people like to quote. I miss people more than they realize. I like the color red.

My Interests

mr p.b. cat. the cinematic life and time travel. food - everything about it, dancing, photography, walking around my favorite city (SF), board games, tea & coffee, late night conversations, more dancing, books (particularly biographies & correspondences between people of the past centuries), anything pre 1950's, egyptology, jigsaw puzzles, karaoke, bowling, c8h10n4o2, knick knacks, bobbed hair, the color green, cold weather, robert wilson's plays, haute couture, birds and animals chasing each other in mating rituals, b52 on the rocks, round toed shoes, fashion photography, mice playing electronic music, anachronistic behavior, oh and Justin Theroux.

I'd like to meet:

Gentle Pat
And this guy:

Music:

magnetic fields, nick cave et al, einsturzende neubauten, antony and the johnsons, andrew bird, goldfrapp, goran bregovic, os mutantes, animal collective, solex, cibo matto, david bowie, dory previn, lata mangeshkar, dengue fever, gogol bordello, klaus nomi, lisa germano, piano magic, blonde redhead, pixies, tom waits, suede, rasputina, tones on tail, the stranglers, birthday party, crime and the city solution, julee cruise, christian marclay, sixteen horsepower, regina spektor, rufus wainwright, bel canto, the knife, leonard cohen, tindersticks, carlos gardel, kino (victor tsoy), belle and sebastian, a lot of stuff on World Serpent, jesus and mary chain, mike patton and all his magic. i'm a sucker for ambient (aphex twin, autechre, µ-Ziq, squarepusher, múm, boards of canada, plaid), soundstracks & opulent film scores (Zbigniew Preisner!!), and international pop

Movies:

Wings of Desire. Double Life of Veronique. Leningrad Cowboys Go America. Picnic at Hanging Rock. Arizona Dream. Neverending Story. Harvey. So I Married An Axe Murderer. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. Don't Look Now. Peeping Tom. The Royal Tennenbaums. The Graduate. Metropolitan. Before Sunrise. The Apartment. The Sterile Cuckoo. Dream for an Insomniac. Ever After. Lost in Translation. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Me and You and Everyone We Know. Brick. Woody Allen's movies.

Television:

Twin Peaks. House. Whose Line Is It Anyway? Fishing with John. BSG. Gilmore Girls. Whatever, you know.

Books:

evelyn waugh, jane austen, philip k. dick, kingsley amis, h.h.munro (saki), o. henry, italo calvino, michael chabon, haruki murakami, charles baudelaire, julio cortazar, salman rushdie, mikhail bulgakov, tim powers, colette, a.s. byatt, nikolai gogol
i also like the laughter bellyache i get when i read funny web comics like Married to the Sea, Edison Hate Future, Perry Bible Fellowship, Red Meat and Pokey the Penguin.

Heroes:

Dale Cooper, Sherlock Holmes and Wishbone.

My Blog

Faun Fables

We saw Faun Fables Thursday night. It was a very good show.Girlstorm.Also, Girls with Guns opened. Worth seeing.I finally met my friend Mer in person (we've been corresponding for a while), as she w...
Posted by t. on Sun, 19 Aug 2007 08:55:00 PST

globe trotting

Well, my work confirmed it.October 23, I'm flying out to work as an assistant tour manager on a 16-day trip to Vietnam & Cambodia.My first day, after having recovered from jetlag, will be spent he...
Posted by t. on Tue, 31 Jul 2007 10:07:00 PST

Today I'm a year older, and also a year wiser

I must have known even then that things would be ok.I'm 28 yet today. The existential dread that sometimes clouds even the sunniest of dispositions is nowhere to be seen. Today, I feel relaxed and foc...
Posted by t. on Wed, 13 Jun 2007 10:26:00 PST

P R Y A N I K I

I made these! From a combination of recipes I found online. Mmm pryaniki pryaniki, medovye pryaniki!A bit o' history...
Posted by t. on Sat, 10 Feb 2007 01:53:00 PST

two sets of photos - Puppy & the last Dark Sparkle

So then. I didn't take that many pictures at either event, butHere is the Flickr set from the premiere of "Puppy":And here's one from Dark Sparkle last night:Enjoy.T....
Posted by t. on Tue, 30 Jan 2007 08:24:00 PST

lull

being alone it can be quite romanticlike jacques cousteau underneath the atlantica fantastic voyage to parts unknowngoing to depths where the sun's never shoneand i fascinate myself when i'm aloneso i...
Posted by t. on Thu, 11 Jan 2007 03:53:00 PST

life

It's not bad, these days.
Posted by t. on Wed, 03 Jan 2007 08:55:00 PST

good tidings

Some of you know that I've expressed time and time again - I am a very happy girl these days and the total bane of my existence has been financial strain. Well, that's about to change.I've just accept...
Posted by t. on Tue, 21 Nov 2006 11:58:00 PST

blogging is not safe

I've just been alerted to a very easy way in which any person on myspace is going to be able to read some of your "friends only" and "private" entries. It only affects the first 5 entires that show up...
Posted by t. on Wed, 15 Nov 2006 01:04:00 PST

mustache rides?

I was at work from 10:00am to 8:30pm, with a one hour break in between. The day somehow wans't terribly draining and I attributed my good mood to the consumption of fine, fine Chilean wine. I ended up...
Posted by t. on Sun, 29 Oct 2006 11:11:00 PST