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alina

let's dunce

About Me

europhoria!!! DDR themeparks (best concept ever), foreign embassies, smelling of apples and money, walking arm and arm with my grandmother, restoration villages, tribute bands, fakes, replicas, reenactments, urban legends, alien chic, novelty, cults, secret societies (aspirational death club), private clubs (the blue diamond), heights, obsessive collectors, bathtowels so big they have their own postcodes, sychronicity, waking up bathed in white light, laughing, always. crying, incredibly rarely. esotericism, eroticism, mysticism, transgression, wordplay = coining new words, phrases, neologisms, ideograms and anagrams, stories involving animals, dreaming up impossible and improbable projects, getting lost, getting found, making wrapping paper with photocopiers, music (making + listening), cooking, eating, dancing, drinking, sleeping, good times. ok so, everything and nothing in-between.I edited my profile with Thomas' Myspace Editor V4.4

My Interests

mainly hangin with the he-me C.G.W... but occassionally some other things too... reading up on all things c - cannibalism, castration, crime scene reconstruction, you know the usual...

I'd like to meet:

more amazing women (the world is blessing me). einsteinturm and snow!

Music:

sibelius and satie, schlager and robert palmer. anything involving strings. oh and these ladys...

Movies:

woody allen, woody allen, woody allen. and other movies involving robots, new yorkers, neurotics and giant fruit and vegetables.

Television:

Black books, Shameless, the mighty boosh, Blackadder, the office, arrested development, Curb Your Enthusiasm, nighty night (thanks Nadia, I am so hooked!)....

Books:

Work = Richard Schechner, Victor Turner, Philip Auslander, Peggy Phelan, Rebecca Schnieder, Roland Barthes, Walter Benjamin, Nicolas Bourriaud. Play = George Bataille, Alina Reyes, Zelda Fitzgerald's letters, J.G. Ballard, Edgar Allen Poe, Anais Nin, Brothers Grimm, Jorge Lois Borges. Bedtime = the autobiographies of Joan Baez and Christine Keeler. E.C. Cole's funny picture books.

Heroes:

All members of the Redhead Sisterhood, be they living or dead, fictional or real, virginal or vapid: Jean Harlow, Kate Pierson (B52s), Poison Ivy (The Cramps), Rose McGowan, Sarah Ferguson, Clara Bow, Lena Katina (T.a.T.u), Queen Elizabeth I, Hazel Court, Belinda Carlisle, Lizzie Borden, Bette Davis, Pipi Long-stocking, Stalin's daughter Svetlana, Kirsten Dunst, Greer Garson, Alyson Hannigan, Holly Golightly ("a phony..but a REAL phony"), Lucille Ball, Tyler Wentworth (watch out Barbie!), Orphan Annie, Lulu, Boadicea, Shirley Manson, The 45 foot woman, Ann Boleyn, Jane Jetson, Joan of Arc, Reba McIntyre, Mary Queen of Scots, Tiffany, Josie McCoy (of Josie and the pussycats), Cleopatra, Lauren Ambrose, Charlotte Corday, pre-raphelite models, Queen Victoria, Vivienne Westwood, Maude Flanders, Bette Midler, Wilma Flintstone, Ginger Rogers, Gillian Anderson, Jessica Rabbit, Lucy Parkinson, Wanda von Dunajew, Salome, Anne of Green Gables, red setters, pomeranians, golden retrivers, Florence Nightingale, "Dirty" Dorethea, Emily Dickinson, Strawberry Shortcake, Mick Hucknall (honorary member), Molly Ringwald, Rose McGowan, Rita Hayworth, Kathrine Hepburn, Princess Ariel, Lindsay Lohan, Marilyn Monroe (born red, dyed and died blonde), Jullianne Moore, Susan Sarandon, Ann Sheridan, Lee Remick, Tilda Swinton, Natasha Lyonne, my great-grandmother Fanny Meachem (who i never met but love still with her black market roasts, pork crackling fetish and world wide wrestling federation obsession)...I've missed so many of you out I know! but I love you all....I even begrudgingly accept into the sisterhood Nicole Kidman, Julia Roberts and ginger cats (but only at the pinnacle of their careers - BMX bandits, Pretty Woman and sleeping respectively)...Keep the flame burning ladies! www.redheads.com.au "Man, you ain't lived Till you've had your tires rotated By a red-headed woman" Bruce Springsteen

My Blog

note to self

Today I found the following note to self scribbled somewhat madly on the back of a piece of paper found in my office:"9/1/2007I'm having one of those days where a crow sitting on the corner of a rooft...
Posted by alina on Wed, 18 Apr 2007 09:38:00 PST

I ching! the book of changes

So I've done two I ching readings in my life. Both tossing coins in-between sips of coffee and puffs on a cigarette. 2 months apart. similar question in my mind...and both times I got the same hexagra...
Posted by alina on Tue, 10 Apr 2007 09:14:00 PST

on books and lovers

I have this theory: great books and lovers only come into your life at times when you have no time to spare. Perhaps I should explain. Today I went to the university library to get Labyrinths by Jorg...
Posted by alina on Mon, 19 Mar 2007 03:49:00 PST

in my dreams i'm dying all the time

it's true...i keep having the wildest death dreams...so many...at least once a week...and my death is always so excessive...i think i've dream died at least two dozen times this year...the worst thing...
Posted by alina on Wed, 14 Mar 2007 12:34:00 PST