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Joly

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About Me

Its net covers the whole universe. And though its meshes are wide, it doesn't let a thing slip through.

My Interests

The bend of the universe.

I'd like to meet:

Artists & people doing interesting caca.I edited my profile at Freeweblayouts.net , check out these Myspace Layouts!

Music:

Stereolab, ohhowilove David Bowie, Prefuse73, The Pinkmeat, My Bloody Valentine, Roxy Music, Bjork, Lush, Le Tigre, Parlaiment, Marlene Dietrich, Seefeel, Jill Scott, Elvis Costello and the Attractions, The Kinks, The Roots, Fiction Like Candy, Sabbath, Mouse on Mars, Funki Porcini, Iggy Pop, Lee Scratch Perry, Joni, Katell Koenig, Mazzy Star, Herbie Hancock, Lunachicks, Bebel Giberto, Alice Coltrane, Aphex Twin, His Name is Alive, Naming Mary, Stina Nordenstam, Holly Golightly, King Tubby, The Orb, Joe Williams, Bikini Kill, Boards of Canada, Count Basie (represent), Beans, Soft 'n' Softy, DeeLite, Can, Neu, Talk Talk, Monaural, Blondie, Kruder and Dorfmeister, and of course Brian Eno

Movies:

To Have and Have Not, Anything with Jean Paul Belmondo, Gloria (the original, bien sur), David Lynch films, My Own Private Idaho, 8 1/2, Goodbye Lenin, The Constant Gardener, His Girl Friday, Breathless, M is for Murder, The Maltese Falcon, Amelie,Kinky Boots, Being John Malcovich, Casablanca, Joyeux Noel, The Big Sleep, Broken Flowers, Paper Moon, The English Patient, The Spy Who Came in From the Cold, Blade Runner, The Hunger, Coffee and Cigarettes, The Big Lebowski, Paris Is Burning, Das Leben Den Anderen

Television:

Don't watch tv, but I have rented Deadwood & 6 Ft Under, and I like them. Ich mag Deutsche Fussball!

Books:

Tao Te Ching (Mitchell translation), Alice Munroe's stories, Gabriel Garcia Marquez's entire works, Faulkner, some Kerouac, Tennessee Williams, Chaucer and other geeky Medieval works, The Razor's Edge, Cakes and Ale (both by W. Sommerset Maugham), Travels with Charley (Steinbeck), Cruddy (Lynda Barry, yessss), Maigret books (Simenon), The Moon and Sixpence (WSM), The Odyssey and other Greek epics, plays and myths, Berlin Stories (Isherwood), Black Boy (Wright), The Night Manager (LeCarre), Cathederal (Raymond Carver), Joy Williams' stories, Barrel Fever (Sedaris), Going Solo (Roald Dahl), Patricia Highsmith short stories, Tales of the City (Armistadt Maupin), The Constant Gardener (LeCarre)... Sappho, Homer, Eliot, Rilke, Ginsburg, Elizabeth Bishop, cummings, H.D., Wallace Stevens, the Bard

Heroes:

That is my all time favorite song!

My Blog

City of the Fallen Angels

A cure for a hangover is another hangover the picture windows of your uncle's home light up your broken blue eyes. They were once blue, now littered with the pockmarks of your defeats. Waking up in...
Posted by Joly on Tue, 18 Sep 2007 09:04:00 PST

Italian Television

Italian Television     Sylvia had rigged a television set on the side of her loft bed. Josie was watching it with interest; women gyrating slowly, sitting in chairs with their blouses open, ...
Posted by Joly on Thu, 30 Mar 2006 10:33:00 PST

Crossing the Inky Black Map of Night

   Evening had fallen by the time she climbed out of the underground. She ran through the rain. The other girls were already dressed and their eyes were lined perfectly. Liquid bla...
Posted by Joly on Mon, 18 Sep 2006 12:15:00 PST

The secret

The secret sounds like Marlene Dietrich singing the song Black Market "I'll trade you for your candy... My camera's a dandy...  You'll buy my goods and all of my goods are keen." ...
Posted by Joly on Sun, 17 Sep 2006 08:10:00 PST

Josie's Communist Dream

  Josie wanted some new shoes. After standing in line for a good hour, she was able to speak with a young man. She had observed him mocking the customers as they approach...
Posted by Joly on Sat, 19 Aug 2006 10:21:00 PST

What I Told Josie

It's not a secret exactly. But she asked me very gently, as though it hadn't been asked and she was sipping tea daintily as if we were old ladies having tea after many years of having tea. S...
Posted by Joly on Mon, 28 Aug 2006 09:26:00 PST

Somebody Else's Wisdom

               "You think that life just goes by like a river and you just float on it. But that's just hippie shit." Finn drank from his cof...
Posted by Joly on Thu, 30 Mar 2006 10:57:00 PST