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About Me

I too am not a bit tamed,
I too am untranslatable,
I sound my barbaric YAWP over the roofs of the world.
-Walt Whitman.

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My Interests

life
Yawp
my husband
Francis Scott Fitzgerald
Johnny Cash
reading
playing drums
Franz Ferdinand
the number 22
old books
History
old stones (that includes DIAMONDS)
museums
Paris, London, NY
Harry Potter
Ireland
Scotland
ruins of all kinds
going to the movies
good music
concerts
the colour green
chocolate
sleeping
corny jokes
the roaring 20's & retro & old school
art deco
constructivism
symmetry
cheese and M&M's
the Aran Islands
Eugene Delacroix
Tamara de Lempicka
Toulouse Lautrec
the word "swell"
rainy days
sunny days
and some things I haven't discovered yet.
I HATE PIGEONS!
But I like parlor snakes...

I'd like to meet:

My mood is:
Cool gents...

Music:

FRANZ FERDINAND!
JOHNNY CASH
Queens of the Stone Age
The White Stripes
Arctic Monkeys
U2
The Beatles
PJ Harvey
The Strokes
The Arcade Fire
Beethoven
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
Blondie
Jeff Buckley
Schubert
The Clash
Benny Goodman
Iggy Pop
The Smiths
Charlie Parker
The Kinks
Jacques Brel
Edith Piaf
The Stranglers
Velvet Underground
Depeche Mode
Elvis Presley
The Kills
Gallon Drunk
Roy Orbison
T. Rex
Electric Six
The Hives
Kings of Leon
etc...

Movies:

Dead Poets Society
Diarios de Motocycleta
Marie Antoinette
Gone with the Wind
Dracula
The Company of Wolves
The Goonies
La Reine Margot
The Thin Red Line
Transpotting
The Fearless Vampire Killers
Sur mes lÃ¨vres
De battre mon coeur s'est arrÃªtÃ©
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Atonement
Walk the Line
Back to the Future
Welcome to Collinwood
Deathproof
The Perfume
Sunshine
Traffic
etc...
Richard Burton
James McAvoy
Gael Garcia Bernal
Gary Oldman
Sam Rockwell
Benicio del Toro
Jean Gabin
Joaquin Phoenix
Michael Caine
Ewan McGregor
Alan Rickman
Johnny Depp
etc...
EugÃ©nie Alquezar
Vivien Leigh
Louise Brooks
Kate Winslet
Keira Knightley
Scarlett Johansson
Kirsten Dunst
Emma Thompson
Romy Schneider
Elizabeth Taylor
etc...
Tim Burton
Neil Jordan
Terrence Malick
The Cohen Brothers
Alfred Hitchcock
Wes Anderson
Quentin Tarantino
etc...

Television:

Rome
Blackadder
The Office (UK, needless to say...)
The Simpsons
Only Fools and Horses

Books:

Tender is the Night, and anything by Francis Scott Fitzgerald

The Master and Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov;
The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde;
All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque;
L'Enchanteur, Rene Barjavel;
On the Road, Jack Kerouac.

Ernest Hemingway
Jane Austen
Oscar Wilde
William Shakespeare
Tennessee Williams
Walt Whitman
Dorothy Parker
Harry Potter!

Heroes:

FRANCIS SCOTT FITZGERALD
Johnny Cash
Paul Thompson
Scarlett O'Hara & Melanie Hamilton
And of course.

My Blog

London

So here they are... the London photos.We didn't take much photos, because everything is just so lovely overthere that if you start snapping that's all you'll be doing the whole trip. Plus we didn't ta...
Posted by madk on Mon, 24 Sep 2007 05:54:00 PST

Paris vs London vs NYC

Those of you who know me well know that I have an addiction issue with Paris. It's my home, my one and only, sometimes against my own will and better judgement. I can never be away for more than 3 wee...
Posted by madk on Thu, 23 Aug 2007 05:21:00 PST

Really work is fun

So this week was my last week waiting for that bob damn book and my last week before my much deserved 3 and a half weeks away from this hell hole I call my job.And this is how I pass time:on wednesday...
Posted by madk on Fri, 20 Jul 2007 05:50:00 PST

Dear Girlfriends

If it's not done already, go see this movie, and rejoice (even more) in being a fucking girl.With love, Mad-...
Posted by madk on Wed, 11 Jul 2007 01:31:00 PST

Hummm

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Posted by madk on Tue, 20 Feb 2007 04:44:00 PST

Peter and Olivier's birthday party

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Posted by madk on Mon, 23 Oct 2006 04:32:00 PST

My favourite Walt Whitman

Song of Myself by Walt Whitman XXIV Walt Whitman, a kosmos, of Manhattan the son, Turbulent, fleshy, sensual, eating, drinking and breeding, No sentimentalist, no stander above men and women or...
Posted by madk on Tue, 05 Sep 2006 03:26:00 PST