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April

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About Me

I haven't read any of the Harry Potter books or The Da Vinci Code. I have a huge pile of Dostoyevsky, Shakespeare, Moliere, Lawrence, James, Voltaire, Faulkner, and Tolstoy that I'm reading instead. So bite me.
Check out my LJ at http://testpatern.livejournal.com/

My Interests

Rugby Union, Mark Rothko, Francis Bacon, ennui, London, Paris, New York City, Melbourne, New Zealand, Scotland, Balthus, Vija Celmins, Jean-Michel Basquiat, film, theater, Eddie Izzard, Graham Norton, travel, witty banter, irony, sarcasm, reading, writing, libraries, fog, cats, kilts, koalas, pugs, yoga, chocolate, trivia, Vivienne Westwood, Michael Palin, postcards, the Cold War, etymology, factories, Eadweard Muybridge, lists

I'd like to meet:

Dame Edna Everage. Udo Kier. Thomas Jerome Newton. People who make me laugh. People with passports. People with good manners and clean fingernails. People who get Dennis Miller's references. And you.**You Have To Send Me A Message If You Want Me To Add You**

Music:

I like music.

Movies:

8 1/2, A Fish Called Wanda, Alan Rickman, Alfred Hitchcock, Alice in Wonderland, Andrei Tarkovsky, Antoine Doinel, Babe, Barcelona, Belle de Jour, Bernardo Bertolucci, Bill Nighy, Blue, Buster Keaton, Carole Lombard, Cary Grant, Catherine Deneuve, Criterion, Daniel Auteuil, David Lynch, Dekalog, Dog Day Afternoon, Ewan Mcgregor, Eyes Without a Face, François Truffaut, Gabriel Byrne, Gene Kelly, Glengarry GlenRoss, In the Mood for Love, Isabella Rossellini, Jack Lemmon, Jacques Tati, James Dean, James Stewart, Jean Cocteau, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Jeremy Irons, Juliette Binoche, Katharine Hepburn, Kevin Spacey, Krzysztof Kieslowski, Lawrence of Arabia, long takes, Louis Malle, Maggie Cheung, Marcello Mastroianni, Marilyn Monroe, Mary Poppins, Mathieu Kassovitz, Pedro Almodóvar, Peeping Tom, Peter Greenaway, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Ralph Fiennes, Rear Window, Red, Roman Polanski, talking animal movies, Taxi Driver, The 400 Blows, The Conformist, The Conversation, The Double Life of Veronique, The Godfather I and II, The Man Who Fell to Earth, The Pillow Book, The Third Man, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, This is Spinal Tap, Tony Leung, Wong Kar-wai

Television:

120 Minutes, Infomercials, Max Headroom, Miracle Pets, The Joy of Painting, The Office, The Twilight Zone, The Young Ones, Twin Peaks

Books:

A.A. Milne, atlases, biographies, Franz Kafka, George Orwell, J.D. Salinger, John Cheever, Lewis Carroll, Michael Ondaatje, Oscar Wilde, Patricia Highsmith, The Atomic Energy Deskbook, The Diary of Samuel Pepys, The Oxford English Dictionary, Vladimir Nabokov

Heroes:

Noel Coward, Marcel Duchamp, Vivienne Westwood, Christiane Amanpour

My Blog

More Photographs Posted

Taking Pictures, originally uploaded by testpatern. At last, the wait is over! I've finished uploading a backlog of images from the last four months. Photographs from my trip to Dunedin, Christchurch ...
Posted by April on Sun, 05 Aug 2007 08:55:00 PST

Photographs from Summer 2006

Tuileries Twirl, originally uploaded by testpatern. Summer travel photographs are finally up on my flickr account!  Check them out at http://www.flickr.com/photos/testpatern/sets/72157594271...
Posted by April on Wed, 18 Oct 2006 11:46:00 PST

Hawaii Photos are Go!

Shirts, originally uploaded by testpatern. The pictures from my recent trip to Hawaii are up! Check them out here:http://www.flickr.com/photos/testpatern/sets/1821250All my pictures can be reached by...
Posted by April on Mon, 30 Jan 2006 07:11:00 PST

Melbourne Photos are Go!

Flinders Street Station, originally uploaded by testpatern. Due to some technical difficulties, the posting of my Hawaii photographs has been temporarily delayed.In the meantime, please peruse some n...
Posted by April on Tue, 10 Jan 2006 01:21:00 PST

17 Things I'm Into Right Now

[I'm home sick from work today, hence all the posts...] Americas Funniest Home Videos Bonne Maman Apricot Conserves chocolate-covered macadamia nuts Delicious. magazine englishcut.com etiquette Vogue...
Posted by April on Tue, 10 Jan 2006 10:46:00 PST

Der Kommissar

This morning I saw a commercial for Fidelity Investments that featured "Der Kommissar" by Falco.I love that song.I hate being in the target demographic for "grown-up" things.*sigh*...
Posted by April on Tue, 10 Jan 2006 10:38:00 PST

Travel Wrap-up 2005

Hawaii  1 tripLondon  1 tripMaine  1 tripMinneapolis  3 tripsNantucket  1 tripNew York City  5 tripsSouth Carolina  5 trips
Posted by April on Tue, 10 Jan 2006 10:36:00 PST

London Photos are Go!

Leicester Square, originally uploaded by testpatern. Go to http://www.flickr.com/photos/61033684@N00/sets/1528393/to see images from my recent jaunt to London.My Flickr account: testpatern...
Posted by April on Mon, 12 Dec 2005 08:53:00 PST

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I'm thinking about moving very, very far away.
Posted by April on Fri, 28 Oct 2005 06:54:00 PST

October

I cannot wait until October is over. First of all, I hate Halloween. Secondly, it is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month and it seems like no matter where I look, people are talking about cancer, p...
Posted by April on Fri, 28 Oct 2005 04:20:00 PST