"Here's looking at you, kid"Literature, art & all other arts. I want to study/research/lecture at Columbia University; Harvard; University of Chicago; Oxford, Sorbonne, etc. I like Reading, Writing Poetry, Painting, Researching Literature; I hope to get published as an essayist, fiction writer, poet and become a Professor of Literature. I like Shopping Antique Kilims & Books, Playing with & reading for Children, Folklore & Fairy Tales, Sailing with dad along the Mediterranean shores, Traveling like a Gipsy; I might have Nomads' blood because everything feels suffocatingly cliché after a while so I have to flee to the next Avant-Garde, Christie's Auctions, Carnivales, Festivals, Night Clubbing all over the world dancing nights away like a Whirling Dervish, The Bowery Ballroom, Gay & Lesbian Clubs, The Art(s)-Academical-Models & Fashion Scene, Ballet Dancing, Playing Violin, Visting very old Castles, Palaces, Cathedrals and Libraries, Museums, Soul Searching for a Wonderland in my Self, Heart and Mind, Being the Source, The Edge , The One, Living the Love Supremes, Existential-Phenomenology. "So long as men can breathe or eyes can see/So long lives this, and this gives life to thee."-W.S. Romeo calling Juliet underneath her balcony; so romantic! Activism on world politics. Inflaming :) & Inspiring sensitive souls, passionate puppies, artistic vulnerabilities, intellectual beauties, bohemian babies, yes directors, designers, doctors, writers, poets, peace and love creators, politicians, photographers, psychiatrists, professors, academics, artists, etc. The liaison dangereuse of Carl Jung and Sabina Spielrein, because I just love you and wish this was not only platonically possible.McNeil Deal
I have already met and spoke to Madeleine Albright, Catherine Deneuve, Maurizio Pollini, Earl Wild, Paul Simon, A.M. Homes, John Irving among a few. I would like to meet:Great Genius Minds & Visual/Artistic Geniuses; who also use it and share it with the world. Extremely Passionate People like Shakespeare, but also Stoics; I admire people who can be both... Beautiful Dreamers and Wonderful Créateurs. Canonized Artistes; preferable écrivains. Socially concerned/involved/active people! Ph.D. Students, Literature & Psychiatry Professors, Academic Medical Doctors, OTTO F. KERNBERG, Count Francesco da Mosto, Poets, Hedi Slimane, Paulo Coelho, Dr. Albert Ellis, Dr. Aaron T. Beck save me! Jon Rose the violinist I love you, Napoleon in Rags Bob Dylan, just so elusive! Emir Kusturica, Roman Coppola, William Klein, People with a very deep style but not too obvious nor showy- who keep others guessing- to even an incomprehensible style, people with a deconstructive style; I mean in writing and other arts- not just in dressing, Diplomats & Politicians, People from Paris, Book & Fruit lovers, Thé totally avant-garde, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, M.H. Abrams, Paternal/Parental Figures to adopt me, Eros, the Love God: "This is the very ecstasy of love,/Whose violent property fordoes itself/And leads the will to desperate undertakings/As oft as any passion under heaven/That does afflict our natures."~W.S to Ophelia. Researchers with interesting research work, Goudstikker Fam. Erdem Moralioglu, Former Cardinal Ratzinger whom I used to be in love with - I guess it's a sin to love the Pope, John Malkovich ha ha scary but exciting! Maxim Vengerov, Great Beauties as Ursula Un-dress; "Beauty is truth, truth is beauty"~Keats, Irving Penn & Bert Stern of course... Noam Chomsky, So in love with DANIEL BARENBOIM, Bianca Jagger & Mick Mouse, Abstract Minds, People with Depth; Juliet to Romeo: "My bounty is as boundless as the sea,/My love as deep; the more I give to thee,/The more I have, for both are infinite."~W.S. Juergen Teller, Hussein Chalayan, J.M. Coetzee maybe, Peter Beard, Dominick Dunne, Arthur Elgort, Stephen Greenblatt, Mert & Marcus, Alex Chatelain, Roman Polanski, Nick Knight, Denis Piel, Michael Reinhardt, Prince Albert von Thurn und Taxis, Mica Ertegun, Hamish Bowles, Nadine Gordimer, ANNIE Leibovitz; how do I love thee? Let me count the ways... only not your pictures, Fidel Castro, Orhan Pamuk, Alfred Brendel to play me Für Elise... ALINA POGOSTKINA the most beautiful violinist girl ever my sugar plum feary, Jill Johnston yum, some actors, Elizabeth Hardwick, people who remind me of Gia like photographer Michael Tighe, Women who cross-dress as drag kings for fun are hot! Queen Elizabeth 2 maybe, Queen Beatrix, Harold Pinter; I guess I have a fetish for Immortals, and YOU, I love every human soul, alive or gone. LOVE ON YA!!
Classical, Opera and Sacred music. Mozart's Requiem, Cosi Fan Tutti, Kara Karayev's Leyla and Medjnun, Seven Beauties, etc. Any classical, gipsy, klezmer and folk Violin music, Jon Rose's Violin Factory. Music at the Ottoman Court/Osmanli Saray müzikleri, Serkan Çagri, etc.
Depends on my mood; right now I'm into "Hard Eight aka Sydney" ; really good film for girls with an Oedipus Complex also Cosi Come Sei with Nastassja Kinski, Bad Timing: A Sensual Obsession, The Dreamers by Bertolucci, Chinatown by Polanski, La Fille Prodigue with Jane Birkin, La Femme Enfant by Klaus Kinski and Kubrick's Lolita, Billy Wilder's Sabrina(Bogie I love you) & Love in the Afternoon, Casablanca (Here's looking at you, kid... & it's perfect Platonic Love), Gone with the Wind I 3 Clark Gable (The daddy mixed with the Byronic Hero thing is lethal) these films all for their Electra Complex. Il Conformista. Death in Venice by Visconti. Desert Hearts. Woody Allen & Films set in NYC. Disney's Fantasia (1940)& Cinderella (1950) My Darling Clementine, The Misfits, Bringing Up Baby, Dead Reckoning, I get so lesbian when seeing Lizabeth Scott and then straight again when seeing Bogart. Movies, I like some for certain themes but mostly for great visuality. I have a deep affinity for Elia Kazan. Scorsese of course, also everything Bogart, Veronica Lake, Film Noir, baby vamps from the 20s: Upstairs and Down with Olive Thomas, Coquette with Mary Pickford, The Campus Vamp with Carole Lombard, Louise Brooks in Pandora's Box, The Pip From Pittsburg , Leni Riefenstahl films only on a l'art pour l'art way, Hitchcock, Auf der anderen Seite by Fatih Akin, William Klein, Andrei Tarkovsky, Dziga Vertov, Yilmaz Güney films, Marat/Sade, And God Created Woman by Roger Vadim with Brigitte Bardot, That Obscure Object of Desire by Luis Buñuel, La Piscine with Romy Schneider, Great Expectations, Piano Piano Bacaksiz, Teyzem with Mujde Ar because crazy girls are hot and the new chic, no actually because I love how she made films with women and their psychological issues it's very liberating, the young Brando, Brando, Brando so Romantic ooo, etc. Anything with dynamite women. For a college course I have to watch as much as possible Hollywood Classic Cinema so no Italian & French for me now :) My friend Nicholas wrote the Animaniacs so 3 and I do love vintage Mickey Mouse & Disney Cartoons.
Right now; Francesco da Mosto's Italy on BBC World, I love this! It must be true when Francesco says 'Vedi Napoli e poi muori' or 'See Naples and die'! But especially loved the Florence episode. When I'm studying the tv is mostly on Fashion TV, F-Men or World Fashion TV. Graciela Casillas boxing in the early 80s, The Backyardigans; esp. the tea party episode, on Nick Jr. when I wake up early.
Fairy Tales. My favourite novel is Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee I'm writing my thesis on it so if only I could play Melanie in the upcoming film Disgrace opposide John Malkovich... Reading Pushkin's Yevgeny Onegin, Shakespeare's Sonnets, Edmund Spenser's Amoretti and Horace's Odes is like someone's throwing little arrows into my heart. Anything gay and lesbian, mostly dating from the Renaissance or Classical period and Poetry. Divan poetry especially Gazelles, Leylâ ve Mecnun by Fuzûlî, I love Rumi: "Ecstatic love is an ocean and the Milky Way is a fleck of foam floating on its surface..." Les Fleurs du Mal de Charles Baudelaire. The Story of Art, Italian Vogue, Aziz Nesin's Tatli Betüs, Memories of an Ottoman Princess by Kenize Mourad, Orientalism by Edward Said, Essai sur l'Exotisme by Victor Segalen, Freud this Freud that, I love you Otto F. Kernberg so anything you write, Bataille's flirting with death theories, Minâ Urgan, Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex, Susan Sontag essays, The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan, and other feminist literature! every page of Ada by Nabokov. I don't read it anymore; I am Lolita. Van de koele meren des doods by Frederik van Eeden. The femme and fille fatale in 19th C lit. Medieval poetry’s bewitchingly beautiful fearies as in Marie de France’s poems. My fav lit period is the Classical Greek and Latin with their immoral Gods, Goddesses, sweet muses, etc and the Renaissance. Plato and Ficino’s Platonic Love notions in poetry. Newspapers; Le Monde, Cumhuriyet, International Herald Tribune, Veronica Decides To Die by Paolo Coelho
I love my Gia baby, and all moods surrounding her immortal being. Professeur, docteur Paul Ricoeur dans mon coeur éternellement. I spoke with Paul on the phone one month before his death. William Shakespeare, Sabina Spielrein, Dante's Beatrice, Petrarch's Laura and Susan Sontag. I am so in love with my former English Professor of 19th & 18th C Lit and he also taught me Modernism, if he only knew. Also the Dutch writer Remco Campert, who I met a few times. And with a psychiatry Professor, who used to treat me, if he also only knew... Medical Researchers. Bianca Jagger. Anyone who tries to restore the love beween the West & East, Peaceful People.