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Zoe

I don't want to belong to any clubs that would have me as a member.

About Me

A year ago I'd never ever been to Bulgaria.I'd feel less stupid performing if I could talk all smoky broken up like Charles Bukowski.I record super silly music. www.myspace.com/zozelectro

My Interests

History, literature, socialism, sustainability, poetry, traveling, old stuff, baking, summer, lipstick, photobooths, autumn. I'm really into using label makers and sticking them on shoes right now.

I'd like to meet:

Roman Polanski, Woody Allen, and perhaps some people who aren't male film-director sex-offenders.

Music:

The Beatles, Woody Guthrie, Neutral Milk Hotel, The Buzzcocks, Bikini Kill, Olivia Tremor Control, Cat Power, Tori Amos, Kate Bush, Hole, The Magnetic Fields, Modest Mouse, The Arcade Fire, Cat Stevens, Bob Dylan, The Decemberists, Wolf Parade, Devo, Elvis Costello, Leadbelly, Edith Piaf and a bunch of other stuff

Movies:

Le Corbeau, Rebecca, North by Northwest, The Lady Vanishes, Notorious, Rear Window, Casablanca, Rope, Harold and Maude, Laura, The Maltese Falcon, Sunset Boulevard, Kind Hearts and Coronets, Arsenic and Old Lace, Les Enfants du Paradis, The Big Sleep, Der Blaue Engel, La Belle et la Bete, The Picture of Dorian Gray, The Seventh Seal, Drole de drame ou L'etrange aventure de Docteur Molyneux, Through a Glass Darkly, Fellini's Satyricon, Wild Strawberries, Gaslight, Orpheus, M, Great Expectations, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Broken Blossoms, Knife in the Water, The Serpent's Egg, Todos Sobre Mi Madre, The Tenant, All About Eve, The Silence, La Mala Educacion, Lekce Faust, Withnail and I, Play it Again Sam, Manhattan, Love and Death, Annie Hall, Winter Light, Crimes and Misdemeanors, The 400 Blows, Jezebel, Breathless, What's New Pussycat?, Jules et Jim, Volver, Casino Royale.

Television:

Law and Order (regular and SVU), Black Books, Blackadder, The History International Channel, The Colbert Report, Project Runway, Sex and the City, 'Allo 'Allo

Books:

I like the kinds of stuff we read in school. Fyodor Dostoevsky, James Joyce, Thomas Hardy, Chaucer, Shakespeare, Marlowe, Joseph Conrad, Mikhail Bulgakov, Ivan Turgenev, Leo Tolstoy, the Brontes, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Sappho, Aristophanes, Plato, Karl Jung, Nietzsche, Charles Dickens, Oscar Wilde, Robert Louis Stevenson, William Blake, Homer, Edgar Allen Poe, John Keats, Chretien de Troyes, Jane Austen, Mary Shelley, Arthur Rimbaud, George Eliot, Franz Kafka... I also love Charles Bukowski and Sylvia Plath and a lot of children's books, legends and fairytales. The Once and Future King was the first book I called a favorite.

Heroes:

Humphrey Bogart, Alfred Hitchcock, Marlene Dietrich, Lancelot, Sarah Bernhardt, Woody Allen, Oscar Wilde, Emma Goldman, Lord Byron, Bette Davis, Cary

My Blog

Lines on November 23.

I am listening to the blues and I can hear the click click of the keyboard but it's not as full as the clackity clack of my typewriter.The weather is miserable but so is Thanksgiving.I think I'm going...
Posted by Zoe on Fri, 24 Nov 2006 06:04:00 PST

We should keep personal remorse from the poem, but this isn't a poem.

Complaints.My hair is really red and I don't feel pretty anymore. I haven't been eating much but everything I have been eating has been gross and I think it's starting to make me sick. I've been stayi...
Posted by Zoe on Thu, 23 Nov 2006 07:02:00 PST

I am a Neurotic Jew

After the deathOf my friend's grandmother,We found old Singers, refolded patternsOld paper plates, trunks and vintage fabricSuitcases, wallpaper, booksCards, shoes, hand-sewn clothesAnd other things M...
Posted by Zoe on Fri, 03 Nov 2006 01:20:00 PST

Bukowski

He thoughtThat he could half live life - Starving poetWith money,Fights,Half friendsAnd women.Beer,Or maybe whiskey,Full emotionsBut always a man - ResentingHis bourgeois fatherThe Republican.Real fai...
Posted by Zoe on Thu, 02 Nov 2006 07:13:00 PST

Salt

I'll glue shut your eyelids,Drink your tears from martini glassesLined in salt.An olive staring like it knows me,But I just laughAnd let it slide inside my throat.You never were the gentlemen.It's pas...
Posted by Zoe on Mon, 18 Sep 2006 10:10:00 PST

The Albatross

I see your albatross pearls rot around your neckas I did in your soft embrace.Or was it mine? The age of light has set.Close your eyes and disappear.We can all hope.The orange autumn moonIs telltale o...
Posted by Zoe on Wed, 26 Jul 2006 10:55:00 PST

Gilded Drainpipes

Kiss her hard before she disappears.Those crystal eyesCan only stare so long.You choke on her glass tearsAs she cries how much she loves you.Your time is running down the drainWith a ring and French V...
Posted by Zoe on Wed, 26 Jul 2006 10:54:00 PST

The Stars

Look, Arabella,Can you see the stars?No? Then look.They are all around you.Theyre shining even as we speak.When we are deadAnd our love is gone,The stars will still be shining....
Posted by Zoe on Wed, 26 Jul 2006 10:53:00 PST

Leaf Skeletons

IThe autumnal equinox is coming With the next English trainFloating across the Atlantic.Ill sweep your ashesWith the fallen leaves,Crushed and floating in the cold wind.Winter never looked so lovely;T...
Posted by Zoe on Wed, 26 Jul 2006 10:52:00 PST

Perfection

It's summertime.The woods are awakeand I am still sleepy.I smell like oceanand taste like salt.Time to read a book,take off my shoesand think about life.Pull out an umbrellaand smile when it rains.I w...
Posted by Zoe on Fri, 02 Jun 2006 05:02:00 PST