Aurora profile picture

Aurora

I am here for Friends

About Me

I collect things, mostly scraps, phrases, and images.
"I was fascinated by the illumed concavity of his ear resembling a seashell or a glossy orchid." -V.N.
I spend a lot of time on this: www.flickr.com/photos/auroraaa

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

♥ ♥ In no particular order: male ballet dancers, aesthetes, dandies, misfits, epicures, kissaten owners, mineral collectors, someone who has a taxidermied swan ♥
oh and:

p.s. Sorry if I don't leave you many comments, that whole comment feature being like a perpetual yearbook to sign publicly kind of freaks me out

My Blog

2008 (in photos)

January (maybe really late December, not sure)Careful, you might fall off the side of a mountain (please do)Previous tenants wrote in Sharpie on the mirror, "This is it!" It is, isn't it?FebruaryTrees...
Posted by on Mon, 15 Dec 2008 23:17:00 GMT

2008 (written version)

I woke up in a stranger's house on New Years. This year: I went to San Francisco for some days, participated in some obligatory mediocrity & all-consuming anguish (typical for me, and to sum it up: un...
Posted by on Thu, 11 Dec 2008 06:34:00 GMT

I want a bean feast

What better time to mention materialistic appetites when the economic sector is feeble as ever? Exactly.I wish for:A new plant, or 15, for my hothouse apartmentCans of gold and emerald paint, so I can...
Posted by on Tue, 30 Sep 2008 05:32:00 GMT

Sans visage

It's been this kind of week exactly.
Posted by on Fri, 01 Aug 2008 08:22:00 GMT

Homemakers night in

Today I watched Darling twice, took a bus to downtown and ate a paleta and touched so many dusty old bits of satin/grosgrain/silk velvet ribbon, tulle, netting and feathers that my fingertips were gre...
Posted by on Tue, 22 Jul 2008 23:58:00 GMT

Re-enactment

I love this scene so much, it is so demented and hysterically funny.In other news, I finally feel like I am no longer shrouded by a certain sense of mediocrity. I feel rather...normal, for l...
Posted by on Mon, 14 Jul 2008 21:19:00 GMT

The quarter life crisis lives

Today I installed a curtain rod for the temporary sheer drapes on the east facing windows of my bedroom and then ran to the Echo Park lake 10 minutes after eating a burrito with my cousin's boyfriend ...
Posted by on Wed, 09 Jul 2008 04:05:00 GMT

Drugs! Sex! Alcohol!

Driving down Sunset Blvd. from Echo Park to Silverlake and then onto Los Feliz with my dad yesterday (and mom, who as some of you know is cold as ice, so whether or not she was there is irrelevant) wa...
Posted by on Tue, 24 Jun 2008 06:59:00 GMT

Summer plans

Los Angeles County Nudity LawLos Angeles County - Ordinance 17.12.360, "Nudity and Disrobing":A) No person shall appear, bathe, sunbathe, walk, change clothes, disrobe or be on any beach in such manne...
Posted by on Wed, 04 Jun 2008 23:38:00 GMT

Cats and houses

I like to take pictures of (mostly) suburban homes.and cats. The houses are oddly expressive to me, the cats too. Unrelated, but cats seem like a model of some aloofness I probably secretly aspire to....
Posted by on Tue, 27 May 2008 20:03:00 GMT