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winks

portrait of the artist as a young bobby pin

About Me

what's there to say? I love my work and am a bit of a misanthrope. someday I'll leave this little city for the big wide world and there are precious few people here I will miss.

my second home is the Off Center, where the Rude Mechanicals make life and art together. bei mir bist du shayn.

My Interests

art, books, boys, curls, eyes, theatre, making things happen, smoking, good wine, antiques, notebooks, unrequited love, winter, word play, the rain, music, adventures, old friends, dagoba chocolate, food, baking, getting my hands dirty, donating blood, collecting dresses, philosophy, glass bottles, painting, messes, reconciliations, flirtations, writing, the atlantic ocean, typewriters, reading, stealing into graveyards at night

I'd like to meet:

... a lot of fictional characters.

Odio et amo: quare id faciam, fortasse requiris.
Nescio, sed fieri sentio et excrucior.

Music:

cole porter, the gershwin brothers, rem, barenaked ladies, the shins, the hives, the yeah yeah yeahs, led zeppelin, the beatles, the ramones, pernice brothers, the animals, the killers, grateful dead, moxy fruvous, reel big fish, bach, beethoven, lyle lovett, okgo, natalie merchant, 10000 maniacs, velvet underground, the dandy warhols, belle and sebastian, the who, indigo girls, rufus wainwright, holst the planets, the smiths, musicals, cream, the clash, franz ferdinand, the postal service, classical music in general, old old jazz, the invisible man who serenades me in my dreams

Movies:

a random sampling - about a boy, harold and maude, tampopo, the purple rose of cairo, high fidelity, pride and prejudice, waking life, lost in translation, good night and good luck, gosford park, the hours, eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, the devil's backbone, casablanca, some disney, fred astaire films, eat drink man woman, white christmas, road to morocco

Television:

west wing, firefly, buffy the vampire slayer, the food network, veronica mars, lost

Books:

(authors) jane austen, nick hornby, w. somerset maughm, terry pratchett, neil gaiman, chaim potok, michael chabon, benjamin hoff, diana wynne jones, madeleine l'engle, david sedaris, virginia wolf, e.m. forster, elizabeth peters, billy collins, robert frost, dylan thomas, haruki murakami, william faulkner, shakespeare, graham greene, mfk fisher, audrey niffenegger, evelyn waugh, kazuo ishiguro

Heroes:

I don't really do hero worship.

My Blog

blogging...

is what I have a LiveJournal for (which, incidentally, is pretty much dead and vacant these days. Being told you're going to be sued for libel kind of takes the fun out of Internet journalling).If yo...
Posted by winks on Mon, 09 Oct 2006 11:57:00 PST