BELLYDANCE, 9/8's GOTHIC BELLYDANCE (RAQS GOTHIQUE), ATS, Victorian vampirism, Pyrosutra, the smell of old books, PIRATES!!! eating brandy cherries, collecting antique books, the mid-to-late 19th century in Amer. (old new york!) and in England as well...Breezy Oak trees and Spanish moss, old photos, words, words, words, choreographing with sister slack!!!!!! people who never age, people who are well versed and often ill mannered, holy crap....I like to knit too! Ha! Nothin' like a circle of drunk bellydancers knitting till dawn! Yeeehaaaa!
other dancers, goth and glam lovers, well read people to talk with about life, love, nostalgia, music and poetry, open-minded individuals with many tales to tell and some life experience under their belts. ***IMPORTANT NOTE: PLEASE DUDES....as much as I'm flattered by your requests and boldness to speak your piece, PLEASE do not send me love notes/bizarre offers/words of undying affection, MY MAN is REALLY all I need. I WILL BLOCK YOU and then BLACKLIST YOU if you do not abide. Also, PLEASE do not send me a friend request without an introduction. LASTLY, I DO NOT ADD BANDS AT RANDOM. YOUR BAND BETTER KICK SOME MAJOR ASS IF YOU WANT ME TO ADD YOU. Thanks Ya'lls!!! xoxoxox!!!!!!******
Siouxsie, DCD, The Damned, Sisters, Christian Death, H.I.M., Bowie, Clan of Xymox, Nick Cave, Gypsy Caravan, Solace, Turbo Tabla, Faith and the Muse, The Postal Service, DNTEL, In the Nursery, Electric Six, Jeff Buckley, Damien Rice, The Pogues, Bebel and Astrud Gilberto, Stan Getz, O Fado!, "Lady Day", a little glam rock too now and again...love T.REX! The Cult, The Mission, the c'mon already!!! really I could go on. Lets just say Im still into the music I listenend to 15 years ago and Im not particular if its well written...i.e, Belle and Sebastian. If you really want to know whats in my ipod right this second email me for a friggin playlist! : )~
Im a Sunday night TV person. I make sauce, drink wine, and watch junk all night long which includes Charmed, Carnivale (not junk), Curb your Enthusiasm, and the Alternative ( where I bitch about days long passed and big hair....ahhh for the scent of Aussie sprunch spray and Aqua net!). Im also strangely addicted to wife swap and Civil War documentaries...who knew! : )
Too many to list but I'll start you off with the most groundbreaking in my life.... Moby Dick and also The Confidence Man, both by Melville....not to mention my very first copy of Keat's Eve of St.Agnes....any Keats is a sensual paradise....please go read him now if you haven't already......see also Shelley's Adonais...a tribute to our beloved Keats..... Hawthorne's Twice-Told Tales are very neccesary, so is Anything by Petrarch, Poe, and all the prominent American renaissance writers and English romantic poets, Oh and GOETHE!!!! I just finished The Sorrows of Young Werther by him....grab a kleenex! Marlowe's Hero and Lyander, Spencer's Faerie Queene (compare with Milton's Paradise Lost!) , Shakespeare's Venus and Adonis, and my favorite sonnet series again and again.....Sir Sidney's Astrophel and Stella. www.luminarium.org rules!
Nettie, John Keats, Johnny, Nina Hagen, The Gods who made Bellydance possible...