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red shoes on a thuuursday

grow a set, bambi!

About Me

i cry a lot but not over spilled milk
"throughout the world sounds one long cry from the heart of the artist: give me the chance to do my very best."
~babette's feast
i act (and write and paint).
i'm a lefty.


romy schneider and claude sautet
gena rowlands and john cassavetes
stéphane audran and claude chabrol
giulietta masina and federico fellini
liv ullmann and ingmar bergman
me and ...

65
i thank you God for most this amazing
day:for the leaping greenly spirits of trees
and a blue true dream of sky;and for everything
which is natural which is infinite which is yes
(i who have died am alive again, today,
and this is the sun's birthday;this is the birth
day of life and of love and wings:and of the gay
great happening illimitably earth)
how should tasting touching hearing seeing
breathing any--lifted from the no
of all nothing--human merely being
doubt unimaginable You?
(now the ears of my ears are awake and
now the eyes of my eyes are opened)
~e.e. cummings (from XAIPE)

My Interests

"in Paradise, you will be the great artist that God meant you to be. ah, how you will delight the angels."
~babette's feast

the arts ♥ travelling ♥ people ♥ coffee ♥ love ♥ food ♥ and other things...

"when you perform...you are out of yourself---larger and more potent, more beautiful. you are for minutes heroic. this is power. this is glory on earth. and it is yours, nightly."
~agnes de mille

"ever tried.
ever failed.
no matter.
try again.
fail again.
fail better."
~samuel beckett

I'd like to meet:

"a great artist is never poor. we have something of which other people know nothing."
~babette's feast

Music:

♥2raumwohnung
♥christine andreas
♥keren ann
♥bach’s “aria” from ‘the goldberg variations’
♥chet baker
♥samuel barber’s “adagio for strings”
♥alan & marilyn bergman
♥jeff blumenkrantz
♥chopin’s “prelude in e minor no. 28 op. 4”
♥june christy
♥nat king cole
♥bill conti
♥georges delerue
♥christine ebersole
♥en vogue
♥aretha franklin
♥giovanni fusco
♥judy garland
♥the brothers gershwin
♥bo harwood
♥lauryn hill
♥madonna (the "like a virgin" days)
♥michael jackson (when he was black)
♥pierre jansen
♥peggy lee
♥michel legrand
♥audra mcdonald
♥MIKA
♥joni mitchell
♥no doubt
♥edith piaf
♥ripley
♥alice ripley
♥nino rota
♥philippe sarde
♥willy schwarz’ “metamorphoses” album
♥dusty springfield
♥johann strauss’ II’s “the artist’s waltz”
♥dionne warwick
♥kurt weill
♥stevie wonder
♥lizz wright

♥cast recordings
♥film soundtracks

♥the sea
♥nature
♥birds in the morn
♥the city
♥my parents' laughter
♥my 3 brothers' laughter
♥silence

♥waking up to my ma singing on her karaoke machine
♥waking up to my daddy accompanying himself on the piano

Movies:


1930’s:
--bringing up baby
--gone with the wind
--le sang d'un poète
--stagedoor
--swing time
--thirteen women
--the women
1940’s:
--la belle et la bête
--body and soul
--casablanca
--kitty foyle
--laura
--the major and the minor
--miracle on 34th street
--notorious
--so proudly we hail
--sullivan's travels
1950’s:
--an affair to remember
--les amants
--hiroshima mon amour
--letyat zhuravli (the cranes are flying)
--mädchen in uniform
--le notti di cabiria
--orphée
--our very own
--rebel without a cause
--sleeping beauty
1960’s:
--les biches
--les bonnes femmes
--le boucher
--cléo de 5 à 7
--the counterfeit traitor
--la femme infidèle
--georgy girl
--jules et jim
--the light in the piazza
--la mariée était en noir
--les parapluies de cherbourg
--the prime of miss jean brodie
--le testament d'orphée
--up the down staircase
1970’s:
--césar et rosalie
--le charme discret de la bourgeoisie
--les choses de la vie
--grey gardens
--l’important c’est d’aimer
--les innocents aux mains sales
--julia
--minnie and moskowitz
--neokonchennaya pyesa dlya mekhanicheskogo pianino (an unfinished piece for player piano)
--the night porter
--les noces rouges
--opening night
--la rupture
--a woman under the influence
1980’s:
--babette's feast
--the big red one
--the color purple
--entre nous
--gloria
--der himmel über berlin (wings of desire)
--the lonely passion of judith hearn
--passione d’amore
--sophie’s choice
--the unbearable lightness of being
1990’s:
--bullets over broadway
--elizabeth
--the end of the affair
--the english patient
--indochine
--mansfield park
--othello (laurence fishburne)
--schindler’s list
--tea with mussolini
--trois couleurs: bleu
--trois couleurs: blanc
--trois couleurs: rouge
--trust
--la vita è bella
--wives and daughters
2000’s:
--8 femmes
--amelie
--angels in america
--the beales of grey gardens
--chocolat
--décalage horaire
--the devil wears prada
--far from heaven
--the hours
--junebug
--little miss sunshine
--love actually
--notes on a scandal
--othello (eamonn walker)
--la pianiste
--the queen
--rabbit-proof fence
--serendipity
♥FOREIGN FILM (sadly, i need subtitles=( ... even for the french ones! *boo*)

Television:

♥227
♥absolutely fabulous
♥america's next top model
♥as time goes by
♥brothers and sisters
♥the cosby show
♥damages
♥designing women
♥different strokes
♥flight of the conchords
♥the golden girls
♥i love lucy
♥i wanna be a soap star
♥it’s a living
♥keeping up appearances
♥mama's family
♥no, honestly
♥passport to europe with samantha brown
♥project runway
♥sex and the city
♥studio 60 on the sunset strip
♥top chef
♥three’s company
♥ugly betty
♥v-the original miniseries
♥v-the final battle
♥v-the series
♥the west wing
♥what not to wear (BBC version with trinny & susannah)
♥who's the boss

Books:

♥when the elephant's dance
♥the english patient
♥letters to a young poet
♥change lobsters--and dance
♥wives and daugthers
♥the light in the piazza
♥art books (klimt, kollwitz, munch, chagall...)
♥poetry books (rilke, akhmatova, millay, bishop, plath, dickinson, cummings, lorca, neruda, gaspara stampa...)
♥letters to a young artist
♥tuesdays with morrie
♥the five people you meet in heaven
♥romy schneider by will mcbride (souvenirs photographique, paris 1964)
♥autobio-biographies on artists
♥man's search for meaning
♥the empty space
♥art and fear
♥shakespeare
♥chekhov
♥shaw
♥nilo cruz
♥sarah kane
♥federico garcia lorca
♥mary zimmerman
♥jose rivera
♥athol frugard
♥maria irene fornes

Heroes:

my Ma

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