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About Me

crvenokosa.

My Interests

photography, travel, reading, writing fiction, vintage cookbooks, vintage erotica, urban exploration, croatian. carnivals. tulips, letters, libraries, patchouli. calle and woodman. arbus. kentridge. kollowitz. dioramas. snowglobes. sequins. seedy motels. xmas lights when it's not xmas. ushankas, dresses, fishnets. ballet shoes. bicycles. trains. ghost stories. postcards. paprika. osijek. belgrade and budapest. teaching esl. surrealism. cartoons, roller coasters, skeeball, diners. maps. road trips. cadbury crunchies. freckles. scars. red lipstick. stormy afternoons. tuna casserole. my FED 3. darkroom printing. bad translations. creative misspellings. dancing. ironing. swearing like a sailor. morning people. 24 hour groceries. jager shots. the beach in winter. the long way home.

I'd like to meet:

macka. mis.

Music:

My Bloody Valentine, Deerhoof, Animal Collective, the Sea and Cake, His Name is Alive, Broken Social Scene, Danielson Famile, Sonic Youth, Gang of Four, Dresden Dolls, David Bowie, Pere Ubu, the Replacements, Boards of Canada, Velvet Underground, Edith Piaf, the Frames, Jim O'Rourke, Yo La Tengo

Movies:

Heavenly Creatures, Suspiria, The Tenent, Amelie, Spirited Away, Paper Moon, Talk to Her, Pan's Labyrinth, Delicatessen, Rosemary's Baby, Harold and Maude, the French Connection, Goodfellas, the Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, Vertigo. John Waters. Maya Deren.

Television:

Unsolved Mysteries. Little Britain. League of Gentlemen. Night Gallery.

Books:

The Vagabond; Maus; the Collector; the Heart is a Lonely Hunter; Requiem for a Dream; In Siberia; In the Skin of a Lion; Manja; A Doll's House; Lunar Eclipse; Mother Night; Music for Chameleons; The Art of Eating; the Tin Flute; the God of Small Things; Lolita; Valley of the Dolls; Isabelle Eberhardt; Anzia Yezierska. short stories by Salinger, Hemingway, Chekhov, Kafka, O'Connor, Mansfield, Gaitskill. Nancy Drew mysteries; Harriet the Spy; the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.

Heroes:

Sophie Calle

My Blog

Corridors

In the dream I am in a movie called "Beginning Roads." Each new place that I travel takes me down long corridors, or passeways that lead to doors. It reminds me of Venice. The framing when I travel i...
Posted by girl detective on Tue, 08 Apr 2008 04:47:00 PST

Not captured on film

Slovenia, near the Hungarian border, a stork in her nest. You could see the outline of her against the setting sun, her long beak tucked into her chest. I couldn't get over the size of her, balanced o...
Posted by girl detective on Wed, 26 Sep 2007 05:29:00 PST

Thirty-three

I suspect that I'm looking for ways to avoid writing because that is what I should be doing. Writing is how I've defined who I am and how I think since I was young, but somewhere, since graduate schoo...
Posted by girl detective on Fri, 13 Jul 2007 07:40:00 PST

Mercy Cooper and Mr. Moon

Mercy Cooper and Mr. MoonWhen I was 3 years old, Mercy Cooper was my imaginary friend and Mr. Moon was my imaginary enemy. Mercy Cooper was an Englishman with a white mustache who wore a bowler hat an...
Posted by girl detective on Fri, 25 May 2007 06:21:00 PST

Airplane Dream: When you Know Work is Getting to You

I dreamed that I was traveling to Germany. I kept flying back and forth on the plane between New York and Portland OR. Finally the plane landed in Portland. There was no top to the plane, it was invis...
Posted by girl detective on Wed, 04 Apr 2007 10:17:00 PST

My Boyfriend was Married to Courtney Love

So the other night I dreamt that Jeff was married to Courtney Love. It was a very unhappy marriage. She made him photograph her for the tabloids and then make a film about her life. She would only let...
Posted by girl detective on Wed, 14 Mar 2007 07:17:00 PST

I Dream of Prince

Last night I dreamt that Prince was my boyfriend. Except in the dream, we just broke up and he kept following me around, not saying anything. I had his number programmed into my cell phone as "#13," s...
Posted by girl detective on Wed, 24 Jan 2007 10:06:00 PST

Homesick for Budapest

I'm homesick for Budapest. I never lived there, but spent a month roaming the city, jobless and homeless. I arrived there in November a few years ago, with one suitcase and a bad case of laryngitis. I...
Posted by girl detective on Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:52:00 PST

New Year's Resolutions

Okay, borrowing from LC, I decided to list mine as well. I know lots of people think making these kinds of lists are bullshit (so spare me that comment), but doesn't it make you feel better to even th...
Posted by girl detective on Fri, 29 Dec 2006 09:20:00 PST

Postcard from Cube 448

It is snowing outside. It is cold. I am writing this from my desk. It's a nice desk. I have a comfortable chair and a functioning lap top. Each morning I answer emails from co workers who are too stup...
Posted by girl detective on Thu, 07 Dec 2006 10:51:00 PST