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Reluctant Ophelia

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About Me

"When I was a child I caught a fleeting glimpse out of the corner of my eye. I turned to look but it was gone, I cannot put my finger on it now. The child is grown, the dream is gone."I was born on Walpergesnacht (April 30th) 1979. I am a product of the All-American dysfunctional marriage & divorce. When I grow up I want to be a serial killer/ballerina. Unitl then, however, I remain a manager of an antiques/consignment store in the Short North and a zookeeper of the Jefferson Avenue Menagerie. I am Ohio born & raised, many generations back. I'm German, Scottish, English, & Native American (at heart anyway) and I believe that BEAUTY=ART=MATH=SCIENCE=TRUTH. I'm witchy in an anit-wiccan sort of way. In other words, Stevie Nicks NOT Patricia Kennealy. (Because let's face it... Patricia Kennealy was sad.) Anyway, I believe in ghosts, interdimensional travel, aliens, true love, a finite universe, and the flux capacitor. I am married to the love of my life, who I met when I was just sixteen. He says things like "Can I get a steak sub, but instead of steak can you use hot dogs?" And that makes me happy so deep in my soul I want to barf.

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My Interests

Things that are old, things that are decaying, things that are forgotten. Things that someone loved once. Antique dolls & bears, old bottles, photographs of strangers, idols of mary & jesus, Victorian oddities, Georgian jewelry, memento mori, my Victrola, anything made with hair or teeth, staffordshire fairings & figures, antique ribbon, Revolutionary & Civil War medical equipment, antique baby & doll clothing, black boots, corsets,Bettie Page, BDSM imagery, black satin lace-up ballet pointe shoes, rabbits, cats, vintage souveniers from New Orleans, serial killers, art, genealogy, dead silent film stars, beat poets, The Black Dahlia case, Jack the Ripper, 11th to 17th century buildings, Russian ballet, & the taste of blood. Get your own free cool template at Free MySpace Layouts

I'd like to meet:

Lawrence Ferlinghetti. I saw him once in his bookstore (City Lights) in San Fransisco but was too stunned to say anything but "hi".And:

Music:

Pixies, Leonard Cohen, PJ Harvey, David Bowie, Lou Reed, Mazzy Star, Tori Amos, Fiona Apple, Bauhaus, Peter Murphy, White Stripes, Holly Golightly, Pearl Jam, Nirvana, Hole, Blue October, Stevie Nicks, Fleetwood Mac, CCR, The Greatful Dead, Guns 'n Roses, Stone Temple Pilots, Rob Zombie, The Black Crowes, Heart, Breeders, Veruca Salt, Patty Griffin, Smashing Pumpkins, Kenny Rogers, Dolly Parton, Bob Dylan, Joy Division, REM, Kate Bush, Rolling Stones, Rod Stewart, Siouxie & The Banshees, Nick Cave, The Cure, My Life With The Thrill Kill Cult, Marilyn Manson, Love & Rockets, Concrete Blonde, Prince, Solomon Burke, Pretenders, B-52's, Portishead, and many others.

Movies:

http://i117.photobucket.com/albums/o56/TheWrongBand/qyz6gz.j pgEyes Wide Shut, The Shining, May, Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas, Ghost World, Detroit Rock City, American Psycho, Dirty Dancing, The End of the Affair, The Big Lebowski, Boogie Nights, The Ninth Gate, Friday the 13th, Halloween, House of 1000 Corpses, The Devil's Rejects, The Stoned Age, Pulp Fiction, Immortal Beloved, The Sound of Music, Gone With The Wind, Sleepaway Camp II, The Ring, Sleepy Hollow, The Fifth Element, Dark City, Dangerous Beauty, Indiana Jones Trilogy, Interview with the Vampire, Back to the Future trilogy, Quills, Office Space, American Beauty, Ed Wood, The Life Aquatic, O Brother Where Art Thou, Rocky Horror Picture Show, Barry Lyndon, Affair of the Necklace, Lost In Translation, Marie Antoinette, Count of Monte Cristo, & others.

Television:

TV is the devil.

Books:

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess, Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett, A Dangerous Fortune (also by Ken Follett), A Coney Island of the Mind by Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Andre Breton's Anthology of Black Humor, The Tao of Pooh by Benjamin Hoff, The Shining by Stephen King, Dream Story by Arthur Schnitzler, Zombie by Joyce Carol Oates, A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking, Ben Hur by Lew Wallace, Duino Elegies by Rainer Maria Rilke, Love Poems by Anne Sexton, The Elegant Universe by Brian Greene, Pieces of a Song by Diane DiPrima, Lives of the Artists by Giorgio Vasari, The Malady of Death by Marguerite Duras, Angels & Demons by Dan Brown, and many more.

Heroes:

My Grandparents, whose memory keeps me from entirely turning to the dark side. And this guy here: Stanley Kubrick. And this gal here: Cindy Sherman.

My Blog

Elvis Costello

On Sunday i had the opportunity to meet Elvis Costello!  He & his drummer came into my store.  They spent over $4000 on antique sheet music, cuff links, Victorian jewelry, and a couple k...
Posted by Reluctant Ophelia on Thu, 08 May 2008 07:38:00 PST

Birthday Tombstone

The only thing better than seeing the sparkle in his eyes when he says "You want one of your birthday presents early?", is knowing that he, physically, in the depth of his soul, cannot wait for m...
Posted by Reluctant Ophelia on Fri, 25 Apr 2008 05:56:00 PST

A Very Nice Thing

I fell asleep the other night next to my husband as he sang to me Leonard Cohen's "I'm Your Man".  One of the nicest moments of my entire life...
Posted by Reluctant Ophelia on Sat, 09 Jun 2007 03:17:00 PST

Disgustingly Happy

There's something unsuspected in happiness, an abandonment of sorts when you realize the planets have finally realigned themselves in favor of love. He says we are retarded for each other and I think ...
Posted by Reluctant Ophelia on Sat, 28 Oct 2006 05:31:00 PST

Bunnyslut's Top Ten Sound Selections For Fall

There is something about the beginning of fall that brings out the goth girl in me and makes me crave certain music.  It's like some cd's I own are scarves and mittens, while the others are bikin...
Posted by Reluctant Ophelia on Fri, 22 Sep 2006 09:18:00 PST

Alright In The Meantime

  Brought home a bear skin rug today Then escaped to a dark lake in Maryland Beset by hundreds of living bears And I thought of the one draped over my bookcase at home Poised to devour etern...
Posted by Reluctant Ophelia on Thu, 07 Sep 2006 08:10:00 PST

I Forget

Sometimes I forget that others don't see things the way I see them.  My Dad says I am too liberal and too sentimental at the same time.  It confuses people, he says.  I think he might b...
Posted by Reluctant Ophelia on Tue, 29 Aug 2006 05:07:00 PST

Some People

Some people, I have found, are like deep, dark wells.  And yet I'm always surprised when one overflows in front of me.  How do words so abundant and purposeful materalize out of decay? ...
Posted by Reluctant Ophelia on Sun, 20 Aug 2006 03:38:00 PST

Emotionless Goo

If I don't talk to anyone by 4pm on any given day, and I mean actally speak to another human being, not think out past or future conversations in my head, then I just shouldn't be allowed to speak unt...
Posted by Reluctant Ophelia on Fri, 18 Aug 2006 10:12:00 PST

Life is strange

Life is such a weird, weird thing.  It's amazing to think that we (humans) have found so many ways to make it even weirder.  MySpace is such a bizarre half-world, an opiate of sorts for soci...
Posted by Reluctant Ophelia on Mon, 14 Aug 2006 09:00:00 PST