About Me
I edited my profile at projectmyspace.com
I've been to school a whole hell of a lot, and I still haven't graduated. I enjoy being pretentious as hell, along with my status of accidental poet.
MY INTERESTS: poetry, literature, art, artists' biographies, psychology, neuroscience. Any artistic expression, which is akin to human divinity and immortality. Victoriana, silent films, gothicism, expressionism, researching manic depression, THE INNOCENTS (1961), Peter Wyngarde, Martin Stephens, THE TURN OF THE SCREW, Henry James, surrealism, children, solitude, working with the dead, Joshua John Miller, any film starring Joshua John Miller (NEAR DARK, RIVER'S EDGE, TEEN WITCH, etc.), Daphne du Maurier, Sylvia Plath, Ian McEwan, Helen Dunmore, Edward Hopper, Man Ray, Patrick McGrath, Carl Jung, Hemingway, Kristy Bowen, Bel Canto, Depeche Mode, David Gahan, Metro Station, Mason Musso, Nabokov, the life and photography of Francesca Woodman, old-school-dark-wave music, smoke, shadows, water, dust, hands, collarbones, the scent of old things, erotica, collage art, Casati, Kiki of Montparnasse, F. W. Murneau, Theda Bara, Anais Nin, Henry Miller, vintage postmortem photography, Americana, Frida Kahlo, John Wilmot, Sharon Olds, Blue October, musicals, moonlight, coffee, sugar, cigarettes, Apoptygma Berzerk, Stephan Groth, anything vintage, anything art deco, doll collecting, ballroom dancing, the 1920's, flappers, Louise Brooks, G. W. Pabst, Joyce Carol Oates, mahogany, nostalgia, kris t. kahn, Joseph Cornell, Cocteau Twins, Chandeen, Jesus & Mary Chain, Chopin (especially the Nocturnes), Bach, Beethoven, Schoenberg, Alban Berg, Clara Bow, Dali, Virginia Woolf, Gertrude Stein, Dorothy Parker, Bela Lugosi, Kevin Spacey, Gerard Butler, Joaquin Phoenix, Tina Imel, the way my daughter smells, playing Text Twist, THE CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI, PANDORA'S BOX, TITANIC, THE OTHERS, QUILLS, STAY, THE LIBERTINE, THE MACHINIST, PHANTOM OF THE OPERA, Final Fantasy, DRAKE AND JOSH (especially Josh Peck), watching SAVED BY THE BELL with my daughter, watching anime series like CHOBITS and SHUFFLE, playing my PSP, playing my Nintendo DS, James McAvoy, African-American and hip-hop culture, Katt Williams, Toni Morrison, and I'll try and keep the list accummulating.
LINKS TO MY PUBLISHED POEMS:
http://www.thepedestalmagazine.com/gallery.php?item=1729
http://www.thepedestalmagazine.com/gallery.php?item=1774
http://www.thepedestalmagazine.com/gallery.php?item=1902
http://www.lilylitreview.com/4_8scales.html
http://www.sundress.net/wickedalice/scales.html
http://blossombones.com/winter09/scales_w09.html
Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.--Albert Camus
Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.--Edgar Allan Poe
We fly to beauty as an asylum/From the terrors of finite nature.--Emerson, Journals, 1836
I am moved by fancies that are curled / Around these images, and cling: / The notion of some infinitely gentle / Infinitely suffering thing.--Eliot, Prelude IV
