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Holly

I am a city lover. I have a concrete soul.

About Me

I write, read, edit, publish, work as a bookslave, lament the lack of intelligence in literature, absorb rockstardom through osmosis, drink beer and coffee, and drive seventy on the freeway with music blasting.

I've written a novel, The Last Song, and a novella, Footsteps in the Rain, as well as various shorts and comics, most recently Gods on H, City Lover, and Body Shots, available here: http://www.thezerocabinet.com.

I discuss my characters as if they were real people.

I'm a comic book geek who loves fashion. I'm a football fan who watches anime. I love weird action figures as well as expensive fragrances. I don't fit many stereotypes.

I don't lie.

More about me: http://www.hollyinterlandi.com.

My Interests

words, wordplay, poetic devices, rockstars, obscure imported beer, comic books, sheep, cartoons, dolce & gabbana, violent beauty, fucked up love stories, literary magazines, action figures, trance, art and pornography and everything in between, american football, alphabetizing, learning languages, fetishes, philosophy, physics, dinosaurs, weiner dogs.

I'd like to meet:

Other writers. Rockstars. Metalworkers. Graffiti artists. Physicists. Porn stars. Kaori Yuki. Miyavi. Nicole Blackman. Living incarnations of my characters (Inme, this means you).

People who are honest, intense, and upfront. I'm allergic to bullshit.

Music:

X Japan, Violet UK, [insert Yoshiki project here], hide, Luna Sea, Silverchair, Manic Street Preachers, Inme, Dir en grey, Beethoven, Magic Dirt, Miyavi, Plastic Tree, Tchaikovsky, D'espairsRay, Oblivion Dust, Lori Carson, Craig Armstrong, Gackt, Six.by Seven, Kuroyume, Mucc, Dishwalla, Olivia, Japanese music, visual rock, anything poetic, anything I can write about, anything that makes me go 'WTF?'

Movies:

Velvet Goldmine, My Own Private Idaho, Takashi Miike movies, foreign horror films, From Dusk Til Dawn, Blade Runner, b-grade action flicks, anything involving Gundams, Groove, Interview with the Vampire, Trainspotting, drug movies, Pirates, porn, Digital Playground, intelligent science fiction, unintelligent science fiction, Quills, Sin City, Secretary, animation, cartoonish violence, anything disgusting, anything in the 'Holy fucking shit!' section at Cinefile.

Television:

Only on DVD. Gundam Wing, X, Carnivale, Invader Zim, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Dragonball Z, Dexter, Wolf's Rain, Hellsing, Gravitation.

Books:

Coin Locker Babies, anything by Kaori Yuki [including but not limited to: Kaine, Godchild, Neji, Ludwig, Angel Sanctuary, Boys Next Door], The Iliad, Dream Boy, The Ground Beneath Her Feet, An Instance of the Fingerpost, The Hanged Man, Prime, Less Than Zero, House of Leaves, drug memoirs, erotica, gay, disillusioned modernist poets, Nicole Blackman, William Faulkner, Yukio Mishima, JD Salinger, Irvine Welsh, Neil Gaiman, Amy Bloom, John Collier, Alan Moore, literary magazines, Greek classics, weird science books about germs and gravity, Stephen King, Jeanette Winterson, John Gardner, art books, Taschen, Phaidon, alternative comics, Steve Niles, werewolves, rockstar lovestories, Franz Kafka and his starvation obsession, Open City, the New York Quarterly, thesauri, trivia, irreverence/blasphemy, Shel Silverstein, Jack Prelutsky - christ, I could go on forever but I'll spare you.

Heroes:

Kaori Yuki.

The Mad Hatter always comes to the mad tea party.

My Blog

Myv = musical revelation.

So here's what happened. I spent three days of work breaks attempting to capture the essence of the Miyavi shows in a very analytical way. After five pages, I read them and realized it sounded more l...
Posted by Holly on Tue, 20 May 2008 12:48:00 PST

I need a circle around my head.

It's so hard, this time of year. It's so hard to hear sirens without worrying - to see your smile without aching - to write a story without shaking. It's too hot. It's too hot to handle a bed, too sti...
Posted by Holly on Tue, 29 Apr 2008 09:49:00 PST

Drunken ramblings?

I'm going to read this blog in the morning and go 'Oh, shit.' At any rate, the jacarandas are here! Purple flowers dot the street like royal candelbras. It's lovely. LA truly lives for late April. Th...
Posted by Holly on Sat, 26 Apr 2008 12:44:00 PST

A taste of chaos...

Rockstar Taste of Chaos... ... was truly rockstar, truly chaotic, and easily the most fun I've had in a mosh pit since college. Holy hand grenade, Batman! And I wasn't even there for the headlining ba...
Posted by Holly on Fri, 11 Apr 2008 03:49:00 PST

Worries and nothing.

On days like I this I find myself thinking, I feel too much. Which speaks volumes of my warped sensitivity - that I'm most emotional just sitting in my room, pen in hand, sun in sky, mix of music play...
Posted by Holly on Wed, 12 Mar 2008 05:37:00 PST

Musical musings.

Hey MUCC fans, be sure to elbow all the emo fags during FUZZ.Jrock fankids are all obnoxious nerds with no life.These are actual posts I encountered on the Taste of Chaos message board. [FYI: Taste of...
Posted by Holly on Sat, 01 Mar 2008 08:51:00 PST

Not about politics.

Yes, I did vote, but no, I'm not going to discuss it. Politics piss me off in general. I've just finished the major editing work for one of my two current projects, which is a huge 'WHEW'. I can't bea...
Posted by Holly on Wed, 06 Feb 2008 06:10:00 PST

AVNs 2008

These were all taken on my phone - hence the blurry quality.I've once again been convinced that people in the porn industry are some of the coolest individuals on the planet. I look retarded, but Bel...
Posted by Holly on Tue, 15 Jan 2008 03:14:00 PST

Tuesday Night Lights

Report from the Silverchair show, 11/20/07.Something I love about Silverchair shows is their default demographic: the band hasn't really been 'mainstream' since 1999, when  'Ana's Song' came out ...
Posted by Holly on Sat, 24 Nov 2007 03:06:00 PST

Rockstar feelings

You know that pleasant but sad sort of nostalgia, that poetic melancholy, that epic rockstar feeling you get after watching a movie like Velvet Goldmine, or listening to a really great live record, or...
Posted by Holly on Fri, 16 Nov 2007 05:36:00 PST