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il Marionette rotto

shoepixie

About Me

Hmm. I'm very boring. Very, very dull.

I've been called these words:
creative.random.overwhelming.insane.unique.original.gregario us. magikal.quixotic.lunatic.impetuous.capricious.splendid.utter ly mad.wild.obnoxious.true.ardent.ernest.intense.unfuckin'belie vable. wierd.eccentric.odd.smart.brash.mecurial.astonishing.silly.s trange.but fun!.w00t.exhausting.incandecant
I don't like talking about myself, but I'll do it at great length, unless stopped. I like taking pictures and djing at clubs and sun and wind and bare feet and safety pins. There are a lot of things I like and more I love, but I complain too much. I don't know why. I can't stand a quiet room. I need music (tunejunkie). I'm a snob, I"m elitist, I think too much. I adore just walking about a city (fläneur) and talking to folks (oh my she just said folks! Who does that?) and I often propose marraige to people I think are really really brill. I may do it to you, and if you turn me down it *will* hurt my feelings. I have a story for everything, and I have a head full of learning but very little else. I always bullshit but I never lie. I am prone to singing at random times and places, and if you try to speak to me before the verse is finished it's likely I won't hear you. She means well, she really does. She tries her best, she just doens't know any better. I take big bites (of food and life), because I have fire in my body instead of blood. This gets me odd looks at bus stops, I collect them ad use them to stuff my pillows. The odd looks, I mean, not the bus stops. I am, possibly, completly unacceptable in more than one way. I know how to be serious but you might never see it. Don't hold the gypsy thing against her, but don't be surprised if she plays the part. If you need a muse you should ask nicely. We don't like being bossed around. Then again. Creatures of passion are never predictable, but they are manageable. You just have to know how. Don't dare call me pikey unless you're practically family. Ecstacy will always be my first and my deepest love, and all I want is to know more words. Erm. I very seldom run out of words.
Artwork


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My Interests

Greek Mythology . Bristish History . music is essential . films are fun . reading is required . television is the devil . Is this Enough? . Dandyism . steampunk . abnormal psychology . epicurianism . dada . glam . the tao . broken glass . historical espionage . cyberpunk . trancendentalism . opium . phrenology . campy horror . silent films . pranking . tricksters . bohemians . Romantic art/writing/thought/life . mythlore . feral children . backwoods creatures . carnival horrors . living dolls . clockwork creatures . marionettes . stories . urban folklore . Why The Romans Are Very Dumb . Why the Puritans Are Absolutely Horrid . zombies . zombie survival . preparation for zombie apocolypse . 80's children's entertainment . mummer's plays . german expressionism . commedia del'arte . film noir . pulp adventure . art nouveau . fire.
Glaring anachronism . being an anachronism . being unnacceptable . being Tank Girl . scheming . drawing on people with sharpie markers . trickery . tearing holes in clothing . cutting things up with scissors . excessive use of safety pins . exessive anything . crashing into things . killing zombies . searching for the perfect Godfrey's Cordial . lecturing on the evils of hubris . lecturing on the importance of history . lecturing on zombie survival . gettin' up on that soapbox . hating the letter zed . knowing more useless information than anyone else.

I'd like to meet:

((a note: if you add me? unless you note me saying why, unlikely I will add back. this goes doubly for bands.))magnificent bastards . gamers . mad scientists . clockwork inventors . secret agents . designers . djs . film geeks . history geeks . lit geeks . art geeks . any geeks . cheerful goths . Godfrey (of cordial fame) . unitarians . bogeymen . heroes . Lady Lovelace . cyberpunks . console cowboys . Godot . reenactors . dancers . art models . Jet Girl . wanderers . musicians . fellow zombie killers . anyone, really.
Not the undead, please. I only like being bitten by living creatures.Perhaps people just a little bit off?
I really only want some jaunty rascal to catch me about the waist and carry me over the world. I want someone who can keep up with me. I want someone to curl up with me under a flatbed truck. I want someone who can look into a fire and sing it's songs in harmony with me. I want a house full of people and kids and bikes and good smells and I want a falling apart motorhome on it's last gallon of petrol that runs on will alone. I want friends and dear ones and mad ones and ones that are only really alive when they're doing something absurd or a little bit dangerous...Who wants to star in a steampunk fairytale? A musepixie without work is an unhappy one. I like people who are nice to me. That's pretty much it. If you're nice to me, good chance I'll like you. If you're not, best not to bother.

Music:

Almost Everything. If it's good.

Movies:

All those 80's fantasy standards:
The Princess Bride . The Last Unicorn . Labyrinth . The Dark Crystal . Legend . Willow .
And...
The Lost Boys . Nosferatu . Ponette . The Tomb of Lygia . Secretary . Delecatessen . O Brother, Where Art Thou . Tank Girl . Don't Look in The Basement!!! . Shaun of the Dead . Les Triplettes le Belleville . Fight Club . Shi Mian Mai Fu (House of Flying Daggers) . Requiem For a Dream . The Ice Storm . Sin City . Max Headroom . Aguierra: The Wrath of God . Velvet Goldmine . Waking Life . Boondock Saints . Kill Bill . The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou . Howl's Moving Castle . Metropolis . Gosford Park . Titus . Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels . The Iron Giant . Hedwig and the Angry Inch . Gosford Park . Dancer in the Dark . The Fifth Element . Lola Rennt . Mirrormask . El Liberinto del Fauno . I 3 Huckabees

Television:

Doctor Who, Blackadder, Keeping Up Appearances, Firefly, The Young Ones, Jeeves and Wooster, The Tick

Books:

Crazy English . Castle of Ontronto . Varney the Vampire . Carmilla . Life and Times of the Gypsy Wanderers . Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell . The Twits . Transmetropolitan . Neverwhere . Frankenstein . The Last Unicorn . Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass (And What Alice Found There) . The Dictionary . A Child's Book of Cautionary Tales . At The Back of the North Wind
I love children's books, here are some:
Mrs. Frisby and The Rats of Nimh . Coraline . Chicka Chicka BOOM BOOM . Where the Wild Thing Are . The Phantom Tollbooth . Puck of Pook's Hill . The Secret Garden . The Gashleycrumb Tinies

Heroes:

Greeks: Elektra (way to hold a grudge!) . Medea (way to enact retribution!) . Oddyseus (way to be a dumbass and piss of the gods and get your whole damn crew killed! Bu'hey, at least it makes a great story.) . Phaedra (way to...wait....nevermind. You suck, Phaedra.)
BEOWULF (he's gorram Beowulf!) . Albert Einstein (for being a freak) . Euripedes (Yay, psychology in theatre!) . Clara Barton (Rocks my word) . Elizabeth Cady Stanton (being brilliant and brash) . David Bowie (just...being) . W.A. Mozart (again, being a freak) . Benjamin Franklin (being a satyr) . John's Webster and Ford (writing smut) . Disaeli (having a sweet poison tongue) . Shakespeare, Shelly and Homer (duh) .

My Blog

Us and You

   Working on a painting,   Think I'll post progress of it as it goes.  How does that sound to you folk?----------------Now playing: Pink Floyd - Us And Themvia FoxyTunes &nbs...
Posted by il Marionette rotto on Fri, 25 Apr 2008 05:18:00 PST

turn the radio up

So I have to start paying attnetion to myspace again, since my sister Pieka is on it, and chats on it all the gorram time!  This shouldn't been too much of a problem, I think...no, not too much. ...
Posted by il Marionette rotto on Wed, 23 Apr 2008 02:37:00 PST

Streampunk! Crime! Seekrit agents!! *love*

La Desse had this to say,a dn said it better than I ever could: "If you avidly read things like Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman and From Hell by Alan Moore, if you have your own theory about who Spring-Heel...
Posted by il Marionette rotto on Sun, 30 Apr 2006 05:03:00 PST

Theory

I have a conceit, this idea or perhaps hypothesis in my head. Perhaps it is because I miss theatre. I think perhaps every life must have a great comedy and a great tragedy, and these things define a...
Posted by il Marionette rotto on Fri, 28 Apr 2006 03:00:00 PST

ANNOUNCE!

  This is to let people know that on livejournal, there is a new one you can read if you like.  It's mostly a collection of all the little thoughts, musics, and so forth that occur to me thr...
Posted by il Marionette rotto on Tue, 25 Apr 2006 07:46:00 PST

Art Update: Firemane

This is just to let everyone know that there is some new art posted to my DeviantArt (yeah, I know) gallery - two new peices and a new id.  Oh yay, red hair! W00t.  I think I will make a hab...
Posted by il Marionette rotto on Sun, 16 Apr 2006 10:14:00 PST

my pictures! POOFED!

I managed to delete almost all of my photos.  And there were comments, too!  *wahhhh* How does one make a mistake like that?   I can't even tell what I did!....they're back up, at ...
Posted by il Marionette rotto on Sun, 16 Apr 2006 03:35:00 PST

to taste both sweet and dry

Still trying to make sense of this strange creature called the myspace creature. In other internet news my art website it up, and play on t'Vic looks like it *may* actually start 1 May, as planned. IF...
Posted by il Marionette rotto on Sun, 16 Apr 2006 04:00:00 PST