Penny
My blogs
Blogs I follow
| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Industry | Arts |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Location | Madison / Platteville, WI, United States |
| Interests | Music, fashion, literature, history, paganism, Earth, art, politics, oddities and curios, surrealism, accents, sewing, existentialism, outer space, time, the ocean, stripes and paisley, cold weather, animals, dreams, winklepickers, film, rain, walking, England, trees, the baffling world of analog synthesized sounds, tobacco accoutrements, spices and healing herbs, desecrating perfectly good furniture, the history of psychiatry and psychosurgery, old photos and found objects, quality black drawing pens, jewelry making, perfumery, feral children, sewing, medicine in the 19th century, trains, enormous and antiquated factories and machines, British comedy, folklore, what people in the 60s and 70s thought the future would look like |
| Favorite movies | Everything is Illuminated, Breakfast on Pluto, The Wind That Shakes the Barley, Metropolis, all the Monty Python films, Science of Sleep, Welcome to the Dollhouse, Titus Andronicus, All Over Me, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Herzog's Nosferatu, Stroszeck, Fizcarraldo, The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser, loads of old horror and sci-fi, silent films, documentaries. |
| Favorite music | The Horrors, The Birthday Party, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, The Zombies, Skip James, The Misfits, Screamin' Jay Hawkins, David Bowie, T. Rex, The Cramps, Son House, The Kinks, Marianne Faithfull, Pink Floyd, Syd Barrett, Mississippi John Hurt, Siouxsie and the Banshees, The Monks, Iggy and the Stooges, MC5, PJ Harvey, Dirty Pretty Things, The Libertines, Tom Waits, Bauhaus, The Small Faces, The Jam, etcetera. |
| Favorite books | The Master and Margarita (Mikhail Bulgakov), The Steppenwolf (Hermann Hesse), And the Ass Saw the Angel (Nick Cave), Everything is Illuminated (Jonathan Safran Foer), A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (James Joyce), Confessions of a Mask (Yukio Mishima), The Rotters' Club (Jonathan Coe), The Picture of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde), Perfume (Patrick Suskind), Maurice (E.M. Forster), The Bell Jar (Sylvia Plath), Faithfull (Marianne Faithfull), Please Kill Me (Legs McNeil), Kink (Dave Davies), Inside Out (Nick Mason), anything by Neil Gaiman, dictionaries, history and psychology books, nature guides... |