Marilyn: The Woman-Child
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| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Industry | Arts |
| Occupation | The Arts It Chick |
| Location | the centre of everything, London, United Kingdom |
| Introduction | Imagine Marilyn Monroe had the opportunity to be taken seriously but instead of reading lots of Arthur Miller she had an overwhelming desire to faff around with flower arrangements and busy her brain with social engagements and fabulous dresses as if it were the 1920s and she was in fact Mrs Dalloway. Imagine that instead of surrendering to her demons and the memories of things inexplicably loved and lost that this curious woman-child confronted life with guns blazing like Pam Grier and a pen loaded like Emily Dickinson's and there you have it; you've got the Marilyn Factor. The Marilyn Factor is a Memoirist, Cultural shape shifter, Academic, Arts junkie, Media Geek, TV writer hopeful, Personal Absurdist, Essayist, in-recovery relationship hazard with an encyclopedic knowledge of musicals and an eye for the beautiful things in life but with no idea when to stop arguing her point. |
| Interests | Cultural shape shifter, memoirist, academic, arts junkie, media geek, novelist hopeful, personal absurdist, essayist, and in-recovery relationship hazard with an encyclopedic knowledge of musicals and an eye for the beautiful things in life but with no idea when to stop arguing her point. |
| Favorite Movies | Anything made by Woody Allen or Spike Lee or Pedro Almodovar or David Lynch. Anything in glorious Technicolor. Anything weird and wonderful that makes the small things in life bigger (eg: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind). Sometimes I like to watch the latest grotesque romantic comedies when I'm alone and my flat mate cannot judge me...I cry a lot and put my life into pointless Hollywood perspective and cry a little more but I draw the line at anything made by Jerry Bruckheimer. Nothing starring Megan Fox. Nothing Lindsay Lohan was going to be in before they lost financial backing/insurance monies. |
| Favorite Books | I don't like linear stories because I'm not a particularly linear person. My writing, my speech is annoyingly non linear. I admire authors who make sense of the mess and waves of life. These novels and plays jump through space and time and perspective and yet the centre always holds: Wide Sargasso Sea, Giovanni's Room, The Corrections, American Pastoral, Passing, Beloved, The Sound and the Fury, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Miss Julie, The Awakening, Nausea, Ulysses. |