Kimberly
My blogs
| Introduction | Looking for an outlet for all the ideas banging in my head to get out. I borrowed the title of this blog from Mina Loy's first volume of poems, published in 1923. |
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| Interests | writing the diss, early cinema, brain stuff, stuff about brains, modernism, poetry, art of the early 20th century, genre fiction, tattoos in literature and film |
| Favorite movies | Le voyage dans la lune (Méliès), Impossible Convicts (Bitzer), M (Lang), La grande illusion (Renoir), Brazil (Gilliam), La cité des enfants perdus (Caro and Jeunet), True Romance (Scott), Children of Men (Cuarón), Banlieue 13 (Morel), wuxia films like House of Flying Dragons (Zhanag Yimou), other wire fu movies like Kill Bill (Tarentino) and The Matrix (Wachowskis), movies with parkour like Banlieue 13 (Morel), The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover (Greenaway), La Jetée (Marker) |
| Favorite books | This category is impossible to narrow down, but I'll give a brief list of the ones that come to mind: The Satanic Verses (Rushdie), Ulysses (Joyce), Howards End (Forster), Nightwood (Barnes), Cloud Atlas (Mitchell), Specimen Days (Cunningham), The Road (McCarthy), As I Lay Dying (Faulkner), Sons and Lovers (Lawrence), Mrs Dalloway (Woolf), To the Lighthouse (Woolf), Harmonium (Stevens), Molloy (Beckett), Dhalgren (Delany), Pattern Recognition and other novels (Gibson), V (Pynchon), Crying of Lot 49 (Pynchon), House of Leaves, Cat's Cradle (Vonnegut, Jr.), Underworld (DeLillo), Bend Sinister (Nabokov). Yes, I'm a geek. |