Elena
| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Industry | Arts |
| Occupation | Starving Unemployed Writer |
| Location | New Orleans, Louisiana, United States |
| Introduction | I am a twenty-something with a motivation deficiency and a tendency to meander around a while before getting to the point. I have a high tolerance for alcohol and a low tolerance for stupidity. My only real ambition is to become a genius. That is, to be considered to have a "degree of mental superiority that enables its possessor to live acceptably upon his admirers, and without blame be unbrokenly drunk." The auspice under which I aspire to such heights of glory is writing fantasy/sci-fi novels. And, I suppose, convincing people to pay to read them. Hence the living acceptably upon my admirers. In the meantime, merely living within one standard deviation of normalcy is challenge for me, an amusement when I fail. I am very amusing. Welcome to my world. |
| Interests | Writing, editing, reading, college football (Hook 'Em Horns! Geaux Tigers!), movies, sharp-shooting, a good cigar with a well-made Caucasian |
| Favorite movies | The Princess Bride, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Big Lebowski, The Fountain, The Proposition (Nick Cave's), Secretary, Lucky # Slevin, Arrested Development, Firefly/Serenity, MXC, How I Met Your Mother |
| Favorite music | Colt and the .45's, Better Than Ezra, Slim Cessna's Auto Club, Munly and the Lee Lewis Harlots, Johnny Flynn, Lucinda Williams,Galactic, North Mississippi Allstars, JJ Grey,Anders Osborne |
| Favorite books | Sharon Shinn, Paula Volsky, Harry Potter, Jane Austen, Dorothy Dunnett, Cosmic Banditos by AC Weisbecker, Shana Abe, Gaelen Foley, Ambrose Bierce, Scott Lynch, Joe Abercrombie, Boethius, and of course my own stuff |
The love potion you made tastes terrible. How will you drink it?
Why would I want to? Aren't I slipping it all unknown into the drink of the poor dumb bastard I want to seduce? Getting him to drink it is child's play. Just take him on a LA bar crawl and within 2 blocks he's too drunk to taste Guiness, much less my concoction. If I have to take it myself, of course, it's going down after a shot of Azteca tequila. Can't nothing taste worse than THAT.