Takhys
My blogs
| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Industry | Student |
| Location | Ottawa, Ontario, Canada |
| Introduction | Takhys is a semi-starving, permanent student who is madly in mind-lust with Stephen Fry. After finishing a BA in Political Science and Classical Studies, she's currently in Ottawa for a Master's in Late Antiquity studies. She is an avid, voracious reader of just about anything that holds still: literature, fic, and cereal boxes. Movies, particularly 1950's musicals and heist pictures, are another love and she has spent the last year working for an independent video rental store that specializes in strange, foreign and hard to find movies. If you liked 'Wild Zero' and want to know about other Japanese zombie movies with good dance numbers, she's the gal to ask. (*psst* The answer is Takashi Miike's comedy/horror flick 'Katakuri-ke no kôfuku', otherwise known as 'Happiness of the Katakuris'.) One day she hopes to own a diamond encrusted rocket pony. |
| Interests | a good smiting, accents, acting pretentiously faux-british, after-rain smell, almond-flavoured irony, ancient greece, ancient rome, anywhere-but-here, art deco, autumn afternoons, big cities, boys in eyeliner, british slang, canada, changing my interests, classical philology, coffee, coincidences, cryptozoology, dead languages, department of redundancy department, divination, downtown, duty/honour/all that rot, eclecticness, exotic foods, fuzzy sweaters, geekiness, geeky glasses, giant sloths, grammar, green tea, hair dye, halloween, having vivid dreams, heavy comforters, hiking, inside jokes, latin, laughing/snickering at weird/inappropriate times, law, linguistics/etymology, literary/mythological/historical in-jokes, living slowly, logic, long swishy badass coats, modern myths, obscure references, old english, optic nerve, outlaws, overusing-hyphens-to-the-point-of-extremity, pez, poetry, politics, portmanteau words, power, punctuated equilibrium, quantum mechanics, recursion, ridiculously elaborate evil schemes, sarcasm, see-your-breath-cold, shiny things, smart people, smoke, spaces and spaces between, subtext, subtlety, superstition, swash swash buckle buckle, taking over the world, theoretical mathematics, theory vs. practice, thunderstorms, unified field, useless information, yellow flowers |
| Favorite movies | 1950's musicals, bad horror movies, bad teen movies, bad tv, bubba ho-tep, canadian tv, elliott gould, the royal tenenbaums, |
| Favorite music | david bowie, elliott smith, gilbert and sullivan, the decemberists, |
| Favorite books | a.s. byatt, american gods, blank notebooks, china miéville, edward gorey, fight club, good omens, hamlet, neil gaiman, neuromancer, nick hornby, |