sadie damascus
My blogs
| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Industry | Publishing |
| Occupation | proofreader/copy editor |
| Location | Monte Rio, CA, United States |
| Introduction | for my weight, my ideal height should be six foot nine and a half inches. red hair, leather and velvet, a couple of teeth, good cook. I am not as young and wild as I have been; once i tripped and lit fantastic body memories and sought my urges and ecstacies (freedom is slavery); once i hitchhiked from england to india with my eldest child on my back; i long for human contact and money to go places and even buy things. i live on irregular royalties from my mother shirley jackson's writings, plus whatever i can get pfoofreading and flea marketing and robbing trains. when i think about death i worry about my obituary and whether or not i will have a will by then and i hope not to die. |
| Interests | creating such art as paintings and cartoons and paperdolls and giant bunny effigies and costumes and mosaics and jewelry and signs and posters, making music (singing solo or harmonizing, playing games such as poker and scrabble, reading aloud, travel, my family (four or five kids and way too few grandchildren and three beloved but distant siblings and the laughing man known as grover the woodcarver, linguistics and etymology, conversation, parties, dope, reading many books a week especially sci fi, writing poems and essays and mad nonsense and ssometimes sharing it, things that cost money, loving and sucking the juice out of my friends before they pass away, systems and organization, science, magic, teaching kids, proofreading or copy editing manuscripts with my incredible grammar and language and spelling skills, showing off, telling lies, performing as singer and clown and radio personality and actor and musician and shouter and street theatre afficionado, burning man, humor in its many forms, knowing old english and scots lawlands dialect and a pinch of latin |
| Favorite movies | marx brothers, whoopi goldberg and bobcat, monte python, mel brooks, coen brothers, matt and trey movies, john waters: asian and african and australian and european and south american movies, circus and carnival movies; you and me and everyone we know, ghengis blues, strange brew, state and main, the old lord of the flies, lonesome dove, quest for fire, adventures of sinbad and that ilk, spirited away, men in black, tidelands, o brother where art thou(and any folk music movie i can find), secretary, southpark, firefly, the business of fancy dancing, disgraced, rivers and tides, chicago, , bad santa, songcatcher, amadeus, mars attacks, cyrano, the haunting..... |
| Favorite music | Folk music in general; the traditional Scots and English Child Ballads, particularly; acoustic world folk, horn concertos, old r&r, the dead |
| Favorite books | wow. sci fi, humor, anything i can read on the radio; yeats, sedaris, short stories, novels, herb books, song books, cookbooks, plays |