Nocturnal Butterfly
My blogs
| Occupation | Singer, Poet, Writer, Lover, Dreamer, Aesthete |
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| Location | Citizen of the World |
| Introduction | I am a former professional singer and actor, and was the original Gavroche in the 1985 Royal Shakespeare Company's London Barbican and West End production of Les Miserables. I have a BA Hons Cultural Degree and this is where I share my art, stories and reviews. I have cystic fibrosis and have to fight this illness every single day. My motto for this blog is: "The true artist, like Hermes, is only satisfied with his work when he succeeds in communicating the unique experience to which he bears witness." |
| Interests | European Literature, Romanticism, Symbolism, Decadence, Aestheticism, Surrealism, Glam!, Poetry, The Pre-Raphaelites, Torch/Saloon Songs, Firenze (Florence), Everton FC... |
| Favorite movies | Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, All of us Strangers, Poor Things, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Equus, My Summer of Love, Betty Blue, Angel-A, Eyes Wide Shut, Pandaemonium, Caligula: The Ultimate Cut, Cristina, Vicky, Barcelona, Withnail & I... |
| Favorite music | Claude Debussy, Rufus Wainwright, David Bowie, Edith Piaf, The London Suede, Tim Booth, Manic Street Preachers, Antony & the Johnsons, Scott Walker, Frank Sinatra, Billy Mackenzie, Freddie Mercury, Anna Calvi, Roxy Music, Eno, The Long Blondes, Magazine, Diamanda Galas, and so many many more, too many to mention... |
| Favorite books | Oscar Wilde, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Camille Paglia, Lord Byron, Walter Pater, John Keats, Angela Carter, German Romanticism, Theophile Gautier, Anais Nin, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Shakespeare, Stendhal, Dylan Thomas, R.S. Thomas, Patrick Jones, Goethe, Balzac, Phillipe Julian, Thomas Mann, Virginia Woolf, Maurice Maeterlinck... |