greenyew
My blogs
| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Occupation | smith, word inspector, curious cat |
| Location | Land of the Lotus Eaters, California |
| Introduction | If I had to choose one sweet and one savoury food to eat for the rest of my life on a desert island, I would pick watermelon and sushi. Bruce Chatwin and Li Bai I appreciate beyond reason. Zhuangzi is dreamy. There should be more love in the world. |
| Interests | Everything: travel/writing, history, memory, ethics, epics, painting, cinema, instruments, scents, watermelon, language, bushwalking, swimming in the sea, kung fu, accents, asceticism, excess, names, propaganda, materialising ideas |
| Favorite movies | Mulholland Dr., City of God, After Life, 2001, Life of Brian, James Bond, Tampopo, Harold & Maude, Boys Don't Cry, Best in Show, Walkabout, In the Heat of the Sun, Kurosawa, Crimes and Misdemeanors, The Godfather I, Ed Wood, Big Lebowski, La Jetee, City Lights, Judou, Delicatessen, The Gods Must be Crazy, The Last Temptation of Christ, Orlando |
| Favorite music | I like things that aren't purely angry, derivative, or destructive without being creative. Silence, Satie, Magnetic Fields, Mr. Cohen, propagandist folk from 50's China, the black wind of Kilimanjaro, Grisman & Garcia, disco, funk, weepy soundtracks, Mexican polka!--rhythm you can paint or shake to |
| Favorite books | Neruda, The Songlines, Metamorphoses, Life of Pi, Exercises in Style, Shen Congwen, Marquez, J.Kincaid, Many Moons, Missing Piece Meets the Big O, Vidal's Creation, Narrow Road, Gibran, Li Bai, Xi You Ji, The Water Margin, Narnia, Paul MuldOOn, Homer, Wilde, Wallace Stevens, the hallowed OED, thesaurus, Wilkinson's Manual, Shi Ji, CA Driver's Handbook |
That can't really be a fish you're standing on, can it?
No, it's the carapace of a giant white turtle who doesn't appreciate being called a cold fish. His name is Mordechai.