A whisper to the wind
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| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Industry | Arts |
| Occupation | ESL teacher, writer |
| Location | Canada |
| Introduction | -I am currently in S. Korea for my second stint teaching English. I am trying to begin a potential writing career.. -I have many bad habits -I have a tendency for harsh self-analysis -I was miserable at "home" but I am homesick often... -I am a writer and an artist (or so they tell me) -I have a strange sense of humor -I don't know what to do with my life -I am lazy, cranky and detached -I am not as melodramatic in person |
| Interests | People--particularly their faces, fairies, encyclopedias of strange things like monsters, freaks, etc. I also like 1930s fashions, dark clothing, German post-modern literature, Victorian era literature, drawing, museums, castles, medieval stuff...I also have a fascination for pretty jewelery boxes and old cargo trunks, ancient books, empty libraries. I'd like to travel to as many places as I can manage. I am particulalry intrigued upon finding like-minded individuals--perhaps because of my terrible habit for self-examination...Don't mind me... |
| Favorite movies | Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs, Requiem for a Dream, Donny Darko, This Boy's Life, Trainspotting, Just about all Mel Brooks movies, but particularly Young Frankenstein...and The Producers...(because Gene Wilder and Zero Mostel were funny), The Deer Hunter, most Woody Allen Movies. The Cure, The Princess Bride, Coffee and Cigarettes, Edward Scissorhands, Nightmare before Christmas, (I love Tim Burton), Drop Dead Fred, Spirited Away, Princess Mononoke, Waking Life, Fritz the Cat, Crumb, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (and most things by Pedro Almodovar), Witches of Eastwick, really bad and obscure B-movies made on low budgets and having to do with laserbeams and aliens...Some Like it Hot, the Seven Year Itch (and most movies with Marilyn Monroe), The Wall, Batman, Batman Returns, Narnia, Big Fish, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, It, Priscilla Queen of the Desert, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, The Goonies, The Gremlins, The Royal Tannenbaums, Igby Goes Down, Beatle-Juice, Singles, Heathers, Reality Stinks, Drugstore Cowboy, Ordinary People, Labyrinth, What Dreams may Come, The Dark Crystal, Interview with a Vampire...lots of foreign films with subtitles that I can no longer remember the names of... Weird Ingar Bergman movies...lots more. |
| Favorite music | My favorite band is the Smashing Pumpkins (I love Melon collie and the Infinite Sadness not only because it is beautiful and dramatic, but because I have nostalgic associations whenever I listen to it.). I love Bright Eyes (everything they've put out so far), Rage against the Machine, Sublime, Metallica, the Dresden Dolls, Rasputina, The Cure, Nick Drake, Depeche Mode, David Bowie, Nirvana, Massive Attack, Sonic Youth, Tool, Jane's Addiction, Manic Street Preachers, Elliot Smith, Daft Punk, Pulp, Garbage, The Cranberries, Marilyn Manson, Moody Blues, Leonard Cohen, Cat Stevens. I also like lots of old 1920s-1940s music...Charlie Parker, Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong and Billie Holiday. I love the sound of Swing Music (and love Glen Miller). There's something really nice about slow, crackling sad songs from a record player... |
| Favorite books | Everything by D.H. Lawrence, Herman Hesse, and Roald Dahl. I like Gunter Grass a lot as well. Virginia Wolfe, Ayn Rand, H. G. Wells, Tolstoy, Solzenhitzen, Thomas Mann, The brothers Grimm (the unbowlderized versions, preferably--as well as all fairy tales), Marya Hornbacher's "Wasted, " Michael Ende, Sylvia Plath, James Joyce, Rohinton Mistry, Timothy Findley, History books dealing with the Victorian mindset, Christina Rossetti, Oscar Wilde, the writings of Aleister Crowley, Edgar Allen Poe, books on Mythology, books about faries (generally when they're illustrated by someone like Brian Froud), old, old grimoire type books or guidelines like the Maleus Malificarum, Goethe, Nietchze, Dante Alligeri, Marlowe's Faust, William Borroughs, Norman Mailler, Charles Dickens, Niccoloo Machiaveli's "The Prince, " etc...Essentially, I love anything that captures my interest, makes me think, inspires me, or disturbs me. Clockwork Orange, Lolita, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (and all of Douglas Adam's sequels), Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest.. I also am deeply captivated by graphic novels--particularly those dealing with the Dark Knight and Neil Gaiman's Sandman series--the way it is written is to me, pure perfection--as most of Neil Gaiman's work is--think Smoke and Mirrors and Neverwhere...). Books on art (preferably post modern or pre-raphaelite), as well as books on contemporary photography are also enjoyable to me. |