 My favorite diaries:
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musesfool profile - diary |
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stereogirl profile - diary |
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quoted profile - diary |
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andrew profile - diary |
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dirtnerdluv profile - diary |
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jessica-ruth profile - diary |
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missmalady profile - diary |
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a-lemon profile - diary |
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alestar profile - diary |
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trasker profile - diary |
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chaplinlover profile - diary |
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hissandtell profile - diary |
My favorite music: |
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The Nymphs |
| comments: Utterly unheralded one-disc band of the early 1990s; big, fuzzy, Rimbaud-worshipping grrrl-sound mixed with despairing ecstatic hymn-like vocals. |
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The Pixies |
| comments: Punk, surf, UFO-references: Its dissolution gave rise to Frank Black and the Catholics, the Breeders, the Amps and (by implication) the Kelley Deal 6000. Made this monkey go to heaven. |
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The Blue Aeroplanes |
| comments: Another thrift-bin wonder--Smiths-like guitar hooks, half-shouted poetry-slam lyrics; perfect soundtrack music for any movie adaptation of John Constantine, Hellblazer. (They also made a single out of Sylvia Plath's "The Applicant.") |
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Joseph Arthur |
| comments: The very definition of obscure, and (probably) proud of it; sort of like a one-man Scorsese movie, except with less guns, and more poetry. One of the only Americans on Peter Gabriel's Real World label. |
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Nick Cave |
| comments: Bleak, black, bloody, bold and resolute. A fellow (half-)Australian with Elvis envy and preacherly leanings, Cave specializes in murder ballads which mutate halfway into lovesongs, and vice versa. |
My favorite movies: |
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Captain Blood |
| comments: Swordfights, white slavery, ruffled shirts. Plus Errol Flynn totally failing to do an Irish accent, being obstreporously tall and better-looking than anyone else onscreen, working that wacky Steve Irwinesque Tasmanian vibe, etc. S'all good. |
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Dangerous Liaisons |
| comments: Stephen Frears' ice-cool direction, John Malkovich's purr, Glenn Close's words to live by: "...one beautifully simple philosophy: Win, or die." |
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Silence Of The Lambs |
| comments: Wrote a whole 'zine about this importance of this particular girls' coming-of-age tale once. It was called MY DAD IS DEAD. Rent this, and see why. |
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The Impostors |
| comments: Stanley Tucci and friends do a rollicking screwball turn on the farcical convention. Makes me snort through the nose, every time I see it. |
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Photographing Fairies |
| comments: Indescribable; I think www.film.com still has my review up. One way or another, though, I can basically guarantee it's A) Not what you think and B) Like nothing you've ever seen before. |
My favorite authors: |
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Tanith Lee |
| comments: "A girl knight with intimations of the reaver, the showman, and, (for what it was worth), the prince." --"Northern Chess", Amazonsanthology. |
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Icelandic Sagas |
| comments: "'You don't need to look,'said Kolskegg. 'It's just as you think--the leg is off.'" --Njal's Saga, Penguin Classics version. |
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Marjorie Bowen |
| comments: "It is not the Devil who has taught you to be so faithful." --Black Magic. |
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J. Sheridan Le Fanu |
| comments: "Dim thoughts of death began to open, and the idea that I was slowly sinking took gentle, and, somehow, not unwelcome, possession of me." --"Carmilla", In A Glass Darkly. |
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Douglas Clegg |
| comments: "...the beauty, the sanctity in life, Jane, it's not in joy or happiness, it's in suffering in the flesh." "White Chapel", The Nightmare Chronicles. |
