 My favorite diaries:
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Monsterparty profile - diary |
| comments: Martinique, my dear, neglected friend. |
My favorite music: |
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Portishead |
| comments: I like the rhythms and bass in the songs, the melodies of a very feminine female vocalist make this something more complex and true to the spirit of bieng a woman than most female artists. |
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Tori Amos |
| comments: I am a long time fan. She is completely her own identity, not an era or a style. I love her piano. |
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Radiohead |
| comments: Screw everyone, Amnesiac was great. |
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Goldfrapp |
| comments: Like the soprano version of Portishead. The leading lady is an adorable blonde angry vodka drinker. Gotta love it. |
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Nick Drake |
| comments: My folk connection. Truly dark stuff at times, but also very rustic and tangible. Not to mention his smooth, low, atonal voice. Yum. |
My favorite movies: |
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A.I. |
| comments: Everyone hated this movie because it scared the shit out of them. Good going, Speilberg. |
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Breakfast at Tiffany's |
| comments: I liked the book a lot, too. Capote. But the movie had its own merits, i.e., the party scene. And Audrey Hepburn, of course. |
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Mansfield Park |
| comments: Oh. So. Good. Lit the flame under my ass about reading again. |
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Road to Perdition |
| comments: I know it is popular. Buy the hype. |
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Cyrano de Bergerac |
| comments: No dialogue like this graces the idiot box of any English film, all of the Shakespeare remakes included. |
My favorite authors: |
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Albert Camus |
| comments: The Plague and his essays especially. Yes, you can have a meaningful life as one of Nabakov's two remaining taboos. |
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Richard P. Feynman |
| comments: The Feynman Lectures on Physics - These texts are what I needed to solidify the numerous abstracts of years of basic sciences. Comprehensive and comprehendable. |
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Aldous Huxley |
| comments: Eyeless in Gaza. My favorite Huxley novel to date. |
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn |
| comments: Recently replaced Remarque as my favorite war author, only he fought a very different kind of war. |
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Joseph Heller |
| comments: Catch - 22. Another bleak , but much more satirical novel about WWII. Portrays the perfect insanity of war and human existence and relationships in general. |
