Archaeology, Art, Writing, Reading, Theatre, History, Medieval Studies, Music, Literature, Languages (Ancient & Modern), Movies, French Literature, Queer Theory, Science Fiction, Social History, Intellectual History, Literary Theory, Textual Criticism, Linguistics, Art History, King Arthur, Architecture.
Music
Belle and Sebastian, Rufus Wainwright, Olive, R.E.M., Radiohead, The Divine Comedy, Leonard Cohen, The Killers, Nirvana, Tori Amos, Nine Inch Nails, Me First and the Gimme Gimmes, The Dandy Warhols, The Cure, The Smiths, Beck, They Might Be Giants, The Indigo Girls, The Dresden Dolls, The Strokes, Keane, Scissor Sisters, Sigur Ros, The Libertines, The White Stripes, Bright Eyes, The Honorary Title.
Movies
Wonder Boys, Amelie, The Ice Storm, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, My Left Foot, Run Lola Run, Life as a House, Torch Song Trilogy, Sleepy Hollow, Dune, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Lilies, The Fifth Element, Children of Dune, Harry Potter, Drop Dead Gorgeous, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Dark Crystal, The Dreamers, anything by John Waters, 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Shining, Barbarella, Kinky Boots
Television
Six Feet Under, The West Wing, Queer as Folk, Sex in the City, Stargate SG-1, Smallville, CSI, Law and Order: SVU, Battlestar Galactica, Project Runway (ALL CLICHES I KNOW, BUT IT IS TV, AFTER ALL).
Books
BOOKS:The Lord of the Rings, Pale Fire, Ficciones, Hallucinating Foucault, Brave New World, Sexual Dissidence, The Book of Disquietude, We, The Education of Hyman Kaplan, The Phoenix Legacy, Dune, If on a Winter's Night a Traveller, Le Morte d'Arthur. AUTHORS: Rick Moody, Will SelfGeoffrey Chaucer, Abelard and Heloise, Stanislaw Lem, Jack Kerouac, Michel Tournier, Frank Herbert, José Saramago, Oscar Wilde, Dante, Tennessee Williams, Fernando Pessoa, Arthur Rimbaud, William Shakespeare, Julio Cortazar, Philip K. Dick, Jorge Luis Borges, Hervé Guibert, Allen Ginsberg, J.K. Rowling, Samuel Beckett, Guy Davenport, Victor Turner, Yves Navarre, Patricia Duncker.
Heroes
Martha Graham, Fernando Pessoa, Jorge Luis Borges, Yves Navarre, Hervé Guibert, Barbara Jordan, Daniel Brock, Jean Cocteau
About me: Wise is the man who monotonizes his existence, for then each minor incident seems like a marvel. A hunter of lions feels no adventure past the third lion.--Fernando Pessoa
Yeah, so I work at UT Austin, and I'm just on here to make a few friends, meet a few new people. I write short stories...though most are rather long to be called such...lately I've been thinking about writing for the stage, or rather the thought has (re-)surfaced, as for how long it ricocheted around my unconscious, no one can say.... So, I'm interested in just about anything intellectual (read: I have a very large library), and in addition to loving words, I love the theatre, dance (modern and ballet), and people who look for new and creative expressions of themselves and the world around them.
"I never look back.... It distracts from the now."
Favorite places: Paris, Taos, Wales, the Île-St-Louis....
Anyway, I think I'll stop before I sound any more boring....
And be sure to check out my other half's website...he's a very talented young photographer: Twin Lens Photography
Who I'd like to meet: Friends, interesting people, other writers...etc.
'City Smells' is a new literary project set up by the Edit Red Writing Community.
We are running three writing competitions, Flash Fiction, Creative Non-Fiction and Poetry, all with the theme 'City Smells. The winners of each of these competitions will win $100. But more than this, we will take the best work from each competition and compile a paperback 'City Smells' anthology. The writers who make it into the 'City Smells' anthology will each receive free copies of the book and be paid a royalty in book sales.
To submit to these competition and stand a chance of being published in the 'City Smells' book you must be a member of Edit Red, as the submission process is automated. Joining Edit Red and entering these competitions is 100% free. If you make it into the book, we will pay royalties based on book sales.
Edit Red has existed for many years and was created and is still managed today by non-fiction author Alan Emmins, creative writing teacher Chris Lee Ramsden and literary reviewer Sean Merrigan.
If you are not already a member, we hope you will join and take part in this great literary event. Sign up here for free!
