I am Artistic, Adventerous, and Archaic.
My Self-Summary
I find it a tad difficult to summarize myself.
Perhaps I will leave that up to the summarians.
What I’m doing with my life
Practicing circus skills
restoring my Victorian
reading about Vaudeville and old time circus
exploring the city, which, although it is my home town, never
ceases to surprise me
learning stuff
making things
The first things people usually notice about me
They don't often tell me but I am guessing
my sometimes blue sometimes gray eyes
my tattoos
my often present smile
My favorite books, movies, music, and food
Authors and books:
Anything by Charles Dickens, Philip Pullman, Toni Morrison, Gabriel
Garcia Marquez, the Southern Gothics - O'Connor, Capote, McCullers,
Welty, Lee, Annie Proulx, Neil Gaiman, Michael Chabon, A.S. Byatt,
Roald Dahl, Alan Bennett, Oscar Wilde, Jane Eyre, The Once and
Future King, Ship Fever, Devil and the White City, Life of Pi, A
Prayer for Owen Meaney, and so many more. I'm just now reading The
Deptford Trilogy by Robertson Davies, which I'm enjoying very
much.
Movies and select T.V.:
Brazil, Delicatessen, City of Lost Children, Amelie, 7 Faces of Dr.
Lao, Babe, Pig in the City, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, almost
anything by Jan Svankmajer, Far From Heaven, Spirited Away, My
Neighbor Totoro, Gosford Park, Harold and Maude, Mon Oncle, Pan's
Labyrinth, Naked Lunch, The Incredibles, The Singing Detective
(T.V.), The Tin Drum, Looney Tunes and Merry Melodies, the silent
film comedians - Keaton, Lloyd, Chaplin, Langdon, W.C. Fields,
Popeye cartoons, Super Chicken, The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show and
many others.
I'm a pesky pesca-ovo-lacto-atarian who likes most cuisines
generally speaking, and is particularly fond of Indian, Mexican,
Chinese and ice cream.
The six things I could never do without
In no particular order:
Books
Something to write on/with
Friends
A furry or feathered animal or two
Wheels - bicycle, bus, car, train
The natural world close at hand
I spend a lot of time thinking about
what other people might be thinking about.
Because we can't really know, can we, what other people think
about, not exactly. Because even if they tell us, it isn't the
actual thought, what comes out of their mouths, it's their
interpretation of that thought, a summing up, but not the thought
itself as they initially thought it. So I think about that. And
other stuff.
On a typical Friday night I am
hanging upside down at Circus Center.