Catherynne
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The Orphan's Tale
Female
30 years old
Peaks Island, Maine
United States
Last Login: 11/17/2009
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| General | 1800's, 1920's, 1930's, adult fairytales, ahkmatova, alligator wrestling, amazons, anais nin, ancient greece, ancient greek, anglophile, anne sexton, anthropromorphism, art, art deco, art nouveau, art noveau, arthurian legends, bathtub gin, being a vamp, being pretentious, belle epoque, bi-sexuality, bohemian, books, borges, buffy, camelot, cartography, catherynne m valente, chasing the dragon, clarice lispector, classics, dadaism, dead nazis, diane wakoski, dorothy parker, dream interpretation, e.e.cummings, edgar allen poe, edinburgh, edna st. vincent millay, edwardian era, embodiment, emerson, emily, existentialism, fairy tales, feminism, fiction, film noir, flappers, forbidden love, france, free thinkers, french, gin joint, greek mythology, helene cixous, henry miller, humanism, japan, jorge luis borges, kami, kwan-yin, la boheme, la vie boheme, latin, lesbianism, lewis carroll, linear a, linguistics, literature, london, lorca, lost generation, louise brooks, luce irigaray, lust, magic realism, marcel proust, marina tsvetaeva, mascara, medieval literature, modern art, moulin rouge, movies, musicals, mythical beasts, mythology, narcissism, nature, nihilism, novels, opera, opium eaters, oracles, oscar wilde, overextended similies and metaphors, pirates, poetry, post modern literature, postgrad, renaissance, rome, salvador dali, sappho, scotland, sex, shinto, silent films, solipsism, song, spanish poets, speakeasies, stream of consciousness, surrealism, sylvia plath, tarot cards, the neverending story, the sublime, theatre, transcendentalists, umberto eco, unresolved sexual tension, victorian poetry, vintage, vintage erotica, virginia woolf, wh auden, wine, witchcraft, women, women writers, writing, writing on skin. | | Music | S.J. Tucker, The Decemberists, The Dresden Dolls, Belle & Sebastian, Coldplay, Radiohead, Cyndi Lauper, Great Big Sea, Indigo Girls, Kate Bush, Kermit the Frog, Nick Drake, Powderfinger, R.E.M., Rufus Wainwright, Jonathan Coulton, Toad the Wet Sprocket, Ani Difranco, Tori Amos, Travis, Joni Mitchell, Poe, Elliot Smith, CSN, Jeff Buckley, Richard Sterling Streeter, Devotchka, Steeleye Span, Ben Folds, Cat Stevens, Dar Williams, Elliott Smith, Iron & Wine, Greg Douglass, Heather Nova, Leonard Cohen, Frankie Armstrong, Simon & Garfunkel, Prince (but only for cooking breakfast) | | Movies | Dead Poet's Society, The Pillow Book, Say Anything, Top Gun, Mulholland Dr., My Dinner with Andre, Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle, Grosse Pointe Blank, A Trip to the Moon, Labyrinth, Legend, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Lost in Translation, The Secret of Roan Inish, The Dark Crystal, Primer, Closer, | | Television | Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, X-Files, Twin Peaks, Farscape, Firefly, Alias, Lost, Carnivale, Battlestar Galactica, Doctor Who, Six Feet Under, The Lost Room, The Muppet Show, Haibane Renmei, | | Books | The Iliad, The Dream of the Rood, The Vulgate Cycle, Jane Eyre, The Waves, Little, Big, Winter's Tale, Let the Dog Drive, Medea: The Sorceress, House of Leaves, Moonwise, The Labyrinth, Grimm's Fairy Tales, House of Incest, Agua Viva, Alice Through the Looking Glass, Tropic of Cancer, Ariel, Arabian Nights, Lucky Wander Boy, Tonguecat, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Invisible Cities, The Chess Garden, Seaward, The Neverending Story, Peter Pan, The Canterbury Tales, Helen in Egypt, Under Milk Wood, Tam Lin, In the Forest of Forgetting, City of Saints and Madmen, Spaceman Blues, |
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Catherynne's Details
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| Status: | In a Relationship | | Here for: | Networking, Friends | | Orientation: | Bi | | Hometown: | Everywhere, Nowhere | | Body type: | 5' 4" / Some extra baggage | | Ethnicity: | White / Caucasian | | Religion: | Other | | Zodiac Sign: | Taurus | | Smoke / Drink: | No / Yes | | Children: | Undecided | | Education: | Grad / professional school | | Occupation: | author |
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About me:
These days, I'm pretty sure I'm Catherynne M. Valente. Like Errour a-dripping in her cave, I vomit books--but don't let that put you off. The publishers make sure they're soaped up shined to a high gloss before they go out. I'm just a little old lady curled up in my house on chicken legs down in northern Ohio, near a waterfall named after shame, chained to the church wall, pulling carrots out of the dirt for the village kids and gods in deer-clothing, drinking monk-grown wine out of the bottle and scrawling poems on the birch trees. Except for the part where I'm a 28 year old black-haired siren (you know, half-bird, half-woman, one hell of a baritone) re-patriated from Japan, escaped from the South, scribing it godridden down Highway 70, spending most of my time on a little island off the coast of Maine with occasional jaunts in my pestle-ship to force unsuspecting young maidens to read my books. But I always end up back at the izbushka sooner or later. Those magic horses don't feed themselves, you know, and the red one gets cranky if she doesn't have her apples.
I'm Catherynne M. Valente, if that means anything to you. I wrote a few little books once upon a time, and then a mouse tried to get them to write themselves and they ended up flooding my basement. I'm boiling up more by the day in my big iron pot, and mouse stew besides. I'm an awfully quick young crone, so pull up your paisley socks and try to keep up. I never stay in one place long and I leave a waste-land when I go, with wounded thighs and ironclad alibis to keep me safe from harm.
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Who I'd like to meet:
The Great and Glorious Literati, sparkling folk with too much to say, who speak the speech trippingly on the tongue. Koan-cracking coyotes with books in their holsters. In essence, people to talk to and grin sidelong at, who eschew poor spelling and look further than the blue satori of their computer screen.
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