Reading just about anything, learning Flash animation for future Journal projects, and most recently, desert gardening.
Music
I am always playing music when I write so I listen to a lot of great music in other languages: Ojos de Brujo, Ceu, Mariza, Pistolas, Lila Downs, Amalia Rodrigues, Caetano Veloso, Habib Kote, Salif Keita, and Cesaria Evora are all on my desk right now.
Movies
Seven Samurai (uncut version), Stray Dog, Yojimbo, Sanjuro, Zaitoishi (original and remake), Chushingura, Hara Kiri, Enter the Dragon, Fist of Legend, Fearless, Blade Runner (the final new director's cut at last!), The Third Man, and anything good, bad or ugly with Christopher Walken (yes that includes the Omen mess)
Transformers, Simpsons, Pan's Labyrinth, Hell Boy, All three Blades (I know, I know), 16 Blocks, Run Lola Run.
Television
Flight of the Conchords--New Zealand's best export since the kiwi.
Books
Here's what I am reading now: Catherynne Valente's The Orhpan's Tale: In the Cities of Coin and Spices, Peter Hoeg The Quiet Girl, Margaret Rosenthal The Honest Courtesan, Jon Courtney Grimwood Nine Tail Fox, and three of Liz Williams Inspector Chen novels (thank you Nightshade books!)
About me: I'm an author of adult and young adult fantasy literature. I've published eight novels plus short stories, nonfiction, and poetry, and won the Mythopoeic Award for my "commedia dell'arte" novel The Innamorati. I'm currently working on a sequel to The Innamorati, and on a fairy novel in collaboration with Jane Yolen. For more information please visit my website and blog
I am also an editor and web designer for the Endicott Studio Journal of Mythic Arts and a regular contributor to the Endicott Redux our blog. Stop by and visit.
Who I'd like to meet: If it were possible, Flannery O'Connor.
Hi, Midori Snyder! Thanks for the add! I'm proud to have you in my friend list! Russia is the country of riddles and fantastic heroes. Welcome in this wonderful world!!! It is always glad. Greetings from Russia, VO
oy...just stopped over JoMA and was dismayed to learn it's going away. I'm sure you've got bigger things coming down the pipe. I'm doing well-- if you ever need a truck driven up on top of a boulder, I'm your guy.
Hi Midori! I just watched the Japenese film "Kamakazi Girls", and the main character Momoko's mother is named Midori! If you get a chance, you should see this film, so much fun!
yea yur lucky. how have u been? u still writin? i didnt kno u moved until i found u on myspace? how long have u been there? anyways...i miss u. u were cool to talk to. sucks that u moved. how is mr haessler n yur kids?
Hi dear Midori- I need mandolin lessons - BADLY!!! Not as easy to pick up as it was 20 years prior. Too many distractions. Pick some desert wildflowers for me - in your infinite spare time!! Love you bunches -
home base it is...that's why I'm installing an eccentric relatives wing in my house, so youall will have a place to stay. Have you seen No Country for Old Men? fucking badass
howdy...looks like we might actually be headed back soon. We got a freak spring blizzard that buried the alps in several feet of fresh powder; Robbie and I got to flog the snowboards one last time. It was like payback for missing carnival in both Zagreb and Cadiz
Wow, those haloed cacti sound wonderful! - as does the frozen tundra, in a different way. Here spring is schitzophrenic, with scraps of blue sky and sun, and much glowering greyness, rain and hail! x
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