Author Heather Angelika Dooley enjoys: reading, writing (but not arithmetic), poetry (most obviously), music, good films, drawing, painting, modeling, refurbishing antique furniture, singing, dancing (she used to be in a company), DJing (she was a Goth/Industrial DJ), acting (mostly in spec work), daydreaming (ALL of the time), gardening, baking, going to coffeehouses and teahouse touring, Skate Art, tattooing, scenic artistry (she used to build things for Universal Studios, museums, & traveling exhibits like 'Grossology', to name a few), screen-printing, road tripping, having fantastic conversation with friends over cocktails, car restoration (mostly old Internationals and hot rods), going to college for Professional Writing (she plans to write more books, but also become a professor), and above and beyond all else: Motherhood(!)—she loves being a “MaMum” to her 4-year-old daughter, Wilhelmina Indigo! As you see, she has always been a sort of “Jaclyn” of all trades.
Music
Just off the cuff: Kate Bush - Peter Gabriel - David Bowie - Prince - Cyndi Lauper - The Pharcyde - GoodBooks - Perfume Tree - The Sundays - Dubstar - Peter Murphy - Solar Twins - Old 97's - The Police - Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - The Psychedelic Furs - Depeche Mode - Bjork - Tori Amos - AFI - Blind Melon - Bauhaus - Covenant - Dresden Dolls - Duran Duran - The Shins - Shawn Colvin - Concrete Blonde - The Cure - The Modern - Delerium - Electrocute - PJ Harvey - Eurythmics - VNV Nation - Pat Benetar - Robots in Disguise - Interpol - The Futureheads - Gary Numan - The Sundays - Jimmy Eat World - The The - Fiest - Ani DiFranco - Joan Jett & the Blackhearts - Conjure 1 - Tones On Tail - Aqualung - Wolfsheim - Frou Frou - The Young Knives - Shindig - Death Cab For Cutie - The B-52's - Portishead - The Cranes - Keane - The Subways - Enigma - Modest Mouse - Joy Division - Magnetic Fields - The Sugarcubes - Curve - Lisa Germano - New Order - Erasure - Black Eyed Peas - Lamb - Til Tuesday - Ministry - Enya - NIN - Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Hawthorne Heights - Smashing Pumpkins - Ladytron - Loreena McKennit - Couch - Pixies - Transvision Vamp - Radiohead - The Libertines - Revolting Cocks - Liz Phair - Animotion - The Legends - Erasure - U2 - Sinead O'Conner - Apoptygma Berserk - Suzanne Vega - Say Anything - Cocteau Twins - Outcast - Venus Hum - The Golden Palominos - Imogen Heap - Switchblade Symphony - Jet - Frank Sinatra - Tracy Chapman - Mount Sims - Brazilian Girls - The Faint - Single Gun Theory - She Wants Revenge - The Bravery - Sarah McLauchlan - VHS or Beta - The Creatures - Morcheeba - The Killers - and The Wiggles & Laurie Berker ::snicker::
Movies
All Tim Burton flicks, especially Big Fish. All Adam Sandler's movies ~ the fellow cracks me up! Dead Poet Society is my all-time favorite movie, but I love anything from The Secret Garden to Dracula to The Departed. Watching great cinema is one of my favorite pastimes.
Television
Gilmore Girls - House - CSI (Las Vegas) - Without A Trace - Scrubs - Privileged - The Office - Miami/LA/London Ink - The Starter Wife - Overhaulin' - Two and a Half Men - Saturday Night Live - Sex and the City - Ivader Zim -Absolutely Fabulous - The Cobert Report - Wonder Woman with Linda Carter - He-Man - Peewee's Playhouse
Books
The Song He Sang To Me... by Merrit Malloy
Dracula by Bram Stoker
The Diary of... Anne Frank
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
White Oleander by Janet Fitch
Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving
Elizabeth Costello by J.M. Coetzee
She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos by H.P. Lovecraft
Made with Words by May Swenson
The Raven & Ghostly Tales and Eerie Poems by Edgar Allan Poe
Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Natural History of Love by Diane Ackerman
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
Watership Down by Richard Adams
In Cold Blood & Music for Chameleons by Truman Capote
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
Inamorata by Joseph Gangemi
Letters from William Cullen Bryant
A Coney Island of the Mind by Lawerence Ferlinghetti
Maxims & Reflections by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Shakespheares Sonnets by William Shakespeare
The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman by Earnest J. Gaines
Shoot the Moon -&- Where the Heart Is by Billie Letts
Love is a Stranger by Rumi
A Blind Man Can See How Much I Love You by Amy Bloom
The DaVinci Code by Dan Brown
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
Rare Spaces by Leslie Anne Mcilroy
Lucky by Alice Seabold
Heroes
All of the “People I’d Like to Meet” are Heather Angelika Dooley's literary heroes, but also on the list are her Mom, her daughter, MLK Jr., Rosa Parks, Harriet Tubman, Bono, Anne Frank, and anyone who did anything to inspire change in the world for the betterment of equality and liberation and non-segregation. Heather Angelika loves clairvoyants, rebels, revolutionaries, prophets and daring souls.
Synopsis:
This is a cluster of poetry about one woman's crossing over to a new life, in trade for all her creature comforts. This book is about one woman's ride right into being utterly lost, but in all effort to find herself again. In this stockpile of sharp-witted poetry, Heather Angelika Dooley trades everything for love. She takes flight from a protected life to find meaning and purport—spreads her wings straight into the heart of a soulmate who calls her his “Petit Oiseau”. Meanwhile she scuffles with single parenthood, economic dire straits, and her forceful fear of passion's fate. She faces adversity square in the face, while putting herself out, self-denyingly, to make ends meet. This is a illustrious tale of personal deprivation synonymously driven by self-sovereignty and soul-shackled release. Time Heals All Swoons is a logbook of epiphanies about times passed, breakthroughs in callow truth, and a masterly memoir of a misses turned Ms. These pages articulate, outspokenly, about what it is like to surrender fiction for the disarming fact. These rarity verities don't come easy to the author when torn, tranquil comforts tempt her and futuristic thrills terrify her along the way. Even still, she gutsily keeps going into the novelly unmapped. These compositions are a treasury of poems for anyone who has ever had to start from scratch (and anyone who quietly longs to). Heather Angelika Dooley catalogs the whole rove in her scratchpads for you to leaf through, taking the illumination with you, however you choose. Her poetic paintings will stagger you in their unvarnished eye-appeal. She is plucky, lucky, venturesome, frank, warm, and sensational. More than anything, Heather Angelika Dooley is proud to publish that time does indeed...... heal all swoons. Don't let it pass you by without reading this brilliant book of her compelling balladry. Spread your wings with her—see how far one can bravely go into the unknown. What's more exciting and enchanting than not being disappointed?
Author Bio:
Heather Angelika Dooley currently lives in Durham, North Carolina with her daughter,
Wilhelmina Indigo. She is a writer, but antecedently a poet. She is also a champion Professional
Writing college student with a Creative Writing Minor at a prestigious all girls liberal arts
school. She plans to be a Creative Writing professor, as well as a published author, and
eventually start her own publishing company. But perhaps the thing Heather Angelika is most,
beyond a writer, is a single mother, and giver, and hopeless romantic. She sacrificed all her
creature comforts for…… hope. When you ask Heather Angelika's avid readers or intimate
friends, they will tell you she is: poet, writer, dancer, artist, dreamer, mother, learner, and lover.
Book Cover Design by Graphic Designer Kim Paradiso
http://www.kimparadiso.com
Who I'd like to meet:
I liked poems—the wordplay: the use of alliteration, (inkblot...bloodstream; bigger beast...nothing noun...devour down) and the obvious fun you have crafting lines and blending them to design each work. I find that these are much more "impressionistic art" than "objective realism”. I am reading parts of stories - dreamy, encoded parts.
Those strong images are the cores of these poems.
Editor-in-Chief
The Blotter Magazine
Garde au sein du malheur l'espérance et la foi : Tout pauvre peut trouver un
plus pauvre que soi.
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