28. May 2005, 14:55
About the Authoress
Ever so quiet and shy, she is often seen but hardly heard. Her gaze is always outward, observing and drinking in her surroundings and the people that pass by, but she allows it all to slip by like a conversation in a lost language which she doesn’t understand, as she reflects and digests intuitively. In consequence, she has very few friends for most misinterpret her timid silence as haughtiness and snobbery.
She is a little-known, underdog artist. Her tools are the pencil, pen and keyboard; her medium is words. Her goal is to write many books someday and perhaps become famous. And fame posthumously would suit her fine too. She also happens to be an amateur violinist who once showed a lot of promise. If only she would practice more often… But right now she has scarcely the time. She is currently attending community college to recieve her AA degree. From there, she will go to university to earn a master’s degree (and eventually a phD) in English literature so that she may pursue her dream career as a college english professor.
Her two constant companions are her year old cat, Corin; and her darling boyfriend/fiancé, Billy (the knot will be tied Summer 2006).
She is attracted mostly by things of beauty…things virtuous and meaningful… The sort of things most people today consider old fashioned and silly. Like her strong faith in Christ. She’s not a religious sort, but she’s deeply devoted to Jesus.
Books and literature are the greatest attraction of all others for her. She gobbles books up like few others. She is a true bookworm and owns over one hundred books. A few of her favorites are: Don Quixote by Miguel Cervantes, Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, Les Miserables by Victor Hugo, Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy, The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays by Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde, Candide and Other Stories by Voltaire, Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray, The Silmarillion by J.R.R Tolkien, Phantastes by George MacDonald, Lilith by George MacDonald, Out of The Silent Planet by C.S. Lewis, Perelandra by C.S. Lewis, That Hideous Strength by C.S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man by C.S. Lewis, A Swiftly Tilting Planet by Madeline L’Engle, The Young Unicorns by Madeline L’Engle, Beowulf, Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte, Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte, Emma by Jane Austen, The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer, Metamorphoses by Ovid, and Middlemarch by George Eliot. Authors are her only near worshipped “celebrities.” In fact, she would scream like a school girl and faint with excitement at the sight of her adored heroes: C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, George MacDonald, Oscar Wilde, George Eliot, Leo Tolstoy, Charles Dickens, Shakespeare, and many others.
Much has been said of music…”the outburst of the soul”, “the shorthand of emotion”, “the speech of angels”, “an echo of the invisible world,” but whichever way you put it, music is very important in many a life, hers included. She connects with and admires an abstract range of music, some of her favorites are: The Autumns, Bjork, Bright Eyes, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Bloc Party, The Cardigans, Cornelius, The Cure, Damien Rice, The Dandy Warhols, David Bowie, Death From Above 1979, The Decemberists, Depeche Mode, Echo And The Bunnymen, Ed Harcourt, Eisley, The Electric Soft Parade, Fiona Apple, France Gall, Francoise Hardy, Franz Ferdinand, Frou Frou, Fugazi, Goldfrapp, The Gravity Show, Iron and Wine, Jeff Buckley, Jenny Lewis with the Watson Twins, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Johnny Marr + the Healers, Luna Halo, Melody Club, Metric, mewithoutYou, Muse, My Bloody Valentine, New Order, OK Go, Ours, Over The Rhine, The Pillows, Pixies, Portishead, Radiohead, Remy Zero, Rilo Kiley, The Sea and Cake, Serge Gainsbourg, Sigur Ros, Sixpence None The Richer, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Solex, Starflyer 59, Starsailor, Sufjan Stevens, The Soundtrack of Our Lives, The Strokes, The Sugarcubes, The Violet Burning, U2, White Rose Movement, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Yoko Kanno and the Seatbelts.
Movies don’t usually mix with this bright-eyed girl. Her patience doesn’t tolerate to sit and consume most of the trash Hollywood churns out these days. Few are the good movies she’s been able to get her hands on to watch. She is very very fond of “chick flicks” based on her favorite 19th century literature. For now, her list of favorite movies consists of: Cowboy Bebop: Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door, Donnie Darko, Edward Scissorhands, Emma, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Ever After, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, Kenneth Branagh’s Much Ado About Nothing, Lemony Snicket: A Series of Unfortunate Events, Little Women, Lost in Translation, LOTR, Napoleon Dynamite, The Princess Bride, Sense and Sensibility, Serenity, and The Triplets of Belleville
Television will be glazed over. She hates television with a passion. It’s all the same, and it’s all boring, mindless trash. Except for the anime Cowboy Bebop. If she could only watch one television show for the rest of her life, Bebop would be it. Well, and Firefly. Firefly is equally amazing. And the new Battlestar Galactica… she has to give in to that one too. So she’ll have to admit that not all television is worthless.
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28. May 2005, 14:54
Diary Information
First we’ll start with the layout. The layout was hand coded by me in HTML Kit. The image of the girl is from an art noveau print from a magazine (found online) and slightly modified by me. The background pattern came from the inspiration gallery. The flourishes/entry dividers/list markers came from the font Floralia. The header is ever changing.
And now, about the diary. I maintained a diary for one and a half years on diaryland. You might still be able to access the 724 entries here. I am also willing to send a backup of those archives to anyone I trust not to steal my content who is interested in having a copy of my diary. I abandoned that weblog because I was tired of the constraints of not operating in my own space, and I had really gotten over the stage of my life where that diary started. I restarted, and this time, I aim to conduct an experiment in writing. I am going to try to stretch my talent if I can. Perhaps sometimes all this will be is a regular diary though. But let’s not define it. Let’s let it be whatever it wants to be.