CURRENT MISSION

To go round the world in eighty days... but without a hot air balloon, unfortunately

Interests

In short: books, writing, my cat, tea, beer, music, dancing, movies, art. In long: dunlop volley sneakers, wearing badges, the novels of angela carter and vladimir nabokov, liquidambar trees, jacaranda trees, mono no aware, marcel duchamp, aubrey beardsley, frida kahlo, prime numbers, word games, the word "teeming", second-hand bookshops, rene magritte, max ernst, costume parties, kaleidoscopes, little creatures pale ale, argyle, blue sky, havianias, the $5.50 roast at the Hyde Park Hotel (which no longer exists, alas), bed parties in Lindsay's room, the Balingup Medieval Festival every August, staying with Eva and Karri in Balingup, my godchildren Karri James and Dylan, old keys, mythology, fairy tales, childhood memories, the font Palatino Linotype, dancing like a crazy monkey, red wine with dark chocolate, orange pekoe tea, Alice in Wonderland teapots, drinking tea with Alex, MC Escher, snail trails on the pavement, Ambergris, Cindy Sherman, Klimt, Schiele, Millais, writing lists, procrastinating, talking to my cat, looking up colours in the dictionary, the word "tatterdemalion", mushrooms and fungus and moss and lichen, giant squid, broccoli, burying my face in warm clothes just out of the dryer, my grandparents, cheap Japanese food, the forest, the sublime, Blake's Proverbs of Hell, calligrams, lipograms, OuLiPo, hammocks, portmanteau words, lacrimae rerum, playing Puck in "A Midsummer Night's Dream", Moreau, Symbolist art, Decadence, Munch, malapropisms, the exquisite corpse, synesthesia, phantom limbs, tragic flaws...

• cats
• arts
• writing
• books
• festivals
• dancing
• dining
• chocolate
• wine
• red wine
• beer
• japanese food
• partying
• drinking
• clothing
• movies
• music