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Fire of Spring

...so you're after the road to Samarkand

Created on 2004-05-28 01:02:58 (#3289978), last updated 2009-11-20

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Name:Diana
Location:Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Bio
The Grynne:

Poetaster,
misanthrope,
born-again atheist.

"He was a reader and a critic, not a writer. Another way of saying that he was a coward."






"Live now. Life is short. Time is luck."
- Miami Vice (2006)

World is crazier and more of it than we think,
Incorrigibly plural.
- Louis MacNeice

"Good art cannot be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness; I mean art that is most precise."
- Ezra Pound

"If the Swiss can get up there, never mind the altitude, the first thing they'll build is a restaurant."
- M. Desiree G.

Living is no laughing matter
- Nazim Hikmet





HERE BE:



This blog currently serves as my brain-dump, the locus of my online identity. I don't compartmentalise my politics or interests, fandom or "real" life, ethnicity or gender. (The most I'll do is screen it.)

I consider this as giving fair warning.


FRIENDING POLICY:

If you find your interests and mine coincide, feel free to friend me. (Or to defriend me, if you find they don't. I don't take that sort of thing personally.)

I don't automatically friend back. If I actually read every blog I was interested in, I wouldn't have any time left over to post.

I love receiving comments, suggestions, or links to anything you think I might be interested in. Do me the courtesy of signing your comments, and I'll almost certainly reply.


ABOUT ME:

born: Shanghai, China,
permanent residence: Sydney, Australia,
studying: Master of Political Economy, Sydney University;

interests include science, ecology, metaphysics, critical theory of literature and film,
genre studies, popular culture, world poetry, theology, modern history;

fannish observer and writer since 2001;

internet addict,
raving film geek,
reader of fantasy, speculative fiction, crime fiction, travel literature, graphic novels;

listens to Mogwai, Philip Glass, TV On The Radio, Nina Simone,
The Balanescu Quartet, Amon Tobin, The Knife, Iron & Wine;

a House M.D. and La Femme Nikita junkie,
and devotee of The Wire, Deadwood, Battlestar Galactica,
Mad Men, True Blood and Spooks.

I am tight-lipped and stand-offish until I'm not, which is why
personal entries of this journal are strictly Friends Only.



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Stylesheet by [info]refuted
Deadwood mood theme by [info]calculare
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