C.M. V.

The Decemberists, The Dresden Dolls, Belle & Sebastian, S.J. Tucker, Great Big Sea, Indigo Girls, Kate Bush, Kermit the Frog, Nick Drake, Powderfinger, R.E.M., Rufus Wainwright, Toad the Wet Sprocket, Ani Difranco, Tori Amos, Travis, Joni Mitchell, Poe, Elliot Smith, CSN, Jeff Buckley, Richard Sterling Streeter, Devotchka, Steeleye Span, Ben Folds, Cat Stevens, Dar Williams, Elliott Smith, Iron & Wine, Greg Douglass, Heather Nova, Leonard Cohen, Frankie Armstrong, Simon & Garfunkel, Gogol Bordello, Regina Spektor

The Iliad, The Dream of the Rood, The Vulgate Cycle, Jane Eyre, The Waves, Let the Dog Drive, Medea: The Sorceress, House of Leaves, Moonwise, The Labyrinth, Grimm's Fairy Tales, House of Incest, Agua Viva, Alice in Wonderland, Tropic of Cancer, Ariel, Arabian Nights, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Invisible Cities, The Chess Garden, Seaward, The Neverending Story, Peter Pan, The Canterbury Tales, Helen in Egypt, Under Milk Wood, City of Saints and Madmen, Tonguecat, Lighthousekeeping, In the Forest of Forgetting, Singing Innocence and Experience, Lud In the Mist, Bee Season, Possession, Sylvia Plath, T.S. Eliot, Federico Garcia Lorca, Sappho, Neruda, Diane Wakoski, Anna Ahkmatova, Christopher Logue, Karl Shapiro, Rimbaud, Baudelaire, Walt Whitman, and Anne Sexton. In fiction there is Anais Nin, Henry Miller, Clarice Lispector, Milorad Pavic, Italo Calvino, Jeanette Winterson, A.S. Byatt, Jorge Luis Borges, Umberto Eco, Lewis Carroll, Jack Kerouac, Virginia Woolf, Jeff Vandermeer, Theodora Goss, Sonya Taaffe, Catherynne M. Valente, Paul Verhelst

Dead Poet's Society, The Pillow Book, Say Anything, Top Gun, Mulholland Dr., My Dinner with Andre, Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle, Grosse Pointe Blank, A Trip to the Moon, Labyrinth, Legend, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Lost in Translation, The Secret of Roan Inish, The Dark Crystal, Primer, Closer, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Dark City, Moulin Rouge, Wonder Boys, Harold and Maude, Somewhere In Time

Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, X-Files, Twin Peaks, Farscape, Firefly, Alias, Lost, Carnivale, Battlestar Galactica, Futurama, MST3K

1800's, 1920's, 1930's, adult fairytales, ahkmatova, alligator wrestling, amazons, anais nin, ancient greece, ancient greek, anglophile, anne sexton, anthropromorphism, art, art deco, art nouveau, art noveau, arthurian legends, bathtub gin, being a vamp, being pretentious, belle epoque, bi-sexuality, bohemian, books, borges, buffy, camelot, cartography, catherynne m valente, chasing the dragon, clarice lispector, classics, dadaism, dead nazis, diane wakoski, dorothy parker, dream interpretation, e.e.cummings, edgar allen poe, edinburgh, edna st. vincent millay, edwardian era, embodiment, emerson, emily, existentialism, fairy tales, feminism, fiction, film noir, flappers, forbidden love, france, free thinkers, french, gin joint, greek mythology, helene cixous, henry miller, humanism, japan, jorge luis borges, kami, kwan-yin, la boheme, la vie boheme, latin, lesbianism, lewis carroll, linear a, linguistics, literature, london, lorca, lost generation, louise brooks, luce irigaray, lust, magic realism, marcel proust, marina tsvetaeva, mascara, medieval literature, modern art, moulin rouge, movies, musicals, mythical beasts, mythology, narcissism, nature, nihilism, novels, opera, opium eaters, oracles, oscar wilde, overextended similies and metaphors, pirates, poetry, post modern literature, postgrad, renaissance, rome, salvador dali, sappho, scotland, sex, shinto, silent films, solipsism, song, spanish poets, speakeasies, stream of consciousness, surrealism, sylvia plath, tarot cards, the neverending story, the sublime, theatre, transcendentalists, umberto eco, unresolved sexual tension, victorian poetry, vintage, vintage erotica, virginia woolf, wh auden, wine, witchcraft, women, women writers, writing, writing on skin., Writing, Reading, Sailing, Hiking, Travel

Surrealist

Lost

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UCSD, Edinburgh University, Cal Poly

Davis High School, California

American River College