Enthusiastic reader and patron of the arts - I want to live in a beautiful world; the best way I know how to do that is to make sure the painters have paint. I want to surround myself with artists who will spend their last dollar on a new brush instead of food because if they can't create, the really will starve.

Interests
"Know Thyself ... but Know Thy Demon First

Favorite Books
The Magicians, His Dark Materials

Favorite Authors
Byron, Gaiman, Jordan/Sanderson, Joyce, Keats, Le Guin, GRR Martin, Miller, Moore, O'Brien, Pullman, Shelly, Spiegelman, Wallace, Yeats

Favorite Movies
Miyazaki!
I adore movies and will watch any crap just because I love a story... a new story. I am drawn to movies that strike the nerve of "never seen THAT before..." such as Memento, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, eXistenZ, Clockwork Orange, Requiem for a Dream, Pan's Labyrinth and Donnie Darko.

Favorite Music
I've come all this way eager for you,
without shoes or shawl.
I want you to laugh, to kill all your worries.
to love you, to nourish you.
Oh sweet bitterness,
I will soothe you and heal you.
I will bring you roses.
I too have been covered with thorns -- Rumi