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Occasional frigid bitch, occasional warm protector. Bound by blood and love, sometimes for good, and sometimes for less than. Brutally honest, frequently tactless, tremendously vain. Devotee of art, literature, and any number of somewhat less socially acceptable pursuits. Prone to wild ambitions and savage attachments.

Seeking balance. Writing. Falling into the fire.

Oscar Wilde. Yukio Mishima. Neil Gaiman. Junichiro Tanizaki. Haruki Murakami. General food, travel, and financial writing. Japanese grammar and ikebana textbooks.

Pulp Fiction. The Big Sleep. Godfather. Scent of a Woman. Hannibal. Batman. Amelie. Quills. Kill Bill. Carnages. Tombstone. Kamikaze Girls. Shakespeare in Love. X-Men. Gilda. V for Vendetta. The Silence of the Lambs. Chicago. Thelma & Louise. What Dreams May Come. And pretty much anything else that involves a lot of crime, deception, politics, beauty, or moral haziness.

Baaba Maal. Youssou N'Dour. R.L. Burnside. B.B. King. Hem. Miles Davis. Belle & Sebastian. Gigi. Tori Amos. Ani DiFranco. Natacha Atlas. Dido. Counting Crows. Ella Fitzgerald. Michael Buble. Johnny Cash. Peggy Lee. Beatles. Etta James. Cranberries. Frank Sinatra. Poe. Uto Ughi. Louis Armstrong. Billie Holliday. Hawksley Workman. Glenn Miller. Faith & the Muse. Gipsy Kings. Postal Service. Marshall Tucker. Tracy Chapman. Eagles. Yo-Yo Ma.

Al Pacino. Javier Bardem. Ken Watanabe. Juliet Burke. Hannibal Lecter. Persephone. Catherine Zeta-Jones. Lucius Malfoy. Nicole Kidman. Clark Gable. Lex Luthor. Greta Garbo. Lauren Bacall. Helpless virgins. And the idea of Bond, if not so much the man himself.