Five things I've gotten from Rachael
Today is meme day. impishredhead wants me to talk about these thing...
1. Comment to this post and I will give you 5 subjects/things I associate you with.
2. Then post this in your LJ and elaborate on the subjects given.
1. Travelling
I've always wanted to travel. I love arriving somewhere completely new and exploring it until it takes on degrees of familiarity. I love the transformation in my head from a two-dimensional picture to a whole array of other images - knowing what Machu Picchu looks like when you're having a pee in a clump of trees not far away, for example, or the way it smells when you're inside one of the pyramids (not very nice, really). And having been somewhere has an effect on the way I read books or news or see a film featuring that place afterwards - though this was quite unnerving with the recent bomb in Cairo. We had been sitting on a wall only a few metres from where the bomb exploded a few weeks before hand.
2. Tattoos
I have six tattoos. Ivy running down the back of my neck and across my foot; my beautiful sacred heart on my right shoulder, with a band of roses and barbed wire running underneath - though this is badly done and I've got plans to get it re-worked, possibly getting a smidgeon of colour put into the roses; an ankh on my left shoulder; and three pink flowers of unknown variety on my left wrist.
This is the picture my flowers were taken from:
And this is how they turned out, though this picture was taken just after it was done so it still looks quite fresh and swollen:
I've always loved the idea of collecting images on my body, possibly with the same instinct that drives me to live in a space surrounded by things I've gathered. Obviously, having worked in a tattooists' , I know a lot more about tattoos than when I first got my ankh done when I was 19, and I think were I to go back to having a completely blank body I would go for three-quarter length, full-colour oriental sleeves. As it is I plan to (eventually) get my ankh covered up by the Subirach drawing of Veronica holding the veil of Christ from the Segrada Familia in Barcelona. I do worry that this might be an overload of very Catholic tattoos though.
3. Audrey Hepburn
Audrey Hepburn is the most beautiful woman ever. Obviously. Closely followed by Cate Blanchett.
4. Writing
I have a love-hate relationship with writing. I do it a lot. I wrote lots of excruciatingly bad poetry when I was in my teens and early twenties, and I have my 'novel' which I abandoned when I realised that basically I had stolen all my themes from John Fowles' The Collector. A lot of what I seem to write at the moment (and, alas, for quite a while. I really need to get more focus into my writing) is very short vignettes and fragments. I'm sure I have more first lines than anyone else. Writing is also an intensely private thing for me, and while I harbour ambitions of being the next winner of the ManBooker prize should I ever actually manage to finish a novel that isn't plagiarised, I might cry if I had to show it to anyone.
5. Eclectic dress sense
Erm. I don't think I have an eclectic dress sense. I tend to wear a lot of black. This isn't out of any kind of style mission or gothiness, it's just quite practical really. I tend to feel self-conscious in bright clothing, though I'm starting to wear a lot more non-black things. I like flowery dresses. I hate trousers.
I always find it weird that people seem to think my furry boots are odd, though I guess from the amount of comments I get about them that they must.
Oh, completely unrelatedly, I may have a present for some bunnies...
1. Comment to this post and I will give you 5 subjects/things I associate you with.
2. Then post this in your LJ and elaborate on the subjects given.
1. Travelling
I've always wanted to travel. I love arriving somewhere completely new and exploring it until it takes on degrees of familiarity. I love the transformation in my head from a two-dimensional picture to a whole array of other images - knowing what Machu Picchu looks like when you're having a pee in a clump of trees not far away, for example, or the way it smells when you're inside one of the pyramids (not very nice, really). And having been somewhere has an effect on the way I read books or news or see a film featuring that place afterwards - though this was quite unnerving with the recent bomb in Cairo. We had been sitting on a wall only a few metres from where the bomb exploded a few weeks before hand.
2. Tattoos
I have six tattoos. Ivy running down the back of my neck and across my foot; my beautiful sacred heart on my right shoulder, with a band of roses and barbed wire running underneath - though this is badly done and I've got plans to get it re-worked, possibly getting a smidgeon of colour put into the roses; an ankh on my left shoulder; and three pink flowers of unknown variety on my left wrist.
This is the picture my flowers were taken from:
And this is how they turned out, though this picture was taken just after it was done so it still looks quite fresh and swollen:
I've always loved the idea of collecting images on my body, possibly with the same instinct that drives me to live in a space surrounded by things I've gathered. Obviously, having worked in a tattooists' , I know a lot more about tattoos than when I first got my ankh done when I was 19, and I think were I to go back to having a completely blank body I would go for three-quarter length, full-colour oriental sleeves. As it is I plan to (eventually) get my ankh covered up by the Subirach drawing of Veronica holding the veil of Christ from the Segrada Familia in Barcelona. I do worry that this might be an overload of very Catholic tattoos though.
3. Audrey Hepburn
Audrey Hepburn is the most beautiful woman ever. Obviously. Closely followed by Cate Blanchett.
4. Writing
I have a love-hate relationship with writing. I do it a lot. I wrote lots of excruciatingly bad poetry when I was in my teens and early twenties, and I have my 'novel' which I abandoned when I realised that basically I had stolen all my themes from John Fowles' The Collector. A lot of what I seem to write at the moment (and, alas, for quite a while. I really need to get more focus into my writing) is very short vignettes and fragments. I'm sure I have more first lines than anyone else. Writing is also an intensely private thing for me, and while I harbour ambitions of being the next winner of the ManBooker prize should I ever actually manage to finish a novel that isn't plagiarised, I might cry if I had to show it to anyone.
5. Eclectic dress sense
Erm. I don't think I have an eclectic dress sense. I tend to wear a lot of black. This isn't out of any kind of style mission or gothiness, it's just quite practical really. I tend to feel self-conscious in bright clothing, though I'm starting to wear a lot more non-black things. I like flowery dresses. I hate trousers.
I always find it weird that people seem to think my furry boots are odd, though I guess from the amount of comments I get about them that they must.
Oh, completely unrelatedly, I may have a present for some bunnies...