harlequin

"I don't want to give up. I promise I shall never give up, and that I'll die yelling and laughing. And until then I'll rush around this world I insist is holy and pull at everyone's lapel and make them confess to me and to all."
-Jack Kerouac


I love:
1940s, 1950s, 1960s, abandoned buildings, adventure, art, beaches, beat generation, books, coffee houses, con artists and troublemakers, dancing with my friends, dirty glam, dreams, existentialism, feminism, film noir, folklore, forests, free speech, gritty beauty, harlequins, hollow bones, laughter, letters, life, love, magic-realism, messy hair, midnight walks, museums, music, night-time, non sequiturs, passionate kisses, people-watching, philosophy, photo booths, photography, plays, playwriting, poetry, polaroids, post-modernism, postcards, punk clubs, rain, resistance, riot grrl, road trips, rock and roll, romanticism, sarcasm, skirts, snow, stars, staying up late, stories, surrealism, tattered notebooks, tattoos, tea, torn jeans, tortured artists, travelling, typewriters, vintage, vinyls, wanderlust, words, writing, zines

My heros:
Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Hunter S. Thompson, John Lennon, Bob Marley, Tom Waits, Nelson Mandela, Gandhi, Billie Joe Armstrong, Kathleen Hannah, Lisa Crystal Carver Ani Difranco, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Neil Gaiman, Francesca Lia Block, Michael Ondaatje, Annie Leibowitz, Richard Avedon, Helmut Newton, Diana Bezanski, Andrew Kendall, Pete Doherty, Carl Barat, Julian Casablancas, Keith Richards, Tori Amos, and writers, poets, musicians, actors, activists artists, punks, mavericks and madmen everywhere.