Michael
My blogs
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Student |
| Occupation | English and French |
| Location | Rathmines, Dublin, Ireland |
| Introduction | I am the tale of a quixotic boy whose rather large head is filled with pretty notions of romance and idealism. This boy is a self-professed Francophile and bibliophile and is, as such, at present studying English literature and French in an institution of education bang-smack in the centre of Dublin (Trinity). To what end, he knows not and when on buses whose windows are suitably covered in condensation, this boy is most likely to scrawl “How will it end?”. Were you to infiltrate this boy's room under cover of darkness – which I certainly hope you would not do, unless you were coming as my secret lover or Clément Sibony – you would note, among other things, many books, a poster of Paris and many scraps of paper. You may also notice, as I, the boy, emit Zs, that I sometimes talk in my sleep and, other times, mouth words without actually speaking, but am, on the whole, adorable, which you would of course think, being my lover come under veil of shadow to make yourself known to me in a way worthy of a novel (for if you are not he, what are you doing in my room?). The boy, it may help you to know, has often expressed the desire to be a writer for a reason that is yet to be understood. |
| Interests | Dreaming (forever with the dreaming), Travel, People (as a concept and then also a handful of specific ones), Reading (good books), Writing (creatively; not a major essay enthusiast - I'm too tangential and not a big fan of fact and rational progression), Drawing, New Yorker podcasts, My cat Mocha, Cats in general, A select number of dogs (one), Views, Cities, French, Some poetry (right now I'm liking "Le Pont Mirabeau" by Guillaume Apollinaire and "Crush" by Ada Limón), A passing interest in the occult and symbolism, Psychology (the little I know of it), Some photography, Wandering about (cities, streets, the countryside, galleries, bookshops...), Making lists, Doing surveys/questionnaires |
| Favorite Movies | The Hours, Avril, Ordinary People, Lost In Translation, Goodbye Lenin!, Requiem For A Dream, What Dreams May Come, Little Miss Sunshine, Milk, Das Leben der Anderen, Doubt, Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind, Lucky Blue, Lars and the Real Girl, El Laberinto Del Fauno, The English Patient, The Silence of the Lambs, Se7en, Beautiful Thing, American Beauty, Into The Wild, Babel, Brokeback Mountain, Juno, Romeo + Juliet, Shortbus, Sommersturm, Atonement, Spirited Away, Paris Je t'Aime, Broken English, You've Got Mail, Notting Hill, Mona Lisa Smile, Pretty Woman, Half Nelson, Los Amantes del Círculo Polar, Die Welle, Le Fate Ignoranti, Running With Scissors |
| Favorite Music | Sigur Rós, Radiohead, Lisa Hannigan, Damien Rice, Architecture In Helsinki, The Killers |
| Favorite Books | Mrs. Dalloway, Life: A User's Manual, Someday This Pain Will Be Useful To You, To The Lighthouse, The Outsider, In The Wake, A Heartbreaking Work Of Staggering Genius, The Hours, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, The Awakening, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, The Sea, The Gathering, The Female Quixote, Democracy |
You've written a hit musical! How will you avoid having fame go to your head?
I shall cut it off, French-style.