Brightshadow

• Gender: Male
• Location: New York City : Europe

About Me

Curious. Xenophile. Friendly. Likes to hear other people's stories but hates to be bored. Solitary, or why would I be doing this?

Your people want to make a statue in your honor. What will it be made out of and what victory will it commemorate?

Malachite. (Goes with everything.) Mine, over myself.

Interests

• Beautiful old cities
• beautiful old forests
• operas (especially if they're old and I haven't heard them yet)
• live theater of all varieties
• Broadway songs of the golden age (roughly 1920-70)
• religion (as social phenomenon)
• family (as a social phenomenon)
• history (especially pre-World War I)
• archaeology
• geological history
• magic.

Favorite Movies

• Rules of the Game
• Forbidden Planet
• The Lady Eve
• Ninotchka
• Sudden Fear
• Tootsie
• The Man Who Would Be King
• Shame (I. Bergman)
• Senso (Visconti)
• Kind Hearts and Coronets
• Dishonored
• all of Almodovar.

Favorite Music

• "Auf dem Wasser zu Singen" (Schubert)
• which I want to have sung at my funeral. "Speak Low" (Nash/Weill)
• the finest of Broadway love songs. Operas: Les Troyens
• Parsifal
• Frau ohne Schatten
• Jenufa
• Carlo di Borgogna
• Euryanthe
• Maria di Rohan
• Il ritorno di Ulisse in patria. Beethoven's 7th
• 2nd mvmt. One of these days I'm really going to have to explore Punk Rock.

Favorite Books

• The Magus (Fowles)
• Damascus Gate (Stone)
• Job (Joseph Roth)
• Wuthering Heights
• Emma
• The Leopard (Lampedusa)
• The King Must Die (Renault)
• My Name is Red (Pamuk)
• Remembrance of Things Past.

My Blogs	Team Members
Enchanté: The Journal for the Urbane Pagan
Cafeteria Rusticana