HollyG

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About me

Gender Female
Industry Education
Occupation Dreamer of dreams
Location Bay Area, CA, United States
Introduction I'm a girl plagued by wanderlust, newly relocated to the west coast, who often feels like she's living in a Victorian novel-- one complete with headstrong heroines, handsome (but wounded) heroes, and a madwoman in the attic. (kidding!)
Interests Literature, singing, red velvet cake, lime popsicles, fairy wings, theater, tea, pirates, poets, England, Zooey Deschanel's style, wishing on stars, Audrey Hepburn, Anthropologie, coffee shops, fictional crushes, art nouveau, Klimt, fin de siecle, Victoriana, antiques, kir royales, effervescence, a good story, ruby slippers, ephemera, hands, sparkle, whimsy, champagne, Bloomsbury, old Hollywood, black magic roses, real people, photo booths, Lula, sparkles, Hollywood glamour, pouty lips, indie movies, the moors, resurrecting nineties fashion, steampunk and noir, Red Bicyclette, antiques, poetry, lost causes.
Favorite Movies Breakfast at Tiffany's, You've Got Mail, To Catch a Thief, The Way We Were, The Brothers Bloom, Julie & Julia, Bright Star, An Education, The Sound of Music, Beauty and the Beast, Enchanted, Stranger Than Fiction, The Royal Tenenbaums, Amelie, Charade, Crossing Delancey, Once, Sabrina, Dangerous Beauty, Miss Pettigrew Lives For a Day, Meet Me in St. Louis.
Favorite Music Rilo Kiley, Glen Hansard & Marketa Irglova, Stars, The Perishers, Leonard Cohen, Juliet Turner, The Essex Green, Velvet Underground, The Weepies, Shelby Starner, Elvis Costello, Laura Marling, Emmy the Great, The Cranberries, REM, The Pierces, Missy Higgins, Bell X1, A Fine Frenzy, Indigo Girls, Spring Awakening, Sondre Lerche, Lizzie West, Nick Drake, The Pipettes, The Last 5 Years, Judy Garland, Lisa Loeb, The Buffseeds, Annie Lennox, Joni Mitchell, Au Revoir Simone, Kate Tucker, Oasis, Carla Bruni, Angus & Julia Stone, She and Him, Damien Rice and Lisa Hannigan, Isobel Campbell, Mazzy Star, Hope Sandoval, The Innocence Mission, Amy Millan, Hem, Magnetic Fields, The Ditty Bops.
Favorite Books Tess of the D'Urbervilles, Possession, Jane Eyre, The End of the Affair, 84 Charing Cross Road, A Little Princess, Anne of Green Gables, Griffin & Sabine, Special Topics in Calamity Physics, Howl, Daisy Miller, The Awakening, F. Scott Fitzgerald, The French Lieutenant's Woman, The Little Prince, Hamlet, The Mayor of Casterbridge, Eloise, Hunting and Gathering, The Pursuit of Love, The Post-Birthday World, Othello, The Virgin Suicides, Brideshead Revisited, The Great Gatsby, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

When you spilled the milk, did it look like the moon?

A waning gibbous, indeed it did.