Rana Kelly
My blogs
Blogs I follow
| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Industry | Arts |
| Occupation | Author, Editor |
| Location | Tucson, Arizona, United States |
| Links | Audio Clip |
| Introduction | If you want to know what I am when you look at me: Force of Nature, most definitely. |
| Interests | All Manner of Fine Arts; My Muse Passenger: Mike Rosenberg: my Knight of Cups & King of Wands; his shiny, silvery soul, his hands; his Orphic voice, the truefacts that he’s either something fey, or maybe Faustus or a wizard with the power to enslave the hearts, bodies, and souls of all women and gay men in an 47564839485768493 mile radius; my friends that are proper family; Chris Whitley and the way he caressed his guitar like a lover and wrote poetry and lyric like a prophet; Guy Ritchie; crazy, intense, obsessive passion for everything I feel strongly about; in LOVE with love; the talented that have bipolar disorder like I do; sparklies & shiny; National Resonators; opera; being lefty; stand up; pretty much any critter that has less than 6 legs(save octopi); the dangerous depths of melancholy & the keening edge of true love; the smell of horses & fresh baled alfalfa; galloping full speed on a huge horse with a monstrous stride; the colour silver; the hollow thump of a dog's chest when you pet it on its side; the scent of night blooming Angel Trumpets; mutual laughter; history; stilettos; archeology, anthropology; a damn good gel ink pen; foxy wit & a good game of smart verbal fencing; orgasms; wild things; Great Britain; the muted light in Europe; literary aromatherapy; profanity, blasphemy, & irony; handwriting; well spoken men who read (& are skinny and gangly); accents; The Louvre; Parkes; Ji; Pere Lachaise; Rembrandt; Da Vinci; "The Nike of Samothrace;" almost anywhere across the sea from me; saris; belly dance; Rachel Brice; forensics; everything Celtic except for the cunts that pronounce it Seltic; Irish whiskey and Scotch; Halloween; Dia de los Muertos; concerts; gigs; theatre; New Orleans; philanthropy; getting my way; roller coasters; method acting; language and pretty words; a cat's purr; a dog's kiss; naps; whoever YOU happen to be. Oh, & ninjas & pirates & lasers & shit. Oh & cheese. I FUCKING LOVE CHEESE. |
| Favorite movies | Ugh, this takes too long... maybe later. |
| Favorite music | Passenger, “Rana, you really have a way with words! Do you write songs? You write with real passion and honesty and a lot of the time real humour!”~Knight of Cups (so fucking chuffed about that, fo' real! I grin like a tequila-fucked asshole whenever I look at it)! Chris Whitley and about elebendy-six-two-five-nine-seven-ten bajillion others |
| Favorite books | "Paint it Black" by Janet Fitch, "The Heroin Diaries" by Nikki Sixx, Hunter S. Thompson, "Wuthering Heights," "Jane Eyre," "Pride and Prejudice," "But Enough About Me" by Jancee Dunn, Vonnugut, John Trudell, Heller, McCarthy, "The Gospel According to Gracey" by Suzanne Kingsbury, Anne Rice, especially "The Witching Hour," anything and everything Shakespeare wrote, Maya Angelou, "Wicked" by Gregory Maguire, Allison M. Dickson, Flannery, "The Road Less Traveled" by M. Scott Peck, Rimbaud, James Joyce, Diana Gabaldon, Kathleen Eagle, "Love Medicine," "Tracks," "The Beet Queen," pretty much everything Louise Erdrich has ever done, e.e. cummings, Tennessee, "The Great Gatsby," Irving Welsh, Dickenson, Maxine Hong Kingston, Sherman Alexie, Peter Matthiesson, Martina Cole's "The Take," "The Art of Happiness" by the Dalai Lama. Burroughs, Anything by Poe and almost everything by King, "Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee," "The Lovely Bones" by Alice Sebold (direct influence of "Witch of the Bayou"), Rowling, Atwood, Jamaica Kincaid, Sylvia Plath, Chris Whitley, any prose or poetry I could possibly ever learn good craft from, I could literally do this all day. |
Your hand has been replaced by a rubber stamp. What does it say?
hold still.