INTO: Leisure, comics, video games, watching movies, reading, tea, exotic foods, the sound and smell of rain, light, night-time breezes through my window, space, existentialism.
MAKES ME HAPPY: Human centipedes.
MAKES ME SAD: Babies, migraines.
HOBBIES: Meowing like a cat, prancing around on my toes when no one is watching.
5 THINGS I CAN’T LIVE WITHOUT: FOOD!!! SLEEP!!! Video games, etcetera, etcetera.
VICES: Trenta shaken green tea-lemonades. *shakes head*
I SPEND MOST OF MY FREE TIME: Hanging out with friends and trying to stay busy.
MAKES ME HAPPY: Conversation, pretty lingerie, kisses, cuddlin’ naked, painting, writing, getting lost in a good book, getting dolled up, shoes, manicures and pedicures, sunbathing, rings.
MAKES ME SAD: Poor communication, disconnect, missing people, procrastination, bad teeth, ignorance, small talk, losing things, car trouble.
HOBBIES: Painting, reading, modeling, acting.
5 THINGS I CAN’T LIVE WITHOUT: My jewelry, a pen, amber oil, Q-Tips, and my iPhone.
VICES: To many to tell.
I SPEND MOST OF MY FREE TIME: Being lazier than I should.
“It’s my theory that 90 percent of acting is the other actor.”
– Angelica Huston
Should I be lusting after Angelica Huston, a woman that’s almost twice my age? I don’t know if it’s a holdover from when she used to glide across the room as Morticia Addams but she is wicked sexy. Plus, now that she is an intimate part of the Wes Anderson oeuvre, it makes her even sexier. She has a serious lock on the loving ice queen in films which she continues as the estranged wife of Bill Murray’s lead character in The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou.
“I wanted it to be the kind of book that I love to read”
– G. Willow Wilson
G Willow Wilson first made a name for herself in comics in 2007 when the graphic novel Cairo which she wrote was published by Vertigo. It made quite a splash, combining fantasy and realism in an attempt to capture life in Egypt’s capital city. She followed it up with the series Air, which was illustrated by her Cairo collaborator M.K. Perker. Her other comics work includes Superman, The Outsiders, Vixen, and most recently Mystic. She’s also published nonfiction in many places including The Atlantic Monthly and The New York Times. In 2010 her memoir The Butterfly Mosque, was published about her move after college to Cairo where she met her future husband and came to fall in love with the country.
Her new book, Alif the Unseen, is her first novel. It tells the story of a hacker in an unnamed Arab Gulf country, and involves the jinn, a battle with the state security services overseen by “The Hand,” the nature of storytelling, the power of the internet and climaxes in a revolution. It’s also a book that was written before The Arab Spring erupted last year. We caught up with Wilson and spoke about the book and the current political climate in the Middle East following the Egyptian Presidential election.
INTO: Tarantino films and late night talks, swimming pools and friends, dancing and drinking, I love food – LOVE food ok.
NOT INTO: Boring people, selfish people, stupid people, mean people.
MAKES ME HAPPY: Starry nights. Sunny days.
HOBBIES: Partying, playing guitar, photography, dancing, filming and editing, miming to power ballads with a hairbrush microphone in the mirror, hiking, reading and what not.
5 THINGS I CAN’T LIVE WITHOUT: Camera, guitar, MacBook, Sailor Vodka, my leopard comfy pants!
I SPEND MOST OF MY FREE TIME: Dreaming and making shit happen.
