INTO: Sunny days, foam baths, piercings and tattoos, photography, art, long hair and silky skin, bondage, forests, strange dreams, dirty jokes, horror movies, asphyxiation, androgyny, traveling, flirting, and Sega Mega Drive Diablo II.
NOT INTO: Sickness, envy, and meat.
MAKES ME HAPPY: Summer, making love with someone you really care for, beer, butterflies in stomach, bites, being home by dawn, chocolate, loud music, Jägermeister, and Dark-Hunter novels.
MAKES ME SAD: Animal cruelty, when the bad guy dies at the end of a movie, feeling powerless, lies, delayed flights, distances, and people with closed minds.
HOBBIES: Dancing, reading, drinking, trashing around, and sleeping with my cat.
5 THINGS I CAN’T LIVE WITHOUT: Emotions, music, hygiene, friends, and imagination.
VICES: Cigarettes, but I’m quiting – since 2005.
I SPEND MOST OF MY FREE TIME: With the ones that make me happy.
“I like finding the areas where fiction and non-fiction overlap”
– Pola Rapaport
Pola Rapaport is the filmmaker behind the unique documentary Writer of O. Through interviews and dramatizations this documentary tells the story of Dominique Aury the woman who wrote the controversial and sexually provocative Story of O. Written in France in the mid-50s, Story of O is about a beautiful Parisian fashion photographer who is in love with a man named Rene. As part of that intense love, she demands debasement and severe sexual and psychological tests.
This week’s #TattooTuesday winner is @sstrongone, with an hourglass which was done in memory of his grandfather. “His initials are in the top of the hourglass,” @sstrongone tells us.
Enter this week’s competition by replying to this tweet with a pic of your fav tattoo and the #tattootuesday hashtag.
Good luck!
A few things to remember:
You have to be 18 to qualify.
The tattoo has to be yours…that means permanently etched on your body.
On Twitter we search for your entries by looking up the hashtag #TattooTuesday, so make sure you include it in your tweet!
“It’s like that expression: ‘Smile until the rest of you catches on.'”
– Jennifer Axen, The Stripper’s Guide to Looking Great Naked
Authors and researchers Jennifer Axen and Leigh Phillips uncovered an untapped gold mine of real-world beauty technique from strippers and erotic dancers. The pair traveled the country interviewing women who make their livings in the nude in order to find out their secrets for looking great naked. The result? The Stripper’s Guide to Looking Great Naked, a fun, informative, and easy-to-use manual for real women who want to look as sexy as strippers do when they take off their clothes.
“Whenever you are engaged in a long piece of writing the fun of it is to create a whole consistent world that somebody could sink into. I think if you do it with enough confidence people could just pop into your world and just splash around.”
– Audrey Niffenegger
The Time Traveler’s Wife is one of the more interesting fiction novels to come out in recent years. It’s about Henry DeTamble, an adventurous librarian who travels involuntarily through time, and Clare Abshire, an artist whose life takes a natural sequential course. Henry and Clare’s passionate love affair endures across a sea of time and captures the two lovers in an impossibly romantic trap.
