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| User: | horsdumonde (6644604)
How to Live
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| Name: | Arthur H. Ward (a pseudonym) |
| Location: | San Francisco, California, United States |
| Bio: | "Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself is the end...to burn always with this hard gemlike flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life...the desire of beauty, the love of art for its own sake..."—Walter Pater, Studies in the History of the Renaissance
"Life is all memory."—Flora 'Sissy' Goforth, Boom!
"I like to remember things my own way...not necessarily the way they happened."—Fred Madison, Lost Highway
While not enforcing the dress code at the ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif) barbary_club, I can usually be found in my panelled study fussing with books and papers, reading slim volumes of decadent poetry, pacing about, listening to the gramophone, muttering, plucking my lyre (very well...my bass guitar), fondling curios, furrowing my brow, staring out the window & jotting things down.
![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) the_two_sisters and I are in cahoots. |
| Interests: | 150: aesthetes, al bowlly, alexandre iacovleff, anaïs nin's diaries, antiquarianism, art history, art nouveau, artistic license, baroque and reform opera, baudelaire, bed, beethoven's late quartets, being astonished, busby berkeley, cabinets of curiosities, cafés, california bungalows, chanson française, christian schad, cimbalom, cinéma français, civilisation, cocteau's orphic trilogy, contes cruels, convulsive beauty, coon-sanders nighthawks, cranach the elder, dada periodicals, dandyism, dark shadows, decadent literature, desolate beaches, diaghilev, dominique alavoine, early music, eavesdropping, elizabeth taylor, emma kirkby, english gardens, evelyn waugh, excellent service, exquisite surroundings, falling snow, felis silvestris catus, fine bindings, flicker flame bulbs, flânerie, fog, forgotten roads, foujita's cats, foulards, fréhel, félicien rops, gabriel-era genesis, george davis, gluck, guy maddin, gypsy music, harpsichord concertos, haute couture, heifetz at carnegie hall, historically informed performance, howling winds, hungarian rhapsodies, illuminated manuscripts, ingres, j.-k. huysmans, jean eustache, jean rhys, jean-pierre léaud, john galliano, joseph losey's boom!, kafka's diaries, kiki de montparnasse, lech jankowski, leisure, literary pursuits, long luncheons, looking out the window, m. r. james, magdalena kožená, marchesa casati, mcdermott & mcgough, medieval art, mediterranean cuisine, mellotrons, missæ pro defunctis, mozart, nancy mitford, obscurity, old neon signs, organs, orient express, otto dix, paranoiac-critical method, paris, paul whiteman, peace and quiet, people watching, perrier-jouët by the pool, petits châteaux, place saint-sulpice, plaisir de vivre, poetic justice, poètes maudits, pre-code hollywood, pre-raphaelites, proust, purcell's secular songs, rené jacobs, rest cures, richard burton, rohmer's contes moraux, room service, sara & gerald murphy, scratchy records, secret panels, shipwrecks, simone kermes, sneaking out early, sonia rykiel, spiral staircases, stained glass, stephen tennant, storybook architecture, subtilité de l'être, succès de scandales, surrealism, symbolism, tcm, tea, technicolor, the letter v, time travel, tiny parham, topiary, tropic of cancer, vespasiennes, victorian orientalism, vita contemplativa, vitaphone shorts, vivaldi, weimar berlin, wining & dining, wood panelling, woody allen, wrought iron, wurlitzers, yann tiersen, yule log dvds |
| Friends: | | 36: | algabal, andrea_sperelli, angeliska, apresmididufaun, belhonorine, bibermx, bricology, decadentscholar, dic_tator, dreamer_undone, gallianoparfait, george_sand, hereticalpigeon, horsdumonde, incroyable12, jermynsavile, karinmollberg, karlvonbunko, kir_royale, ladyprufrock, lucky_francis, lupoleboucher, malkhos, mme_bon_vivante, ofenheizung, osmundaceae, petrusplancius, real_funny_lady, siamhussein, taliesin15, the_randy_dandy, the_two_sisters, thedandiest, themista, videtur, vinteuil | | 25: | antique_prints, arthistory, barbary_club, baroque_music, baroque_opera, classical_music, culture_studies, dedalusbooks, dusty_pages, gaslamp, glamourous_foto, huysmans, indo_european, kunst_weimar, lamodeillustree, les_nerfs, lordoftherings, medieval_music, medievalstudies, musichistory, progrock, refinement, strange_tears, sybarites, time_maps |  | 1: | sartorialist |
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| Account type: | Plus Account |
