dymphina

General details


  • dymphina

  • cambridge, ma

  • maine college of art alum



In short

  • activities:

        analyzing facial features. astronomy and star (or neighbor...) gazing.
        ghost cooking.
        imagining imaginary creatures. intuitive reactions.
        music making.
        jewelry hustling.
        NPR & radio lab.
        song singing. story drafting.
        word twisting and other verbal poetic abuses, inc.

    interests:

        1.61803399
        ASL
        blood oranges. bosch. brains and neurons. burlesque. butterflies.
        cameras. chess and end games. chiyogami.
        design. diamonds.
        elephants. erte.
        flying fish.
        german. gramophones. graphic novels.
        harps. history.
        light.
        mistranslations.
        quantum chaos.
        rembrant.
        typography.

    art and photography
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/cryptomythology/sets/

    misc fun facts:

        i play a violin that is older than the us constitution.
        i type in all lowercase, print in uppercase, can't remember how to write in lower case, and prefer cursive over all.
        i once had a dream about elephants; to this day i regard it as one of the best things that has ever happened to me.

  • my paternal grandfather use to be a bigwig at the Chrysler Corporation in the 1960s and 70s. then it went bust. i grew up in an apartment. i live in an apartment now. i'll probably die in one too. i'm ok with this.

    my mother's boyfriend knows woopie goldberg.

    i've played the violin on stage with Tim Barry.

    i've drunk whiskey with Chuck Ragan.

    i'm from gloucester, ma. thats right. home of gorton's fish sticks, the perfect storm, and the pregnecy pact of 2008. thanks, lifetime television. thanks a whole bunch.

My Favorites: Reading and Writing

  • Fiction: Alternative History, Fairytales, Folklore & Mythology, Historical Fiction, Novella, Sci Fi/Fantasy, Short Story

    Non-Fiction: Art, Architechture & Photography, Music, Philosophy, Psychology, Sex & Relationships

    Screenplay: Documentary

    Poetry: Experimental, General, Song Lyrics

  •     dictionaries (with included etymology)
        anything by etgar keret
        anything by jorge luis borges
        graphic novels with unique illustrations
  • The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, circa 2000

    The Dark Tower VII, by steven king

    My Name is Red, by benim adım kırmızı
  • a park. or a bed. some small coffee shop. inside my head?
  • etgar keret
    jorge luis borge
    c.s. godshalk
    arundhati roy
    howard zinn
    gabriel garcia marquez