CURRENT MISSION

Being a red panda stowaway in sweetest love, searching for the Grail, perfecting a recipe or two, trying to produce a nice enough noise with my voice, that kind of thing.

ABOUT ME

I am currently under construction. I hope this will always be the case. When one stays still, the cosmic rocks that always fly around and about come and hit him on the face with a passion. That's distilled truth, I swear.

My name is Atalante [or simply Alina]. I'm a ginger cat. I'm also Ennoia [the first and the last, you know], and just a mik. I like music [early, mostly], music, music, music, words, the human voice, singing, destroying bubble wrap, natural light [actual or captured in paintings and photographs], the world, cats, colours, the internet, [en]delving into the past while being in tune with the present, defining God, over-analyzing, thinking and feeling too much, obsessing about things/people, the colour purple, being a chameleon, tea, semiotics, languages and crisp accents [I'm a fool for received pronunciation], punctuation, spelling, [lucid or not] dreaming, poetry, poetry, cameras, and speaking about different things in different 'layers' [keeping things tidy by using brackets, if the whole thing is written]. I think that the universe likes me, but there is a case that I might be getting the wrong signals, being a masochist 'n' all...

I'm searching for the Grail, trying to have as much fun as possible in the process [this calls for a definition of fun, though, and the whole thing is very relative - see self-summary, above, for a taste of what fun is for me].

I am also trying to win the Nobel prize.

兴趣

All things period. Period music, period clothing, period movies, calligraphy, old things! Yellowish paper, dip pens, incurable romanticism... Reading, writing [poetry, mainly - hey, I've even been published in my country!], singing, poetry, poetry, breathing poetry, breathing music, eating music, sleeping with music, sleeping with angels, art [baroque and renaissance, the pre-raphaelites, modern fantasy artwork], history of art, academic things, geekiness, music geekiness, early musicians [; -P], cinema, theatre, acting and posing for expressive pictures, religions, traditions, mythology, philosophy, psychology, I want to know everything as you can see, linguistics, delicious accents, the light, destroying bubble wrap, cooking, home-made cosmetics, people-watching... Oh, and sticking out my tongue at entropy.

• cats
• arts
• writing
• poetry
• singing
• acting
• make up
• cooking
• flying
• clothing
• movies
• reading
• music
• calligraphy
• history
• languages
• psychology
• religion

音乐、电影和书籍

Favourite music:

Early music [medieval, renaissance, baroque], classical music, movie soundtracks, folk, neofolk, indie stuff, some classic rock, silly eurobeats, silly ebm [it's like eurobeats, admit it, only contemporary and with a touch of darkness; -P], the human voice in general, 70s, krautrock, err... music. Shh. I think music likes me.

Favourite TV Shows:

SeaQuest, Pride and Prejudice [BBC], Babylon 5, Buffy, Angel, Firefly, Heroes, Alias, House, The Tudors, and, of course, Lost. Sawyer, Spike, _Dr. House_ and Julian Sark are all mine [or better: I am theirs, to be honest], in some other dimension.

Favourite Movies:

The Golden Bowl, Tous les matins du monde, Amadeus, Amélie, Les triplettes de Belleville, LotR, The Red Violin, A Little Princess, Little Women, Sense and Sensibility, The Remains of the Day, Sin City, Oldboy, Sympathy for Lady Vengeance, The Libertine, The Importance of being Earnest... I'm into all things period and fantasy/dark. Oh, and James Bond. Sean, please.

Favourite Books:

Foucault's Pendulum, Le Petit Prince, The Chronicles of Narnia, The Island of the Day Before, Baudolino, The Name of the Rose, U. Eco fan here, Silmarillion, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Matias and the Devil, The Phantom Tollbooth, all things Roald Dahl, all things Terry Pratchett, The Neverending Story, Momo, I'm into children's books although I'm supposed to be a grown-up, The Rai-Kirah Saga, lots of fairy-tales...

我做过的一件不可思议的事情

I have seen music being born, I have seen new life being born, I have seen love and I have loved.

教，学，和分享

I equally like teaching and learning, and that combination is what happens - or should happen - when two people truly meet.