Karen Vesa Callora, or Paloma online (from a character in L'Elegance du herisson I strangely identify with). A student of herbalism. Wants to live in a world that is a combination of Alice Hoffman's Practical Magic, the surrealist dreams of Leonora Carrington, and the poetry of Mary Oliver and Matsuo Basho.
Location: Philippines
Interests: ecology, herbalism, "the psychology of things", pop culture and culture as downstream of politics, philosophy, pleasure, folktales, surrealism, mysticism, sensory art, planetary wellness, knitting, listicle writing, pagan way of life, seasonal living
Favorite movies: Practical Magic, Belladonna of Sadness, Paris is Burning, The Cockettes, Ghost World, anything by Ozu, Rohmer and Kore-eda, more here and here
Favorite Music: Joni Mitchell, Erykah Badu, Nina Simone, David Bowie, Alice Coltrane, Vashti Bunyan, Joanna Newsom, Françoise Hardy, Sampaguita, Stevie Nicks, Princess Nokia, Pharaoh Sanders, Chet Baker, Judee Sill, Ibeyi, Mazzy Star, Sun Ra, Sibylle Baier, Leonard Cohen, Margo Guryan, Serge Gainsbourg, Betty Davis, The Zombies, Karen Dalton, Donnie & Joe Emerson, L'Imperatrice, Linda Perhacs, etc.
Favorite Books: Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer, Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman, A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf, eroticas and diaries of Anaïs Nin, anything by Angela Carter, Leonora Carrington, Michael Pollan, Mary Oliver, more here
Dinner Party Guest List: Frida Kahlo, John Waters, David Lynch, Lady Bunny, David Bowie, Michael Pollan, Alice Coltrane, Anthony Bourdain, Ram Dass, Georgia O'Keefe, David Attenborough, Devendra Banhart, Iris Apfel, Miss Piggy, Noel Fielding, Glenn O'Brien, Paul Stamets, Tyler the Creator, Rosemary Gladstar, Carl Foutley, Joanna Lumley, Hilma af Klint, Takeshi Kitano, Harry Smith, Leonora Carrington, Sun Ra, Ethan Hawke, Alice Waters, Jinkx Monsoon, Charles Mingus, Pamela des Barres, Eartha Kitt, Hildegard von Bingen, RuPaul, Stephen Fry, Craig Ferguson, Isabel Allende, Questlove (party music by Julee Cruise and Sylvester)
