… because the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes “Awww!” [Jack Kerouac]
Welcome to the “Extra” section, where I may add anything that strikes my fancy! From recommended books and CDs to favorite quotes and recipes, from YouTube links to candid snapshots or samples of my writing, this is where you’ll find it! Content will be updated randomly but hopefully frequently. Which means you’ll just have to check back to see if there is anything new! Enjoy. -C
Fiction- Complete Stories by Dorothy Parker On the Road by Jack Kerouac The Third Omnibus of Crime by Dorothy Sayers
Alfred Hitchcock’s “The Three Investigators” mysteries The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf
Aesop / Grimm / Andersen (Harvard Classics) Memoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite Yourcenar
Non-fiction- The Private World of Leonard Bernstein ed. John Gruen
Recent / Recommended Films: [updated 08/03/10]
Singin’ in the Rain (Gene Kelly, Donald O’Connor, Debbie Reynolds)
The Dark Knight (Christian Bale)
The Family Jewels (Jerry Lewis)
The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (Errol Flynn, Bette Davis)
Favorite Quotes
A performer is a highly public figure, an extrovert, whose whole compulsion is to get out there in front of people and let it out. Now a creative person is quite another fellow. He has a complex inner life, his big relationship being with himself, or his Muse, or his God, or his subconscious. He has to seek out that gray solitude where he’s stuck with himself. Most people of the arts belong to one group or the other. I live in a schizophrenic world of both. -Leonard Bernstein
For a person remains of consequence not so far as he leaves something behind him but so far as he acts and enjoys, and rouses others to action and enjoyment. - Goethe
A mass of music and fire; that’s me. An old kazoo with some sparkles. -Margo Channing, from “All About Eve”
It’s a very selfish act– of giving joy to others. …That kind of joy is totally selfish– though it appears to be selfless! When I walk on that stage tonight, that audience is grateful that I’ve showed up to give them their money’s worth. They don’t understand how grateful I am that they’re there for me to do for them. -Jerry Lewis
May you live to be 100 and may the last voice you hear be mine. -Frank Sinatra
She looks as if she were thinking of something beyond her punishment– beyond her situation: of something not round nor before her. I have heard of day-dreams– is she in a day-dream now? Her eyes are fixed on the floor, but I am sure they do not see it– her sight seems turned in, gone down into her heart: she is looking at what she can remember, I believe; not at what is really present. I wonder what sort of a girl she is– whether good or naughty. -From “Jane Eyre”
You can’t cry on a diamond’s shoulder and diamonds won’t keep you warm at night, but they’re sure fun when the sun shines! -Elizabeth Taylor
This is a picture that was created/modified for me by my cousin Jared… the joke came about during an evening of hilarity with Jared and my friend Sam. We were walking through the rain and I commented that I felt like Mary Poppins with my umbrella! The boys pounced on that idea, exclaiming that they could “Totally see me as Mary Poppins!” Especially that part where she declares herself, “Practically perfect in every way.” Except Jared then decided that a better “measuring tape motto” for me would be “Chantelle - Almost Tall Enough!” Needless to say, the humour was a nice salve to the sting of the “short joke.”
Extra
Welcome to the “Extra” section, where I may add anything that strikes my fancy! From recommended books and CDs to favorite quotes and recipes, from YouTube links to candid snapshots or samples of my writing, this is where you’ll find it! Content will be updated randomly but hopefully frequently. Which means you’ll just have to check back to see if there is anything new! Enjoy. -C
What’s on my iPod? [Updated 09/20/09]
Recent / Recommended Reads: [Updated 08/03/10]
Fiction-
Complete Stories by Dorothy Parker
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
The Third Omnibus of Crime by Dorothy Sayers
Alfred Hitchcock’s “The Three Investigators” mysteries
The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf
Aesop / Grimm / Andersen (Harvard Classics)
Memoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite Yourcenar
Non-fiction-
The Private World of Leonard Bernstein ed. John Gruen
Recent / Recommended Films: [updated 08/03/10]
Singin’ in the Rain (Gene Kelly, Donald O’Connor, Debbie Reynolds)
The Dark Knight (Christian Bale)
The Family Jewels (Jerry Lewis)
The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (Errol Flynn, Bette Davis)
Favorite Quotes
A performer is a highly public figure, an extrovert, whose whole compulsion is to get out there in front of people and let it out. Now a creative person is quite another fellow. He has a complex inner life, his big relationship being with himself, or his Muse, or his God, or his subconscious. He has to seek out that gray solitude where he’s stuck with himself. Most people of the arts belong to one group or the other. I live in a schizophrenic world of both. -Leonard Bernstein
For a person remains of consequence not so far as he leaves something behind him but so far as he acts and enjoys, and rouses others to action and enjoyment. - Goethe
A mass of music and fire; that’s me. An old kazoo with some sparkles. -Margo Channing, from “All About Eve”
It’s a very selfish act– of giving joy to others. …That kind of joy is totally selfish– though it appears to be selfless! When I walk on that stage tonight, that audience is grateful that I’ve showed up to give them their money’s worth. They don’t understand how grateful I am that they’re there for me to do for them. -Jerry Lewis
May you live to be 100 and may the last voice you hear be mine. -Frank Sinatra
She looks as if she were thinking of something beyond her punishment– beyond her situation: of something not round nor before her. I have heard of day-dreams– is she in a day-dream now? Her eyes are fixed on the floor, but I am sure they do not see it– her sight seems turned in, gone down into her heart: she is looking at what she can remember, I believe; not at what is really present. I wonder what sort of a girl she is– whether good or naughty. -From “Jane Eyre”
You can’t cry on a diamond’s shoulder and diamonds won’t keep you warm at night, but they’re sure fun when the sun shines! -Elizabeth Taylor
Photography
Visiting my best friend in Chicago - July 2010
ALSO- Check out my “Project 365″ blog! http://chantelle365.tumblr.com
Silliness!
This is a picture that was created/modified for me by my cousin Jared… the joke came about during an evening of hilarity with Jared and my friend Sam. We were walking through the rain and I commented that I felt like Mary Poppins with my umbrella! The boys pounced on that idea, exclaiming that they could “Totally see me as Mary Poppins!” Especially that part where she declares herself, “Practically perfect in every way.” Except Jared then decided that a better “measuring tape motto” for me would be “Chantelle - Almost Tall Enough!” Needless to say, the humour was a nice salve to the sting of the “short joke.”