Jessica Abel, a really cool comic
book artist, author of the La Perdida series.
Ariel Schrag (not an
official site) - this graphic novelist tells the story of her teenage
years, trying to figure out life while dating (some boys and) girls.
Oriland, an award-winning site by
two psychologists who are origamists. Includes basic instructions,
diagrams, a gallery of origami created by the authors, and essays about
the educational value of origami.
Bay Area Rapid Folders (BARF) - great
site including lots of cool diagrams (including many envelopes and a
"nuclear" three-headed, three-tailed crane!).
Paperfolding.com, includes
a gallery of insect and dinosaur origami, links to diagrams, origami
history, and an essay on origami and math.
Origami Lexicon -
Japanese words for different types of paper
"We scream in cathedrals
Why can't it be beautiful?
Why does there gotta be a sacrifice?"
Dead Can Dance, who
unfortunately broke up a couple of years back, have nevertheless been
rocking my world since I was fourteen.
"Severance - the birds of leaving call to us
Yet here we stand, endowed with the fear of flight"
I guess it is my duty as a goth to put in the obligatory Cure link; if
you want Cure info, Stiff as
Toys and as Tall as Men is a good place to go.
"I never thought that I would find myself
in bed amongst the stones"
Nick
Drake was a neat English folk/jazz/blues singer in the early
70's...
"Going to see the river man
Going to tell him all I can about the ban on feeling free
If he tells me all he knows about the way his river flows
I don't suppose it's meant for me"
I broke my no-twang rule for
the Cowboy Junkies, an amazing Canadian band who constantly walk the
lines between folk, rock, blues, and country.
"Speaking confidentially
The fire that burned inside of me
has burned to ash the tortured tree
that grows beside the anguished sea"