interview

date: 30 may 2025

1. why isn't the website responsive?

the website is not responsive semi-intentionally and you can't use the website on your phone without crying... i will be honest, it's partially intentional because i think bringing back personal websites is a cool thing to do and having a website be solely accessible by laptop encourages visitors to divert from social media and convert to something more slow, like a website on a laptop where everything has a top and bottom, but i also don't know how to make the website responsive. i should look into it but i have not yet. if you look at my code (which i don't suggest you do) you can see that it is very... interesting. i wouldn't say it is cobbled together because it does stand up on it's own but i think trying to make the WHOLE website responsive would be a rather large and complicated task that might break the whole website... i don't really want to chance it. i also THRIVE off of the idea that i am inconviniencing phone users. makes me really happy. use a laptop!!

2. favourite colour and animal?

wow, a nice easy question. i love blue a lot. like obsessively. i'm not sure it's obvious... i like pretty much any kind of blue, but i particularly like items that are darker blue, like the colour of deep seawater, or lapis in ancient artifacts, or denim. i also like deep and dark, rich browns. i'm not sure why i like them, but they are mysterious and often have flecks of gold in that compliment the blues i choose. i have other favourites but they could be seen more as textures, like silver, or the kind of brown on bleached black fabric, or the orange that shines through light on ginger hair, or pearls, or the bands on pua shells, or verdigree, the light off water, the irredescence of vinyl, sunlight, the oxidisation process of a bubble, squished blackberries. i think my favourite animal is just as easy of a choice. it is bears. i love bears! i had a book on bears as a kid and my toy at night was a bear. he has been with me for 20 years (since i was born). i sponsored a snow leopard so they are my adopted favourites. i have learnt to love the ginger animals i see on my walks too; i am partial to a ginger cat, an old white frosted golden retriever, or a house/tree sparrow.

3. where do you see yourself in 5 years?

i'm not really sure. i would have travelled in that time, a lot. ideally i would have my own house with my own little trinkets in it from travelling, and i would be a silversmith and i would be happy. i may do an artists residency or stay in the bulgarian mountains to learn their singing technique but further than that, i don't know.

4. what do i like?

the smell of jasmine. women in music. music in women. perfume. kate bush's dare. patti smith's pushing. joanna newsom's prodigy. poetry. photography. questioning. curiosity. coffee/ tea with friends. a close circle. unique time signatures. gustav klimpt. maths in music. silver with hints of gold. african royalty. the old traditional world. bulgarian polyphony. fractals. lychees. baking bread. vintage constructions. antiquated crafts. the consistancy of a diary. the words of others. drinking. hoping. loving across a border. long walks in nature. films of war. not understading a single thing. solitude. warmth. asyndetic lists. ripped stockings. charcoal. picking up instruments. my fingers working faster than my brain. 2010 synth pop. tartan. gingham. spots. citrus abominations. documentaries. documenting. the quiet searching. accurate perfumes. the right to seek. tarnished coins. collected tea cards. forgotten photographs. what the flowers say. the way a language twists my tongue. dressing in a ghosts clothes. defyance. the life of a diamond. second hand books. eating well and often. a tall condensated glass of tea. collecting vinyl. watching the time tick by. world music and cinema. certainty through uncertainty.

5. favourite websites?

i love fragrantica. i love its old forum style and how it breaks down all the terminology and notes of perfume. i think if all things were broken down to this extent, i'd be so happy. i also like more personal websites like the blog of stevie knickersor vibracobra. i used to like this website about pictures of bread but i can't find it. another website i frequent ahd have done since very early on in creating this website is ribo.zone as i always find something new and interesting.

6. countries i want to go to?

norway, vietnam. morocco. mongolia. north italy. bulgaria. poland... theres probably more...

7. why hide away on the internet?

i wouldn't neccesarily call it hiding away but i do like a certain level of mystery and privacy. the right person knows where to look to find the right answers to their questions. everything you want to know is already there.

8. my holy grail records?

bulgarian polyphony volume 2/ aerial/ 30,000 feet over china/ just another diamond day/ colour green/ a handful of lyrichords/ a mitski pressing/ le mystere de voix bulgares/ alone at my piano bootleg/ organisations tonefloat/ romance warrior/ my life in the bush of ghosts/ so many soul 78s.

9. my favourite cocktail?

anything vodka/ rum + fruity. mojito. pina colada. proud martini hater.

10. my favourite films?

come and see/ the colour of pomegranates/ au revoir les enfants/ hausu/ call me by your name/ spirited away/ everything everywhere all at once/ full metal jacket/ x files/ normal people/ professor layton film/ simpsons film/ fleabag/ fruitopia/ evangelion.

11. questions for the world?

what do clouds taste like? could you keep a storm in a bottle? do all versions of me to ever exist still exist beside me? what am i fighting for? could you simulate what it would be like to be hit by lightning safely? what happens in the end? will my name ever end up in lights?

12. who are you?

i am everything.