Marissa Young's Page

Passions:
art, cabaret, composing music, fascination, fashion, guitar, inspiration, nature, opera, philosophy, piano, poetry, the roaring 20's, singing, skating, travelling, violin, writing, yoga.

Taste In Music:
amanda palmer, american analog set, andrew lloyd weber, animal collective, apples in stereo, apocalyptica, architecture in helsinki, a tribe called quest, bach, the beatles, beck, beethoven, beirut, belle & sebastian, bizet, the black keys, black moth super rainbow, black tambourine, bob dylan, bright eyes, britney spears, broken social scene, CAKE, camera obscura, cat power, chiodos, chopin, clap your hands say yeah, clinic, coldplay, cold war kids, danny elfman, deftones, disturbed, do make say think, dream theater, dresden dolls, duke ellington, dvořák, ella fitzgerald, elliot smith, emilíana torrini, the exploding hearts, explosions in the sky, fall out boy, feist, flying lotus, frank sinatra, gangstarr, glands, godspeed you black emperor!, gogol bordello, grieg, handel, helio sequence, hollywood undead, holst, ian mcglynn, i set my friends on fire, isis, jimi hendrix, john williams, kc accidental, the killers, kollegah, korsakov, lamb of god, lemon jelly, les savy fav, marilyn manson, the mercury program, miles davis, mindless self indulgence, mirah, modest mouse, mogwai, mono, murderdolls, neutral milk hotel, nine inch nails, nouvelle vague, of montreal, one republic, otep, panic at the disco, paramore, placebo, port o'brien, q and not u, rancid, ratatat, regina spektor, rufus wainwright, taking back sunday, tchaikovsky, ting tings, underOATH, unicorns, victory at sea, vivaldi, wagner, the white stripes, wolf parade, yann tiersen

Gods:
charles bukowski, charles dickens, christian fürchtegott, edgar allan poe, ellen hopkins, ernest hemingway, francis scott fitzgerald, friedrich von schiller, jane austen, jean chapelain, rainer maria rilke, raymond queneau, sergey dyachenko, stephanie meyer, stephen chbosky, steven king, steven levitt, thomas harris, victor hugo, vladimir mayakovsky, william shakespeare, yevgeny yevtushenko.

Films:
the 27 club, 300, across the universe, atonement, belle de jour, breakfast at tiffany's, casablanca, ciao manhattan, domino, the duchess, edward scissorhands, factory girl, gone with the wind, goodbye lenin!, hannibal, juno, kill bill, the knowing, l'effrontée, marie antionette, the nightmare before christmas, the pianist, pirates of the caribbean, repo: the genetic opera, requiem for a dream, romance & cigarettes, saw, the sound of music, star wars, twilight, underworld, valkyrie, west side story, wristcutters: a love story, yella.

The Tube:
House, Nip/Tuck, The Tudors.

Inspiration:
“Boring damned people. All over the earth. Propagating more boring damned people. What a horror show. The earth is swarmed with them.”
-Charles Bukowski
"What you have to do is collect experiences and feelings, put them into music and then each listener’s imaginations can fly away."
-Perttu Kivilaakso
"There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
-Ernest Hemingway
"Everything is blooming most recklessly; if it were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night."
-Rainer Maria Rilke
"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction."
-Albert Einstein
"You don't make music for a living. You make music for a life."
-Dr. James Jordan