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Joanna

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About Me

I love LIVE MUSIC at small clubs/DISCOVERING great new shit!, meeting people from other states/countries, road trips/TRAVEL (will go anywhere if I have a place to stay!), Berlin(Germany), intelligent, witty, artistic, adventurous men, (are you out there???), MUSICIANS, wild flowers, lillies, MUSEUMS, vodka, red wine, ethnic food, Helga, (my 1984 5- speed VW Rabbit GTI). I Have a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Metalsmithing and Ceramics). I'm a tile designer/fabricator/installer w/full studio! Commission work only! I also experiment in costume design/creating avant garde wearable(!) clothing out of found (usually metal) objects. Jewelry making, welding, painting (interior, faux finishes)...blah, blah,blah. I'm currently working at a restaurant/bar in Detroit and at a VINTAGE CLOTHING STORE in Ferndale! I do some BOOKING/PROMOTIONS at the the 2500 CLUB(the BEST punk dive!)in DETROIT. I'm a BURLESQUE dancer with HELL'S BELLES. You can call me Delilah. I have 9 pet RATS. Persephone, Georgina, Oliver, Ike, Ivan, Evie,Olivia, Priscilla and Daphne. They really are wonderful animals! Oh, yeah, I also have a dog. Her name is Luna. As in tic. Also responds to "noodles". As far as I know, she's a Husky/Beagle mix (yeah, yeah, I know...wierd!).

My Interests

Rats! I collect anything rat related, architectural salvage, funeral paraphernalia, religious iconography, insects, bones, dead things, Cd's. (In fact, I'm obsessed with music and have an insane collection! Music! Give me music or give me death! ) Small bars! Live bands! Art--sculputure/ceramics. Favorites include Peruvian, Mexican and Asian (near and far east) ceramics, ancient and contemporary folk art. Some painters--Schiele, Goya, Khalo. Metal work-- including armor, jewelry, furniture, utilitarian, decorative and functional metal arts. Museums--( art, natural history,erotic (as in Paris, France and Berlin, Germany)) I also like to play in the dirt, sew, cook, drive, travel, ROCK OUT, perform Burlesque.

I'd like to meet:

GREAT, TOURING PUNK ROCK BANDS who want to play the 2500 Club, Detroit!!! I'm ALWAYS looking for good (unknown, hey, ya gotta start somewhere, right?) bands to play @ the club! Looking for punk, glam, any kind of -billy, sleazy, etc. YOU GET IT! CONTACT ME HERE to play in DETROIT! The greatest rock and roll city in the world!! C'mon, we gave birth to Iggy Pop, for fuck's sake!!

Music:

Aw! HELL YEAH! Where to begin? Adam and the Ants,Adicts, Bad Brains, Birthday Party, Bowie,Beasts of Bourbon(Tex Perkins...yowza!), Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Crime and the City Solution, The Cars,The Damned, Eno, Ellington, Foetus, Gang of Four,Robert Gordon, Helmet, Chris Issac, Japan, Killing Joke, Lounge Lizards, Luxury Pushers,Herbie Mann, Nathaniel Mayer,The Marked Men, Naked Raygun, O????,The Pervz,Peelander Z, QOTSA, Roxy Music, Otis Redding, 7 Shot Screamers, Sixteen Horsepower, The Safety Pins, T-Model Ford, Throw Rag,Undertones, Valentine Six, Tom Waits, X-Ray Spex, Yello, John Zorn...and so much more... Amino Acids, Bamboo Kids, The Blackfire Revelation, The Briefs,Big Black,The Curses, Deadbolt, The Effigies,Electric Eel Shock, The Fall, Gun Club, Human Eye, Iggy/Stooges, Jesus Lizard, Knoxville Girls, Les Baton Rouge, Mingus, New York Dolls, Prima Donna, The Real McKenzies, Rotten Apples,Red Hot Poker Dots,Scratch Acid Patti Smith, Salt Miners, Testors/Sonny Vincent,Tijuana Hercules, Virgin Prunes, Weirdos, X... I could still go on and on...have you seen my cd collection?

Movies:

Jarmusch over Lynch ANYDAY! Tim Burton films. John Waters films. Foreign films (subtitled). Coen Brother films. Some stand out favorites (in no particular order)~ Wings of Desire, Singin' in the Rain, (I love Gene Kelly, what can I say?) Willy Wonka-- Wilder rules! Spider Baby, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Titus, Velvet Goldmine, Willard (both), Blue Angel, Cry Baby, Rocky Horror. Cheesy monster/horror flicks, movies with Medieval costumes and (sword) fight scenes. Predator! Guilty pleasure! HA HA!(the character! And I knew he'd kick some Alien ass!!!) Hellraiser I and II. Pinhead is soooo sexy!

Television:

Not so much. Don't even have cable!(gasp)

Books:

Reference(history, travel, art/architecture), RAT related, insect related.

Heroes:

David Bowie, Frida Khalo, my Daddy!