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Maggie (RedHeaded Girl)

I am here for Friends and Networking

About Me

All RedHeaded Girl works posted on this page © Maggie Johnson

I'm showing at Anxiety Gallery again! If you happen to be anywhere near Madison, Wisconsin in June, check me out!

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I cut up pieces of printed paper and make them into girls. I hope that this process will one day make me obscenely rich.




My Interests

Cut-paper art! But also bead stitching and Knifty Knitting. Watching TV. Reading. Resting. That's a big one. I'm a fan of the Resting.

I'd like to meet:

Well, beatniks for one, folk singers and motorbike riders. You know, all those hip, jazzy, super cool, neat, keen, and groovy cats.

Music:

(Click the links for info about the bands)

New Wave

New Romantic

Post-Punk

Kate Bush

The Smiths

Pink Floyd

Yacht Rock

Dream Pop

Power Pop

Indie Rock

Big Beat Electronica

Trip Hop

Movies:

Pretty In Pink, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Once, Closer, Lost In Translation, Saved!, Ghost World, Napoleon Dynamite, Mean Girls, Say Anything, Heavenly Creatures, Broadcast News, Kill Bill, any Christopher Guest movie, any Monty Python movie except The Meaning of Life, Lonesome Dove, Angel At My Table, Carlito's Way, Angels In America, Stranger Than Fiction, Little Miss Sunshine, Big Trouble In Little China, Scrooged, Lord Of The Rings, Remains Of The Day, Lady In White, When Harry Met Sally, Harold and Maude, The Godfather, The Lion In Winter, Peyton Place, All About Eve, The Philadelphia Story, Holiday, The Hasty Heart, The Haunting

Television:

Black Books, Black Adder, Monty Python, Flight of the Conchords, Boston Legal, South Park, Little Bear, Degrassi Junior High, The Adventures of Pete and Pete, Home Movies, The Tick, Late Night With Conan O'Brien, Outer Space Night on The Science Channel, Daria, Courage The Cowardly Dog, The Wonder Years, Dr. Katz, Dexter's Laboratory

Books:

Anything Paul Zindel wrote before the 90's, The Kitchen God's Wife, The Bonesetter's Daughter, Interview With The Vampire, The Queen of The Damned, Carrie, Breakfast At Tiffany's, Wise Child, To Kill A Mockingbird, The Princess Bride, The Last Unicorn, The Haunting of Hill House, What's Eating Gilbert Grape, Fathers Are People Too, This Is My Life, Peyton Place, The first two Ya-Ya books, Like Water For Chocolate, The Mists of Avalon, Memoirs of A Geisha, Summer Sisters, The Wizard of Loneliness, Harriet The Spy, the Harry Potter books, The Trouser Press guides, the first two Red meat anthologies, Ghost World, The Wizard of Oz books

Heroes:



My Blog

A Plug For Pokey’s

I suddenly realized that when I posted that entry about my piercing experience I didn't ever say concretely where I got it done! Kelly Ann and I went to: Pokey's Tattoo in Batavia, NY.  It was a ...
Posted by Maggie (RedHeaded Girl) on Sat, 07 Jun 2008 06:37:00 PST

The Amazing Magic Garden

I got JJ a Magic Garden from Vidler's the other day.  I've only ever had the Magic Trees before.  Up til now I've never seen one where there's a whole scene:     The box said ther...
Posted by Maggie (RedHeaded Girl) on Fri, 06 Jun 2008 01:27:00 PST

Back To Life. Back To Reality.

Kelly Ann left this morning.  I've got that weird feeling of loss when a happy visit is over.  I feel restless and unfocused and the house is too quiet.  I'm wishing JJ was here, becaus...
Posted by Maggie (RedHeaded Girl) on Thu, 05 Jun 2008 11:40:00 PST

Pig Candy Is The Answer!

Kelly Ann is here, and it's the first time we've been in the same room together in 14 years.  (I've been telling everybody 12, but then I did the math.)  We are, of course, having a fabulous...
Posted by Maggie (RedHeaded Girl) on Wed, 04 Jun 2008 10:44:00 PST

The New And Improved Flower Scarf

I thought that last flower scarf came out fine, but it was awful big and fluffy, and I have an even smaller loom.  Plus, I wanted the chance to make some black-eyed susans.   I rock the Aun...
Posted by Maggie (RedHeaded Girl) on Sun, 01 Jun 2008 09:50:00 PST

What I Look Like At 1:30 AM

I've decided to take a REAL art break this time.  No, seriously.  SERIOUSLY!  Fine, don't believe me.  I don't care.  Just because I've said about 20 times before that I was g...
Posted by Maggie (RedHeaded Girl) on Sat, 31 May 2008 10:40:00 PST

Its Intermission Time!

To this day they still play this reel in between movies at our local drive-in.  One of my favorite places in the world.... Our first drive-in movie of the year this year was "Iron Man."  I'm hoping we...
Posted by Maggie (RedHeaded Girl) on Sat, 24 May 2008 10:40:00 PST

I’d Do Anything For Smooth Music!

I've got two pieces finished for the Hunter S. Thompson tribute...preliminary sketches done for the next one....so of course....... It's time to do some procrastinatin'!! After my last entry, I went b...
Posted by Maggie (RedHeaded Girl) on Sat, 24 May 2008 06:38:00 PST

"The Bake Wants The Log!"

I know I've had this video on my front page forever, and I gotta tell you, I'm not likely to take it down soon, but for those of you who haven't checked it out yet, I'm gonna push it in your face via ...
Posted by Maggie (RedHeaded Girl) on Thu, 22 May 2008 11:19:00 PST

Harry Houdini And A Near-Death Experience

I've been sitting here watching an exhaustively complete History Channel biography on Harry Houdini, and noticed that the guy who used to own the Houdini Magical Hall of Fame is one of the talking hea...
Posted by Maggie (RedHeaded Girl) on Tue, 20 May 2008 01:43:00 PST