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johnny

phew, for a minute there I lost myself

About Me

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My Interests

I like sleeping, dreaming, reading, learning, driving, creating art, hot summer days, warm summer nights, being alone, being with someone, thinking, being sad when everyone tells you to be happy, being happy, being quiet. I like traveling; ive been a lot of places in the US and Ive been to Frankfurt, Munich, Paris. Im German. I like german bier, German cars, german fussball.

I'd like to meet:

Artists.

Music:

The smashing pumpkins are the best band ever. But I also really like bloc party, badly drawn boy, weezer, the killers, coco rosie, travis, british sea power, editors, nirvana, sparta, deftones

Movies:

I like movies. The squid and the whale, Great Expectations, the Godfather, the ninth gate, I like David Lynch movies and independent movies.

Television:

I like WWII history shows, independent film channels, Conan O'Brien, south park, national geographic channel

Books:

The Great Gatsby, No Exit (the Sartre play), The Grapes of Wrath, Travels with Charlie, Walden, catch22, Voltaire, art books.

Heroes:

SP, van Eyck, Bosch, Dali, Rothko.

My Blog

My trip

I just got back from my trip. I was in the mountains of glacier national park in montana for 10 days. I put up some pictures here if anyone is interested....
Posted by johnny on Mon, 21 Jul 2008 07:32:00 PST

pulling teeth

"pulling teeth"  oil on canvas 6-25-08  
Posted by johnny on Wed, 25 Jun 2008 11:09:00 PST

Memories from being alive 1


Posted by johnny on Wed, 05 Dec 2007 08:24:00 PST

11-18-07 new painting

"Venus (dead)" 30"x40" (76x102cm)
Posted by johnny on Sun, 18 Nov 2007 02:31:00 PST

Rorschach inkblot test

I took a Rorschach inkblot test tonight. I've always wanted to do it but I've always been sort of scared to take one, I guess being nervous to see what it would tell me about my mental state. I took i...
Posted by johnny on Wed, 24 Oct 2007 08:03:00 PST

A big surprise....

So a couple months ago I bought this book And then I was looking in the back pages at paintings that were featured in the last issue of this publication and saw this one: So after looking at this bo...
Posted by johnny on Sun, 19 Aug 2007 12:06:00 PST

7/17 Everythings peachy

I painted this for a friend. I started work on this back in may and finnished it last night. I had no idea I would get so involved in this one but it just kept turning into something more every ...
Posted by johnny on Wed, 18 Jul 2007 04:44:00 PST

New painting 6/11

"The Psychologist (he knows what you're thinking)" I just had a flash of inspiration to do this a while back. I've been working on another painting for about a month now, but I took a short break to ...
Posted by johnny on Tue, 12 Jun 2007 09:33:00 PST

New Painting

Its called "what have you done to yourself?" ...
Posted by johnny on Sun, 04 Mar 2007 06:54:00 PST

My trip to Europe

Well I just got back from Europe and it was such an awesome experience (there are pictures after the words so keep reading!). I visited Frankfurt, Munich and the Bavarian surroundings, and Paris. I fl...
Posted by johnny on Mon, 08 Jan 2007 10:34:00 PST