Art (all the fathers of DADA!!), Writing, Photography, Film, Rockin' and Rollin' and what not, Painting, Horticulture, Baseball, Literature, Education, Spirituality, Poetry, Politics, Sleeping, Meeting and exploring people, places, things, Philosophy, Religion, Heavy Metal, PMRC, DANCING,Taxidermy, and the like
I haven't fucked much with the past, but I've fucked plenty with the future. Over the skin of silk are scars from the splinters of stations and walls I've caressed. A stage is like each bolt of wood, like a log of Helen, is my pleasure. I would measure the success of a night by the way by the way by the amount of piss and seed I could exude over the columns that nestled the P.A. Some nights I'd surprise everybody by skipping off with a skirt of green net sewed over with flat metallic circles which dazzled and flashed. The lights were violet and white. I had an ornamental veil, but I couldn't bear to use it. When my hair was cropped, I craved covering, but now my hair itself is a veil, and the scalp inside is a scalp of a crazy and sleepy Comanche lies beneath this netting of the skin. I wake up. I am lying peacefully I am lying peacefully and my knees are open to the sun. I desire him, and he is absolutely ready to seize me. In heart I am a Moslem; in heart I am an American; in heart I am Moslem, in heart I'm an American artist, and I have no guilt. I seek pleasure. I seek the nerves under your skin. The narrow archway; the layers; the scroll of ancient lettuce. We worship the flaw, the belly, the belly, the mole on the belly of an exquisite whore. He spared the child and spoiled the rod. I have not sold myself to God............................................Patti Smith, Bob Dylan, Bjork, Mos Def, James Brown, Pearl Jam, Ani DiFranco, Prince, Jill Scott, Hideo Kobayashi, Anthony Hamilton, Roni Size, Aretha Franklin, Cyndi Lauper, Erykah Badu, Chaka Khan, Black Sabbath, Jamiroquai, Chibo Matto, Stevie Wonder, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Nina Simone, Frank Sinatra, the Strokes, Robert Johnson, Tori Amos, Mary J. Blige, Fiona Apple, Motley Crue, Billie Holiday, Michael Andrews, Luke & the 2 Live Crew (ME LOVE YOU LONG TIME), NY Dolls, M'eshell Ndegeochello, George Michael, The Killers, the Doors, Skinny Puppy, Tribe Called Quest, Cat Stevens, Sade, Nirvana, Skid Row, D'Angelo, Danzig, Supreme Being of Leisure, Iggy & the Stooges, Juliette and the Licks,
Heat, Platoon, Half Baked, Goodfellas, Trainspotting, La Femme Nikita (anything Luc Besson), Rushmore, The Warriors, A Clockwork Orange, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Hollywood Ending (anything Woody Allen), Lost in Translation (anything Bill Murray), Taxi Driver, Fellini Satirycon, The Matrix, JAWS, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Old School, The Godfather, Faster Pussycat Kill Kill, The Anniversary Party, RAN (any Akira Kurosawa), Dancer in the Dark, Natural Born Killers, Six Degrees of Separation, Kill Bill Vol.1, The Shining, Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas (Terry Gilliam, Terry Gilliam, TERRY GILLIAM), Nosferatu (the 1929 silent version), Quills, any Stanley Kubrick (though can't say that I'm a huge Spartacus fan), Drawing Restraint 9,
Weeds, The Office, Arrested Development, Family Guy, Alien Nation, Aeon Flux (on Liquid TV), Seinfeld, Jericho, Sex Talk with Sue Johannson, Get A Life, ThunderCats, Curb Your Enthusiasm, G.I. MUTHAF*CKIN" Joe, V the mini series (does ANYONE else remember that?), VOLTRON bitches,
"Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! The world is holy! The soul is holy! The skin is holy! The nose is holy! The tongue and cock and hand and asshole holy! Everything is holy! everybody's holy! everywhere is holy! everyday is in eternity! Everyman's an angel! The bum's as holy as the seraphim! the madman is holy as you my soul are holy! The typewriter is holy the poem is holy the voice is holy the hearers are holy the ecstasy is holy! Holy Peter holy Allen holy Solomon holy Lucien holy Kerouac holy Huncke holy Burroughs holy Cassady holy the unknown buggered and suffering beggars holy the hideous human angels! Holy my mother in the insane asylum! Holy the cocks of the grandfathers of Kansas! Holy the groaning saxophone! Holy the bop apocalypse! Holy the jazzbands marijuana hipsters peace & junk & drums! Holy the solitudes of skyscrapers and pavements! Holy the cafeterias filled with the millions! Holy the mysterious rivers of tears under the streets! Holy the lone juggernaut! Holy the vast lamb of the middle class! Holy the crazy shepherds of rebellion Who digs Los Angeles IS Los Angeles! Holy New York Holy San Francisco Holy Peoria & Seattle Holy Paris Holy Tangiers Holy Moscow Holy Istanbul! Holy time in eternity holy eternity in time holy the clocks in space holy the fourth dimension holy the fifth International holy the Angel in Moloch! Holy the sea holy the desert holy the railroad holy the locomotive holy the visions holy the hallucinations holy the miracles holy the eyeball holy the abyss! Holy forgiveness! mercy! charity! faith! Holy! Ours! bodies! suffering! magnanimity! Holy the supernatural extra brilliant intelligent kindness of the soul!....................................................... ............................................................ ..............Macbeth, A Season In Hell/The Drunken Boat, The Alienest, Antigone, Second Avenue and the Lunch Poems (anything Frank O'Hara), my Misspent Youth, Fatherland: A Personal Search for the New Germany, The Age of Spiritual Machinery, Above My Head, Alice in Quantumland, Bob Dylan Chronicles, Song of Solomon, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, You Get So Alone Sometimes That It Just Makes Sense (anything Bukowski), anything Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs, and the other "beatnics", Seek: Reports From The Edges Of America & Beyond,
My heroes are anyone who fights fear and wins.....my Grandfather who told me to be an extraordinary human being, my Grandmother, who graduated college at 76, my Dad who saved me, and Mrs. Padil, who showed me kindness without reason & taught me to be a woman. Patti Smith, Patti Smith, Patti Smith... and Jesus Christ and the Superfriends.