Graceland and guitars....milky ways and shooting stars...
I paint...I dream of Morocco...
And boys from Fellini films coming to my rescue..
My old Cadillac ...And faraway places..
Keef dreams too....of Anita!
I'd like to meet:
If you're truly wild at heart you will fight for your dreams....
Prince
"Everybody's looking for the answers..
How the story started and how it will end.
What's the use in half a story, half a dream?
You have to climb all of the steps in between" -Prince
My "LBJ" Painting
"Occasionally, an opportunity arises to be a part of the
great reminder, that the struggle against oppression
resides in the soul of the true artist- and further, that
the true artist is obligated to that struggle. The artist
is always at the forefront of the fight for freedom,
reminding us of our own obligation to both face down and
turn away from the temptation to oppress others, be it with
violence, ignorance, hatred, or more subtle and insidious
means. The world may be sliding toward its ultimate demise,
but it should be our sworn duty, as writers, artists, and
thinking human beings to fight against it- even in a losing
battle" -DAVID MAMET
Hunter S. Thompson in 1969
"The entertainment industry is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side."
- Hunter S. Thompson
You will be forever missed Hunter....
"This world ain't strong enough,
To keep us from each other..
For we are kindred spirits.
Born to become earthly lovers.I am the lighthouse..
I am the sea.
I am your destiny...
Gravitate to me" -THE THE
Edie Sedgewick
"Angels beating all their wings in time..
With smiles on their faces,
And a gleam right in their eyes..
Thought I heard one sigh for you.
Come on up, come on up, now" - ROLLING STONES
The Stones
" Let's see how high we can fly,
Before the sun melts the wax in our wings.
Lets see how fast we can go,
before our eyes can't follow the road.I'm on fire...
Theres no water for the flames..
And I'm alive.
with no one but myself to blame...
and I'm proud...
That I've never fallen down.
and I have learned..
all the truth is tragedy now...Come on my love..
Come on my child..
let heaven flow..
into your soul. " -SPIRITUALIZED
Jimi Hendrix
"But I don't want to go among mad people,' Alice
remarked. 'Oh, you can't help that,' said the Cat: ..we're
all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad.' How do you know I'm
mad?' said Alice...You must be,' said the Cat, ..or you
wouldn't have come here.'" -ALICE IN WONDERLAND
Yves Saint Laurent
"But then they danced down the streets, and I shambled
after as I've been doing all my life after people who
interest me, because the only people for me are the mad
ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be
saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones
that never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn,
burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like
spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue
centerlight pop and everybody goes 'Awww!' " -JACK
KEROUAC
Keith Richards
"Nature's first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf's a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay" - ROBERT FROST
Joe Strummer
"Last night they loved you, opening doors and pulling some strings, angel..
In walked luck and you looked in time..
Never look back, walk tall, act fine.
Come get up my baby..
I’ll stick with you baby for a thousand years
Nothing’s gonna touch you in these golden years" -DAVID BOWIE
David Bowie
"Life is a deep sleep, of which love is the dream." -ALFRED de MUSSET
Francesco Clemente
"The poet makes himself a seer by a long, prodigious, and rational disordering of all the senses. Every form of love, of suffering, of madness; he searches himself, he consumes all the poisons in him, and keeps only their quintessences"- ARTHUR RIMBAUD
Patti Smith
"I can laugh, but I should cry..
When love and understanding are the ultimate crimes" -TALKING HEADS
Julian Schnabel
"There is no land but the land...There is no sea but the sea..There is no keeper but the key..Except for one who seizes possibilities" - PATTI SMITH
*Please write me a message before sending a friend request!! I'm not here to amass as many people as possible-I'm interested in being INSPIRED! I don't care if you are rich, poor, famous, or infamous... I love creative, inspiring, artistic people who have SOUL and something to say! Thank you!
Music:
My "ICON" Paintings...
Ladies and gentlemen we are floating in space......
Movies:
THE MOTORCYCLE BOY REIGNS...."Even the most primitive of societies have an innate respect for the insane." -Rumble Fish
"Peace. Love. Freedom. Happiness."
Cabaret, The Man Who Fell To Earth, Performance, Alphaville, Rumble Fish, Spirits of the Dead, Blow-Up, Valley of The Dolls, Tommy, Repo Man, Wild at Heart, Paris Texas, The State of Things, Breathless, Xanadu (of course), Valley Girl, Contempt, Pink Flamingos, Blade Runner, Taxi Driver (all the animals come out at night), Darling, The Great Gatsby , This Property Is Condemned, Long Hot Summer, Breakfast at Tiffanys, Danger Diabolik, 8 1/2, The Shining, 2001, Badlands, Wings Of Desire, Rock and Roll Circus, Until The End Of The World (Soundtrack is amazing too), Girl On a Motorcycle, Shampoo, Clockwork Orange, Gas Food Lodging, The Black Stallion, Fantasia, Trainspotting, Blue Velvet, Goodfellas, Apocalypse Now (never get out of the boat), Drugstore Cowboy, The Outsiders, Hair, All That Jazz, A Life Less Ordinary, And Now Ladies and Gentlemen, and last but not least...Pee Wee's Big Adventure!
DIRECTORS: Stanley Kubrick, Wim Wenders, Jean-Luc Goddard, Jim Jarmusch, Terrence Malick, Fellini, David Lynch, Ken Russell, Francis Ford Coppola, Gus Van Sant, Scorcesee, and Nicolas Roeg hands down.Travis Bickle
"All the animals come out at night.
Queens, fairies, dopers, junkies, sick venal.
Some day a real rain will come and wash all the scum off the sidewalks" -TAXI DRIVER
"Let go of your life..
Grab on to my hand..
Here in the clouds..
Where we'll understand" -TALKING HEADS
Television:
DAVID BOWIE "LIFE ON MARS"
Get this video and more at MySpace.com
Books:
You're Babar the King!
by Jean de Brunhoff
Though your life has been filled with struggle and sadness of late,
you're personally doing quite well for yourself. All this success brings responsibility,
though, and should not be taken lightly. Life has turned from war to peace, from damage
to reconstruction, and this brings a bright new hope for everyone you know. These hopeful
people look to you for guidance, and your best advice to them is to watch out for snakes.
Take the Book Quiz
at the Blue Pyramid .
Bukowski, Ferrelingetti, Ginsburg, Burroughs, William Blake, Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Voltaire, Verlaine, Oscar Wilde,Dylan Thomas, Kerouac, D.H. Lawrence, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Truman Capote, Hunter S. Thompson, J.D. Salinger, Hemmingway, Steinbeck, T.S. Eliot, Anais Nin, Samuel Coleridge, Henry Miller, Tennessee Williams, Kurt Vonnegut, Tom Wolfe, David Sedaris, and Dr. Seuss! The list goes on and on......
I think my bookcase speaks for itself...
"Voici mon secret. Il est très simple : on ne voit bien qu'avec le coeur. L'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux"
(It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; What is essential is invisible to the eye.)
-The Little Prince
Heroes:
My Mom and Dad and every artist who is not afraid to dream!
