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About Me



Check out my Parisian 'discovery',
HEY HEY MY MY (think early Shins meets Wilco),
whom I've pimped for their North American
debut on MARCH 5TH @THE MERC opening for
Lightspeed Champion, MARCH 7th @SOUTHPAW
(headlining w' The Epochs + The Subjects +
Luke Rathborne) and @Sound Fix for an acoustic
set on MARCH 8TH. They're truly awesome!
Spread the word and help populate the shows!
I may be inexperienced without an
insane roster of contacts, but I'm effective!
some pretty awesome reviews I've snared
for my Frenchies by my lonesome thus far:
HHMM on Other Music
HHMM on KEXP
HHMM on 3hive


graduated from college at the age of 12 with a
double masters in molecular biology, specializing in the
effects of phakopsora pachyrhizi on asian soybeans in
non-indigenous continental U.S. + northern renaissance art
history, but opted out of scientific endeavors or
antiquarian commentary in order to open up a light bulb
manufacturing company (mostly halogen) in india
at 19. though after wearing kashmiri grew tediously
uninspiring, seeing as i'd given up touring (classical pianist
child prodigy) years before, sought out a PhD in
neoclassical composition (particularly the ever popular
silent symphonies for dogs ), as well as opened
up a culinary school for wayward vegan orphans.
pretty fucking dull. huh.
okay. um. yeeeeah.
more like slightly warped midnight oilist who
works too much, reads too much and wants to borrow
your mojo subscription.
"Let us living ones dance about the rim of the crater,
a last expiring dance. But a dance!" ~H.M. 1934

oh, and I QUIT!!!!! offered my resignation from my
completely unfulfilling, soul destroying, corporate american mad
avenue sr. art direction job last year (complete with 401K,
health & dental and a six figure salary), in favor of the freedom
and LIFE that comes with global consulting...so am always on
the look-out for on or off-site freelance design/art direction (editorial
+ packaging + posters + catalogues + identity systems + interactive
banners & sites + print & tv addies + total branding + film) + writing gigs
(spot & feature editorial + guidebooks + crosswords + book/pop
culture reviews + interactive, print & tv addies) [though note that ethics
and content will always win out over dough...recently turned
down without pause a 48K whopper producing materials for our
current shithouse administration],
therefore please send
this award winning, super conceptual, technically capable, hybrid
skyscraper plunger beefy, rent and soul empowering leads.
particularly those which involve art and music, regardless
of what the party at hand can afford to pay.
cuz i’m happy to barter for projects that i believe
in which make me glad to "be".
~ sayonara lady hypocrisy ~
plus seeing as i now have my own bathtub for
the first time in 10 years, ain't nooooooo hombre gonna
get between me, my mint green ceramic behemoth,
coppola in a can and mister bubble...
30 out of 44 gallery photos and
3 out of 6 embedded pics are self-portraits.
can you guess which ones?
p.s. over 1600 random 'friend' requests have been trashed.
translation? if i don't already know you, there's a 95%
chance that yours will be also be axed, cuz popularity
contests are reeeeally, really lame!!!

helping my buddy Rob man the bubble machines on stage for
the polyphonic spree at coney island... anybody spot my upskirt? such
a practical wearable for playing height hurdling stagehand

My Interests


blowing bubbles on
strangers in the dark,
moon beaconed bikerides,
premonitory dreams , the
milky way, cowgirl boots ,
italian vineyards, stoli &
tonic without a straw,
unexpected dinner guests,
french fries, spoon bending,
incognito soirées, pointing
at strangers , pointilism,
pépé le pew country , odd
found objects , inflatable
sea monsters , presents
for no particular occasion,
piñatas, red licorice, vintage
B W photos, the history of
mauve , the scent of old
library books & freshly
mown grass, raked stages,
herb gardens, sunflowers,
mountain run-off, laceless
sneakers, bases loaded,
euro visas, pug trains ,
long-mileaged bridge
spanning, webster's
unabridged , the art of
hardback book-binding,
page flippin' by taper-light,
typography, nomenclature,
languages, etymology ,
cruciverbalism , the letters
"X" & "R" , 244 6th
avenue , 3-dimensional
paper toy fashioning,
hand boned corsets ,
thigh highs, sock sliding,
mini skirts , giant whisks,
fine nibbed pens,
mirror writing, ripe
window condensation,
sidewalk chalk, album
art, lickable paint brushes,
salty skin , potato guns ,
dead philosophers , beaches
in winter, eye-openers ,
weirdos, kookclub.com ,
aberrations, ellipses, non
sequiturs , useless facts,
sitting through every last
obscure credit, finding
a lucrative way to get
my ass semi-permanently
living and working overseas
again, power tools, antique
steel, laid back chill
folks with self-propelled
existential (in the TRUEST
sense of the word) drive...

newest hobby: showering
with houseplants

* bold type = unexpected, fun link ...

I'd like to meet:



(i see dead people...)

les marginals inimitables qui parlent français couramments,
pour les accès du vin, le fromage puant et les mots...

~ welders & furniture fashioners ~


lads & ladies with amazing music libraries...

anyone who knows of venues (billygoatburg locales excluded)
where i can find black and white postcards...seriously send tips,
cuz my favorite haunt has gone out of business...

a shutterbug willing to turn me into a vargas or petty girl
minus carnal, alterior motives

a medical malpractice attorney licensed to operate
in the rotten state of massachusetts, for my mom who
was irreparably butchered during surgery...

~ destination- red -hook-by-bike-armed-with-late-night-flask-companions ~

~ park slopers ~


a spider who will knit me warm, fingerless gloves...

~ ministers of paid writing gigs ~

a dude or dudette who wants to share po' man's season
tix to the symphony, then get all dressed up and
boozed up n' shit. whatever happened to liking sticky indie
floors as well as ancient crushed velvet?

down n' dirty, escape-the-city hiking & snow
bunny posses led by pro-outdoors albeit
"yoga-gives-me-the-weebie-jeebies-too" fiends


crossword puzzle guinea pigs to test
out this lil' tart's latest creations

~ artists who will let me use their silkscreen studio ~

~ reformed hermits ~

cool chicks (!), since most of my true-to-life buds are guys...

lonesome geniuses

and otherwise noteworthy wiener wielders that are truly,
sincerely, perfectly OKAY with being just friends, who can
get over the fact that they won't be invited to play
hide-n'-go-slurp with the ta-tas any time soon...

smarty pant-donning, whiplashable, atheist or agnostic,
sin-savoring, creatively inclined, admirably HONEST,
openly affectionate, slightly strange stylized hotties who
would like to raise bilingual rugrats one day
(in the far distant future) in running away to timbuktu or
baguette country (in the not so distant future), who
don't harbor f*cked up caveman era superiority complexes
about dating chicks who use their b-r-a-i-n-s,
and ain't intimidated by the sweetly affectionate/genuinely
NICE/compliment & gift giving variety nor
those who possess wig collections...are also welcome


i.e. sincerely sick of non-commital flings and the completely
unwarranted but all too common post-date"i find you
intimidating" line which usually precedes a wake of rolling,
mouth sadly agape, boy-go-bye-bye dust...hence a bit
worn out by most things testosterone and dating in general,
but if you blow the dam sky high, this milkmaid will
make the time. though not likely any time soon, seeing
as my heart has just been broken.

a burlesque star nugget from the family tree...

back to school....or the 'clothing optional' beach???

imprimateur

have also never ever heard an hombre whisper those
'three little words' ...someday that would be nice too

don't pray in our schools, and we won't think in your churches...

a pow wow that never occurred confirmed her
pre-nietzschean suspicions at the handwritten age of 6...

31 going on 12

8 going on 31

in more ways than you can imagine




big apple players, serial cyber daters, man hos preying on
chicks for meaningless two-night stands or 'vacation' sex,
thisherespace addicts with impossibly large numbers of so-called
friends, goobers whose profiles read like homogenously daft
match.com personal ads, self-proclaimed highbrows who feel compelled
to literally spell out just how "witty", "intellectual", "smart
as a whip" or otherwise falsely superior they presume themselves
to be, anyone "looking for a partner in crime", culture snobs,
the habitually dishonest, those lacking "common" courtesy skills, over
emoters who take their pages and their poetry readings and life
tenets and goals and dreams and poseur lists and general gay spaces
waaaaaaaaaaay too seriously, those who send add requests
w'out notes or impersonal cut n' paste mass mailings,
morons
who will sadly never read thus far in opting to navigate with their
photo mesmerized dicks ...nor the great white texan halfwit!!!!!!

and little boys: if you write me notes using acronyms like "LOL your hot"
or "U R 2 sexy", preemptively ask for my IM handle, offer
cash for my used panties or ask me to pose for porn, know that your
NUTS WILL BE CUT OFF (whippissssshhh!!!), donated
to the parks & recreation department and fed to hungry, cannibalistic
squirrels with inimitable digestive systems throughout the city. :D



Music:


aa bondy, ada, air, akufen,
ambulence ltd., amon
tobin, andrew bird, animal
collective, antheil, anti-
balas, antony & the
johnsons, aphex twin ,
arcade fire, bach, a band
of bees , band of horses,
beck, the bee gees, beirut,
bertrand burgalat, beta
band, bill holt, the besnard
lakes, bishop allen, the
black dog, the black keys,
black lips, black moth
super rainbow, black
mountain, the black heart
procession, blonde redhead,
blossom dearie, boards
of canada, the books,
bowery electric, the brian
jonestown massacre,
broadcast, the buzzcocks,
calexico, califone, caribou/
manitoba, carston jost,
castanets, cat power , the
cave singers, celebration,
charles trénet, !!!, christopher
cross, cibo matto, clare
& the reasons, the clash,
cold war kids, coralie
clément, crossover, the
cure, dead meadow,
deerhoof, delphine, dEUS,
devendra banhart, the
dining rooms, the
dirtbombs, donovan,
dr. dog, D*R*I, duran
duran, dymaxion, echo &
the bunnymen, ed harcourt,
eglantine gouzy, electrelane,
elliott smith, the english
beat, esquivel, etienne
charry, excepter, farben,
the felice brothers, felix
da housecat , the flaming
lips, film school, fischer-
spooner, the 5.6.7.8s,
flotation toy warning,
four tet, fred neil, free
association, fridge, fruit
bats, fugazi, future pilot
aka, gang gang dance ,
the go-betweens, gorky’s
zygotic mynci, gottschalk,
graham coxon, grandaddy,
grizzly bear, happy
mondays, harry partch ,
henrik schwarz, herb alpert,
hey hey my my, i’m from
barcelona, the inkspots,
iron & wine, isan, jamie
lidell, jana hunter, jane's
addiction, jarvis cocker,
jeff buckley, john cale,
joseph de bologne de
st. george, joy division,
keren ann, kid koala,
the kinks, komeda, lady
& bird, the ladybug
transistor, ladytron, lali
puna, les savy fav, the
libertines, liliput, lone
pigeon , looper, low,
mahogany, man man,
märz, mekons, minkus,
morr music, mozart,
mr. airplane man,
muslimgauze, nancarrow,
the national, nick drake,
nickodemus, nicola
conte, nicole atkins, the
1900s, noonday under-
ground, of montreal,
okkervil river, orchestra
baobob, othar turner,
out hud, PAJO, pale saints,
panda bear, patrick watson
piano magic, the pixies,
plaid, pluramon, pole,
pram, the pretty things,
psapp, quasi, the raincoats,
rasputina, ratatat, the
reigning sound , ricardo
villalobos, ricky nelson,
S.A.M., satie, schubert,
scissor sisters, scout
niblett, sean lennon,
sebastien schuller, serge
& BB, sex pistols, the
sleepy jackson, slint,
the slits, the smiths,
solex, sondre lerche,
songs of green pheasant,
dj spinna, spoon, steinski,
stravinksy, sufjan stevens,
a sunny day in glasgow,
sunset rubdown, swayzak,
the various monikers
of uwe schmidt, talking
heads, tav falco, the tears,
tim 'love' lee, tindersticks,
tom vek, tortoise, travis,
trost, turin brakes, tv on
the radio, 22-20s, the
unicorns, vetiver, violent
femmes, the walkmen,
will oldham, X, yeasayer
yo la tengo, yma sumac,
young marble giants, yuka
honda, zeb the pleb,
birdsong, your naughty
whispers, the resonating
modulation of a well-
oiled zipper

~ ad infinitum ~

Movies:


the big sleep, waking life,
caveman, being john
malkovich, barry lyndon,
amadeus, bugsy malone,
milo and otis, my life as
a dog , la belle et la bête ,
my fair lady , gigi, amélie,
girl on the bridge, the
virgin suicides, au revoir
les enfants, the blue angel,
the birds , airplane , to kill
a mocking bird," blowup,
napoleon dynamite, sixteen
candles, 42nd street, the
triplettes of belleville,
oklahoma!, west side story,
key largo, casablanca, the
thief of bagdad, the
bicycle thief , breaking
away, shall we dance
(japanese) , saturday
night fever , boogie nights,
night on earth, nosferatu,
the jerk, blade runner ,
edward scissorhands, safety
last!, indiana jones and
the temple of doom, clash
of the titans, attack of
the killer tomatoes, the
untouchables, les enfants
du paradis , eternal sunshine
of the spotless mind, singin'
in the rain, hairspray,
happiness , welcome to
the dollhouse , blue velvet

Television:



zee boob tube tends to
gather dust, unless it's
time for a dee-vee-dee...

Books:


PETRIFIED FAVES:
cortázar, fuentes, miller, dahl
for adults, camus, queneau,
foucault, tosche, markham,
carroll, west, dunn, hellman,
gombrowicz, gorey , chandler,
baudelaire, o'hara, bataille,
(ryû) murakami, saunders,
basho, vian, perec, m. (...),
mr. oft-misunderstood-N,
saroyan, non-fiction door-
stops of all varieties, ”the
audubon society field guide
to north american birds”,
"the story of ferdinand
the bull" , "monsieur
de st. george: virtuoso,
swordsman, revo-
lutionary", "the worst
album covers ever"
,
”wisdom of one: the
ultimate existentialist
quote book”, “alexander
and the terrible, horrible,
no good very bad day”

CURRENTLY THUMBING:
"dream brother: the
lives and music of jeff
and tim buckley

"wolford's spring 2008
catalogue"
(delicately donned
fish nets and cuban heels are
still prone to holey moments
necessitating everpresent
replacements)
VERY RECENTLY THUMBED:
"real fun: polaroids
from the independent
music landscape"
(this is
not a photograph, no /
and these are not the
elysian fields / this is
not a bigot’s head, no /
this is just a perpendicular
line to the grain...of
mini candid memoirs
on the swimming
holed, chili-cheesed,
lint slippered, wake
of fame road)
"novels in three lines”
(in the vicinity of noisy-
sur-école, m. louis
delillieau, 70, dropped
dead of sunstroke. quickly
his dog fido ate his head.
thus became acquainted
m. fénéon of 1220
rue matin.)
"all over coffee" (...and
feuilletons accompanied
the most stunning
washes [of rice-a-roni
land] i’ve eyeballed in eons...
though would have been
brilliant if conceived w’
a brush dipped in virgin,
morning sludge)
"legends of the
chelsea hotel: living with
the artists and outlaws
of new york's rebel mecca"

(a night, a month or years
fraught with painted
bunnies, closet zombies,
pink drakes, vicious murders,
willie nelson’s xmas album,
crushed rocks, dead beats,
retired bards and kooks
of all stews w’out toilet
paper, plenty of dodo-nuts
and liquid amber for all,
as reflected by the ‘eh...’
on pg. 151)
"the left bank gang"
(so papa, f. scott, LB, jean
paul and james walk into
a bar...tabac...in order to
draw a portrait of the artist
as a young, blind duck
sportin’ a blue checked
suit and jaunty cap with
tender pangs)
"paper engineering: 3D
design techniques for a
2D material"
(guillotines
and bleeds, french folds
and kiss cuts, wallets
and bankers, knock ups
and laid paper...all sheet
fed of course)
"smile when you’re
lying"
[hardcore surfing
(e. germany), ice cold
coke (alaska), special
member olympics (japan),
bedtime rANTS (brazil),
alpha cliff racing (b.c.)
well covered boobs
(texas), snatched auto-
graphs and breast
strokes of bad luck
(thailand) + plenty of
otherisms get jettisoned
into this irreverent
devotee’s passport]
"piercing" (can’t blame
karochi, the aroma of
freshly baked bread,
talcum powder, nor
mandatory R&R for one
man’s split pee affinity
for lily gouged flesh)
"ernie: a photographer’s
memoir"
(the fog comes/
on little cat feet./ it sits
looking/ over harbor
and city/ on silent
haunches/ and then
moves on. ~ C.S.)
"my paris" (métro-
boulot-dodo, so-so,
no-no, lacking mojo,
i.e. what i could have
and should have done
infinitely better during
my own diary-free
soujourn, vrai ou faux)
worm list changes +/- weekly.
see 'getting a few things...' blog

Heroes:


my mom, a nationally
exhibited, award-winning
self-taught watercolor
painter, writer, climber &
weirdo extraordinaire
who's kicked the grim
reaper in the ass 3 times...

My Blog

~ getting a few things off of my chest ~

NUMBER OF BOOKS CONSUMEDSINCE JANUARY 2005194.5NUMBER OF PAGES40,776NUMBER OF AUTHORS 154NUMBER OF TRANSLATORS 62NUMBER OF WORKS OF FICTION124NUMBER OF WORKS OF NON-FICTION70.5NUMBER OF MULTI-AUTHOR C...
Posted by Litten Missa Röd Stöveln on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

~ Paris Paris is is for for (Music) (Music) Lovers Lovers ~

While no gifts nor non-ephemeral mementos were es-cargot-ed home after having spent a large chunk of spring/summer 2007 living in dollar inflated Paris, this mademoiselle DID in fact export a much fin...
Posted by Litten Missa Röd Stöveln on Tue, 16 Oct 2007 12:11:00 PST

~ A Message for dick (& Jane) ~

gentlemen...never ever murmur those three little words unless you mean them. even if you know it's want she wants to hear.and for fuck's sake, DON'T go cheating on her by way of proof. show some balls...
Posted by Litten Missa Röd Stöveln on Fri, 28 Sep 2007 03:35:00 PST

~ du er icke tokig, du er rättvis svensk ~

They're not craaaazy, they're just Spanish Swedish. i.e. A handful of the29 looney birds who warble with I'm From Barcelona who entertained my little black book this summer while blowing up balloon...
Posted by Litten Missa Röd Stöveln on Thu, 06 Sep 2007 06:20:00 PST

~ deliverance ~

To assert (as many do) that Mail Art was invented in the '50s or '60s (by Ray Johnson) or even the Dadaists is bullshit. For while few could doubtfully afford 'extraneous' postage fees during the Unit...
Posted by Litten Missa Röd Stöveln on Wed, 05 Sep 2007 11:19:00 PST

~ lost & found ~

For the very same reason that I don't call my notebooks 'journals', nor my 'journals' diaries, I seldom write down actual events as they've passed, figuring that upon re-reading them one day I'll end ...
Posted by Litten Missa Röd Stöveln on Mon, 09 Apr 2007 12:04:00 PST

~ INDIE BAND + NYC LOCATIONS needed ASAP for short HBO film ~

greetings voyeuristic strangers + oddball blog subscribers,litten missa is assisting her super duper good friend sid (director @comedy central) with a comic, short 5mn film for HBO on an insanely tigh...
Posted by Litten Missa Röd Stöveln on Mon, 09 Apr 2007 12:22:00 PST

~ two pussies are better than one ~

That got your gutterbrained attention, huuuuh...GOOD! Because these two beautiful kitties need your help!!!I am now a temporary foster mama to two of the sweetest most affectionate kitties ever, who ...
Posted by Litten Missa Röd Stöveln on Thu, 30 Nov 2006 12:25:00 PST

~ a little bit wet ~

did a really retarded thing yesterday afternoon. got distracted while the tub was running... forgot about my bath-to-be until i heard a strange noise... basically my adjacent kitchen had turned into a...
Posted by Litten Missa Röd Stöveln on Fri, 17 Nov 2006 01:36:00 PST

~ the nest experiment ~

Long before the advent of digital clicks and New York's Improv Everywhere, when ancient Candid Camera regurgitations were the only televised reality moments to be had, 'The Nest' dropped in. Crafted i...
Posted by Litten Missa Röd Stöveln on Sun, 01 Oct 2006 09:56:00 PST