Words. Dance. Music in all its incarnations. Tattoos. Yarn. Super 8 film. Black cats. Mental health activism. Very strong coffee. Mismatched socks. Banjos. Jivamukti yoga. The smell of a Bell and Howell Autoload projector when you first turn the light on. Alpacas. Pink sparkly things. Laughter. Silent film. Mad science. Old clothes. Punky Brewster as fashion icon. Baking bread. Washing machines with wringers. The DIY revolution. Chocolate cake. German Expressionism. Francisco Goya. Nixie tubes. Chemistry sets. Black amethyst depression-era glass. Lumiere cameras. Potato batteries. Macrame owls. 1960s Ford Mustangs. Creeks with waterfalls. Tomato farming on the terrace. The East Village. Mexico. Cinema verite. The Zenith Cobramatic. Syntax as instrumentation. Smart hillbillies. Occult-themed board games made between 1950 and 1975. Roller coasters. Subverting psychiatric diagnoses through body modification. Thomas Edison talking dolls. French films not made by Gaspar Noe, who blowss.
I'd like to meet:
Funny people with big brains who don't lie. If you fit those qualifications, we'll probably get along. Oh, and I'd also like to meet the people who spin Malabrigo yarn so I can have sex with them to show my gratitude. Same goes for any of the surviving members of VU (but especially John Cale.) I'd like to meet Jim White again to continue the conversation.
PLEASE DON'T SEND ME FRIEND REQUESTS IF YOU DON'T KNOW ME IN REAL LIFE. NOT INTERESTED IN YOUR WEBCAM OR BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY!
Music:
VU, David Bowie, Tom Waits, Jim White, Laurie Anderson, Patsy Cline, Wanda Jackson, Elvis, Barbecue Bob, Memphis Minnie, Screamin' Jay Hawkins, Bessie Smith, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, Johnny Cash, The Ramones, The Kinks, Batmobile, Rev Horton Heat, Old Crow Medicine Show, Hossam Ramzy, The Cramps, Prince, The Police, The Pixies, The Residents, Joy Division, Buzzcocks, David Byrne, T Rex, The Smiths, Stray Cats, Missy Elliott, Janis Joplin, The Polecats, Jandek, The Legendary Shack Shakers, Pentaphobe, DJ Cheb I Sabbah, DJ Spooky, Sonic Youth, Buddy Holly, George and Bootsy, The Shaggs, Ani DiFranco, Southern Culture on the Skids, dot dot dot etc. If you have a Moog, a Farfisa, a Theremin, or an Optigan, invite me over, please.
Movies:
This could go on all day. The short list: anything by Allan King (aka God), Todd Haynes, Peter Greenaway, Jane Campion, The Coen Brothers (with the exception of The Hudsucker Proxy), Buster Keaton, or Michael Haneke. I also love Marina de Van and Catherine Breillat. All-time favorite films include Safe, Warrendale, THIN, Stranger than Paradise, Withnail and I, This is Spinal Tap, Frida, Young Poisoner's Handbook, Swimming to Cambodia, Searching for the Wrong-Eyed Jesus, The Piano Teacher, Twentieth Century (1934), The Exorcist, Nosferatu (1922), The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story, The Machinist, Raising Arizona, Dr. Strangelove, Fat Girl, and In My Skin. And POOTIE TANG, dammit! Don't let the ladies come between you and the belt!
Television:
The best TV shows ever made: MST3K and The Prisoner, followed closely by the first season of Twin Peaks. That said, I am wholly addicted to Project Runway.
Books:
William Faulkner, Richard Powers, Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, Marya Hornbacher, Lauren Greenfield, Lauren Slater, Cormac McCarthy, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Anthony Burgess, Flannery O'Connor, E.L. Konigsburg. Playwrights Sarah Kane, Lynn Siefert, Harold Pinter, Peter Weiss, Edward Bond, Michel Tremblay.
Heroes:
Anyone who has ever recovered from an eating disorder. Beyond that, my chosen family, Glenn Becker, Denise de la Cerda, and Joey Meathole Rosenfeld, and my real-life bodhisattvas Sarah Johansson Locke, Stephen P. Nichols, and Manko Eponymous.
