People talk about my image like i come in two dimensions, like lipstick is a sign of my declining mind, like what i happen to be wearing the day that someone takes a picture is my new statement for all of womankind.
I miss my grandmother.
DRAWING, spicy vegetarian food, watching old movies, knitting, feminism, Egon Schiele, Alice Neel, writing and reading poetry, Lindeman's Lambic Beers, driving in New Mexico, being at the shore, traveling to warmer climates and maybe Alaska as the artic circle has some very interesting cultures... anyway.
And hey, I choose my company by the beating of their hearts, not the swelling of their heads.
And people that will sit relatively still while I draw them.
Tori Amos, Ani Difranco, The Decemberists, Regina Spektor, Depeche Mode, Fiona Apple, David Bowie, pre-2004 Saves the Day, Billie Holiday, Del, The Dresden Dolls, Lily Allen, Rilo Kiley, and the list goes on. And Shakira- she gets her own category.
top 10 again (in no particular order)?! Breakfast at Tiffanys, Harold and Maude, Funny Girl, All about Eve, My Fair Lady, Monsoon Wedding, and Moonstruck, The Quiet Man, Frida, and To Catch a Theif.
Gilmore Girls (is a wonderful cult),Grey's Anatomy (makes me cry everytime), Conan(god love the string dance), Daily Show (jon= smart, witty, liberal,AND jewish!), Oprah(she is basically god).
Brave New World, The Bell Jar, A Room of One's Own, Letters to a Young Poet, Siddhartha, The Body Project, Manifesta: Young Women, Feminism and the Future, Sula, Turtle Moon. Poetry by Edna St. Vincent Millay, Sylvia Plath, Maya Angelou, Marie Howie, and my brother.
my brother kyle, my hs art teacher Mrs Rolnick aka the ROLNICK, Maya Angelou, Wonder Woman, Frida Kahlo, Alice Neel, my Dadda, Nelson Mandela, Shirley Chisolm, Judy Chicago, my polish jewish catholic always speaks her mind Nanny. I miss you Nanny.