Nicole-The PopTarts - ProfilesArchive

About Me

I am a DIYer...pop/lowbrow artist,curator,musician,music video producer,film festival and documentary producer. I work all of the time at various endeavors and spend alot of time...virtually. Oh yeah and I'm a kind of REFORMED cheese addict.(Smart food?)
You Should Rule Saturn
Saturn is a mysterious planet that can rarely be seen with the naked eye.
You are perfect to rule Saturn because like its rings, you don't always follow the rules of nature.
And like Saturn, to really be able to understand you, someone delve beyond your appearance.
You are not an easy person to befriend. However, once you enter a friendship, you'll be a friend for life.
You think slowly but deeply. You only gain great understanding after a situation has past. What Planet Should You Rule?
You Are The Wheel of Fortune
You represent the cycles of life, death, and rebirth.
You embrace change, the the ups and downs of life.
Fate is something you accept, even when you could possibly change things.
Big things tend to happen to you more than other people.
Your fortune:
Something huge is about to happen in your life, and you have little control over it.
You must accept your destiny, but luckily it is good fortune that has come your way.
Big things and big changes are about to come your way.
And while things will be intense for a while, they will be followed by a period of rest. What Tarot Card Are You?
You Are Austin
A little bit country, a little bit rock and roll.
You're totally weird and very proud of it.
Artistic and freaky, you still seem to fit in... in your own strange way.
Famous Austin residents: Lance Armstrong, Sandra Bullock, Andy Roddick What American City Are You?
Your Candy Heart Says "First Kiss"
You're a true romantic who brings an innocent hope to each new relationship.
You see the good in every person you date, and you relish each step of falling in love.
Your ideal Valentine's Day date: a romantic dinner your sweetie cooks for you
Your flirting style: friendly and sweet
What turns you off: cynics who don't believe in romance
Why you're hot: you always keep the romance alive What Does Your Candy Heart Say?
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My Interests

Lowbrow art,pop art and pin-up,indie music videos,college radio,playing guitar( I have a telecaster) and old Fender vibrolux amp..songwriting,singing,interest in amateur psychology,physics, metaphysics,wierd science some conspiracy theory and fortean .I'm one of the painting PopTarts of Pop Art and run the Tart Gallery .. edition.I'm in the band COAL and I am a director of the Indie Music Video Festival in my spare time... there are tons of great independent,non-mainstream bands and filmmakers out there!! Checkout The Beangrowers from Malta, BoySkout from SF/NY,World Provider from Montreal,ADEM from London,Scream Club from Olympia,Falconhawk from Calgary, Conrad from Vancouver,SMOOSH from Seattle,Triple Creme from NYC.

I'd like to meet:

Artists,musicians,filmmakers...creative folk. Not agist,sexist or racist...sense of humour...music art film lovers. HEY BANDS!! Visit the Indie Music Video Fest and Coal page for an add!

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Music:

D. I .Y...rock,punk,pop,indie, reggae,country,trip-hop,ambient,soundtracks,rockabilly,nu wave,,some metal: 3 Inches of Blood,Strapping Young Lad...alltime faves...The Monkees,The Cramps,Wanda Jackson,The Cure,Sex Pistols,Bjork,The Specials,Siouxsie & The Banshees,Patsy Cline,Elvis,Julianna Hatfield,PIL,Slow. Nick Cave,HawksleyWorkman,New Pornographers,The Notwist,Old 97's. Local bands of note : My band COAL,Castle Project,Conrad,Carolyn Mark,Swank,Eldorado,Peppersands,Flophouse Jr.,Herald Nix,Stinkmitt,Canned Hamm,The Organ,Nasty On,The Philharmonic,Slowpoke and the Smoke! Favorite current band: The Cardigans (the last 3 albums are great!) Favorite current solo artist: NEKO CASE!

Movies:

An Inconvenient Truth..rent it or buy it! BORAT! and Who Killed the Electric Car?Jesus Camp(ugh Scary!) Pan's Labyrinth, Grizzly Man....still... very haunting. Tideland, Popaganda:The Art and Crimes of Ron English,Blade Runner,Roger & Me,City of Lost Children,Blue Velvet,Eraserhead,Brother From Another Planet,Wizard of Oz,The Haunting(original B& W),Evil Dead,Alien,Amadeus, Donnie Darko,Faster Pussycat,Kill..Kill! Night of the Hunter,Ishtar (highly underrated hilarity!) Harold & Maude,Lord of the Rings trilogy,old John Waters films,One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest,Napoleon Dynamite,Being John Malkovich,Fanny & Alexander, Russ Meyer films,Robocop,The Widower,Boogie Nights,Tetsuo,Brazil,Jandek,Tim Burton films,River's Edge, Coen Brothers films,Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow,Safe,Happiness,Heavenly Creatures,The Gods Must Be Crazy,Lost In La Mancha,American Movie,Team America,Cannibal(The Movie),This Is Spinal Tap,FUBAR,Bubba HoTep,The Corporation,DIG!and many many more.Tales of a Rat Fink.

Television:

The LOWDOWN ON LOWBROW: Art Up from the Underground on BRAVO TV Canada (January 2007)repeating sometime soon!
Hardly any TV at all...im virtual Dont have cable these days.... Nature of Things with david suzuki,the Current ,the Daily Show.The Office.it is quite random and somewhat non-selective.TV on dvd...Six Feet Under,Reno 911. On the telly in the UK: The Office,Spaced,Nighty Night and League Of Gentlemen.

Books:

Non-fiction: Alot by Bill Bryson...A Short History of Nearly Everything,Tao of Physics,Wild Swans,Dude Where's my Country?The Road Less Travelled,Disneyland of the Gods,Freedom and Destiny,Love And Will by Rollo May I dont read alot of fiction but out of what I have read: Metamorphosis,A Clockwork Orange,Tuesdays with Morrie,Not Wanted on the Voyage,The Wars,everything by Toni Morrison,Ray Bradbury stuff,everything by Kurt Vonnegut,.Old works by Stephen King eg:The Shining,not books but... Juxtapoz,Fortean Times,Bitch Magazine!

Heroes:

Frodo Baggins..hahaha....Mahatma Ghandi,Michael Moore,PETA,Joseph Campbell, David Suzuki,Martin Luther King Jr.,Tura Satana,Bruce Campbell,Wanda Jackson,Poison Ivy,Nina Hagen,Carolyn Mark,Neko Case,Lisa Petrucci,Niagara,John Lydon. AlternativeRadio.org needs to be listened to by everyone!

My Blog

LADIES FIRST & Monster Beach Party Art Online!!

LADIES FIRST & Monster Beach PartyFabulous original artwork and prints by Lisa Petrucci,Lesley Reppeteaux,Nicole Steen, Pilar Alvarez,Holly Anderson,Bonni Reid,Arabella Proffer,Sunny Buick,Miss Kika,K...
Posted by Nicole-The PopTarts on Tue, 25 Mar 2008 11:44:00 PST

SweeTARThrob

-------------------------------------------TART of the Month for FEBRUARY!-------------------------------------------JASON MALONEY--------------------------Link of the Month---------------------------...
Posted by Nicole-The PopTarts on Sun, 17 Feb 2008 01:56:00 PST

New Year TART

-TART of the Month for JANUARY!-------------------------------------------KIRSTEN EASTHOPE--------------------------Link of the Month---------------------------CLASSIC HARDWARE------------------------...
Posted by Nicole-The PopTarts on Sun, 06 Jan 2008 01:38:00 PST

You Sleigh Me TART!

-------------------------------------------TART of the Month for DECEMBER!-------------------------------------------ROBERT FARMERhttp://www.thetartgallery.com/robfarmer.html---------- ----------------...
Posted by Nicole-The PopTarts on Thu, 13 Dec 2007 02:03:00 PST

Remember TART!

-------------------------------------------TART of the Month for NOVEMBER!-------------------------------------------MONA SUPERHEROhttp://www.thetartgallery.com/monasuperhero.html--- ------------------...
Posted by Nicole-The PopTarts on Fri, 23 Nov 2007 12:46:00 PST

TART o’ Lantern

-------------------------------------------TART of the Month for OCTOBER!-------------------------------------------BOB WHITE--------------------------Link of the Month---------------------------TOXI...
Posted by Nicole-The PopTarts on Fri, 05 Oct 2007 10:08:00 PST

Back to School TART

-------------------------------------------TART of the Month for SEPTEMBER!-------------------------------------------BRANDON STEEN----------------------Link of the Month----------------------DSK Des...
Posted by Nicole-The PopTarts on Sat, 01 Sep 2007 08:49:00 PST

TART of Leo

-------------------------------------------TART of the Month for AUGUST!-------------------------------------------ARABELLA PROFFER--------------------------Link of the Month-------------------------...
Posted by Nicole-The PopTarts on Thu, 16 Aug 2007 07:31:00 PST

The GRAND OPENING of the Tart Gallery on SL

Wow! The Grand Opening of the Tart Gallery on Second Lifetook place Sat.July 14 from 1-4 then 4-7pm....it was a hoot!Friends came by all day..old and new and they kept coming...it was great.and everyo...
Posted by Nicole-The PopTarts on Mon, 16 Jul 2007 10:12:00 PST

TART GALLERY Gets a Second Life!

Never thought I'd make this announcement but...The TART GALLERY will be opening a VIRTUAL galleryon the 3-D Virtual world of Second Life.The inaugural show will beall of my own art from past to prese...
Posted by Nicole-The PopTarts on Wed, 04 Jul 2007 04:36:00 PST