Spending time with my family - my husband and our three lovely and fascinating children. DRAWING, music, books, art, art, more art... "Umbilical (severed)" gouache/paper COPYRIGHT 2007
Artists, writers, poets, musicians, those who love art, and social commentators.
I have been obsessively listening to Bat for Lashes "Fur and Gold", the new Bjork (declare independence!!!) and the new Wilco............................................
I LOVE Joanna Newsom, Neko Case, PJ Harvey, The Cocteau Twins, and Sparklehorse.............................Cat Power, Mars Volta, Sleater-Kinney, the Beatles, Blur, Doves, Gorillaz, White Stripes, Arcade Fire, The Delgados, Mojave 3, Kate Bush, Bjork, Radiohead, Swell, REM, Patti Smith, Belle and Sebastian, Rolling Stones, CCR, Elliot Smith, Tanya Donnely, Kristen Hersh/Throwing Muses, Gillian Welch, Lucinda Williams, Jimmy Cliff, Ben Harper, Wilco, Mary Margaret O'Hara, Kendra Smith/Opal, Mazzy Star, Beth Gibbons/Portishead, Bob Dylan, Blondie, Ane Brun, Anna Ternheim, TRUE country (Willie, Waylon, Merle, Dolly, Loretta, Roger Miller, Hank Sr. & Jr);
My Musical Guilty Pleasures: ELO, ABBA, Queen.....DID I MENTION THAT I love this Bat for Lashes record???:
"The Night of the Hunter", "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?", "Raising Arizona", "Stranger than Fiction", "Rushmore", "The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou", "Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead", "Harold and Maude", and "Apocalypse Now".
Televisions make fabulous garden walls:
My Recent favorites: Stephen Pressfield "The War of Art", Jeffery Eugenides "Middlesex", Yann Martel "Life of Pi", Barbara Kingsolver "Poisonwood Bible", "Prodigal Summer", Margaret George "Helen of Troy", Charles Frazier "Thirteen Moons", Annie Proulx "Close Range"; Classic Favorites: John Steinbeck "Grapes of Wrath", James Agee "A Death in the Family" (some of the best prose EVER!), Charles Dickens "Great Expectations", "A Tale of Two Cities", Erica Jong "Fear of Flying", Harper Lee "To Kill a Mockingbird", Flannery O'Connor - my favorite writer - I love any and all short stories by her, plus her novels - "Wiseblood" and "The Violent Bear it Away", William Faulkner "As I Lay Dying", Carson McCullers "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" (is it obvious that I love the Southern Gothic literature? - it feels like home!), Ernest Hemingway "For Whom The Bell Tolls", Kurt Vonnegut "Slaughterhouse Five"; Poetry - T.S. Eliot and Sharon Olds; Guilty Pleasures: Harry Potter :( - I am very sad that wonderful ride is over, Philip Pullman, James Lee Burke, Patricia Cornwell
Anyone that lives their life to positively impact others through their actions or creations - also, but not limited to: my Dad, Patti Smith, Michelangelo, Artemisia Gentileschi, Leonardo da Vinci, Alice Neel, Jimmy Carter, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Wesley Clark, Keith Olbermann, and Tim Berners-Lee(!)