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Cara

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About Me


myspace generators

I build pictures.

My Interests

art
MECHANICAL BIRD blog
What is a situationist?

I'd like to meet:

Picture builders and poets.
Visionaries: Post in my "Comments" section plus two other posting opportunities...
1. Click on the Mechanical Bird blog in my "Interests" section OR
2. Visit the visionstream (web address listed in my blog; due to some proprietary bs I can't list it here)

Music:

Beck, The Flaming Lips, Philip Glass, Laurie Anderson, Green Day, PJ Harvey, old school punk like Patti Smith, The Dead Boys and Iggy Pop, Queens of the Stone Age, The Music, Bjork, Moby, Hank Williams Sr. and the III (skip Jr.), Curtis Mayfield, The Gap Band, The Carter Family and Johnny Cash, Flamenco guitar, Billie Holiday, Marvin Gaye, They Might Be Giants, The Tinklers.

Movies:

My favorite is American Beauty. I cry every time they watch that video of the plastic bag. Donnie Darko, Birdy, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Rosemary's Baby, Night of the Living Dead, Texas Chainsaw Massacre (the original), Last House on the Left, Monty Python's The Meaning of Life, Being There, Mel Brooks, Amelie, Clerks, Butterfield 8, Alfred Hitchcock, The Fifth Element, Eating Raoul, Blood Simple and all Coen brothers, Quay brothers too (but those are animated shorts not movies), Nick Park, and just about any documentary.

Television:

Six Feet Under reruns, Heroes, NCAA basketball (go KU!), The First 48 (or what I affectionately call "Dead Bodies"), Intervention (affectionately "Addicts"), some UFC, WSOP.

Books:

Oryx and Crake and Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley. The Rabbit series by John Updike. The Ecstasy of Communication by Jean Baudrillard. Almost all John Irving. Blonde by Joyce Carrol Oates. The Accursed Share by Georges Bataille. Concrete Island by J.G. Ballard. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess.

Heroes:

Bruce Nauman, Marcel DuChamp, Jessica Stockholder, Dieter Roth, etc.

My Blog

Hooray KU!

Finally!Despite the fact that we scored 18 more points in the paint, we still needed the guards to come through in the end, and boy did they!(...and of course those freshman Memphis players missed the...
Posted by Cara on Tue, 08 Apr 2008 03:33:00 PST

jump in the visionstream

The water's fine...www.freewebs.com/visionstream...
Posted by Cara on Sat, 01 Dec 2007 12:53:00 PST

more on "mechanical bird"

Click on the link in "Interests" section to visit the mechanical bird, who tires of studio output and thus longs for input from the world at large. So if you want to share, just click, baby.
Posted by Cara on Thu, 01 Nov 2007 01:31:00 PST

ramblings

There is no longer a prevailing belief system and I, like you, am left to decipher and derive meaning from glyphs, codes and symbols. All we make is myth and metaphor, even if the spin comes after the...
Posted by Cara on Wed, 31 Oct 2007 07:04:00 PST

Mott-ly is dead

Just in case you knew him, thought you'd want to know.If you didn't know him, he was a great artist.I wish I had an image of one of his pieces to post here...
Posted by Cara on Fri, 01 Jun 2007 11:21:00 PST

for Charlotte

Someone once told me,As someone's often do,That something sometimes happens,As something's sometimes do,And somewhere there is one thingTo help me form a clue:A piece,A peck,A picture,A hopeOr visual ...
Posted by Cara on Wed, 30 May 2007 08:30:00 PST

Psychobabble Dictionary (seeking additions)

First three entries:A.D.D. (syn. short attention-span): A condition people take a pill for when they're bored.Bi-polar (syn. manic depression): Sometimes a person feels like she can't do wrong, like e...
Posted by Cara on Thu, 24 May 2007 06:22:00 PST

Desire's Rulebook

I lost Desire's rulebookIn a half-constructed house in the suburbs.I would have to destroy the foundation to find it.No one has been able to find it since.Without the rulebook,Desire floats like an er...
Posted by Cara on Thu, 10 May 2007 02:07:00 PST

get some action

Swallow cancer like candy,Eat rubble,Forget family,Sell broken parts to broken factories,Buy a gun(Don't forget the bullets),Cultivate anemic crops in shallow soil,Drink sugar,Sweep the weak under the...
Posted by Cara on Fri, 04 May 2007 03:01:00 PST

breath/splash/dream

Each day I grasp the air,Never quick enough to capture armies or raise a flagBut trace evidence of the hunt remains.It visits me as I drift toward sleep.And there's no need to shout about it.That freq...
Posted by Cara on Wed, 02 May 2007 12:34:00 PST