Art. Playgrounds for grownups.
Artistic and Heroic people, wishful thinkers, libraries...
Drawing while listening to the radio: Johnathan Schwartz's American Songbook on WNYC, The Howard Stern Radio Show, SHADE 45 Comics and Marijuana as art therapy, politics and entertainment...
We now return to the regularly scheduled Interests:humans and computers, bloggers and the info-wombs and cyber-veins we are creating with them.
I love ranting about politics live or in full color:
The Coney Island Mermaid Parade.
Amy Winehouseand Oscar Wilde:
"If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you."
and Albert Einstein:"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle."
and Marshall Mathers, Slim Shady, and Eminem:"Whoever finds me is gonna get a finder's fee..."
Sabriye Tenberken YAY! The Writers' Strike is OVER! - Time to go back to work...
is medicine.
Nebula, Distillers, Hole, Iron Maiden, James Brown, Bad Sailor, Tadpoles, Queens of the Stone Age, Tanya Stephens, Fela Kuti, Sexual Healing by Ben Harper, Celebration, Otha Turner, Trubadore, Marilyn Manson, Ella Fitzgerald, Missy Elliott, Eminem, Proof, NWA, Public Enemy, Run DMC, Beastie Boys, Opera, Classical, Led Zeppelin, Minor Threat, Fiona Apple...
...Jazz, Janis Joplin, Mahalia Jackson, Frank Sinatra, Iggy Pop, The Sexiest Song in the world right now is: Parachute by Sean Lennon, Drugstore, White Stripes, Mazzy Star
Lost Patrol, Motorhead, Metallica, Megadeath, Aqualung, Stevie Wonder, The Jackson 5, LL Kool J, Joan Jett, The Runaways, Pat Benatar, Eurythmics, Rolling Stones, Cake, A Swedish band named Yvonne, Ice T, Santana, Blondie, Simon & Garfunkel, Sex Pistols, Amy Winehouse, Edith Piaf, Coldplay, Moby, Mudhoney, Willie Nelson, The Cardigans, Carly Simon, Johnny Cash, Afrocelt SoundSystem, Yeah, Yeah, Yeahs, Jimi Hendrix, Lucinda Williams, Norah Jones, Sarah McLachlan, Screaming Trees, Cyndi Lauper, John Lennon, Yoko Ono, R.E.M., Patsy Cline, Prince, Bogdan, Benny Goodman, Ray Charles, The Prodigy, Dolly Parton, Dylan Willemsa, Lou Reed, James Taylor, Harry Belafonte, The Police, Sting, Aretha Franklin, Cat Stevens, David Bowie, Elton John, Bee Gees, The Decemberists, Link Wray, Dick Dale, Ginger Baker, John Bohnam, Cream, Fu Manchu, 30 Seconds to Mars, Ozzy, Black Sabbath, DIO, Elvis, A band from Texas called John Wayne, Jim Croce, Ramones, Bob Dylan, Nirvana, U2, Go-Go's, Alice Cooper, Frifot, Basil Poledouris, Pink Floyd, White Zombie, Anything from the Mid-East, The Klezmatics, Nina Hagen, The Mars Volta, The Doors, James Mathus & His Knockdown Society, Leadbelly, Bad Brains, Gipsy Kings, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, The Kinks, Michael Junior, Plasmatics, Alison Krauss, Ventures, Peggy Lee, Elvis, Bob Dylan, Queen, Enya, Rammstein, Las Bukakees, Judas Priest, ACDC, Tin Hat, Choirs, Subway Musicians, Street Musicians, Sly and the Family Stone, Mama's and the Papa's, Jus Cool, Bathroom Girls, Princess Superfreaka's Marching Band
Word:
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace. - Jimi Hendrix
~ The Song of El Coqui inspires Me! ~
are inspiration. Cyrano DeBergerac (The Jose Ferrer version ONLY!), 8 Mile, Brokeback Mountain, The Notebook, The Constant Gardener, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, The Truman Show, The Lion In Winter, The Others, Grey Gardens, The Matrix, American Beauty, Moulin Rouge, Amadeus, Carrie, Network , Unbreakable, Freeway, Citizen Kane, Alien, Aliens, 2001 A Space Odyssey, Jaws, Groundhog Day , I Shot Andy Warhol, Election, Howard Stern's Private Parts, Scarface, Cocaine Cowboys, Where The Buffalo Roam, 12 Monkeys, The Out-Of-Towners (The original Jack Lemmon version ONLY), Heathers, The Hospital, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, The Shining and every film Jack Nicholson is in, Planet of the Apes (Original Charlton Heston version only), The Kentucky Fried Movie, Romy and Michelle's High School Reunion, Bridget Jones' Diary, Cloak and Dagger, Parenthood, The People Vs. Zsa Zsa Gabor , Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Memento, Clerks, Bring It On, The Breakfast Club, Pretty In Pink, The Thomas Crowne Affair, Swept Away (The Original ONLY), Secretary, The Nightmare on Elm Street Movies, Halloween, My Bloody Valentine, Clueless, Original Star Wars Trilogy, Conan The Barbarian, Dances With Wolves, A Beautiful Mind, Sid and Nancy, Friday, Half-Baked, Goonies, Die Hard, Kingpin, Long Kiss Goodnight, Flashdance, Ferris Buellers Day Off, Ruthless People, Woman on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, Dumb and Dumber, Ace Ventura Pet Detective, Animal House, The Sixth Sense, Burnt Offerings, Audrey Rose, Trading Places, Breakin', Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Bulworth, Bonnie and Clyde, Style Wars, Poltergeist, Weird Science, The Jerk, Bowfinger, Beverly Hills Cop, Coming To America, Richard Pryor Live & Smokin', Beevis and Butthead Do America, Alice Sweet Alice, Welcome to the Dollhouse, The Fifth Element, Starship Troopers, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, The Wizard of Oz, Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, Reefer Madness, An Inconvenient Truth , Asylum, Arlington Road, Gone With The Wind, Guerilla: The Taking of Patty Hearst, The Weather Underground, Purple Rain.
is education.
Roseanne All Jennifer Saunders All John Cleese All Ken Burns All Norman Lear And last but not least, Rod Serling
are liberation.
"We are who we pretend to be... so we must be very careful who we pretend to be." -Kurt Vonnegut
The Strand Bookstore in NYC, The Forbidden Planet in NYC, Shakespeare & Company in Paris, RD Laing, Erich Fromm, Hunter Thompson, Dove by Robin Graham, Einstein's Dreams by Alan Lightman, Poor Sailor by SA Harkham, Silver Surfer by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, Reviving Ophelia by Mary Pipher, Kennedy Biographies, All Non-Fiction.
Emily Dickinson, EE Cummings, Walt Whitman, Howard Stern's Private Parts, Robin Quiver's A Life, The Max Strategy by Dale Dauten.
are sexy and all around us.
~ XO! ~
And last but not least my new friend "Barney Pickles" remined me of these heroes:The kids who turn up to school each day with a positive outlook even though their home life would reduce even a hardened man to tears......