Mikey D

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Art Mark Rothko - my background used to be one of his murals. I am a Rothko groupie; Other abstract expressionists - Pollock and Kandinsky; Picasso - particularly the bulls he paints because of their symbolism; Tracy Emin shes brutally honest...i'd love to talk to her about the idea of life as a ready-made; Van Gogh - mostly because Don McLean's song "Vincent" has given me a greater appreciation for him; JMW Turner - he was in some ways the precursor to Rothko; Garafalo - because the one guy he painted in "Allegory of Love" is the hottest guy in all of the British National Gallery; Sebastian Ricci - because he painted a lot of Baccus...and who doesn't like the God of Wine?; The portrait of Mo Mowlam in the British Portrait Gallery; The Antwerp Museum of Modern Art had the best fucking exhibit ever on Emotion in '05...too bad I didn't write down the information of any of the artists; Andy Warhol - I'm torn...not sure I'm a fan anymore. Frida Kahlo - after watching Frida, I regret not buying the copy of her journals at that used bookstore in Philly; Gustav Klimt - after watching Klimt, I don't really like him anymore. But I feel like I should; Performance art (and participating in it).
Books A Coney Island of the Mind by Lawrence Ferlinghetti; A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle; A Separate Peace by John Knowles; Four Quartets by T.S. Eliot; Les Fleurs du Mal by Baudelaire; Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke; Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf; Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle; The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster; To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee; Weird Like Us: My Bohemian America by Ann Powers;
MoviesYeah, anything with Gael Garcia Bernal in it...
Bad Education, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Bring it On, City of God, Chocolat, Crash, Dirty Dancing, Drop Dead Fred, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Frida, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Goodbye Lenin, Harold and Maude, He Loves Me...He Loves Me Not, Heathers, I
MusicTaken from my McGill housing form on what type of music I like--"anything that I can randomly dance to around my room". The same survey which I played to get myself the largest single room on campus.
People Mary Tyler Moore all those late nights I spent with her in elementary school; Ileana Ros-Lehtenin because she is the coolest congresswoman ever and she didnt fall that one time I accidentally tripped her; Rosemary the transvestite stripper - because she can work for 35 hours straight and be on her feet for 5 hours in a row; the Page class of 2003-2004 because we were the worst page class EVER, and because their each so unique; Jesus; last but definitely not at all the least--all of my friends, who I love (and who speak my rare emotional language).
PlacesRound the Clock diner; Marina and I's ledge over St. Laurent; Thames Walk in London; the pink chair at Gap6605; the little yellow room at my school in France; the bathroom of room 635 in the DC Marriot; St. Joseph's Oratory; Tate Modern; Tortilla Coast; the swings at my park; in a nice boys bed; in my bed with my faithful Tommy body pillow; Colosseum; the coast of Bretagne, especially Ile de Batz; in my ghetto-ass wagon; Kensington Gardens; Cross on Mount Royal; Prague Museum of Modern Art; Chez Abgrall; graffiti-covered quasi-ghettos of Antwerp; anywhere a Page is; at any large body of water; the ledge of the window on Salas 5th floor dorm room at Harvard in summer 04;CDG2 airport; Thai Express; Shenandoah Mountains; aquariums with lots of penguins; my overseer desk on the House floor; Amy's cornfield; Pont Jacques Cartier during the fireworks competition; Rodin Museum in Paris; the shady spiral staircase with the half-floor in Cannon; Trevi fountain; West Virginia highways; Cafe du Kreisker; 9th floor Leacock; the lake; La Banquise (or La Belle); Prague (all of it); pizza place on de la Montagne; in Megan's kayak.
Other Life (cereal); The London Underground and other subways, trains, planes, and transportation centers; Talking with the late-night cashiers/waitresses and random strangers on public transportation; Q-tips; Tracking all the impoverished countries Gap gets their boxes from; Dancing and instructing friends in the art of dancing (occasionally in parking lots); Vodka and French gay mags; Seafood--including raw oysters, you wimps; Singing at work; Hosting literary-themed parties; Speeding with occasional hydroplaning or aeroplaning; Random driving and other adventures; Spontaneous trips across oceans; H&M underwear and my spoon bracelet; Speaking in French when Im drunk; Battling tops tournaments; My journal/painting on my walls; Swimming, preferably in full or no clothing; Yoga and running (ok, I've stopped but I totally intend to start again soon); Crawling out my window at night to walk around;
Boys...they are my weakness