Kirsten Rae Simonsen - ProfilesArchive

About Me

Things I think about: pink and cream colored birthday cakes, communion dresses, exploding household appliances, cake batter, cookie cutters, spilled milk, the suburbs, anger, Martha Stewart's color combinations, Mother Goose, dunce hats, cassette tapes, high school yearbooks, animals, nature, strippers, the Easter Bunny, sex, snow angels, mud, Amsterdam, England, the Victorian era

My Interests

Â© Gregory Crewdson, Untitled, 2001, from the series Twilight

Treehouses, green things, TRAVEL, cultural anthropology, animals, birds, art, rub-on letters, smelly stickers, Easter peeps, cake decoration, graphic design, burlesque, interior design, vine charcoal, satay sauce, airmail paper, Thai green curry, Japan, typography, candy buttons, fiction, architecture, South and Southeast Asia, mylar, vellum, and tracing paper, my 80's mix tapes, urban planning/studies, living a green lifestyle, consuming less., drinking coffee, eating cheese, eating Asian food, reading, watching films, sitting in cafes, drinking Belgian beer, hearing live music esp. electronic, outdoor festivals, biking, art, working out/running, talking to my bird, petting my dog, getting out of debt, pasting stuff into my sketchbook, writing fiction, rearranging books on my bookshelf, looking at books in bookstores, spending too much money on books, shopping for the elusive perfect handbag

I'd like to meet:

Fozzie Bear, artists, galleries, alternative art spaces, art collectives, and anyone interested in pink birthday cakes, easter peeps, and paint by number.

Music:

Bhangra, Sufi Devotional music, Persian classical music, much jazz, world, dub, gamelan. Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan. Ali Farka Toure. Thomas Mapfumo. Miles Davis. Bad techno remixes of seventies songs, the original seventies songs, disco. Fatboy Slim, Boyz Noise, Nightmares on Wax, Zion Train, Aphex, Boards of Canada. Eminem. Bach. Mozart. Beethoven.

Movies:

Taxi Driver, Naked, Babel, Munich, Syriana, Bourne Ultimatum, Seventh Seal, Lost in Translation, Apocalypse Now, Elephant, Nashville, Short Cuts, Magnolia, almost anything by Mike Leigh, Robert Altman, Martin Scorcese, and Stanley Kubrick, also Ingmar Bergman, Jim Jarmusch, Ken Loach, Paul Schrader, some select David Lynch.

Television:

Lost, ANTM, the British Office, Family Guy, 6 Feet Under, Desperate Housewives, Absolutely Fabulous

Books:

Panama (Thomas McGuane), Impossible Vacation (Spalding Grey), Money (Martin Amis)...MANY more...magazines: Frame, Dwell, New American Paintings, Contemporary, Flash Art