My biggest passion is music and I spend a lot of time pursuing this interest both personally and professionally. Live music absolutely feeds my soul and supporting the local music scene is very important to me. Every week, I volunteer as a production assistant on KCRW's music shows Cafe LA and New Ground (tune-in on KCRWMusic.com!). In general, I tend to be drawn to anything remotely subversive, kitschy, raw, dark, thought-provoking, intense and provocative -- whether it's evident in people, art, performance, etc... Other stuff: mid-century design and architecture; playing my guitar; film; theater; burlesque (it's in my blood, my great grandmother was in the Ziegfeld Follies); and taking life one day at a time. I love my friends and family and am learning every day how to show them the real me and be truly vulnerable around them.
I'd like to meet:
I've met my match... This is who I wake up to every morning, so don't try to get in my bed:
Music:
In no particular order... David Bowie, Mark Lanegan, The Detroit Cobras, Tom Vek, Cold War Kids, The Who, The Greenhornes, The Bird and The Bee, Iggy Pop and the Stooges, Mudhoney, The Go! Team, The Good The Bad & The Queen, Bang Sugar Bang, Led Zeppelin, Medeski, Martin and Wood, Sabrosa Purr, Badly Drawn Boy, My Morning Jacket, The Brian Jonestown Massacre, The Strokes, The New York Dolls, Stereolab, The Von Bondies, Belle & Sebastian, Lewis Taylor, Nellie McKay, Johnny Cash, Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings, Feist, The Raconteurs, The 88, Brian Eno, Air, Beck, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Aimee Mann, The Dandy Warhols, Serge Gainsbourg, Blondie, Spoon, Miles Davis (in fact, ALL the be-bop legends), Etta James, PJ Harvey, Forever Like Red, The Eels, T-Rex, Anita O'Day, Charles Mingus, Madeleine Peyroux, Hush Collector, Jay Farrar, The Vaselines, Elliott Smith, The Fall, Galactic, Carla Bruni, The Germs, La Rocca, The Shins, The Old 97s, Goldspot, Lilly Allen, The Pretenders, A Band of Bees, Velvet Underground, The Cars, Earlimart, Seu Jorge, Dusty Springfield, Turin Brakes, Coldplay, Gecko Turner, The White Stripes, Thievery Corporation, Sun Kil Moon, Shuggie Otis, Sarah Vaughn, Patti Smith, The Jam, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Pink Martini, The Ramones, Pearl Jam, The MC5, Bob Dylan, Gram Rabbit, M Ward, The Kills, Joseph Arthur, Jeff Buckley, The International Noise Conspiracy, The Fire Theft, Morcheeba, Bitter:Sweet, Louis XIV, Lucinda Williams, Jim White... it never ends!
For my Seattle pals here's a link to an Internet revival of KJET 1600 AM -- it features the music of the station's first few years (1980-1985), the old IDs and even some actual radio segments... So cool. This was one of my biggest musical influences as a teen -- when you're a Jet, you're a Jet all the way, baby.
Click on the logo to check it out:
Movies:
Mayor of the Sunset Strip, American Splendor, Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore, Lenny, Danger Diabolik, Death Race 2000, Decline of the Western Civilization (parts 1 & 2), Napoleon Dynamite, The Devil Wears Prada, In America, Blue Velvet, All That Jazz, A River Runs Through It, High Fidelity, Tenacious D: The Pick of Destiny, Mitchell (starring Joe Don Baker!), The Exorcist, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Secretary, Requiem for a Dream, American Psycho, River's Edge, Logan's Run, Sexy Beast, The Rocky Horror Picture Show (dressed as Columbia for Halloween in 1979!), Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Phantom of the Paradise, Miller's Crossing, Monster, Paper Moon, Hamlet, Over the Hedge, The Ballad of Jack and Rose, Garden State and The Women. Movies from MST 3K (yup, I'm a geek) and anything directed by Wes Anderson, Todd Solondz, Bob Fosse, Joel and Ethan Coen, Martin Scorsese and Christopher Guest.
Television:
Thank god for PBS and cable. Everything else is saccharine,overly-censored dribble watched by middle America. Much like a big pile of dog poo with rainbow sprinkles on top.
Books:
Traveling Mercies (Anne Lamott); The Mother Knot (Kathryn Harrison); Chelsea Horror Hotel (DeeDee Ramone); Parched (Heather King); The Secret Life of the Lonely Doll (Jean Nathan); The Passionate Mistakes and intricate Corruption of One Girl in America (Michelle Tea); Drinking: A Love Story (Caroline Knapp); The Year of Magical Thinking (Joan Didion); Ferdinand the Bull (Munro Leaf); The Collected Drawings of Aubrey Beardsley; rock memoirs and biographies of all kinds and anything by David Sedaris. Short stories and poems by Michael Xavier.
Heroes:
Nice people. Decent people. People who aren't douchebags.
