Katie McD profile picture

Katie McD

making poor pretty since 1983.

About Me

i'm an underdogger. i like books, squirt guns, swimming, buttons,music and games. i'm only productive when listening to "this american life"(wbez- ira glass...not madonna, justin, not madonna). if i could be described as anything, i hope it would be a summer camp. i leave a lot of loose ends; you probably already know this.spare time? this is a fuzzy copy of what i do, like anything, i'm not nearly finished yet: by the way, it's called "flesh & blood"...literally hundreds of hours in the making... darling recluse. scary, a little. (you'd be grossed out to know how much flesh & blood I lost making it)You can lead a horticulture, but you can't make her think. -Dorthy Parker..............................................fuck this, i'm going home.

My Interests

recreationally cutting my hair. thanks orlando. MY NEW BIKE!!! the usual... siphoning gas from hummers, driving gravedigger (the gadgetmobile), riding around on people's jackets in fourth grade basketball commemorative button form, reading books, painting, jigsaw puzzles, going out to breakfast, limbo, of course catchphrase, scategories, going out to eat in general, getting all dressed up and having somewhere to go, painting, sewing stuff onto canvas, drawing, sculpting, photography,Vice Do's and Dont's, music, rock and roll, kissing, fashion, cello music, riding bikes, cooking, my kitties- Penelope and Lewis (P Kitty & Louis Vitton), planting things and making them grow, BUTTONS,working with little kiddos EYE LOVE YOU. crochet Lorenz manifold models...this one is by Hinke Osinga

I'd like to meet:

underdogs (and undercats).and if you want to meet me go here & do this: (god i love hugs & kisses!)Otherwise:people who are "officially over" crunk rap extremes... until they've stumbled out of kareoke.book club lumberjacks.Someone who knows how to have a good time like myself and Danielle.and this guy... and finally, my bestest friends.

Music:

Magnetic Fields,MC Chris, Tom Waits,The Rolling Stones,Against Me!,Spoon, Metric,The Veils,The Mountain Goats,Enon,The Pixies,Ratatat,Johnny Cash,The Moldy Peaches,Richard Hell,The Streets,Dolly Parton,Frank Black,Calexico,The Cars, Bob Dylan, The Clash,The Buena Vista Social Club,Wilco,Dusty Springfield,old haunted house soundtracks,Interpol,Lucinda Williams,Minus the Bear, Jeffery Lewis, !!!, The Postal Service, Dizzy Rascal,Will Oldham,The Unicorns, The Long Winters, The Decemberists, Clem Snide, The Shins, Neutral Milk Hotel, (smog), The Dears, Outkast,Etta James,Son, Ambulence, P.J. Harvey, David Sedaris as Billie Holiday singing comercial jingles such as "I Wish I Were an Oscar Meyer Weiner", The Misfits, The Zombies,John Legend, Eels, Keane,Dick Dale,Bright Eyes, Biz Markie, Saul Williams, Dead Prez, Pinback, Kanye West, lately- The Flesh, Neva Dinova, Grappa, Minus Story, Vitronic, Camera Obscura, Gorky's Zygotic Minci, American Analog Set, Antony and the Johnsons, Wolf Parade, Ringside, Stars, M.I.A., Patrick Park, The Animal Collective,Hugs & Kisses,Man Man, Beirut,Augie March, Sea Wolf

Movies:

HUSH LITTLE BABY,Wet Hot American Summer,Pi,AmoresPerros,Citizen Cane,The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys,Bottlerocket,Holiday Inn,The Lost Boys,mi vie en ros,Donnie Darko,The Warriors,Battle Royale,Killer Klowns from Outer Space,Pirates of the Caribbean,Batman, The Crime of Padre Amaro, The Night of the Living Dead,Goodbye Lenin!,Touch of Pink,Bee Season,I (heart) Huckabees,The Edukators, Dot the i,

Television:

project runway, degrassi (next. gen), good eats, golden girls is like (you) understood, most evil i should be on t.v.

Books:

Wierd Ohio, The Fountainhead,The Shipping News,The Family and the Godfather series by Mario Puzo,the blank generation revisited,From the Velvets to the Voidoids, Ferinheight 451,antiquated etiquette guides,Vonnegut,Nikki Lee,The New York Times Dictionary of Misunderstood Misused and Mispronounced Words, the Da Vinci Code, 1916, the Leaving and Other Stories, Memiors of a Geisha, Jonnie Got His Gun, Shakespeare, The Jungle, The Red Tent, The Binding Chair, White Teeth- Zadie Smith,The World According to Garp, 100 Years of Solitude, cheap Tachsen art/culture books, pretty much any art book.

Heroes:

"the new black" , macguyver, rose nyland, alton brown, the creators of degrassi, tim burton, sherin neshat, uncle bri, robert rauschenberg, people with enthusiasm and sparks tounges. scrabrilliants.

My Blog

cream cone dreams:

you would probably want to eat your favorite flavor of ice cream before it melted, wouldn't you?
Posted by Katie McD on Mon, 19 May 2008 07:39:00 PST

raushenberg:

i guess robert raushenberg died today.what a legend.i saw him speak my senior year of high school. he had someone act as a liason, but raushenberg just kept butting in, telling this guy he'd gotten th...
Posted by Katie McD on Wed, 14 May 2008 05:06:00 PST

beezy infection:

i've been idiosyncrasies tagged by beezus.here you go, woman:1) i steal ideas from the kids i work with and tie them into my art.2) my skin turns bright, BRIGHT red when i talk to someone i fancy duri...
Posted by Katie McD on Sun, 11 May 2008 02:29:00 PST

waste time to feel better:

Are you sick?no.Scare d to fall in love? i'm sort of at that ducks in a row except a couple of things wait and see delightfully happy anyways get shit/art done kind of place.What' s the conne ction b...
Posted by Katie McD on Thu, 01 May 2008 07:27:00 PST

money:

i made money not for me!my most recent work was auctioned off for $250.the proceeds went to st. vincent's family centers.horray for them.horray for me.i gorged on music this weekend: enon, lucero head...
Posted by Katie McD on Wed, 30 Apr 2008 10:00:00 PST

dear spring:

dear spring:you make me feel like i am being tickled really hard and can't breathe.stop! stop!no, don't stop!thanks for being the warmest, most beautiful, easy on the eyes, fun to be with spring ever....
Posted by Katie McD on Fri, 25 Apr 2008 05:21:00 PST

invitation to laos.

my landlord just came over to man-handle me, invite me to laos and check the drain in my basement. he told me that everyone would think that i was his girlfriend if he brought me with him. i told him ...
Posted by Katie McD on Tue, 11 Mar 2008 10:53:00 PST

it just so happens...

    that my job is 100% sweet. st. vincent’s was really fun today and max was delightful and giggly. i may not get too many flowers from suitors, but i can rely on spastic ten yea...
Posted by Katie McD on Wed, 26 Mar 2008 07:01:00 PST

thank you for my birthday.

    my birthday week was a crazy time. thank you for my birthday, dear crazy friends. i had birthday cake and birthday cupcake and birthday salmon with a miso glaze and artichokes. i at...
Posted by Katie McD on Sun, 23 Mar 2008 08:09:00 PST

i eye have been thinking about you (ba ba ba).

remember that one kid chris who used to live in the girls’ basement on the corner of 12th and 4th? he was scared of bugs and mold and i haven’t heard of him since but i think i saw him on ...
Posted by Katie McD on Wed, 27 Feb 2008 06:21:00 PST