trying not to step on ants walking on the sidewalk...watching the sky...listening to records with the headphones on...making stuff...lying in fields of tall grass...making paintings in my head...1978...8tracks... turntables.....reel-to-reels...neatly putting things into piles.....disorganization.... minimalism......francoise hardy...walking around the city until i'm really sleepy...
stuart sutcliffe and astrid kirchherr
robert rauschenberg and jasper johns
david hockney
otto piene
ellsworth kelly
ben shahn
agnes martin
mr. rogers
nan goldin
wolfgang tillmans
mayumi
eva hesse
frank stella
bridget riley
victor vasarely
I'd like to meet:
boys in skinny ties with really black shoes, buddy holly glasses, and large blondie record collections...my mom circa 1978...mr rogers...blonde redhead...harold...maude...lola falana...cristi for brunch...lovely blokes who sit cross-legged on the bed atop disheveled white cotton sheets and play the guitar...julie christie...tuesday weld...josef albers...nice fellows who say please and thank you...ed emberley...damien hurst...francoise hardy...audrey hepburn on the set of two for the road...linda carter circa 1978...the woman who taught me how to write cursive on pbs...karen clarke on some beautiful haphazard street in london
Music:
jacques dutronc...nino ferrer...serge gainsbourg....mystic moods orchestra...francoise hardy.....blonde redhead.....eyes and arms of smoke....kings of convenience......stereolab...saint etienne....warmer milks...early air stuff........and walking around the city because birds....rain...traffic...white noise...and snippets of conversation can make for a pretty keen afternoon soundtrack...
francoise hardy
stereolab
kings of convenience
jacques dutronc
marie laforet
omd
saint etienne
fun boy three
antoine
can
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Movies:
heart of glass, afterlife, harold and maude, cleo from 5 to 7, sex and lucia, science of sleep, laurel canyon, high art, velvet goldmine, 28 days later, brother from another planet, auntie mame, 24 hr party people, king of hearts, an american werewolf in london, charade, two for the road, bande a part, fantastic planet...
cleo et 5 a 7
steve mcqueen
antonioni's blow up
a bout de souffle
fantastic planet
almodovar
harold and maude
Books:
"i haven't read a single book all year and the only film i saw i didn't like it at all"...but yoko ono's grapefruit is probably my favourite book ever...
Heroes:
folks who are alone...agnes martin....rilke...karen clarke...cy twombly...hundertwasser..... people who still fall in love despite the odds and disenchantment...yoko ono....ellsworth kelly.....bike riders....roller skaters.....skate boarders.....art makers.....foul mouthed bastards.....rabble-rousers...rebekah teague...
