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eddie

people really are fucking brilliant

About Me

making art ... 60s french pop ... stereolab ... francoise hardy ... jacques dutronc ... bridget riley ... kings of convenience ... anges martin ... ellsworth kelly ... basquiat ... blow up ... cleo from 5 to 7 ... the edukators ...veganism ... screenprinting ... turntables ... orange ... pink ... and red ... granny smith apples ... cy twombly ... jenny holzer ... hundertwasser ... 60s mod pop design ... circles ... squares .. nick drake ... watching clouds move across the sky ... john cale ... e.e. cummings ... city sounds ...

i like to make these

My Interests

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

Take the Hey Hey, Which Monkee Are You? Quiz.

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...

My Blog

i won't let you find me...

...she said there's a sea in there she said half laughing ed's head full of fish and icy blue salt water what you don't understand said i is it's so cold in here said i then she ran at me with this la...
Posted by eddie on Sun, 08 Apr 2007 02:43:00 PST

yes he said...

...my grandmother grew chickens in the backyard we would travel 2hrs from the sea 2hrs from the capital into the countryside he said we would look for eggs in the backyard where she grew chickens and ...
Posted by eddie on Sun, 08 Apr 2007 01:31:00 PST

pigs!

the tuxedoed pigs have come and gone and left their footprints on my lawn...now they roam through euro towns in rainbow wigs and sequined gowns...dancing jigs so short and sweet on tender tasty p...
Posted by eddie on Tue, 19 Sep 2006 07:44:00 PST

lost history...he said....everything unknown lies hidden....

....in blood, bones, and flesh....this is my history he said...hurling limbs forward like some cosmonaut or zombie lurching forward along the avenue he reads the street signs dramaticly out loud to n...
Posted by eddie on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

wandered around in the small rain and played garden

have felt a bit disenchanted and disconnected for days now......modern life....i guess all life has at times seemed a bit complicated....rode around with david in his pickup for most of the day ...
Posted by eddie on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST