Carl is Cissy Manchester

(This site's mostly for art friends. For my rather spooky music please come hear it on the "Carl with Records "myspace "Under myfriends THANKS !!) HELLO art lovers !!! I'm an old fashioned color surrealist who perfers wearing colors over the all too drab and conforming masses who choose wearing of black, grey and biege . I'm here to rattle some cages ,flip some wigs and hopefuly entertain a few others with my live act " Carl with Records "-As Sissy Goforth in Tennessee Williams screenplay for my favorite film" BOOM ! "says " If some people don't like it- who NEEDS some people ! "I'm actually a mellow Libra who'd rather sing ( I've written about 500 songs ) than fight ( I was a concientous objector during the Veit Nam war ) and I sing eccentric original songs to records . I'm mostly a painter who works from dreams ( also I do a landscape now and then ) - I came out with a book "Suspense above the Pool " ( dream paintings each with a written text ) in 1998 . I'm from Tucson Arizona -(born in Sapulpa , Oklahoma ) but have lived in the San Francisco area (now Oakland )since 1973 -I was briefly in the" Angels of Light" ( a psychodelic gender bending free theater group from S F in the '70's ) and "the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence ' when they started (they are crazed male "nuns " who raise money ) - I started singing as a small child ( 6 or so ) and remember going outdoors and wailing songs like ' The Man I Love " I made some films (super 8 ) "Weekend Zombie Nurses " "Rat Girl Rhonda " featuring a lot of drag performers - I lived in Thailand over a year ( 1972 ) with wonderful Thai transvestites ( I wrote a musical about that )-recenily I've done some shows for Cockette reunions . you could say I'm sort of a hippie but I do like old fashioned things such as Cole Porter , Jayne Mansfield , Christmas and Easter -though I'm not religous . I do a big halloween haunt every year with my partner Larry Schmidt who mostly designs it all (look at my pics ) I think of nature as god and I love the outdoors as well as travel - I've been to Asia ( I loved seeing Burma , Bali , India and Thailand )- Also l enjoyed much of Europe - I went to Austria (loved Vienna ) and Bavaria to study the "mische techniique (combining oil paint and egg tempera ) I'm vegetarian ( with seafood on occasion ) I love animals, old records -esp. vocals such as Peggy Lee , Sarah Vaughn , Hoagy Carmichael Anita O'day June Christy etc. -Also , I love cats and old musicals (but not "Cats "the musical ). - I work in a thrift store raising money for over 200 charities Here's the url for a web site of my paintings - http://home.earthlink.net/~carllinkhart/index.html -I'd also love it if you google me ( Carl Linkhart ) That turns me on ! peace and love to the world !