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Diana Bonebrake

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About Me

I write for La Luciole Magazine, an on-line journal published monthly by Karen Bowles and Luciole Press. Click on the logo about to reach he home page for La Luciole.I paint landscapes and skyscapes in oils. Click on this painting to reach my site :

My Interests

Painting, music, books, poetry, television, film, cloud formations, sitting on my behind looking out at my backyard, taking pictures,singing along to bad top 40 radio with my daughter, architecture, etc...Above : S.A. Griffin's Billboard.

I'd like to meet:

H.H.D.L. and Hugh Laurie

Music:

self portrait, circa 1977. DJ Knits: Photo by Suzie Racho.I like all kinds of music... X (naturally), Radiohead, the Doves, the Old 97's, Dillon Fence, Dvorak, The Promise Ring, Rhett Miller, Basie, Ellington, and Artie Shaw; Orchestra Superstring, Depeche Mode, the Bonebrake Syncopators, Three Bad Jacks, the Lucky Stars, Skip Heller, Coltrane, Wardell Grey, Dave Alvin, Art Pepper, Billie Holiday, Lionel Hampton, Milt Jackson, Otis Redding, Mary J. Blige, T.Rex, Woody Herman, Lysa Flores, The New York Dolls, David Bowie, Sigur Ros, etc. etc. etc... My favorite singer/songwriter : Lloyd Cole.

Movies:

The Kid, Casablanca, X-The Unheard Music, To Have or Have Not, The Maltese Falcon, Sunset Boulevard, On The Waterfront, Pretty Baby, The Dead (Dubliners), The Man Who Fell To Earth, GoodFellas, Resevoir Dogs, Chinatown, A Streetcar Named Desire, Roman Holiday, Bonnie and Clyde, Modern Times, Young Frankenstein, Dead Poets' Society, The Treasure of Sierra Madre, Flying Down to Rio, To Kill A Mockingbird, Splendor In The Grass, West Side Story, Citizen Kane, Dr. Strangelove... I need to think of more but there are so many from every era, this is just a tiny list...

Television:

House has become our latest obsession. Animated by Evil Lynn!

Books:

Lately : Fire Lover, Joseph Wambaugh; The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu; Rockets Red Glare : The Handsome Duke Deal and Kid Mingo Letters; Numbskull Sutra, S.A. Griffin; Interchangable Goddesses, Pris Campbell and Tammy F. Trendle; How to Cook Your Daughter, Jessica Hendra; The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry; Pigs at the Trough, Arianna Huffington. Poets Scott Wannberg and S.A. Griffin

Heroes:

My husband and my daughter; I will never reach their level of integrity. Exene. Lloyd Cole. Thom Yorke. Handsome Duke Deal aka David Smith. S.A. Griffin. Travis, Brandy, and Lindy Dickerson with DJ : the one and only MR. WILSON. X. Artist/musician Michael Cano.

My Blog

New Years with X

Well, here are some clips of X's show at the Ventura Theater New Year's Eve.The show was great and it was wonderful having our daughter by my side (and in the front shooting with the rest of the photo...
Posted by Diana Bonebrake on Sat, 05 Jan 2008 12:19:00 PST

Michael Cano’s work set to music

In honor of his appearance in this month's edition of La Luciole Magazine, here is some of his amazing work. The Music-'Palace of Dreams'-is by Orchestra Superstring and used with permission. ...
Posted by Diana Bonebrake on Thu, 06 Dec 2007 11:54:00 PST

My brief foray into hand modeling

Back in 1983, X filmed the "True Love Part II" video at Hully Gully studios in Los Angeles. Many friends participated in the shooting. Rick Schmidlin, then X's lighting director, and I shared hand mod...
Posted by Diana Bonebrake on Tue, 02 Oct 2007 09:09:00 PST

Beverly Park

When I was growing up in Los Angeles in the 60's we went to Beverly Park. I've posted a few shots (taken from a proofsheet my dad developed in his home darkroom) in an album in the pics section of my ...
Posted by Diana Bonebrake on Tue, 25 Sep 2007 12:57:00 PST

Drug dealers are working in front of the $650,000.00 home across the street

I was standing in my alley today doing my three times a year rinse down behind the garage.Hosing dust out to the street. Across the street from my kitchen, two little cars zip up. The one guy gets ou...
Posted by Diana Bonebrake on Wed, 12 Sep 2007 07:58:00 PST

X at the House of Blues.

A couple of really awesome, burn-it-down sets this weekend by X. Those of you who have never seen them live will say I must be biased, but X really is the best live band EVER. I love to i...
Posted by Diana Bonebrake on Mon, 03 Sep 2007 12:39:00 PST

Even Los Angeles Suffers Occasionally

Within a few weeks, the days will grow shorter, the languid heat of August will be gone, the wisp of clouds, a Phthalo blue sky...It will be dark at 5. The sun will no longer make reclining on the p...
Posted by Diana Bonebrake on Wed, 15 Aug 2007 10:24:00 PST

MY NEXT GALLERY SHOW

Dear friends,please join me Saturday night, July 14th, for the opening of my show "LAND and SKY"at ORLANDO GALLERY, 18376 Ventura Boulevard, Tarzana, CALIFORNIA 91356(818) 705 5368....
Posted by Diana Bonebrake on Tue, 19 Jun 2007 10:31:00 PST

Marilyn Grant, 1927-1992

My mother, photographed by George Hurrell in the latter part of the 1940's....
Posted by Diana Bonebrake on Tue, 15 May 2007 12:58:00 PST

What's Behind The Mask?

We had a visitor tonight....
Posted by Diana Bonebrake on Thu, 01 Mar 2007 11:19:00 PST