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.
H.H.D.L. and Hugh Laurie
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.
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...
House has become our latest obsession. Animated by Evil Lynn!
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
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.