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Mutual Admiration Club Members.
This page is full of people YOU would love to meet. People who have done spectacular things:
A*NON, who turned a camera, respect for language, and an energetic angry intelligence into a book, a film, a series . . . not to mention the small gems: the blogs, the clips, etc.
Luminescent, who has taken Man-fuckin-Hattan by storm in the two years she's been there. She turned a sweet grad-school opportunity in Boston into a modern-day Greenwich Village fairy tale. Not only is she one of only ten speech pathologists working at her level in NYC, she has brought a burgeoning art career with her from Boston where she still shows regularly. She's not just a stilt artist, not just a photographer, not just a designer, She's Luminescent.
I've said it before and I'll say it again: I'd take a rocket in the face for Scott Rice. He didn't just dream of being a filmmaker when he was a kid. He waited for years until Dad finally gave him permission to use the VHS camera set-up at which point he made the first of FIFTY episodes of "The Adventures of Mad Matt" starring his little brother. Since then he's won over 100 awards at over 300 film festivals, and with any luck will be directing his first feature, My Monster, within the next year.
The Fromholz family, who has turned a love for music, wit, family, and friends into a dynasty that stretches across the United States and the world. They are woven into the Austin ethic. And I can say, quite literally, that Steven's voice is the voice of Texas. But they are so, so, so much more.
I want to meet more people like these.
Electronic to supersonic to bionic. I talked to Dizzy Gillespie about clam chowder. I found Bonnie Raitt's guitar in her fiance's bedroom. I've seen My Bloody Valentine, Alex Chilton, Dave Brubeck, Radiohead, Pink Floyd, Henry Rollins, Billy Bragg, The Silos, Johnny Cash, U2, Dimitri From Paris, Belly, Rolling Stones, Nirvana, Jane's Addiction, Pixies, Willie Nelson, David Bowie, Squarepusher, Chet Atkins, George Thorogood, Throwing Muses, Elvis Costello, Bexarametric, Boston, Van Halen, Earth Wind and Fire, Jonathan Richman, Lucinda Williams performing live. Countless others.
I'm a movie junkie. I even like the movies I hate.
Simpsons. Family Guy. Chapelle's Show. The Office. Sopranos. But I only have basic cable.
I read. Magic Realists. Realists. Modernists. Authors with a sense of humor and the absurd.
I'm a walking, talking hero. I'm a sunshine gangster. What's your power?