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About Me

This lovely drawing is by Marissa Christina
I'm Mish. I was born and raised in this fine city of Chicago. Right now I live in an lofty old studio with Basil, a rather lanky black kitty. Chicago will always be home but I recently relized that I don't want to live in the United States forever. We'll just leave it at that.
When I was a teenager I hung out at raves, underage gay clubs and $7 shows at the Fireside and Metro. I dressed in crazy outfits and did crazy things, but didn't we all? I have a lot of good memories of places The Royal, Red Dog, Centrum and Randolph Street Gallery (anyone remember that place? A short-lived but completely awesome spot. I wonder what ever happened to Zoe Orgasma...?) I love the flux of this city and seeing all the faces and talents that come and go.
I'm currently doing my student teaching at a Chicago Public High School, the last requirement for my a B.A. in Secondary Education at DePaul. The plan is teach English at CPS for a start, and depending on what happens, I might want to teach at university level too. I'm not really sure how I feel about that right now or what I want to get my Masters in. I'll just have to see how it goes.
I'm very passionate and supportive of D.I.Y. (do-it-yourself) culture. This can mean anything from supporting local businesses over large corporations to creating your own products and media if you don't see yourself represented. In Fall of 2005, I organized an event called Ephemera Festival. It was a lot of fun, and it gave independent artists and media-makers a chance to show their work. I'll do another one someday, but I'm not sure when.
I've been publishing a zine since 1995. Zines, if you're curious, are small independent publications that done out of love and interest rather than for profit. If youwant to learn more about the underground press, Zine World is a good source of information. Mine is called Indigo , and it's basically a collection of cut & paste art and stories about my life. I also make greeting cards and occasionally model for art classes, photographers & fashion shows when the opportunity arises.
I guess you can say I'm an "indoor kid", but I can be very extroverted and outspoken when I feel like it. I love to play Mad Libs and watch Unsolved Mysteries on DVD and play Bust-A-Move 2000 and read VICE magazine. I enjoy a meaningful conversation as well as a silly one. I have quite a few stories to tell, but the trick is getting them out of me. A charming disposition and a couple gin & tonics is a good start.

My Interests

making zines, studying literature, making greeting cards, writing, collecting ephemera, vintage and exotic fashions, japanese toys, underground publications, trashy movies, anything maple-flavored, cigars, stockings, hats, belts, gloves and other fancy accessories, gin & tonics, silk "very vanilla" soymilk, '60s british invasion music, scrabble, B+W photo booths, office supplies, fun paper products, abandoned places, mod stuff, walking around my apartment in high heels, being rediculous, working out, playing mad libs, dancing, snuggling, reading the dictionary

I'd like to meet:

Brainy cuties with hearts of gold.

Here are a few examples of my greeting cards:

Music:

THE SMITHS / MORRISSEY, The Magnetic Fields, Quix*O*Tic, Einsturzende Neubauten, Indochine, The Cure, The Velvet Underground, Pulp, The Organ, The Cars, Depeche Mode, Xymox, The Cramps, T.Rex, The Birthday Party, Lederhosen Lucil, Dead Can Dance, Kraftwerk, Throbbing Gristle, Alien Sex Fiend, Misfits, Felix Da Housecat, Sonic Youth, St. Etienne, Tori Amos, Bjork, Stereolab, Pixies, Suede, The Raveonettes, Joy Division, Nine Inch Nails, Rasputina, Leonard Cohen, KAS Product, Jay-Jay Johanson, The Psychedelic Furs, Anne Clark, Since The Accident, Suicide, The Human League, Patrick Wolf, The Arcade Fire, The Sounds, Jill Tracy

Movies:

Hairspray [and all John Waters films] Cabaret, Gummo, The Adventures of Sebastian Cole, Labyrinth, Velvet Goldmine, The Last Unicorn, Requiem for a Dream, The Dark Backward, Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure, Bent, Edward Scissorhands, The Center of the World, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Napoleon Dynamite, The Professional, Casino, Donnie Darko, The Tennant, Dazed and Confused, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Willard, Spike & Mike's Twisted Animation, Ghost World, Spirited Away, Secretary, Clue, Pi, The Triplettes of Belleville, Sin City, Pan's Labyrinth, Casablanca

Television:

Strangers with Candy, Carnivale, The State, Queer As Folk, Black Books, The Office (UK)

Books:

Geek Love, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Post Office, Delta of Venus, Lost Souls, Drawing Blood, The Theif of Always, Harry Potter and the everything, Nine Stories, Queer,1984, Geisha, A Good Man Is Hard to Find & Other Stories, The Well-Tempered Sentence, Are You There God? It's Me Margaret, Junky, The Girl with the Silver Eyes, Women, Last Exit to Brooklyn, The Eyes of the Dragon, God Bless You Mr. Rosewater, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Specimen Days, The Namesake, Interpreter of Maladies, The Curious Indicent of the Dog in the Night-Time

Heroes:

John Waters, Kathleen Hanna, Mark Ryden, Cyndi Lauper, Jem, Harmony Korine, Tim Burton, Crispin Hellion Glover, Anna Sui, Darren Aranofsky, Mink Stole, Melora Craeger, Tommy Kovac, Courtney Love, Andy Warhol, Emily Strange, Poppy Z. Brite, Stephin Meritt, Dan Savage, Flannery O' Connor, Anais Nin, Rob Zombie