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Henry

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About Me

What about me? I went to college in NY got my BFA. Did some undercover missionary travel in the churches of Taxco and Iguala so I could get down to Acapulco for the dirty coke. Moved to LA with a phone call where I got a car with money from a mural. Used the car to get a job. Lost the car somewhere behind a tow truck. In LA I was working for TV organizing shit and doing some fashion design. Did a cross country trip on my bike during a long hiatus...Been slacking and working my ass off, and quitting smoking, one night stands and dinner parties. I shut down my studio in Hollywood. Or it got shut down. It all happened so fast. There was smoke, cops, semen... But I got all my paintings over the hill to the Valley where they wait. In Houston now two years. Things are changing.

My Interests

Music:

Nicholas King, Andrew Schauer, Tom Waits, Cat Power, Nick Cave, Bjork, Leonard Cohen, Pedro Infante, Fila Brazilia, Vicente Fernandez, Dozanova, Los Zafiros, Andrew Bird, Cri-Cri from the 30's, Nick Drake, Virgil Shaw, Bolita de Nieve, Yeah yeah yeahs, Jennifer Charles that sexy sexy voice on that bitch, Johnette Napolitano... Peaches, Old Mexican Ballads, Lhasa

Movies:

Paris, Texas. The Cow, Santa Sangre, Paper Moon, Ma vie en rose, All Almodovar, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Splash, Faster Pussycat Kill! Kill!, Barfly, Bent, Beautiful Thing

Books:

David Sedaris all of it, Augusten Burroughs, The Alchemist, The Painted Bird, Milan Kundera, Jt Leroy, Beautiful Losers, Lynda Barry hurts me, The Gold Cell, Raymond Carver, The Ground Beneath Her Feet, Before Night Falls, A Fine Balance, The Kite Runner, Revolutionary Road, A million Little pieces, Lovely Bones.

My Blog

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second day morn. Karaoke at the smog cutter last night. KILLED it. It least that's what it felt like when the gays screamed. Was there with Tammy after Big Wangs... and there was Karaoke there too aft...
Posted by Henry on Thu, 22 May 2008 08:45:00 PST

LA Day one... afternoon.

In Guin's house in HollyEchowoodmonica... what is the name of this place? She's off with her girl on an errand, and I'm her watching the windows swing wide and shut with the breeze that makes the palm...
Posted by Henry on Thu, 22 May 2008 05:11:00 PST

crash landing and then off to work.

In these last few minutes at the end of the day with the workers all preparing to go home to salads and dogs, the air conditioner kicks on one more time pushing its cool through the fetid ducts above....
Posted by Henry on Thu, 15 May 2008 08:19:00 PST

crick

I had dreams last night while sleeping on my sister's floor next to my mother. It was mother's day and she refuses to drive at night. It was mother's day and I was tequila tired.There is a mattress my...
Posted by Henry on Mon, 12 May 2008 09:23:00 PST

Guess where I am?

I am in the city where Bugs Bunny always thought he may have taken a wrong turn... I feel a little like this today... what a few days Fernie and I have ahead of us... today we dragged our sorry asses ...
Posted by Henry on Mon, 17 Mar 2008 08:34:00 PST

some show pics

http://www.kodakgallery.com/Slideshow.jsp?Uc=n4jp4rd.2sjw50i l&Uy=nxpp6j&Upost_signin=Slideshow.jsp%3Fmode%3Dfromshare&Ux =0&mode=fromshare&conn_speed=1have a look...
Posted by Henry on Mon, 10 Mar 2008 01:29:00 PST

phew

the show was great. lucky guy to have these people around me. thanks everyone. in austin right now. going to find a cleverly cooked egg.
Posted by Henry on Tue, 04 Mar 2008 08:19:00 PST

Who loves Max’s Wine Dive?

We need their sponsorship for the show! It's getting close... Everything is falling into place or into pieces.
Posted by Henry on Thu, 21 Feb 2008 06:36:00 PST

bio

Artist Henry Membreno was born in Weslaco, Texas in 1975, and spenthis formative years in Houston. After receiving a BFA from The CooperUnion in 1998, he remained in Manhattan as a life drawing instru...
Posted by Henry on Sat, 09 Feb 2008 04:10:00 PST

allright

I got my phone back... same number as always...
Posted by Henry on Mon, 04 Feb 2008 02:57:00 PST