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Mark

Yesterday was dramatic, today is ok...

About Me

I like to sit around and talk with my friend about how we would trick out his rusty S-10 pick up with a u-shaped white leather couch in the bed and transparent floor boards and body panels. Then I like to go to my studio and work on this big experiment that I call my practice while listening to 'Suspicious Minds' and singing along in French. I want to win the lottery and quit my job so I can spend my time helping the people I love.

My Interests

interesting art, Iceland, good beer, Indian miniatures, neuroses, baseball, puns, the Blue Lagoon, Niels Bohr, wiffle ball, asking questions, ghost stories, early American quilts, cool shoes, spatial organization, cognac, Robert Irwin, boats, Montreal, the cosmos, aesthetics

I'd like to meet:

Emiliana Torrini. Or people who people I know. Or a ballroom and swing dance partner. Or just fun people to start a dialogue with. Someone who knows where to find live funk in Philadelphia. People to be in my think tank.

Music:

Blur, Smog, Kronos Quartet, Talking Heads, Radiohead, Gus Gus, Lake Trout, Magnetic Fields, Boards of Canada, Concrete Blonde, Elvis, Sigur Ros, Mose Allison, Matthew Sweet, Mum, Elf Power, Jacques Brel, Mia Doi Todd, Bjork, Elvis

Movies:

Delicatessan, Bottle Rocket, Yojimbo, Remote Control (the Icelandic one), Raising Arizona, The Thin Man, Wonderboys, Double Indemnity

Television:

Fawlty Towers, American Choppers

Books:

Pale Fire, Seeing is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees, White Noise, Flatland, Tracy's Tiger, Fifth Business, Beowulf, The Drowned and the Saved, The Pine Barrens, Egil Skallagrimsson's Saga