WIGDAN

About Me

I'm a moon-faced nightcrawler who likes to paint, DJ, write and drink. I will often get something stuck in my head and will spend anywhere from an afternoon to a week trying to whittle it into reality - whether its a series of paintings, a suit or an end table. I wouldn't be so bold as to refer to this as a calling but moreso a mercurial obsession. I love road trips (since modern culture has smelted the romance from air travel) and I'm a bit of a thrift hound. I will dress up for the opening of a window, that is a fact. Click my pics to see some snaps of me and my rabble-rousing friends or go to my Michael Payne Portfolio page to see artwork from past shows. Under my pics, I also have a collection of album covers that I'm working on for a future exhibit. Check them if you like.

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Rascals, scoundrels, rapscallions and troublemakers.

Music:

Anything from ABBA to ZAPPA and all the dancefloor nonesense in between.

Movies:

Plenty of them

Television:

Somehow it's always on in the background and I'm a sucker for Sci-Fi afternoon marathons.

Books:

Any of the few plays by Joe Orton or his biography: Prick Up Your Ears; City of Night - John Rechy; Live Fast, Die Young - John Gilmore; A Lowlife in High Heels - The Holly Woodlawn Story; High on Rebellion - Max's Kansas City; Strapped for Cash - The History of Male Prostitution in America; Disco Bloodbath/Party Monster - James St. James; The Adventures of Kavalier and Clay - M. Chabon; Story of the Eye - Georges Bataille; The Thief's Journal - Jean Genet . . .

Heroes:

Not as much heroes as a winning guest list to a fabulous evening - Quentin Crisp, Dorothy Parker, Joe Orton, Robert Evans, Andy Warhol and the Factory set (Candy, Edie, Ultra, Jackie, Paul, Viva, Little Joe, Bridge & Rich, Ondine, Silver, Holly, for sure), James Dean (when he was a Hollywood hustler), Jean Genet, Jamie Hewlett, Siouxsie Sioux and the Bromley Contingent (Steve, Soo Catwoman, Simon. . .), Patrick Cowley, Anne Magnusen, Malcom Mclaren, Kieth Haring, Giorgio Moroder, Oscar Wilde, Gordon Parks, George Chang, Edward Gorey -- sounds like an evening full of priceless stories to me...

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