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chrissie

honesty is my only excuse

About Me

i'm the still point of the turning world

My Interests

.....No Ideas But In Things..... .......A Thing of Beauty is....... ..........a Joy Forever.......... including but not limited to: the finer things, the simpler things. Radical Software. cars and food. reefs, shoals, atolls. chomping, choogling, noodling, chugalugging, chockablocking, highrolling, slowgoing. other peoples' bookshelves & kitchens; smarts, hots, pipes, chops; swimming, driving, playing hooky, bicycling around the island, walking through tall grass; tarmac, puddle-jumpers, pond-jumpers, couchettes; brunch, midnight snacks, room service with mimosas & marmelade; rolled up sleeves. classic rock singalongs. the history of video games. the blue ridge parkway, hwy one all the way up, the pescadero ranch, the nevada city cabin, the garberville camping spot by the east fork of the eel river. california vernacular, sugarcube missions. alpacas, bunnies. smoking in the bathtub - gross, but unavoidable. the balcony of the castro. glass, wood, sand, salt, eucalyptus. hammocks, dirtbikes, fireplaces in the middle of the room. the hermes window display. bougie grocery stores. lectures, festivals, symposia, all-expenses-paid trips to academic conferences in obscure university towns. mutual admiration. spain, baja, capes. bowls and bowls and bowls of cereal as far as the eye can see. taking showers on moving trains. restaurants that give me credit. cassette tapes. swimming in water towers.

I'd like to meet:

george w. bush.

Music:

Teen Wave, Glitter, Shang-A-Lang, Freak Rock, Elfin Boogie, Deep Space Balladry, Wall-of-Sound Wizzardry, Denim Thunder (thank you april).................................. animal bands: the muppet jazz band, banana splits, country bears, the rooster in robin hood...falsetto (skip james, queen, groundhogs, shirley collins) or reverb (everly brothers, bo diddley, steve reich) ; black flag & grateful dead. whistling in the dark. transistors blaring from handbags. portable record players, thank you cimi. flamenco. hawkwind, pink fairies, longhaired punks et al

Movies:

falsetto and reverb; el topo & holy mountain, paris is burning, decline of western civilization pts I and II, high school and welfare. boy prep school movies (may morning). greek and italo beach and grimy yacht movies (summer lovers, contempt). bright mountain tropics movies (black orpheus, rockers). super-saturation (violence, hooper, romero, peckinpah), super-washout (bathos/blood). lithe, lissome, languid: pather panchali, endless summer. oskar fischinger and john + james whitney, norman mclaren, len lye, winsor mccay, michael snow, jack smith and all those dudes make good movies, too.

Television:

MIGHTY BOOSH!

Books:

michael moorcock, domebook 2, anything printed in bolinas, and tales of brave ulysses

Heroes:

willoughby sharpe, billy kluver, chuck jones, lucy lippard, stewart brand, other people who sound vaguely familiar to you.