Telling Stories and Making Art.
Fish Tacos and Surfing and Ohio State Football. www.ourartsite.com . The Portland Trailblazers, New Orleans Saints and Columbus Blue Jackets. Christmas.
Dogs. Fireflies. Using Flashlights. Ultimate Fighting Championships (UFC). Girls Who Wear Mittens. Grilled Cheese Sandwiches. Cop Moustaches.
Tide Pools. Commercials for Target. Those Snackelope Commercials for Slim Jims. Monsters (With or Without) Fangs. Swamps. Uakoko. Roller Derby, Trapper Keepers. Nordic Blondes. Nordicness in General. Naughty Librarians. Black Coffee. Armadillos and Walruses.
Some of my Work:
I'd like to meet:
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andand Nia Long and/or Rachel McAdams. and most likely, you, especially if you're a fellow artist/creative writer or you live in LA. meeting people on the internet is awesome an' all, but i'd much rather you meet you in person. i need some art opening/hockey game/diner companions; someone to fall asleep on the couch with when we're watching saturday night live.
Music:
The Police, The Jackson 5ive, Marvin Gaye, Kooks, Nick Drake, Matt Costa, Keane. Beck, The Pretenders, Harry Nilsson. Bad Company. The Eagles and Foreigner(both extremely guilty pleasures). Ed Harcourt, Sufjan Stevens, Josh Rouse, Rufus Wainwright, The Pointer Sisters, Dolly Parton, Midnight Star, Diana Ross/Donna Summer, Duran Duran, Salt-N-Pepa. Billy Squier, Black Sabbath, Led Zep, Wolfmother, ACDC. Late 80s/Early 90s New Jack Swing and 1970s AM Easy Listening.
Movies:
and Elephant. Hoop Dreams. The Royal Tenenbaums. Rosemary's Baby. The Bad News Bears (1976). Aguirre: the Wrath of God. Black Christmas (1975), Coffy. Toy Story 2, Shaun of the Dead. Die Hard. Alien/Aliens. Poltergeist, The Verdict, 12 Angry Men. Rear Window, Marnie, The Birds and most Hitchcock (late 50s/early 60s). The Heiress. Hedwig and the Angry Inch. Hud. Dazed and Confused. Fassbinder/Herzog. "Angry Young Man" British Films of the 60s. The New Kids (1985). The Car (1977). American Flyers. Boogie Nights and Magnolia. Horror/Slasher Films (1977-84.)and a whole lot more.
Television:
Roseanne, Cops, Extreme Makeover: Home Edition and the NFL. and all late 1970s-early 80s cartoons, even Saturday Supercade. and..i've seen every episode of "Martin". oh yes.
Books:
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Tapping the Source by Kem Nunn. everything by Raymond Carver. Andre Dubus. Moominpappa Books by Tove Jansson.
Blankets. The Color Purple. Less Than Zero, Jim the Boy, Edwin Mullhouse. The Chocolate War.
Heroes:
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and not to mention Sam Elliott in "Lifeguard" (1976)
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Trina Schart Hyman, R.i.P.
and the artists Elizabeth Peyton, Picasso (he did it all), Eric Fischl, Egon Schiele, Leo Lionni, Eric Carle, Ezra Jack Keats, Henri Rousseau and Andrew Wyeth.
