Love and War. Music, music, music...Vintage clothes. Big eyed art. Big stacks of toast and copious amounts of tea. Assemblage. Cocktails. Ladybirds. Falafel. Ginger snaps. Walking by the sea. The smell of old books. Gift giving. Old style glamour. Pocky. Floral prints and flock. True friends. Developing photographs. Pineapple. Woodcut. The crackle of vinyl. Handmade gig posters (in fact, handmade everything). Reading. Writing. Learning. Absorbing. Creating. Booja Booja. Travel. Handwritten letters. Making lists, crossing things off and adding more on the bottom (then rewriting them). Spanish reds. Cinammon. Polka dots. Parma violets. Hugs. Red and green. Coconut. Gentle sunshine. Good chocolate. Collage. The smell of bonfires. Yellow roses. Playing. Customisation. Raspberries. Tempestuous skies. Working class heroes. Poppies. Roast veg and goat's cheese. Hoarding; Postcards, receipts, photographs, bus tickets, old jewellery. You name it, I keep it. Some might call me sentimental even. Social history. Pastels, charcoal and putty rubbers. Pre Raphaelites. A good dose of bourbon. Oh..and sleeping.
Painting the world red (So much left to fill in!)Art: Off the top of my head...Kurt Schwitters, Mark Dion, Joseph Cornell, Gil Elvgren, Degas, Gordon Matta Clark, Joan Miro, Brian Jungen, Gina Garan, Mark Ryden, Bill Viola, Kathe Kollwitz, Anselm Kiefer, Max Ernst, Anish Kapoor, Giacometti, Phil Collins, Rodin, Mona Hatoum, Brian Eno, Frances Hodgkins, Paul Cezanne, Paul Klee, Turner, Emil Nolde, Howard Hodgkin, Christian Boltanski, Mucha, J.W.Waterhouse,Tim Biskup, Peder Balke, Tadeusz Was, Owen Logan, Pegeen Vail, Tintoretto, Timothy Hedden, Cornelia Parker.
Audrey Kawasaki
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I'd like to meet:
People that inspire me. Failing that, somebody with a Birdseye pea car.
Music:
Ryan Adams, Richard Hawley, Jarvis, Ed Harcourt, The Pipettes, Kings of Convenience, The Reigning Sound, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Jolie Holland, Joanna Newsom, Yann Tiersen, The Stooges, The Beach Boys, The Decemberists, The Pixies, The Exploding Hearts, The Sonics, The Dirty Three, P.J. Harvey, Jens Lekman, Gentleman Reg, Gun Club, The New Pornographers, Slim Smith, Devendra Banhart, The Cramps, The Paragons, The Kills, The Cure, Tom McRae, Olav Larsen, Johnny Cash, Hara Kee Rees, The Soledad Brothers, The Hidden Cameras, Grinderman, John Schooley and his one man band, Serge Gainsbourg, Jeff Buckley, Dooley Wilson, Silversun, Buddy Holly, The Midnight Evils, The Ponys, Entrance, The Black Lips, Brendan Benson, The Gossip, The Smiths, Ray Lamontagne, Weird War, Papa M, Suede, Miss Alex White, The Compulsive Gamblers, Matthew Jay, Elbow, The Tah-Dahs, The Flakes, Brigitte Bardot, Xiu Xiu, Lou Barlow, Milk n' Cookies, The Dirtbombs, All types of Billy Childish and Holly Golightly activity, M. Ward, Subsonics, Pete Molinari, Iron and Wine, Jason Molina, BRMC, Bjork, Townes Van Zandt, The Hunches, Guitar Wolf, Massive Attack, The Goodnight Loving, Hello Saferide, Jacques Dutronc, Johnossi, Belle and Sebastian, Dan Sartain, Astrud Gilberto, Radiohead, Feist, Roy Orbison, Beirut, Joy Division, Violent Femmes, Neil Young, Will Oldham, Bob Log III, The Manic Street Preachers (ahh memories...)Death From Above 1979, The Deadly Snakes, Nick Drake, Mansun, Alicja Trout, Blanche, The Walkmen, Jacqueline Taieb, The Longpigs, The Velvet Undeground, Tom Waits, Camera Obscura, Madrugada, Mark Lanegan, Neko Case, The Kinks, Lou Barlow, BBQ, The Ronettes, The MC5, 13th Floor Elevators. Etc, etc, etc...
Movies:
Amelie, Lilya 4 Ever, The Big Lebowski, Ghost World, Life is Beautiful, Dancer In The Dark, Dead Poet's Society, Secretary, The Pianist, Once Upon a Time in the West, Jean de Florette, Good Bye Lenin, Leaving Las Vegas, Being John Malkovich, Labyrinth, The Goonies, My Life Without Me, Buffalo '66, Little Miss Sunshine
Television:
I don't watch so much, but The League of Gentlemen, House, Twin Peaks, Green Wing, Black Books, Peep Show, My Name is Earl, Phoenix Nights,The Sopranos, Spaced..and you have to have a bit of the Antiques Roadshow.
Books:
Memoirs of a Geisha, Perfume, The Extremes, The Little Friend, The Child in Time, White Oleander, Slaughterhouse 5, The Time Travellers Wife, The Tin Drum, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nightime, His Dark Materials, Eleanor Rigby, Norwegian Wood, The Handmaid's Tale,Jitterbug Perfume, The God of Small Things, Beloved, Catch 22.
Heroes:
Pearl Hilton. Gordon Matta Clark. Tamsin Greig.
Sir Tony.
