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k.g.

at the river's edge

About Me

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My Interests

this is what has caught my attention: natty gann (bless and rest her soul), DADA SIEGT, filming my artist grandma, stacks and stacks of books, science as esthetics, ink on card board, museums, libraries, collectors, Wunderkammer, anatomically correct hearts, incorrect broken hearts, bones, semiotics, really bad taxidermy (GQ says it's everyone’s favorite long dead art form! how trendy...), sustainable social movements, the art of the organized, that one conversation that starts the riot, good talk radio, tin toys, tin type photos, secret places, the obscure (history, facts, music, and movies), my family history (espcially the melon story), wanderlust, driving, Rupert Garcia, Max Ernst, Tristan Tzara, documentaries, people from montana, the effects of landscape on the subject at hand, communications, underground places to explore in portland, portland's coffee, art and literature scene, clit lit, taking the mystery out of my friends debauchery, making photo movies, scratching itches, how to deal with the mighty dilemma of purging christian evangelicals from politics, hiking in the woods, dirty muddy river swimming sinners, hungry insatiable people and subtle extremist. letters and hand made envelopes. that's a big one. you know, the hand written beauties in the mailbox that you had to lick shut.

I'd like to meet:

pretty, dark, smart, and angelic people.PEOPLE THAT F'ING READ: http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/149022

Music:

music should be played loud. with air drums and guitars. your bed should be used as a stage as your dog takes on the role of the adoring audience. if i were talented musically i would be like holly golightly with red hair. I like songs about drinkin' and dyin' (hip hop and country). you can not fuck with the violent femmes. orishas (cooba!), pixies, pj, thee headcoats, legendary shack shakers, sons and daughters, new york dolls, jay munly, jon spencer, bessie smith, eartha kitt, snooky prior, screamin' jay hawkins, cocorosie, freakwater, tom waitts, nick cave, patsy cline, willie nelson autographed my chest right on my heart, calexico, crooked county, beta band, billie holiday, GNR 4-ever!, the cure, trailer bride, and i love bishop allen when i drive to the beach. the breeders and the yeah yeah yeahs,& eminem. i highly reccomend AKWID if you are into mexican gangsta rap. and, i highly reccomend being into mexican gangsta rap. my favorite band ever is slim cessnas auto club because you can sing, dance, screw, pray, cook and bath to it. good stuff.

Movies:

Documentaries: home movie, american movie, incident at lochness, the life and times of harvey milk, hands on hard body, mule skinner blues, born into brothels, yank tanks, my architecht, paradise lost, yes men, enron: the smartest guys in the room, our brand is crisis, the secret life of plants, bus 174.... All Else: salt of the earth, haiku tunnel, dreaming with the fishes, true romance (best women going to kill you scene ever), donnie darko, the man from snowy river (bad ass sound track), camera man's revenge, legend, freeway, 1900 (really bernardo bertalucci in general), holy smoke (the pee scene), harold and maude, ))((, alex de la inglesia, Tim Burton/Johnny Depp combos, bad education, dead man, the gods must be crazy, the opening to the good the bad and the ugly, the breakfast club, muriels wedding, otesaneck (little otik), hedwig and the angry inch, half nelson, bamboozled, apocolypse now..... (my secret favorite movie is young guns I, shhhhh)

Television:

desperate housewives. over and over again.

Books:

Lolita, The Life of Pi, Special Topics in Calamity Physics,100 years of solitude, rent-girl, Two Trains Running, of Mice and Men, the Red Pony, Sexual Politics of Meat, the Omnivore's Dilemma, Savage Dreams, the Professor and The Madman, The Meaning of EveryThing (Cheers to the OED), The People's History of the United States, Passionate Declarations, Fugitives and Refugees ,The Mismeasure of Man, Evolution Of Human Intelligence, the Mummy Congress, Spell of the Tiger, women who write about monkeys are good too. and then... The Bluest Eye, The God of Small Things, Virgin Suicides, The Bell Jar, Chelsea Whistel, You Shall Know Our Velocity, The River King, the Handmaids Tale, Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, Jane Eyre, Persopolis 1&2, In the Time of the Butterflies, The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down, Marx in Soho, Emma, Black Swan Green.Charels Bukowski, I have sentimental spots from being 13 for women poets who take their own lives (Plath and Sexton), Pablo Neruda, Billy Collins.

Heroes:

the APPO.

My Blog

damn willie brown

well, my office is, at least, a place that keeps you on your toes. about a month ago my fav so-cal male organizer (that puts me in the clear because the rest of 'em are female), discovers, to my ...
Posted by k.g. on Thu, 31 May 2007 05:14:00 PST

special topics in calamity physics

BUY: Special Topics in Calamity Physicsby Marisha Pessl..:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />this is a book that has struck me dumb jealous with writer's block. i re...
Posted by k.g. on Mon, 07 May 2007 10:44:00 PST

this is what i want for christmas

this is the most amazing social commentary of our time and i must own it. buy it for me, NOW. Tuesday, December 12, 2006 (SF Chronicle)'Convert or die' game divides Christians/Some ask Wal-Mart to dro...
Posted by k.g. on Wed, 13 Dec 2006 10:06:00 PST

roofless in the US, thinking about India, North Korea

Last week I met a friend in a little restaurant in the Inner Sunset for salad and a conversation about his recent trip abroad to North Korea. In his late twenties, and a resident physician from UCSF, ...
Posted by k.g. on Sun, 10 Dec 2006 03:16:00 PST

memoir, montana (Part III)

August 18th, evening, dusk, children playing in the neighborhood before dark tells their mothers to call them homeAlmost one year ago, just a few days off, I came to Portland for the first time by pla...
Posted by k.g. on Wed, 21 Sep 2005 05:19:00 PST

memoir, montana (Part II)

The phone rang. It was around 8:45p.m. The number was unknown. I did not pick up, thinking about that man (out sourced, of course) who kept calling me about that grant he insisted I should apply for. ...
Posted by k.g. on Wed, 21 Sep 2005 05:08:00 PST

memoir, montana (Part I)

Memoir, MontanaPart One The first time I saw Larry it was like a dream. I had already been on the mountain for three days. I thought I would be out of the woods by then, although, in truth, no one had...
Posted by k.g. on Wed, 21 Sep 2005 04:58:00 PST

answer me this.

last night i had a meeting with the Chinese Progressive Association, which brought me into the heart of China Town. Grant and Jackson to be exact. The evening was cool, and the sun was dropping, which...
Posted by k.g. on Thu, 03 Aug 2006 09:25:00 PST

SF shakes and the Azusa Street Revival

I am 7th generation San Franciscan, for real.My great greats were in corrupt politics here (yeah Irish!), and my great uncle, a boy of twelve, was killed in the 06 Quake. The ground opened up and ate ...
Posted by k.g. on Thu, 20 Apr 2006 12:05:00 PST

knitting myself a grave

i think i might hate knitting. i really, really wanted to like it. well, actually, at first i thought it compromised my ever ineffectual anti-domestic policy, but then i got all soft and decided that ...
Posted by k.g. on Sun, 12 Mar 2006 03:19:00 PST