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.
pretty, dark, smart, and angelic people.PEOPLE THAT F'ING READ: http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/149022
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.
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)
desperate housewives. over and over again.
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.
the APPO.