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jamey

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About Me



A chinook is a warm wind that blows cold crappy weather away and my personal general-use metaphor. I am about trying to nuture my chinook. I also want to nuture your chinook.

Also: diminshing the amount of things you find gross blows you life apart wide open for wonderfulness.

trying to see how far Gestalt psychology can take me(with you)

My Interests

Loose interpretations of art or strict interpretations or particular interpretations. Against Interpretation
Encouraging "non-drawers" to draw because they can.
Lying to children.
Walking past the elderly and hoping with balled fists they'll smile at me.

Drawings on papers that come out quick with little deliberation. Drawings that come out slowly and deliberately.

"Fiber"

occasions involving food with the suffix "social" tacked on.

painful family dynamics made use of. comedy, comediennes, comedians.

I'd like to meet:

braid metaphorically

somehwere there needs to be a six-pack-in-a-can. I'm working on a patent. It'll have to be 6 foot.

OUR HOUSEHOLD EQUIVELENT:

Music:

SMOG
Silver Apples, old B-52's, Ethiopian pop from the past, the Byrds, Study Buddies, Deer Knives, BARR, Harry Belfonte's "Calypso." Roxy Music. Devo (thought of as the male version of "diva" rather than de-evolution) Orchestral Maneuvers in the Dark.
the Kinks songs "Victoria," specifically the part "'toria."

anonymous old country music.

"Flotation Device" on Bellvue community college's radio station 91.3 late on Sunday nights.

I can try to hum songs to you if you hum them to me if I'm not nervous because then my hum cracks.

The Encino Man soundtrack.

Movies:

Grey Gardens
Gummo
Holy Mountain
Eraserhead + The Grandmother
Cannibal Tours
Ring of Fire documentaries of New Guinea
what I've seen of Greg Kuchar's Weather Diaries
Everything Maya Deren's done
Krzysztof Kieslowsky things
No Country for Old Men
The Adventures of Pete and Pete isn't a movie but is more like a movie to me than tv.

Television:

tv through eaves-dropping next day after tv show on people. magazines in the grocery stores check out isle tv

Books:

joyce carol oates ones
Susan Sontag stuff
Ways of Seeing
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
whatever
Grendel
Gaylord Pheonix comics
Yikes comics by Steven Weissman
Love and Rockets comics
Chris Ware and Ivan Brunetti in moderation
Adrian Tomine Optic Nerve
Art & Beauty by R. Crumb

some standard artists i like:
David Altmejd, Jessica Stockholder, Wolfgang Tillmans, Uta Barth, Agnes Martin, Matt Leines, Mary Henry, Aurel Schmidt, Eva Hesse, Bridget Riley, Lee Bontecou, cy twombly, Julia Randall, Ellen Galagher, Luc Tuymans, Neo Rauch, tom friedman, Mike Kelly, Chris Johansonm and and many, many more!

Heroes:

Wild-seeming horses with no gear in their insistence and defiance hauling so steadily that the fence really does become invisible. I've seem them along a highway somewhere.

My Blog

storm troupeau

We seek time to share our private creativities and time to individualize our shared insecurites...insecurity, I mean it lightly, almost as a synonym for questioning. Because when we question we are un...
Posted by jamey on Tue, 04 Sep 2007 02:11:00 PST

vacation destination

If i could die anywhere, might it be here?
Posted by jamey on Fri, 10 Aug 2007 08:01:00 PST

Joyce Carol Oates and personal advice to one's person

Joyce Carol Oates read at the downtown Seattle Spaceship Library yesterday.  What is striking about her is her thinness.  She is startling skinny.  Also, she is old.  It is hard, f...
Posted by jamey on Wed, 06 Jun 2007 05:18:00 PST

Street sights

I forgot that yesterday or this morning (how do parents remember what song was a hit in 1972?) I saw as I walked past the bus stop near trader Joe's on 17th and Madison three, THREE small (not mini) c...
Posted by jamey on Sun, 27 May 2007 11:59:00 PST

Wonder Manifesto .1

Wonder in Things Working Together   Tap-dancing with shoes made of fish scales on a shell-inlay floor.  Similar ideas and materials finding homes in each other. Orphanages of sunlight unit...
Posted by jamey on Sun, 25 Feb 2007 11:36:00 PST

thoughts on oddities and other oddities

I wish I remembered my HTML.. Here is the URL of inspiration:http://bushlibrary.tamu.edu/pastexhibits/womenof ourtimephoto.php?file=66It is the Bush online library of...stufff...Bush senior.  The ...
Posted by jamey on Sat, 10 Feb 2007 05:14:00 PST

This is how I describe my agnosticism

For awhile I checked the "atheist" box on my profile for my religion of choice.  Come on, it sounds bad-ass.  I was wooed. Choosing it,  I summoned up all the courage I had building for...
Posted by jamey on Fri, 15 Dec 2006 01:44:00 PST

What Kansas Was/ Is/ Did

September 11th 2006 is five years from Real One Number One.  Grandma (you shall forward know her as "Gram") and I flew then.  Flew into Salt Lake City.  You fly, you see a small-large l...
Posted by jamey on Sat, 23 Sep 2006 04:31:00 PST

life in the far east (of mass unmediated developement)

of washington.  Does anyone get the feeling that washington is odd?  but what about every other state?  Alabama, montana, maryland.  They're all weird and so are we.  Every no...
Posted by jamey on Tue, 11 Jul 2006 10:20:00 PST