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About Me

www.milkmanballet.com..

My Interests

Making art when I feel like it. Teaching. Cooking. Frogs and hedgehogs. Words and pictures. Playing dress up.

I'd like to meet:

Someone to play the piano part to George Crumb's Apparitions. Seriously. (Still looking!)

Music:

The Beach Boys/Brian Wilson, Vic Thrill, The Collisions, The Rudds, Scamper, Stylex, Tom Waits, Ho-Ag, Paula Kelley, Franz Ferdinand, David Bowie, Longknives, Esquivel, The Pixies, Modest Mouse, George Crumb, Jan de Gaetani, Astrud Gilberto, Human Sexual Response, Charles Mingus, Meredith Monk, Shostakovitch, Ligeti, Lutoslawski, Gang of Four, Brian Eno, Barber, Varese, T-Rex, Deerhoof, M.I.A., Mommy and Daddy, Of the Lion, Zolar X, Kraftwerk, Stereolab, Syd Barrett, MC5, The Woggles, White Noise, Bollywood, DEVO, Charles Ives, FrenteBands I've been afilliated with: Valhalla Kittens, Joe Lies, The Nonfamous, Gato Malo Orchestra and guest appearances with Voodoo Screw Machine, Voodoo Krewe, Robby Roadsteamer, The Charms and Waitiki! And check out www.myspace.com/courtneyandbill for our most recent projects...

Movies:

Barbarella, Secretary, Spirited Away, Princess Mononoke, The Incredibles, X-Men 2, Spiderman 2, Star Wars IV, V, VI, Charade, The Lady Vanishes, Manchurian Candidate (original), The Apartment, Fantastic Planet, Laputa (Castle in the Sky), Sin City, Totoro, Howl's Moving Castle, Rashomon, Seven Samurai, Umbrellas of Cherbourg, Freaks

Television:

The Prisoner, The Adventures of Pete & Pete, A-Team, Buffy, Firefly, Twin Peaks, Star Trek TNG, Invader Zim, Miami Vice, Iron Chef, Full Metal Alchemist

Books:

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, V for Vendetta, Life of Pi, Glory (Nabokov), Alex Ross' music writing for the New Yorker, Everything is Illuminated, Astonishing X-Men 1 - 6: Gifted, Swallows and Amazons, Best Food Writing of 2004, Middlesex, Pnin

Heroes:

Deerhoof. Bill.

My Blog

My Life in Boxes

I hope this will be the last time that I have to pack up my house, which isn't really my house, and clean the space that I used to occupy (which wasn't really my space) to the specifications of others...
Posted by courtney on Tue, 05 Jun 2007 11:01:00 PST

sneezin's greetings!

i got to revisit an important family tradition a few days ago: flying back from san diego with a cold, and therefore experiencing excruciating pain in my ears. i must have looked the part, because t...
Posted by courtney on Thu, 28 Dec 2006 09:43:00 PST

it is DEFINITELY snowing

i'm more bummed out than i usually am at the first snow...i think because it's not a pretty,fluffy, white sky snow, but rather a wet, gloppy snow that's making the driveway shiny. and i have recess d...
Posted by courtney on Tue, 28 Nov 2006 06:58:00 PST

i think it's snowing

just a little, a few snowflakes blowing around in the air. when i go over to the door to take a closer look it stops. the milk man love is still ongoing, and it's been more than a week since it clos...
Posted by courtney on Fri, 03 Nov 2006 10:17:00 PST

Life, you are so good to me

Man oh man. Things are awesome. 1. Got a new car! The Saab, high as the nostalgia factor was, turned out to be more of a lemon than I thought. Bill had to fix it by pulling out fuses until the bat...
Posted by courtney on Fri, 20 Oct 2006 07:42:00 PST

I drove myself to the doctor

Those of you who know me know what a truly amazing sentence that is. And it's all true! I, by myself, in MY OWN CAR, drove by myself to the doctor today. Because I have the following: bronchit...
Posted by courtney on Sun, 29 Jan 2006 01:16:00 PST

the trick is to pick only colors that work well together

brian eno is a genius. of course, noone would disagree with me anyway, so what's the point of saying it? but i just read his diary (a year with swollen appendices) and man...he's so smart. and insig...
Posted by courtney on Mon, 16 Jan 2006 10:21:00 PST

buildings can be beautiful

But it's not time for them now. We went to Boston last weekend, got to see a few of you, which was very nice. But I think you guys should come visit US now. Relax. It'll be a nice vacation. Loo...
Posted by courtney on Thu, 22 Sep 2005 11:36:00 PST

We're here...

1. I love it here. We totally did the right thing. The house is amazing, it's quiet but not boring, there are deer and rabbits and bald eagles and we have a beach and woods and butterflies and an he...
Posted by courtney on Sat, 10 Sep 2005 05:48:00 PST

so!

i got the job! bone and i are moving to north haven this september! to live in a gorgeous house with an ocean view! and i will teach and not starve and not get evicted and pay my loa...
Posted by courtney on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST