Illustration -- design -- painting -- performance -- animation -- comix -- well, shit, just all ART, dammit -- meditation -- tree climbing -- studying zen buddhism & tantra & taoism -- being a sober freakazoid instead of a drunken asshole (don't get me wrong, being a drunken asshole is great and can be a rich and interesting and rewarding experience, but everyone should change careers at least once in their lives) -- inventing new foods -- folk and fairy tales -- teachin' kids 'bout art n' stuff -- hiking -- literature of all ilks -- poetry -- pyschology -- seeing, smelling, tasting, touching, feeling -- engaging conversations -- contemplative walking -- dressing up as if I were a rock star, jester, pirate, insane and/or drain bamaged
I'd like to meet:
artists, writers, performers, dreamers, madmen & women, explorers and fallen angels from around the world. --And maybe even YOU!
Music:
-gilberto gil
-antonio carlos jobim
-serge gainsbourg
-the birthday party
-the germs (darby crash was one of the best lyricists that rock has ever seen, just nobody knows it cause he's so f**kin' raw in his vocals)
-joy division
-the minutemen
-ani difranco
-jeff buckley
-marvin gaye
-an array of arabic pop
-astor piazzolla
-disposable heroes of hiphoprisy
-gil scott heron
-brudda iz
-chet baker
-thelonious monk
-julie london
-swans
-husker du
-code of honor
CAN YOU MATCH THE FOLLOWING 3 SETS OF LYRICS WITH THE CORRECT ARTISTS LISTED ABOVE? IF YOU CAN (no googling!) YOU CAN WIN AN ORIGINAL PIECE OF ANONYMOUS BOSCH ART!:
1)
"Quiet thoughts and quiet dreams
quiet walks by quiet streams
and a window that looks out
on the mountains and the sea,
oh how lovely
This is where I want to be
here with you so close to me
until the final flicker of life's ember."
2)
Ah wassa born...
And lord shakin, even then was dumpt into some icy font,
Like some great stinky unclean!
From slum-chuch to slum-church, ah spilt mah heart
To some fat cunt behind a screen...
Ah tied off! fucken wings burst out mah back
(like ah was cuttin teeth!!)
Ah took off!!!
(rats in paradise! rats in paradise!)
There's a mutiny in heaven!
3)
you are a china shop
and I am a bull
you are really good food
and I am full
I guess everything is timing
I guess everything's been said
so I am coming home with an empty head
you'll say did they love you or what
I'll say they love what I do
the only one who really loves me is you
and you'll say girl did you kick some butt
and I'll say I don't really remember
but my fingers are sore
and my voice is too
Movies:
-pan's labyrinth
-the science of sleep
-city of lost children
-brazil
-city of god
-night of the hunter
-betty blue
-triplets of belleville
-rabbit proof fence
-walkabout
-the meaning of life
-wild at heart
-blue velvet
-la strada
-mean streets
-bad taste (peter jackson's first major movie: fuckin' funny and gross as hell)
-monsters inc.
-jackson's remake of king kong (I cry at the end every time. You see,I'm quite in touch with my feminine side, dammit!)
Books:
anything by Umberto Eco, anything by Al Franken, most Mark Twain, most Dr. Gonzo, almost all Miller, Un Saison En Enfer and the Visionary Letters, Cities of the Red Night, Place Of Dead Roads, Western Lands, The Job, Giovanni's Room, The Fire Next Time, Diving Into The Wreck, The Fact Of A Doorframe, The Captain's Verses, any David Sedaris, most Foucault, all Jung, Campbell, Marge Piercy, Leopold Sedar Senghor, Jimmy Santiago Baca
Heroes:
--the lovely Tres Jolie, a Superhero (she flies through air, honest)...and she's FAST, like the WIND ...like the wind on a MOTORCYCLE! And she's STRONG, like the HULK! And she's SMART! SO smart that her brain blocks out the sun when she stands between you and it, but her head casts its own light, so you won't be left in the dark! And she's PRETTY! So pretty that barren fields sprout corn, mountains rise up and the rocks get harder when she walks by!
(help...she's got me in a headlock and is making me write this! --someone call the police!!!)
...Oh yeah, all the following people are pretty important to me in one way or another too:
--my father, who saved my life in more ways than one and died too young.
Creatively:
--arthur rimbaud --henry miller --hunter s. thompson --william s. burroughs -- carolyn forche --adrienne rich --octavio paz --langston hughes --comte de lautréamont --jorge luis borges --james baldwin --otto dix --albrecht durer --matthias grunewald --john william waterhouse --arthur rackham --harvey kurtzman --billy elder --renee french --wally wood --windsor mckay --moebius --george grosz --george herriman --bill watterson --ralph steadman --will eisner --phoebe gloeckner --marcel duchamp --claes oldenburg --jean tinguely --gabriel rosetti --sam shepard --luigi pirandello --karen finley --peter greenaway --akira kurosawa --ladislas starevich --hayao miyazaki --fw murnau --the fleisher bros --john cassavetes --raymond carver --charles bukowski --friedrich nietzsche --maimondes --immanuel kant --carl jung --the 99th monkey
