Making/Looking/Buying art, antique oddities, playing the guitar, folk music and the folky folks that like folk music, solo adventures, drinking coffee on the porch, belly laughs, wit, geeky tech talk, improv, sketch comedy, my Twin-I-Beam pick-up, my new online store!, zines, handmade books, NPR, Thomas Jefferson Hour, yoga...that is all I can think of at the moment.
Visual artists I like: John Ford, John Fraser, Antoni TÃ pies, Annette Messager, Susan Rothenberg, Jim Dine, Sandy Skoglund, Nancy Spero, Hannah Wilke, Cindy Sherman, Ellen Gallagher, Kiki Smith, Ray Johnson, Rachel Whiteread, Brent Riley, Barry Mcgee, Marcel Dzama, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Clive King...
I'd like to meet:
Artists and people with a spark.
Music:
Greg Brown, Utah Phillips, Nick Drake, Karen Savoca and Pete Heitzman, Van Morrison, Neil Young, Squirrel Nut Zippers, Leo Kotke, The Be Good Taynas, Voices on the Verge, Rose Polenzani, Laura Nyro, Ani DiFranco, Loudon Wainwright III, Leonard Cohen, Kenny Rogers (who doesn't love the Gambler?), John Denver makes me happy, Hem, The Duhks, The Decemberists, Cynthia G. Mason, Tom Waits, Xavier Rudd, Iron and Wine, Neko Case, Nina Simone, Sparklehorse, Opal, Mazzy Star...
Movies:
The Red Balloon (Yes, it is the one you saw on film in gradeschool - my favorite movie of all time!) ,Five Obstructions (mind blowing!), Innocence, Hideous Kinky, Tides (Doc about artist Andy Goldsworthy), The Sea Inside, The Lives of Others, The Secret Life of Words, The Cuckoo, Red, Blue, Koyla, You Are Alone, Whale Rider, The Piano, Holy Smoke, Talk To Her, The Jerk, How to Draw a Bunny (Doc about mail artist Ray Johnson), Waiting for Guffman, Dancer in the Dark, The Station Agent, The Slaughterhouse Rule, A Mighty Wind, Tennis Anyone?...I know there are so many more I have forgotten.
Television:
I don't have or watch TV, but I made this 'commercial':
Books:
Watership Down, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Blue Highways, How Proust Changed My Life, Delta of Venus, Wild Child, Yellow Wallpaper, Art Objects, The Long Legged House, Grass Harp...any stories by Wendell Berry and David Sedaris (Amy Sedaris is great too!), not a book, but McSweeney's Journal (by that wacky but serious Dave Eggers) I'm an avid art mag reader: Modern Painter, Art on Paper, Art Papers, Art News, Art Forum, Fiber Arts, Bomb, Juxtapoz...I can't get enough!..
Heroes:
Grandma Sandfox, the funniest woman I've ever known, passed on too early in life (If she were born today she would change the face of comedy for women) and Melissa Borders Stevenson (a light that went out too early)
