Change, independent media, feminism, womanism, anti-racism, social and political theory, deconstruction, anti-consumerism, science fiction and horror film, art for art's sake, stoner rock, graphic novels, equality, rubber bugs, coffee, personal expression, general noirishness, drinking Jack Daniels, and being the best pain in the ass I can be.
Here's an artist I like -- Angie Mason. She had a show in NYC, which is what this flier is about. This is a link to her profile so you can also enjoy her in all of her glory: Angie Mason
I'd like to meet:
Feminists of all flavors. Filmmakers, artists, zinesters, muscians, crafters, activists. Other people's cats. Doodlers. Apocolyptic hippies. Feminist Metalheads, and MOC (metalheads of color). Goths gone pink. Folks who are whores for color. Rodeo clowns. Individuals who are incidentally and accidentally pretentious.
And anyone wanted by the FBI for rampant acts of individual thought. Oh, and anyone with tips on how to be anti-capitalist AND make a living... cuz I'm kinda sucking at that right now. It seems I've never enough to buy a new soul.
This is some art by Cristy C. Road, who I met awhile back at the Allied Media Conference. She is swell. Hire and pay her to doodle for you.
I think if I could hang out with a dead artist, it'd have to be the little known surrealist Remedios Varo . I thought it'd be uncool to hork her images, so please take a peek at the link... it'll be worth your time. There's this cool page called the Varo Registry that has some pretty kick ass women artists on it. Check it out, too.
I don't know who this fabulous myspace personality is, but I'm in love with anything that deconstructs that useless ol' mammy stereotype. Here's to
Ain't Jamama for giving her such remarkable multiplicity!
Music:
I pledge allegaince to no genre.
I was weened on a heavy diet of counter-culture, so a certain amount of hippy, psychadelic folk rock, blues and bluegrass is, for better or worse, part of my psyche. In reaction to this, heavy metal of the thrash variety was my first love during the teen years; if it involved loving satan, I'm probably well versed.
What is in my disc player this week: Tom Waits, Rasputina, Boris, White Stripes, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, Billie Holiday, Adrian Belew, High on Fire, Porcupine Tree, The Melvins, Django Reinhart, Dresden Dolls, Black Sabbath, Ani DiFranco, David Bowie, Sonic Youth, Ween, God Speed You Black Emperor, Trans Am, Loose (35007), Orange Goblin... and of course, Citronomicon! I like my metal filthy, my prog experimental, my ladies full of acrid, sarcastic feminist wit, my jazz structured, and my punk non-commercial.
I once had an epiphany that if Janis Joplin had had a real friend in high school, she probably wouldn't have died so soon... or ripped off such victimey songs.
I have a dream of one day kicking Ted Nugent square in the nuts.
I once did a class-construction analysis of "Lords of Chaos"... fascinating, but not really the point, I know. ..
Movies:
I decided for 2008 I would list every film I see this year, no matter how I saw it. Yes, this means any awful thing I watched in it's entirety while hung over on the sofa. Kind of an honest snap-shot of my film consumption. Just indulge me, okay?
APRIL
A Clockwork Orange (1971)
The Animation Show 4
American Zombie (2007)
Factotum (2005)
Donnie Darko (1982)
Ballet Russes (2005)
Blade Runner (2001)
Barbarella (1968)
The Libertine (2004)
The Lady in Question is Charles Busch (2005)
Everything's Gone Green (2006)
Chain (2004)
The Graduate (1967)
The Decline and Fall... of a Birdwatcher (1968)
Open City (1945)
Don't Come Knockin' (2005)
Run Fatboy Run (2007)
MARCH
Ghost Rider (2007)
Grindhouse: Planet Terror (2007)
There Will Be Blood (2007)
Duck, You Sucker (1971)
Legend (1985)
Persepolis (2007)
Flash Gordon (1980)
The Commitments (1991)
The Thing (1982)
Big Trouble in Little China (1986)
FEBRUARY
Dagon (2001)
Tenacious D in the Pick of Destiny (2006)
El Orfanato (2007)
Jenifer (2005)
Atlas Dei (2007)
Blue Velvet (1986)
Phantoms (1998)
Tout va Bein (1972)
East is East (1999)
Stranger Than Fiction (2006)
The Messengers (2007)
No Country for Old Men (2007)
JANUARY
Escape From The Planet of the Apes (1971)
Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (1973)
Bug (2006)
From Beyond (1986)
The Best of Triumph the Insult Comic Dog (1993)
Running With Scissors (2006)
The Syrian Bride (2004)
Muriel's Wedding (1994)
Things to Come (1936)
Battlestar Galactica: Razor (2007) Thanks to Tim, we watched it on the big screen... so it counts.
Species (1995)
Modern Problems (1981)
Ghost Busters (1984)
Cloverfield (2008)
Old Joy (2006)
The Passenger (1975)
Beyond Re-Animator (2003) This DVD features the best pointless music video ever!
Renaissance (2006)
The Devil and Daniel Johnston (2005)
Theda Bara... where are you?
I attended a Society of Animators conference in '93, and hate Disney.
My masters is in feminist film theory and science fiction film... plus horror/fantasy/magic realism. I probably think terrible, awful things about your favorite boyhood films... but if you really loved them, you'd think critically about them, too.
The atypical feminist, you should know, I literally threw up the first time I saw "My Fair Lady".
I like pretentious films. I'm a whore for a beautifully shot film, and will suffer a hateful message to bask in good aesthetics (i.e. "Sin City"). In otherwords, I'm a complex creature, and like things despite myself... Lynch and Kubric; someday I will take what I learned as a small girl watching "A Clockwork Orange", and sit with Kevin Smith's eyelids peeled back, and make him watch "Go Fish" and "By Hook or By Crook" until he groks lesbian subjectivity... forever (Adrienne Rich, motherfucker!!).
I'm also an animanophile, with one caveate; I could give a rat's ass about anime. Fuck you and your "excessive jiggling" warning. Racist, exotified animated porn does nothing for me (pretty please, be the one who makes the asian-schoolgirl-rape-revenge series!). To clarify, I thought FLCL was self reflexive enough to watch ad naseum, and don't really have a problem with porn persay -- just hands off the babies, please. And in terms of consuming racialized Others, I am curiously attracted to the zombie films "Stacy" and "Wild Zero".
I loathe romantic comedy and "women's films". After working the theater during "Dreamgirls" week, I was reminded that I also hate musicals. I love "In the Company of Wolves". I hope that one day, Stella gets her groove back, on her own terms.
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Here's some stuff I've seen recently that made me happy... my room mate keeps bringin' this stuff home and I can't get enough of it:
Television:
I'm all about my scifi and fantasy, but do not imagine that I'm part of that world -- my fav is the cancelled "FarScape" and I can't get enough of the new "Battlestar Galactica". I haven't had the time to become a "Heros" junkie, but I know I would be otherwise. I've written a crapload about Stargate (the film mostly). G'head... ask me anything about how slavery came to earth by way of aliens that possessed beautifully queer looking black men. White men with military capability couldn't possibly be to blame! Fascinating, captian!
Curiously, I don't care about CSI or Law and Order. I've recently developed an affinity for BBC America -- maybe it's all that "different" whiteness. I am one shiksa who luvs Jon Stewart n' Colbert, and I watch too much Adult Swim. I am currently taking amphetamines so that I can watch METALOCALYPSE regularly... Brendon Small's new project... he's of HOME MOVIES fame. I'm also digging the VENTURE BROS.
I bask in the pretention of Sundance documentaries... however, the Iconoclast series is an over-privileged cock-sucking contest. Reality tv makes me vomit. I watch waaay too much CNN and C-SPAN, because I am proud and nerdly. Sometimes I watch Korean soap operas on the international channel.
Books:
Most of my sheros write... and of course, I dig what they're writing. Especially Angela Carter and Octavia Butler. I love Audre Lorde. I'd be lying if I said I hadn't enjoyed early Anne Rice... WTF happened to her, eh? Toni Morrison is a no-brainer... or extra-brainer. I read a lot of Bitch Magazine. I love zines and stuff scrawled on walls in public restrooms. I used to read Tolkien when I was a kid... maybe that's why I'm so queer-friendly today. I like to think way too hard about stuff that you're not suppose to (Guitar Wolf), and poke fun at the stuff that is "genius"... like Hunter Thompson, god rest his soul. And if I could, I would also kick Picasso in the nuts. He knows why.
Heroes:
We feminists... we likes to namedrops us some sheros. Women in Black, Radical Cheerleaders, Drag Kings/Queens, Womanhouse Collective of 1972, Audre Lorde, Faith Ringhold, Faith Wilding, Ana Mendiata, Hanna Wilke, Coco Fusco, Alice n' Rebecca Walker, Leslie Feinberg.
Patricia Hill Collins, Ani DiFranco, Angela Carter, Octavia Butler, Alice Paul, Emma Goldman.
Jim Henson, Jim Moore, Ron Saaks, Ruby Tapia, Terry Moore, Judith Mayne, Mary-Margaret Fonow.
Art Spiegelman, Jhonen Vasquez.
Phoolan Devi, Buffy Saint Marie, Koko Taylor, Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey, Billie Holiday. Adrian Piper, Joan Jett, Patti Smith, Ubaka Hill, Luisah Teish, Judith Butler, Starhawk, Carolee Schneemann, Barbara Kruger, Ella Shohat...
