Intercourse (where I live and work and play--come over and play with us!!!), www.artistvsartisan.com; Select Media Fest 05 www.lumpen.com, Performance/Film Interactive Media Art; creative music; creative parties; creative fashion (body as the pallet); dissheveling the lines between fashion and art and de-industrializing fashion sustainably. Fair Trade clothing line for fashion anarchists. Meeting people. Version all over again this spring!!!! Yippeee!!!!
Myself when I was 5 and myself when I am going to be 60, and the me in all those undiscovered corners of the labyrinth. mahatma gandhi, chan marshall, lots and lots of Anti-heroes, creative yet non-presumptuous and down-to-earth dreamers, scientists who can teach me cool shit in lamens terms, people and situations that stimulate me to ask cool questions and have challenging dialogues, corporate assholes who treat me like their escort and then find themselves strangely troubled about themselves shortly thereafter, r.kelly's personal log mansion designer so I can talk some sense into that genius-idiot, mythogical beasts from dreams, people who do not let the inevitable fucked up-ness of reality prevent them from making this world a better place soon while accepting that we are all going to burn up eventually, people who live in the moment...and more, I'm sure...
former Coughs!!!, Ariel Pink, Carpet of SeXy, Rotten Milk's special mixes, Soft Serve, Hunter Hooser's Int'l DJ fests, lots and lots of obnoxious digital music and when the WZRD starts to mix with the south side R&B station and it makes the most incredible noise music that noone is 'making', Os Mutantes, David Bowie, Animal Collective, Coco Rosie, Cat Power, Right Eye Rita, Appleseed Caste, Old Canes, Velvet Underground, Jesus and Mary Chain, Neil Diamond, Vetivere, Andrew Bird, yo la tengo, Devendra Banhart, tristeza, modest mouse (back in the day), flaming lips (back in the '80's), bright eyes (sometimes), elevator division, esther drang...the list goes on and on and on.
(in no order of preference) me & you and everyone we know, just about every Jean Luc Goddard Film (esp. 'Weekend'), The Last Unicorn, A Waking Life; A Love Song for Bobby Long; In the Realms of the Unreal (Henry Darger, from Chicago, documentary), Cremaster; Alice in Wonderland (both the real-footage version from the '80's and the version which was dubbed by the Situationists)...lots of other stuff.
Turn the damn thing off!!!
the prophet--kahlil gibran; invisible cities--italo calvino; divine horsemen--maya deren, alice in wonderland, and books about the lives of 'freaks'...lots of other stuff
Gandhiji (I wish I was that non-violent), my mennonite ancestors; Chan Marshall (wish I was as good-natured and could utilize my sensitivity in such a beneficial and amazing way); Me (cause I will be someday)