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I'm a little tangent oriented...complulsive and obsessive for detail. I love to dance. I love art. I love to perform. I'm driven by aesthetics...in the buildings around me, in nature, in fashion, in personalities, in emotions. There's just so much that interests me that it seems just about fruitless to try to spell it all out here. I guess you'll just have to ask!
ELLE AIMES: math, patterns, jazz, interesting rock/pop, modern art, garage rock, 60's pop culture, objectivism, etiquette, ye-ye, decorum, vintage clothing, niceties, licorice, philosophy, computer geeky-stuff, pink leopard print, birthday cards, sharp scissors, small candy-like buttons and glass beads, architecture, props, exposed brick walls, theatre, go-go dancing, tango, salon, walking the city at 4am, history, shoes, glitter, cats!
ELLE N'AIMES PAS: smokers, sports of any variety, tattoos, catcalls, milk, sand in my shoes, crumbs in the bed, bunchy underwear, misspelled words, internet shorthand, sloppy drunks, dangling prepositions, lack of punctuation, yahoos, frat boys, loud talking, cell phones in restaurants, rudeness, milquetoasts, sexual innuendo, potty humor, laziness, inpropriety, dishonesty, diets, impatience, impertinance or obtusivity.
Anyone who can surprise me.
Aimee Mann,
Air,
Alex Chilton,
Apples (In Stereo),
April March,
Arcade Fire,
Aretha Franklin,
Athens Ga,
Bach,
Beach Boys,
Beatles,
Ben Folds,
Bertrand Burgalat,
Blondie,
Breeders,
Brigitte Bardot,
Buzzcocks,
Cake,
Cal Tjader,
Cardigans,
Celia Cruz,
Chet Baker,
Chopin,
Church,
Cocktails,
Cocteau Twins,
Combustible Edison,
Creation,
Danny Elfman,
Dave Brubeck,
David Bowie,
De La Soul,
Debussy,
Decemberists,
Dinosaur Jr.,
Django Reinhardt,
Dungen,
Dusty Springfield,
Easybeats,
ELO,
Ella Fitzgerald,
Elliot Smith,
Elton John,
Elvis Costello,
Ennio Morricone,
Esquivel,
Fischerspooner,
Flamin' Groovies,
Flaming Lips,
Frank Sinatra,
Frankie Stein and His Ghouls,
Freedy Johnston,
Generation X,
George Harrison,
Georges Brassens,
Geraldine Fibbers,
Gilberto,
Goldfrapp,
Gram Parsons,
Grifters,
Guided by Voices,
Hammond and Synth,
Hank Jones,
Harry Nilsson,
Henry Mancini,
Hollies,
Hüsker Dü,
Jazzanova,
Jeff Buckley,
Jellyfish,
Joanne Newsom,
Jobim,
John Barry,
Johnny Cash,
Jon Brion,
Jonathan Richman,
Kinks,
Koop,
Le Tigre,
Left Banke,
Love,
Makers,
Man or Astroman?,
Massive Attack,
Mazzy Star,
Mel Torme,
Mercury Rev,
Mice Parade,
Miles Davis,
Minutemen,
Mission of Burma,
Moog,
Morphine,
Murry the K,
Muse,
Neutral Milk Hotel,
New York Dolls,
Nick Cave,
Nick Drake,
Nickelcreek,
Nina Simone,
Nino Ferrar,
Northern Soul,
Nublu,
Paolo Conte,
Patsy Cline,
Patti Smith,
Paul Simon,
Peggy Lee,
Petula Clark,
Pixies,
Police,
Prince,
Rachmaninoff,
Radiohead,
Ramones,
Red House Painters,
REM,
Replacements,
Rolling Stones,
Roxy Music,
Sea and Cake,
Sebadoh,
Serge Gainsbourg,
Sergio Mendes,
Shadows of Knight,
Shadowy Men from a Shadowy Planet,
Sharon Jones,
Shirley Horn,
Sigur Ros,
Silver Apples,
Sonic Youth,
Soul Survivors,
Squeeze,
Steely Dan,
Stereolab,
Stevie Wonder,
Stone Roses,
Suede,
Superschunk,
Sun Ra,
Sweet,
Syd Dale,
Talking Heads,
Teardrop Explodes,
Television,
Thelonious Monk,
Tom Vek,
Tones on Tail,
T-Rex,
Tsunami
Ursula 1000,
Velvet Underground,
Wagner,
Who,
X,
Xavier Cugat,
Yo La Tengo,
Zombies70's NYC punk, all sorts of jazz, classical, tin pan alley..etc etc etc etc I can't begin to list it all here.
Heck, I even like the music from retro German commercials!
Anything with Molly Ringwald in it, she rocks!!! Thank GOD she's so cool. Or anything wherein John Cusack holds up a boom box and/or acts like a fool for love. I live for guys like that.
Breakfast at Tiffany's, The Graduate, Casablanca, The Shawshank Redemption, The Jerk, Pi, The Matrix, Lost in Translation, Hitchcock, Carnival of Souls, Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, The Eye, The Last Unicorn, Eternal Sunshine on the Spotless Mind, North by Northwest, Harold and Maude, Matt Helm, Bond, Annie Hall, City of Lost Children, Amelie, 60's technicolor, Elizabeth, Orlando, Russ Meyer flicks, John Waters, 80's cheesy movies, Chelsea Girls.......
EXCELLENT BAND!!!
Oh, allright.......Space Giants, 24, Lost, House, Twin Peaks, 6 Feet Under, Pink Panther cartoons, The Prisoner, The Avengers, Hullabaloo, Shindig, Seinfeld, Out of Order, Soap, Twilight Zone, Dark Shadows, 3rd Rock from the Sun, Law and Order, NYPD Blue, The Pretender, Meerkat Manor, Spongebob Squarepants, Simpsons, X-Files
Various works by: Aldous Huxley, Ayn Rand, Fitzgerald, Hesse, Henry Miller, Ernest Hemingway, Anais Nin, Dorothy Parker, Simone de Beauvoir, Oscar Wilde, Virginia Wolfe, E. L. Doctorow, Shakespeare...I can't name them all..not enough space for all this!!!
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Here is some of the art I have created for the entertainment business.