Christine

Music:

Like all music REALLY, but when I'm home I like Neil Young, Bob Dylan, Grateful Dead, Lucinda Williams, Tom Waits---Roots, Rock , Blues, Jam, Jazz, Black Crowes, Lou Reed, Velvet Underground, Tom Waits, Coltrain, Amos Lee, Ben Harper, G-Love, Derek Trucks, Warren Hains, Taj Mahal, Fred Eagelsmith, Jazz Mandoline Project, Bella Fleck, Carlos Johnson, Beatles, Stones, Neko Case, Gram Parsons, yada, yada.I'm always going out to hear something new. (Support friggen local music!!!!)

Movies:

True Romance;Black Orpheus;Like Water for Chocolate;anything Tim Burton or Quentin Tarantino;Raise the Red Lanturn, In AmericaI think everyone would see Phenomenon at least once.

Television:

Not a big fan of the stagnant idol that makes your ass grow into enormous proportions.
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Books:

TOO MUCH INFO:

Reading within the Last Year ( I'm colligatly inept and unedumacated so I likes to read allots)

High Fidelity-Nick Hornsby

Bob Dylan-Chronicles

Love in the Time of Cholera -Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Everything is Illuminated -Jonathan Safran Foer

The DaVinci Code -Dan Brown

Angels and Demons -Dan Brown

Staggering Work of Heartbreaking Genius - Eggers

Twenty Grand Great American Short Stories published 1963

Doors of Perception Aldos Huxley

Devil in the White City -Erik Larson

Confessions of a Record Producer -Moses Avalon

How to Make 10, 000 a year in the Music Business -for review (BOOOOO)

How to start your own record label

Scum Manifesto -Valerie Solanas

The Touring Musician

The Billie Holiday Companion -Leslie Gourse

Sonic Alchemy-Visionary Music Producers and Their Maverick Recordings -David N. Howard

Getting More Gigs -Bob Popyk

The Enlightened Mind - An Anthology of Sacred Prose

Geek Love-Katherine Dunn

A Life Without Consequences- Stephen Elliott ( This is a friend of mine who is so so talented...read it)

Hell's Angels-Hunter S. Thompson

Rum Diaries-Hunter S. Thompson

Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas-Hunter S. Thompson

The Handmaid's Tale-Margaret Atwood

Murdered by Capitalism: A Memoir of 150 Years of Life and Death on the American Left by John Ross

The Trials of Lenny Bruce

The Subterraneans -Jack Kerouac

Sexual Persona -Camille Paglia

An Unseemly Man- Larry Flynt

Band, Booze & Broads - Sheila Tracy

What They'll Never Tell you in the Music Business -Peter Thall

Tears for Water -Alicia Keys

The Wilderness - Jim Morrison

and other stuff but really who reads this stuff?

Heroes:

(ABOVE) JEAN VANIER-The impetus for my 5 years of communal living in poor neighborhoods And getting rid of all my possessions several times over. This man is so full of love.
“But in another way, community is a terrible place. It is the place where our limitations and our egoism are revealed to us. When we begin to live full-time with others, we discover our poverty and our weakness, our inability to get on with people, our mental and emotional blocks . . . our seemingly insatiable desires, our frustrations and jealousies, our hatred and our wish to destroy.”
(ABOVE) WOODY GUTHRIE and those he inspired; Bob Dylan being my favorite.
(ABOVE) JOE HILL print by CARLOS CORTEZ
A songwriter, itinerant laborer, and union organizer, Joe Hill became famous around the world after a Utah court convicted him of murder. Even before the international campaign to have his conviction reversed, however, Joe Hill was well known in hobo jungles, on picket lines and at workers' rallies as the author of popular labor songs and as an Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) agitator. Thanks in large part to his songs and to his stirring, well—publicized call to his fellow workers on the eve of his execution—"Don't waste time mourning, organize!"—Hill became, and he has remained, the best—known IWW martyr and labor folk hero.
(ABOVE) GRANDPA & GRANDMA (mom's side)- I miss these strong, ornery characters. People wonder why I say strange or bluntly honest things sometimes...
(ABOVE) CARLOS CORTEZ-I was his last model before he passed. Read my blog for an interview I did with this amazing artist, printer, politico, poet and writer.
(ABOVE) JOHN TRUDELL
"a crazy lone wolf, poet, prophet, preacher, warrior full of pain and fun and laughter and love...He's a reality check. Justice is a fire that burns inside him. His spirit cries out for it. It makes him dangerous." - Kris Kristofferson
“After Mr. Trudell and I said goodbye and hung up the phone, I had to put my head down to absorb all that he had said and then I cried. Tears mixed with sadness, of finally feeling understood and lastly that I had spent time with one of the greatest freedom fighters I'll ever know in this lifetime and a man who was not afraid to speak the truth...no matter the cost.” Excerpt from Interview I did with John. (Read in Blog)
(ABOVE) At twenty-two years of age, Nuçi Phillips was a gifted musician, a good student at the University of Georgia in Athens and a kind and gentle person. But on Thanksgiving Day, 1996, after five debilitating years of suffering and struggling with depression, Nuçi shot and killed himself. Though his life was short, he touched many with his music and his humanity. This loss of yet another young musical talent inspired the creation of the Nuçi Phillips Memorial Foundation, Inc., a nonprofit charitable organization.
Nuci’s mom, LINDA PHILLIPS started this organization so young musicians don’t go through what her son did. I love her for that. She is amazing. Check out the Drive by Truckers too, their big into this place and where his friends also. http://www.nuci.org
(ABOVE) "El hombre nuevo" Do I really need to say who this is?