Yvonne Doll - ProfilesArchive

About Me

I'm a painter, photographer and musician.

I front a Chicago Indie Rock Band called- The Locals

The Locals have been together for about 10 years. You can check out the music at myspace.com/localsrockchicago

Big Picture Released

My band's new cd "Big Picture" is now available for download, also drop by our myspace and say hella.... The Locals Myspace

SleepyUrbanite.comI am also the photographer behind the site sleepyurbanite.com . I started taking pictures of people sleeping on the el train in Chicago with my cell phone a little over a year ago. It's a little.. weird.. yeah, I'll give you that. But the project has been really cool, some folks love it, some folks hate it, got to meet Matt Lauer...
More about Sleepyurbanite.com
I'm originally from Cincinnati, OH.
I came to Chicago to attend The Art Institute of Chicago. I have a BFA from there and am an oil painter . My photos, paintings and band pics are all in my pics section here. Drop a comment, I'd love to hear from you.

My Interests

music, art, photography, travel, life

I'd like to meet:

I'd like to meet: PJ Harvey. Music fans, music junkies, art freaks, other musicians, fine artists, outsider artists, performers of any kind.

Music:

Sonic Youth
The Pixies
PJ Harvey
XTC
The Killers
Death Cab For Cutie
PJ Harvey (yes she's listed twice on purpose)
The Decemberists
Modest Mouse
Silversunpickups
The Raconteurs
Heartless Bastards
Arcade Fire
Band of Horses
Moth
The Thermals

Movies:

Pricess Bride
The Royal Tenenbaums
Pulp Fiction
Amelie
Anchorman
Young Frankenstein
Almost Famous
Wet, Hot, American Summer

Television:

Lost
Huff
Weeds
The Daily Show
Colbert Report
The Riches

Books:

Being Peace: Thich Nhat Hanh
The Alchemist: Paulo Coelho
Me Talk Pretty One Day: David Sedaris
Finding Your Voice,Carolyn Sloan

Heroes:

PJ Harvey
Thich Nhat Hanh
Christy Nunes
Kim Gordon
Kandinsky

My Blog

Obama Mania, Hillary Hating

I know. I know. I’m supposed to be obsessed with Obama.as a young, passionate, timbuk bag carrying artist type. i’m supposed to be shunning hillary as a politics as usual, relic who’...
Posted by Yvonne Doll on Sat, 29 Mar 2008 09:40:00 PST

Benefit For Leukemia Research

The Locals are really excited to be playing one of our favorite yearly gigs... The Winter Wingding: A benefit for the Leukemia Research Foundation. It's a great line up of bands and for a terrific cau...
Posted by Yvonne Doll on Mon, 31 Dec 2007 10:23:00 PST

About Sleepyurbanite.com

Sleepy Urbanite.comSleepyurbanite.com is a web photo project I started a little over a year ago. I take pictures of people sleeping on the train with my cell phone. Its's a little weird, I'll gi...
Posted by Yvonne Doll on Sun, 11 Nov 2007 01:49:00 PST

Getting Ready To Mix The New CD!

Great day in the morning, and holy crap! The Locals (datz us) are finally heading in to mix the new CD. It's been a long haul. 3 years in the making, but we're in the home stretch.We'll keep you guys ...
Posted by Yvonne Doll on Wed, 17 Oct 2007 06:10:00 PST