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Aileen

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About Me

I make kinetic/assemblage boxes, paint and sing. Spent the greater part of last year based in Czech Republic and touring Eastern Europe with a Tom Waits tribute band called the Blue Valentines. Currently, living in Berlin and singing for Blue Valentines and The Trunk Show, a new collaboration featuring songs by, Marc, Andru and myself.Other affiliations: www.dovetailrecords.com - Record company based in Berlin, working on debut album for Trunk Show with Andru and the boys. Go to the website and check out their other artists.www.sensurroundstagings.com - Sensurround Stagings is a theatre company based in Atlanta. Past productions include: "A Clockwork Orange;" Clive Barker plays - "Frankenstein in Love" and "History of the Devil;" and the world premiere of "Geek Love."
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My Interests

absinthe, acting, antiquarian books, ants, art, baudelaire, cicadas, cigarettes, clem snide, clive barker, cooking, costuming, curry, death, decrepit dolls, dioramas, dirt, dr. seuss, edward gorey, epoxy, fairytales, feathers, found objects, freaks, geeks, homemade bears, hot sauce, hummous, indian classical music, kinetic boxes, lewis carroll, life, monoliths, mortality, movies, music, neutral milk hotel, nick cave, paint, performance, philosophy, poppies, reading, religious iconography, rocks, rubber duckies, rust, samuel beckett, shellac, silence, southern decay, strange beauty, tequila, theatre, tom waits, unswerving loyalty, veves, wormwood, writing

I'd like to meet:

anyone who's likely to make me laugh at my foibles. oh... and winged monkeys... definitely, winged monkeys.

Music:

everything with heart, humour and savage rawness... nick cave, tom waits, Billie Holiday, Bauhaus, clem snide, Tom Waits, Ornette Coleman, Peggy Lee, Eric Satie, John Coltrane, Chet Baker, Flaming Lips, Miles Davis, Lou Reed, David Bowie, Lord Kitchener, Sparrow, Dead Kennedys, OutKast, Wu-Tang, Classical Indian, Curtis Mayfield, Flogging Mollies, Johnny Cash, Astor Piazzolla, Ice Cube, Husker Du, Big Mama Maybelle, Devo, Duke Ellington, John Lee Hooker, Al Green, Led Zeppelin, ACDC, Cocteau Twins, Eric Dolphy, Public Enemy, Etta James, Damned

Movies:

Zatoichi, My Friend Totorro, Harold & Maude, Amelie, The Princess and the Warrior, Run Lola Run, Wings of Desire, Heavenly Creatures, The Professional, Le Jette, Evil Dead, Big Fish, Harder They Come, Absolute Beginners, Gothic, High Fidelity, Made in Heaven, Delicatessen, City of Lost Children, Alice, Wings of Desire, Peter Greenway's films, Requiem for a Dream, One Hour Photo, Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas, Big Lebowski, Donny Darko, Nightmare Before Christmas, Young Frankenstein, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Jan Svankmajer movies

Television:

try as I might to avoid it.... Law and Order is my drug.

Books:

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Donald Barthelme, The Lorax, Through the Looking Glass, Siddartha, Geek Love, Brave New World, Faustus, Catcher in the rye, random non-fiction, Naked Lunch, Junkie, Unbearable Lightness of Being, Frankenstein, monster folklore, anything that I might learn from, Baudelaire, Samuel Beckett, The Last Man, The Trial, poetry be it good; bad or ugly, anything by Flannery O'Connor

Heroes:

Johnny Cash, Ghandi, Shel Silverstein, Lewis Carroll, Flannery O'Connor, Tom Waits, Samuel Beckett

My Blog

Murder of Crows!!! Trunkshow's first song demo

..TR> Hooray! Andru posted our first Trunkshow demo online! I am so excited. If you’ve been curious as to what Andru, Marc, Gez and I have been up to in Berlin and Praha, go to the Trunks...
Posted by Aileen on Wed, 26 Mar 2008 02:22:00 PST

Need your help!

Howdy! I just put up a new myspace page for The Trunkshow.  If you want info on my new project, The Trunkshow, or on Blue Valentines - or just want to give some moral support.... please add us!&n...
Posted by Aileen on Tue, 11 Mar 2008 06:16:00 PST

Curry Dinner and potluck at Carter’s tomorrow

Howdy! we are doing a last minute dinner at Carter's on Sunday.  Come around 4ish or whenever you can make it.  If you wanna bring something, please do - otherwise, just bring your sweet sel...
Posted by Aileen on Sat, 26 Jan 2008 11:55:00 PST

Atlanta Trip!

Hello, there!I will be making a small trip to Atlanta in January.Send me a message on myspace if you want to catch-up with me.  Will be staying with Mike from Jan. 17th to the 30th.See you soon!A...
Posted by Aileen on Sat, 29 Dec 2007 11:56:00 PST

I really do lead a charmed life.

The build-out of the studio has been going very well.  The boys and I have, practically, been living there the last few days.  Ok, I have been spending a few nights there, off and ...
Posted by Aileen on Wed, 22 Aug 2007 12:19:00 PST

Today, was a good day.

  Had a wonderful time in class, signed my first short-term lease (I have a place to stay for the first two weeks in Aug.), received hedgehog hammocks and other wonderful sundries (thanks, Mike!)...
Posted by Aileen on Sat, 07 Jul 2007 04:04:00 PST

I am jelly doughnut

..> I'm in Berlin ..> So, it's my second day in Berlin... tried posting my whereabouts yesterday, but the computer battery shut down.  Doing well, a bit daunted and more than a little sh...
Posted by Aileen on Tue, 26 Jun 2007 10:06:00 PST

Adventures in car-bondage

..> ..> Thanks to my industrious and very kind roomie, Sam, I now know how to change an alternator.  Advanced Auto Parts gave us a bit of a runaround so by the time we got the new alterna...
Posted by Aileen on Fri, 15 Jun 2007 06:42:00 PST

I'm finally Berlin bound!!!!

in the words of that Rush song.... "we're on the plane to Berlin... aboard the Condor Express... we'll peck the dead along the way... with entrails up to our neecks."Evita turned me on to this new Ger...
Posted by Aileen on Fri, 08 Jun 2007 01:50:00 PST

Duckie for Sale (hearse)

1980 Cadillac Hearse for sale!!!! Powder Blue... needs some body work... low mileage 89,200.  Strong engine... beautiful blue brocade interior with memorial plaques and working rollers.  Dro...
Posted by Aileen on Sat, 26 May 2007 12:40:00 PST