homeostasis vs. the lovers of the night. peace. good vibes. sharing my skills. painting. going against the grain. working for a better tomorrow. improvising. no fear in trying. learning. being a svelt dork with skills. the future. autonomous drawings. unconscious. love. pop culture. timelines. the memory. cocoons. the pegasus. imago. behaviors. consumerism. makeup. magazines. advertisements. entropy. art and physics. cinematography and speed. sound and lack of. design and photo retouching. deconstruction. fast cars. making stuff. LIKES: ol'skool arcade games that cost a quarter like Tempest, pinball and gun games. cutting hair. apples heated w/ peanut butter and cinnamon. yoga. ballet. cardio. elongated bodies. street fashion and culture. the occasional taylored piece. old, thin t-shirts. organic boys. inner nerds. people who love to dance. dinner parties w/ good conversation. a couple bottles of wine and a dance/photo session afterwards.HATES: allergies. scratchy clothes. drama fo'yo' mamma. shady business. lower back pain. bike stealers. LOVE: friends. family. freedom from constraints. stretching. riding my bike. being outside. live music. live crowd. dancing. laying completely still. learning stuff along the way. riding the brown line around the city at dusk, the way the light and the sky paint everything in a blue, somber tone like VanGogh's Blue Period. soft serve ice cream. kissing. traveling. traveling through a kiss.
I'd like to meet:
The Phoenix.other decadent artists, lovers, and thinkers. activists. movers. shakers.driven.seaker.inquisitive mind.sweet smile.
laughter is a plus. intense taste in music is highly adored. less conformity. more color. more love. keep it laid back easy feeling. Magnets. it's all about magnets baby. -in opposition to that rubber/glue sing-song.
Music:
girl talk. all of kevin's mixes. tom vek. dim mak records. moving units. blake from m.units. matt roan. milosh. pita's "get out" cd song 3. vincent gallo's when cd. bjork. bowie. air. t rex. matthew herbert. larry tee. matthew dear. richie hawtin. mark grant. jay-j. miguel migs. julius papp. johnny love and mr.hixx. dj pier novikov. dj greg haus. those djs that spin disco house/flashback whatever at big horse and other random spaces. out hud. daedelus. denali. yeah yeah yeahs. super jane djs. adult. bloc party. M83. animal collective. diplo. oakland faders crew. adam beyer. slowdive. my bloody valentine. radiohead. lamb. donna summer. madonna. beck. velour 100. modest mouse. jeff buckley. pulp. the london suede. superpitcher. ltj bukem. basement jaxx. lhasa. nina simone. morissey. cinematic orchestra. fiest. the ship song cd from jacob. dalton's mixes. DNTEL. the skeletons and the girl faced boys. jesse batesole live. the jealousy via headphones. the kills (live = super sexxy). the arcade fire. the clientele. the church. kruder & dorfmeister. thievery corporation. massive attack. satie. sinatra (both nancy and frank). early paul johnson and mark almaria. -too many to list honestly but I'll take up space trying.
labels: dfa. ghostly. dim mak. matador. om. astralwerks. secretly canadian. warp....
genre: chicago house. san francisco deep house. italio disco. electro-blankity blank. indie. ambient. soulful blank. hip-hop w/ some funk and deep bass. new wave. post punk. disco. trip hop. deep bass/percussion/minimal/techno stuff that stirs my half-jungle soul.
Movies:
umm...first movie that made me cry was The Last Unicorn. Beautiful films: The House of Flying Daggers. Leolo by Jean-Claude Lauzon. The Red Violin. The Pillow Book. Funnies: Kung Fu Hussle. Will Ferrell, Jack Black, and Ben Stiller movies(the frat-pack movies like Zoolander and The Anchorman). Old School. Top Secret!. Likes: My Own Private Idaho and Even Cowgirls Get the Blues by GVSant. This german short I saw in film class titled "How the West Was Won": it's this looped film of two young lovers kissing layered w/ a locamotive and dubbed w/ a great soundtrack. home movies w/ friends. my first film "doom" in which I relate phone sex to baking cakes.
Television:
It's meat, mashed potatoes and pbr, not juicy roasted herb pork loin with creamy smooth goat cheese polenta and gewürztraminer.
Books:
Mags: Surface. Adbusters. Art Now. Beautiful Decay. Modern Painters. Flaunt. Another Magazine. ReadyMade. Domino. bmp. US. ...
Books: The Story of the Eye by Georges Bataille. Living Large in Small Places. Beautiful Loosers:Contemporary Art and Street Culture. Living and Working Spaces. Vitamin P. Culturally Creating Consciousness. The Painter of Modern Life and Other Essays by Baudelaire.
Moonage Daydream : The Life & Times of Ziggy Stardust.
Catcher In the Rye. The Teachings of Buddha. Symbolist Artists. Art books by Taschen. Erich Fromm's "The Art of Loving". Siddhartha. Damian. Art and erotica. Me Talk Pretty One Day is a great pool-side reader. The only book that has made me cry is Love Story...
Authors: Neruda. Hesse. David Sidaris. Georges Bataille. Kundera. John Cage. Baudelaire.