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the iowa waltz

foxglove.

About Me

a modern vagabond in heels. good lines and bright colour.



My Interests

long distances, north winds, writing, kites, square-foot gardening, the 1959 Rollfast Cruiser, the velvet revolution, textiles, scotch, deportation, installation, documentation, transportation, recreation, slow food, oil rigs, docks, strikes, found objects, the american renaissance, porch culture, language, Scotland, immigrants, Garrison Keillor, bionics, wind turbines, meg's hair colour, prose poetry, globes, communities, screen doors, Iron Bru, mill towns, chapbooks, the mid-west, expatriates, Cracow, dirt roads.

I'd like to meet:

a good polish man. people with a knack for good eye wear. map makers. those who twist. Miklos Gaal. Olafur Eliasson. electric eels under the covers. Richard Gere circa 'Pretty Woman.'

Music:

my Casio PT-10, herman dune, smog, anna oxygen, john cage, first floor power, greg brown, animal collective, robbie basho, will oldham, the avalanches, of montreal, steve reich, german silence, the smiths, blood music, monade, cadillac blindside, johnny cash, the microphones, women and children, karl blau, devendra banhart, wilco, nina simone, espers, brian eno, america, john prine, mt.eerie, sufjan stevens, blonde redhead, cyclo, cale parks, electrelane, warren zevon, text adventure, sam beam, jason molina, mike tamburo, johnny clegg and savuka, sylvain chaveau & felicia atkinson, david grubbs, it's a beautiful day, uncle tupelo, pinback, the streets, six organs of admittance, daniel johnston, the reindeer section, jesse sparhawk, sigur ros, joanna newsom, stone roses, bruce cockburn, nouvelle vague, magnetic fields, jeff buckley, belle and sebastian, doves, james blackshaw, sparklehorse, tom brosseau, bob hund, steely dan, pieta brown, percy hill, M.I.A., yo la tengo, patti smith, nick drake, postal service, neautral milk hotel, sean smith, ladytron, elvis costello, elliot smith, gastr del sol, billy bragg, dylan, cocorosie, david byrne, whiskeytown, mark knopfler, the knife, peter tosh, ryan adams, woven...northern pines.

Movies:



this is not a love song, kontroll, wonder boys, ko zaprem oci, match point, the big lebowski,in the mood for love, the constant gardener, white, intermission, the brainchild block, the end of the affair, together, talk to her, the sea inside, little miss sunshine, in the city, koyla, smala sussie, drop dead gorgeous, all about my mother, girl with the pearl earring, before sunset, rabbit proof fence, frida, city of god. any movie with shao lin in the title. any movie with kicking.

Television:

young ones, mini-series about natural disasters, anything about geysers or Yellowstone. BBC. stealing cable.

Books:

boxes full of them.

Heroes:



My Blog

birthday wish list...

1. a printing press:   2. a fishing boat:   3: this lovely Dries Van Noten bag: thanks!!...
Posted by the iowa waltz on Thu, 17 Aug 2006 06:54:00 PST

Dump + Art = Park

so what better use of space than to turn a landfill into a park/exhibition/retreat? they've wised up in Palo Alto, CA and turned a 150 acre landfill surrounded by saltwater and freshwater marshlands, ...
Posted by the iowa waltz on Wed, 26 Jul 2006 12:21:00 PST

clippings: i know they're just little slices of nonsense...

but i can't help but find the little scraps of spam messages that have been filling my work email account today a little intriguing...little snippets of something potentially quite neat...(p...
Posted by the iowa waltz on Thu, 13 Jul 2006 07:44:00 PST

the glossy children...

known not only for her dreamlike portraits of children, but also for her unwillingness to share her photo editing techniques, Loretta Lux, Dresden-born painter turned photographer has been making a sp...
Posted by the iowa waltz on Thu, 29 Jun 2006 06:59:00 PST

scenes: the iowa waltz and holland

so a rambunctious teenager has moved into my flat, and at four months old (i think four months in cat time must equal about 15 years in human, right?) Holland is rebellious, full of zest, an...
Posted by the iowa waltz on Sun, 04 Jun 2006 09:04:00 PST

so if it isn't made of steel...

it should be made of lace....any kind...all kinds....we should swathe skyscrapers in lace; drape it down the sides and through the halls. then we'd accomplish some things inside those high-rise b...
Posted by the iowa waltz on Thu, 25 May 2006 01:39:00 PST

a vista: the iowa waltz in iowa

truth be told, i am not from iowa, but after spending this week driving through these unending, flat panoramas interrupted every so often by massive steel structures, i have to say i'm a bit...
Posted by the iowa waltz on Sat, 20 May 2006 08:32:00 PST

Power Unit Studio

thanks to the part of my job where i spend oodles of time online researching modern design and architecture, i come across many supremely cool designers. one who has popped up during a number of ...
Posted by the iowa waltz on Tue, 09 May 2006 07:23:00 PST

ABC wonderful....

another midwestern anomaly, Karl Elder has been putting out some terribly interesting works since the 70's. pushcart prize winner, professor of creative writing and poet in residence at lakeland ...
Posted by the iowa waltz on Sun, 07 May 2006 07:56:00 PST

cinco de mayo....part uno (updated)

cinco de mayo, for me, trumps nearly all other holidays (the only exceptions being perhaps thanksgiving and my birthday-- the holiest of days...) observing cinco in a fashion i have done a f...
Posted by the iowa waltz on Sat, 06 May 2006 03:18:00 PST