Art: First Fridays,sketching,sculpting,multi-media,painting,art history, photography,graffiti, and tattoos. MUSIC.Dancing around with others. Crop circles and the unexplainable. Staying Up late. A full moon on a clear night.Laughing. Pinups.Yoga.Lotus flowers, cherry blossoms and Poppys.Summer Nights.Missoula. Festivals. BURNING MAN. Muscle cars.Vodka tonics and good music.Animals.Soy. To do lists. Waterfalls.Bonding.Connections.Movies.Historical sites.Halloween-COSTUMES.Shopping.Different Cultures.Converse shoes.Strangers.Home made gifts.Watching a good fight.Lotions and potions.Rainforests.Camping on the beach.Drinking in the park.Belly Dancing.Vitamins and herbs.Toaism.Taking chances.Greek food.An empty trail.Mountain top views. Smoothies.Love Letters.Dark purple.Timeless classics. Cartoons.Dark places.Portland.Memories and stories.Always learning.Relaxing.Whole Foods Store.Nag champa.Book Stores.Night showers. Voodoo dolls, hearts, masks and skulls.Knee high socks and little skirts.Sushi and Saki.Art galleries. Experience. Traveling.New music.Old music.A good conversation. Breweries.Little art communities.Grandmas.Growing plants.Pets.Internet.Working out.Sunshine.Vegas after 3 a.m..Staying home.Kambucha tea.Erotic art.Science and nature.Friends and family.ART.
Amy and Grandma one more time... Artists. Comedians. Teachers. My maker. Einstien. Old souls. Experimenters. Christopher Walken or Hunter S. Thompson in a dive bar. Burners and Belly dancers. Jack Black at a house party. Good cooks and veggie eaters. Alex Gray, Micheal Parks, Shel Silverstien, Dali, Olivia, Dr. Seuss or Frida teaching an art class. Stan Lee at a comic book store. The amazing artists featured in Juxtapoz. Educated optimists and pessimists. Atmosphere at a record store. A Mermaid or Bill Murray.'The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.'-Aristotle, my father, and you all over again.Also, the M(2) Pop N' Lock Dance Force...
Endless really: mo-town, soul, jazz, acid jazz and lounge. R&b, funk, psycadelic, jam bands, and rock n' roll. Conscious hip hop and old-school. Swing, Ska, Rockabilly, and psycho-billy. Punk Rawk, garage bands, post-punk, Anarcho-punk, and 'Pop' punk. Reggea. Folk and classic rock. New age, mellow and minamilism. Dub, Electro/ Electronic, experimental, ambient and down tempo. Shoegaze and Trip Hop. Earth sounds, cultural, global beats, and tabla. Industrial, dark wave, melodic, alternative, modern rock and eurotrash. Easy listening, Indie, and Emo. Turntablism, breaks, house, jungle, drum & bass, ragga, garage, grime and everything else in between that makes me do a happy dance. Some that come to mind...Bjork: 'All is full of love',the one and only Theivery Corporation, the Cure, The Yeah, Yeah, Yeahs, NOFX, and the Pixies song:'Debaser' from Un chien andalou debasing morality and standards of art.~It is all around you~
'Who died and made you f@cking king of the zombies?'-Shaun of The Dead. Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless Mind, Royal Tenenbaums, What Dreams May Come,Spirited Away, Super Size Me, Lost in Translation, and Shaun of the Dead, again. The Dark Crystal, I heart Huckabees, Army of Darkness,Swingers,Punch Drunk Love, What the Beep Do We Know? Napoleon Dynamite, 4 Rooms, Akira, An Unconvenient Truth, American Beauty, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, the Usual Suspects, Opposite of Sex, Snatch, Being John Malkovich, Blow, Dazed and Confused, Secretary, Life Aquatic, Schindler's List/ Braveheart/ The color Purple, The Crow, Lord of the Rings, City of Lost Children, True Romance, Pulp Fiction, Natural Born Killers, Good Fellas, Baraka, Mallrats, Fritz the Cat, House of Flying Daggers, Lolita(new version)and Boondock Saints.
Family Guy, Any thing on Adult Swim, Comedy Central, Cartoon Network, Animal Planet, The History channel, Discovery channel, Pop up Videos and Behind The Music, Sex in the City, Real Sex, That 70's Show, HGTV, Iron Chef, old Liquid Televsion from MTV, The Daily Show, World Music, the news and The Chapelle show.
Juxtapose, Maxim, Rolling Stone, Rx for Women, Heavy Metal, Bizarre, AdBusters-whatever I find. I still read comic books Marvel, Crumb and Grrl Scouts by Jim Mahfood. The Spectrum Annual series.Charles Bukowsk: A Dog From Hell. My Anatomy for the Artist book and any art history books. Artists compilation books from DaVinci to Donny Miller. Transfigurations by Alex Grey. Useless information books about growing plants or cooking for vegetarians. Fast Food Nation, Anything by Tom Robbins, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, The Toa of Pooh, 365 Toa, A Brave New World, 1984, Naked, Go Ask Alice and A Rough Guide to Drum and Bass. Special considerations to Hips by Patrick Roddie.
mARTy the super nerd...