Everything interests me. Passion, persistence, brilliance, compassion, ambition, kindness, forgiveness, vengeance, transcendence, surrender, defiance.
Wadjet, who is also known as Wadjyt, Wadjit, Uto, Udgo, Uatchet, Edjo, Buto...
Nemesis
talking about Terrorism, like such
Wendy Whelan & Jack Soto ROCK
Pleasure yourself. Listen to Adina Howard.
Who the fuck am I to suggest to anyone, anything... BUT! Might I recommend that we as women ~ hetero, bi, lesbian, whatever you define or don't ~ why don't we choose among the better qualities associated with "masculinity," like self-assertion, and actively demonstrate them, while we refrain from changing ourselves to get wit' a system and society created by, perpetuated, and turned into poop by patriarchal institutions?
Dorothy Dinnerstein, Anarchists/Free Love Radicals, Lucy Parsons, Dr. Gertrude B. Kelly, Moses Harman, Sarah Holmes, Lois Waisbrooker, Lillian Harman, Mary Gove Nichols, Angela Heywood, Mae West, Kismet, Betty & Veronica, WOMEN sex activists, Susie Bright, Tiny Nibbles, Annie Sprinkle
Anarcha-feminism, Gender feminism, Marxist feminism, Radical feminism, and bridging them with Individualist feminism
y'all, philly's music scene and those incredible people are fuckin AW#ESOME ~ RICHMOND'S music and people, as we all know, are amazing!
Singing, playing, writing songs
pacifism eludes, yet increasingly fascinates me
Brilliant Individuals with social consciences.
And hella riffs.
haute cuisine and black eyed peas, sommeliers and Cisco; really fuckin good olive oil
basically, i cook my fuckin ass off, cuntlovers
Lovely Gelsey Kirkland at the Bolshoi. I coveted her identity ages 9 through 16.
I'm interested to know why "Books" is at the bottom of the page, even underneath "Television." O, wait, I know the answer.
Ballet, and its finest. This is Darci Kistler, who inspired me as a girl.
Toni Bentley, dancer, and author of The Surrender, an often beautiful memoir not for the squeamish.
Helene Cixous, Derrida, lit theorists, meta literature, linguistics, French feminist linguists... Howard Zinn, Noam Chomsky, heady stuff i have to hack my dullard way through, but it's soo enlightening
I'm obsessed with anything that experiments with the inherent gendering of the structure and process of language. Gertrude Stein and Carole Maso are faves, but there are many more who look into this with great fascination.
alcohol
GUN TARGETS: I have a discomfiting obsession with gun targets. I collect them. I think I like them because they scare me, but I also like to observe the power differential depicted in them. If you haven't examined gun targets, lemme tell ya... there are some rather compelling ones. I hang them throughout my apartment. I'd have em all over but my roommate would probably get a touch nervous.
Vegan cooking, Ayurvedic cooking, live foods, Kundalini yoga, feminist theory, social change, alternative communities
Outsider art, particularly horror vacuii, Henry Darger, Mark Ryden, classical ballet, absinthe, book binding and paper making, soap making, creative communities
Egyptian music, gardening, rich, dark soil, herb gardens, the American South, Southern history, Southern women's history, labor history
cast iron cookery, provided it's used to cook, not pound your daughter
I used to want to find classes in Northern Italian, esp the region of Alta Trentino Adige, and I still do, but I have committed to a vegan diet. Something meaningful happens when one chooses to NOT eat other beings. Foodie that I am, I never thought I would eliminate any food. How in the world will I live without cheese? I was once a hardcore cheese girl. Gorgonzola, I want more-a... Affinois, falala... Manchego, off we go...
the Italian language, Italian opera, WINE (quality is nice, quantity is better), dark, dark cocoa vegan chocolate, especially filled with apricot brandy, slurp!
i admit these weird peccadillos and obsessions because i am also interested in...
the disarming liberty of being honest with oneself
will add more...
The ones I meet in this city I love. The ones I meet in New York City, which I love.
People passionate about expression, who can take me out of my head, into a startling discovery or contemplative stillness.Musicians, writers, artists, dancers, anyone who wakes up some nights burning to do something, and even if they're not sure what, they do.
People who maintain integrity alongside a meaningfully directed ambition. People who fucking try to do right, and then try again. Life is really fucking short, so do something decent, and I will try also.
Dorothy Dinnerstein, We are forever in your debt. Grazie, bella donna!
Kristofferson, the Egon Schiele of country music.
Not only are you Tom Waits, you got to kiss Rickie Lee Jones.
Julia Butterfly Hill, thank you.
Helene Cixous, I cannot repay.
*******
Suzanne Farrell.
Henry Darger rules.
dont wanna meet this, unless it's conducted metaphorically.
me and my parents every fucking day!
Patti Smith, Diamanda Galas, Peaches, Dresden Dolls, KT Tunstall, Muse, the Morning After Girls, Billie Holiday, Nina Simone, Patty Griffin, KRIS KRISTOFFERSON, Bobby Neuwirth, the songs WRITTEN BY JIMMY WEBB that Glenn Campbell played his ass off on, Drive By Truckers amen.
"Gravity's Gone"? christ, i din know i left my bible sittin around for anybody to read. THAT SONG IS FUCKIN GENIUS. "The Southern Thing"? Good GAWD! And Patterson writes his ass off in non-fiction, too. Paste Mag, check it out. ZACK DELAROCHA, Audioslave, Ray Lamontagne, Salon Betty, Pixies, Frank Black, Tres Chicas, Caitlin Cary, Tool, Perfect Circle, most of Yep Roc's roster, New West's roster, Lone Highway, Seizure 17, Lach, the Analogues, DJ Williams, Jason Campen, Me'Shell Ndegéocello, Kristi Martel, the brave and dedicated, who maintain integrity alongside ambition, Sonny Rollins, Tom Waits, GAVIN FRIDAY, PJ Harvey, Nashville Pussy, Alabama Thunderpussy, Lucinda Williams, both the Smithsonian stuff but more deeply her ama#zing work, Kathleen Edwards, Mahalia Jackson, Aretha Franklin, Janis Joplin, Lucero, RYAN ADAMS, JIMMY WEBB, the Goddess Dolly (Parton), Beth Hart, Rickie Lee Jones, Tori Amos, Bob Dylan, Kristen Hersh, Fiona Apple, Randy Newman, Townes Van Zandt, Kris Kristofferson, Exene Cervenka, the Knitters, Johnette Napolitano, Kelly Deal, Bruce Springsteen, Elvis Costello, Bob Seger, Leonard Cohen, Ryan Adams, Joni Mitchell, Kate Bush, John Coltrane, Tool, A Perfect Circle, Bikini Kill, Le Tigre, Kathleen Hannah in general, Mike Watt, the Minutemen, Miles Davis, BARRY BLISS from Nawfuck, now in Manhattan, Frank Zappa, Sarah McLachlan, Blue Nile, Rosanne Cash, Kristen Hirsh, Throwing Muses, Sleater-Kinney, Peaches, Soundgarden and Chris Cornell, Rage Against the Machine, Tom Morello, more more more
"I'm deeply disappointed by my sexual interest in men." ~Diamanda Galas
Mirror Mask, done by Henson, once again. Just watch it. Holy mole.
Junebug ~ comes across like a play, set in the South, features an outsider artist strikingly reminiscent of Henry Darger
Suzanne Farrell: The Elusive Muse ~ about one of the finest dancers to have worked with Balanchine, or anyone
I am counting the days until I see "Fur," about Diane Arbus, and based on Bosworth's biography. Guess I'll try to keep breathing until November, then.
SUPER TROOPERS IS MOVIE DEITY. end of sentence. let the smarty pantz discussion end immediately. Citizen Kane? Nope. this movie, which is absurd and goofy and insane and fuckt, is true.
the Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada, TOMMY LEE JONES is amazing in this; John Leguiziamo, in film and in his own plays. I tend to favor films that come off as plays. "Off the Map," for example, I immediately knew had been a play and I love that film. In general, my film knowledge is poor, but I love most everything by David Lynch, Woody Allen. Some foreign films I've seen lately, particularly a Korean film whose name and director escapes me, was just stunning. I think his name was Park Chan-wook, screenwriter and director. Each shot was gorgeous. It was violent, tho not gratuitously so. The particular film I watched (name lost to me for now) traced human grotesque and rage to - love. This film was magical and tragic and entrancing.
Will add more as I emerge from the darkness of cinema ignorance.
...huh? I don't own one but I remember loving the Food Channel, Tony Bourdain, in particular and god-I-hate-myself-for-finding-them sexy, Bobby Flay and Tyler Florence. Ming Tsai makes me sigh. And I used to like to catch that wack ass show, Iron Chef. Where are the kick ass female chefs on that channel? They're in the bizniss.
Feminist & Social Theory:Feminist Thought, Tong; Pornography, Sex, and Feminism, Soble; The Mermaid and the Minotaur: Sexual Arrangements and Human Malaise; Cunt, by Inga Muscio - I read it years ago, and kept having to put it down, like I have to with books that resonate with me. I am re-reading it now, and it still does. Brave, and smart. Bare, by Elizabeth Eaves. Ha, I'd like to drop in on her eaves.
Poets: Denis Johnson (everything by Denis Johnson is fucking exceptional- poetry, short stories, essays, novellas), James Wright, Gregory Orr, Kim Addonizio, Lisa Russ Spaar, Jane Kenyon, Mary Karr, Mary Oliver, Anne Sexton, Anna Akhmatova, Sharon Olds, Muriel Rukeyser, Carolyn Forche, ad infinitum
Short Fiction: Susan Minot, Chekov, Raymond Carver, Brian Evenson, Joyce Carol Oates, Denis Johnson, Hemingway, Poe, et al, et al, et al...
Journals & Mags: Ploughshares, Powhatan Review, Blue Collar Review, Oxford American, the Sun, the American Poetry Review, the Nation, etc. etc. etc.
Novels: Art & Lies, Oranges are Not the Only Fruit, The Passion, Winterson; the Bluest Eye, Morrison, the Red Tent, Diamant; anything by Carole Maso, especially Aureole
Children's Wind in the Willows, my favorite; Black Beauty, more more more
Standing Alone: Sherwood Anderson is my grotesque lover. Chaucer? Awlrite. But my little Sherwood scares me better.
Grab Bag: Noam Chomsky, Derrida, lit theory, French feminist linguists... heady stuff i have to hack my dullard way through but it's soo enlightening
Photo Memoir: Ballad of Sexual Dependency, Nan Goldin. Poignant, harrowing, ultimately, true.
Long running obsession: Anything that experiments with the inherent gendering of the structure and process of language. Gertrude Stein and Carole Maso being my faves, but there are many more.
Memoir: The Surrender, Toni Bentley; The Gift, Gregory Orr; Smashed, Zailckas; The Burn Journals, Runyon; Jesus Land, Scheeres; I Could Tell You Stories, Hempl, etc etc
Biography: Wild Girls, Souhami; Diane Arbus, Bosworth; Year of Magical Thinking, Didion
Cultural Commentary: Nickel and Dimed, Ehrenreich; Take It Back, Carville & Bagala
Godel, Escher, and Bach is a long-time, mind-blowing favorite.
Marla Ruzicka
Everybody lusts for Angelina. Allow me Davis, anyday.
Books. And my artist friends who confront the world with vision, imagination, creativity, and dogged persistence. Margaret Sanger, Isadora Duncan, Gloria Allred, Natalie Barney, Romaine Brooks, Georgia O'keefe, Nan Goldin, Diane Arbus, Julia Butterfly, Shing-Tung Yau, Howard Zinn, Jenna Jameson.
Gloria Allred, thank you.