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Name: Lee
Cyber Alias: Chikago
Occupations: Artist
Location New York City
About Me Not much to tell really. I'm an artist. I live in New York city. I'm an avid reader. I both love and abhor people. I'm a dirty old man and a grouchy old recluse (depending on who you ask) and I wouldn't change a thing about myself.
Who I'd Like To Meet A real person, I don't have to like everything about you but if you have conviction I can respect you.
Activities
Painting, Sculpting, Woodworking, Cycling, Reading, Writing, Museum Romps, Not much I don't like to do.
Interests
Reading, Cooking, Russian History, Asian Culture
Favorite Books
Still Life with Woodpecker - Tom Robbins
Tropic of Cancer - Henry Miller
Talking It Over - Julian Barnes
A Spy in the House of Love - Anais Nin
The Subterraneans - Jack Kerouac
Requiem for a Dream - Hubert Selby Jr.
On the Duty of Civil Disobedience - Henry David Thoreau
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn - Betty Smith
a list that could go on indefinitely.
Favorite Quotes
"Strange isn't it, that no chemical will give a human being the iridescence that illusions give them? Give me your hat. You look so formal and uncomfortable! And so you finally tracked down my impersonations! But are you aware of the courage , the audacity which my profession requires? Very few people are gifted for it. I had the vocation. It showed very early in my capacity for deluding myself. I was one who could call a backyard a garden, a tenement apartment a house, and if I were late when I came home to avoid a scolding I could imagine and recreate instantly such interesting obstacles, adventures, that it would take my parents several minutes before they could shake off the spell and return to reality. I could step out of my ordinary self or my ordinary life into multiple selves and lives without attracting attention. I mean that my first crime as you may be surprised to hear, was committed against myself. I was then a corrupter of minors, and this minor was myself. What I corrupted was what is called the truth in favor of a more marvelous world. I could always improve on the facts. I was never arrested for this: it concerned only myself. My parents were not wise enough to see that such prestidigitation of facts might produce a great artist, or at least a great actress. " ~Anais Nin
"Develop an interest in life as you see it; the people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself." ~Henry Miller
“Dear God, let me be something every minute of every hour of my life. Let me be gay; let me be sad. Let me be cold; let me be warm. Let me be hungry...have too much to eat. Let me be ragged or well dressed. Let me be sincere -- be decietful. Let me be truthful; let me be a liar. Let me be honorable and let me sin. Only let me be something every blessed minute. And when I sleep, let me dream all the time so that not one little piece of living is ever lost.†~Betty Smith
What the artist needs is loneliness. -Henry Miller
Favorite Films
Hmm...
Night Watch,
Day Watch,
Lost in Translation (because it reminds me how screwed up my morals must be for hating that they never hook-up.,) Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind,
Rent (yeah I said it.,)
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly,
Big Fish,
Arthur,
The Big Lebowski,
Barfly,
this list could go on for days.
Favorite Artists Jim Hodges, Jackson Pollack, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Julian Schnabel, Willie Cole, Willem de Kooning, Jan Donnelly, Cy Twombly, another really long list.
Industrial, Goth, EBM, EDM, Synthpop, Emo, pretty much anything except rap, pop, and country.
Wings of Desire, Garden State, Requiem for a Dream, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Human Traffic, Lost in Translation, and anything by Greg Araki.
The Celestine Prophecy, The Ninth Insight, Illusions, Bridge Across Forever, ALL HISTORICAL NONFICTION especially Russian history.