Gemeinschaft, octopuses (not octopi or octopedes) wabi-sabi, photography (35mm, digital, and lomo), the extremely cute and extremely ugly, anything that is simultaneously really cute and really ugly, schadenfreude, monsters, (cute ones or ugly ones) painting murals, ghost hunting, live music, poetry, literature, kissing, heavy drinking, flash mobs, painting with children, taking photos of interesting strangers, Coney Island USA, edu-ma-cation, looking at naked people under the pretense of figure drawing, coming up with plans for how I would spend 25 million dollars, partying hearty, gettin' down, rockin' out, aphorisms in general, walking around B&H and looking at all the toys I can't afford to buy, drivin' n' cryin', really sharp pencils.We have 3 fish tanks in our apartment, and I get his wierd, zen-like satisfaction from keeping them all healthy.Check out www.artistspaintforpeace.org
I'd like to meet:
Independent thinkers, artists, poets, hausfraus, lumberjacks, psychologists, parapsychologists, sideshow performers, artists, secretaries, dental hygienists, cab drivers, scientists, umbrella salesmen. I'm married to the coolest motherfucker you've ever met, but always looking for friends in Brooklyn.
Music:
In no particular order, with no organization by genre: Captain Beefheart, Frank Zappa, Benicio & the del Toros, Purple Organ, Another Dying Democracy, Shellshock, Alana Amram & the Rough Gems, the Power Apes, Willie Nelson, Bettie Davis, Magnetic Fields, Stiff Little Fingers, David Bowie, Dr. John, Paul FUCKING Simon ("Graceland" Era), Descendants, Buzzcocks, A Tribe Called Quest, Psychocharger, Blue Sparks, The Tigerlillies, Tom Waits, Social D, Johnny Cash RIP, The Cramps, Groovie Ghoulies, Ray Charles, Nina Simone, Johnny Lee Hooker, Ray Anderson, Weather Report, Joni Mitchell, The Shins, Shellac, The Meteors, De La Soul, Black Sabbath, Vice Squad, XRay Spex, Screamin' Jay Hawkins, Nina Simone, Pharcyde, Billy Holiday, Velvet Underground with or without Nico, Run Like Hell, The Fame, Awkward Thought, Agnostic Front, Morning Glory, Choking Victim, The Krays, Coltrane, Mingus, Jaco, Etta James, Buckethead, KRS1, Parliament Funkadelic, Talking Heads, Peter Gabriel, Willie Nelson, Doc Watson, Merle Haggard, Toots and the Maytals, anything dirty, grimy, garage-y
Movies:
I Heart Huckabees, Throne of Blood, Royal Tannenbaums, Rushmore, Akira Kurasawa's "Dreams," Mean Streets, Bride of Frank, American Beauty, Taxi Driver, Everything is Illuminated, Trembling Before G_d, Maria Full of Grace, Goodfellas, Forbidden Zone, Hotel Rwanda, Sometimes in April, Born into Brothels, Journey of Man, Harold & Maude, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Gummo, Pink Flamingos, Pretty much anything by John Waters, Midnight in the Garden of Good & Evil, Seven Samurai, Last House on the Left , Evil Dead, Dead Alive, Yojimbo, The Serpent and the Rainbow.... Really, I prefer the undead to slashers, hands down... City of God, Mighty Wind, Best In Show, Kinsey, Hotel Rwanda, anything at the Natural History Museum's IMAX, The Life Aqautic, Secrets Kept (search "Karalyn Shimmyo" on IMDB.com.... aw yeah...)..
Television:
Dethklok Metalocalypse, Animal Police, Discovery Channel, PBS, Histories Mysteries, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Da Ali G Show, The Venture Brothers, Futurama, Secrets of the Dead, anything featuring Bill Moyers, Monster Garage, Speed TV, Overhaulin', Motorweek, That 70's Show (I don't know why it tickles me the way it does), Family Guy, The Boondocks, NOVA, NOW w/ Bill Moyers, House, Frontline... that's about it!
Books:
Rick Moody, Erica Jong, Dave Eggers, "A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius" & "You Shall Know Our Velocity." McSweeney's, Jonathon Safron Foer, Brian Greene, Stephen Jay Gould,"Full House," Stephen Pinker, Richard Dawkins, "The God Delusion,"
The Invisible Pink Unicorn, a symbol of faith
Henry Miller, "The World According to Garp" and "A Prayer for Owen Meaney" by John Irving, Sedaris, Kensaburo Oe, "The Plague", "The Stranger" by Camus, Augusten Borroughs, "Memoirs of A Mask," "Hardcore Zen," "My Life with Autism" by Temple Grandin, artist biographies, anything about culture or religion, "Anna Karenina," "The Idiot," Flannery O'Connor, "Mother Jones," Siddhartha," "Howl," "The Year of Magical Thinking" by Joan Didion, "Us and Them," "Tropic of Cancer," Bukowski, "Middlesex," "Owen & Mzee," Mary Oliver- "New & Selected Poems"Anything on anthropology, science, psychology, and religion... my favorite subjects.
my totem animal...
Heroes:
Neil DeGrasse Tyson, Dr. Jocelyn Elders, Emma Goldman, Henry Miller, Jane Goodall, Albert Kinsey, William James, Walt Whitman, Magaret Sanger, Anne Sexton, Albert Einstein, Monsieur Mangetout, Bertrand Russel, Stephen Jay Gould, Joan Didion, Mary Oliver, Sigmund Freud, Joseph Campbell, Erica Jong, Soren Kierkegaard, Dr. Stephen Hawking, Luke Skywalker, Marie LeVeau, Maude (from Harold and Maude) Mother Jones, Bill Moyers, Margaret Sanger, The Lady Chablis, James Dobbins, and Roy.
