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christos v.

on the run again

About Me

in a nutshell... my family is in the restaurant business and i grew up in my dad's pizza shop... bussing tables every friday night, long before i was able to legally work. i went to an alternative highschool called The Living Education Center for Ecology and the Arts and while i had been drawing little things since i was a kid, i was really inspired by the movie "Basquiat" and begun painting after i saw it. Living Ed really helped me grow artistically and discover my inner voice... i haven't posted a lot of my paintings but i will soon. in the summer of 2000 while performing as Estragon in a production of "Waiting for Godot", i lost my mind. that summer was a whirlwind of drugs and drinking and sleepless nights and mania. i was diagnosed with manic-depressive illness and have since been diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder. living with a mental illness is really hard. i often find it difficult to do the everyday things that are essential to surviving as a human creature. i have since quit drinking and doing drugs and i am on the path of a creative and healthy life. it isn't easy. i have moments of pure blissful creation and moments of disabling self-destruction. i am all mixed up. i find art to be a spiritual and healing tool in combination with steady meds and good therapy. i don't know the answers but i have faith that if i make art i will find the way. sometimes i feel like living life is like running a marathon. easy does it! ____________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________HEY! MUSICIANS! BANDS! AUTHORS! ANYBODY! need design work? contact me... i am new at this... but check out my humble little "portfolio" under "design" in "pictures". i would love to design for you!

My Interests

collaborating with the Great Creator, first aid kits, healing, hearts and stars, hope, the unknown, creativity, imagination, opposites, cool little drawings, voices, nightmares, odd delusions, why, the way, life, crossbones, the day of the dead, observation, making things with my hands, drivetime, dreamtime, hermes, aa, love, royal blue, postcards, sumi ink, old luggage, lomo, don clemente, icons, polaroids, my tummy, sequins, gesso and gauze, cedar wood, holga, starboy, ikea, that orange that was coined the "new black" a few years ago, typewriters, dioramas, big tablets of drawing paper, presents, symbolism, minimalism, tissues, cigar boxes, day-glo, radboy, another fine myth, new inventions, old inventions, lithium, onion rings, stuff all wrapped up in yarn, witchdoctors, scarfs, looking for and at junk, magazines, spin-art, constellations, photocopying, psychotherapists, hypnotists, edgar cayce, atlantis, captain crunch, notes, theatre of the absurd, the eater of cruelty, the televisionary oracle, a spooky witch in a sexy dress, amonia cokes, surrealist games, tinsel, culture, colors, buying floss and never using it, dollar stores, the dumb kid show, the light-up show, shalom, rides, gypsy talk, astrology, inching my way thorugh infinite jest, fish tank serenades, mah-jong, ghost stories, clouds, virgin births, schizophrenia, sewing onto mexican bingo cards, vision quests, origami, collage, wax, icarus, electricity, blindspots, alchemy, tibetan freedom, torpedos, towers, teeth, tylenol, stella maris o my star, cuba, messengers, family, things with wings, locks, scotch tape, nyc, lucidity, action, dolls, le petite machine littorale, cruising, the fool, air guitar, fire, water, luck, madmen, the juggular, lux, badzt-maru, good omens, synchronicity, riding the bus, nintendo, grilled cheeses, falling asleep, birds chirpping, summer rain, tommy, my generation, the archer, bumming smokes, doing the next right thing, hunter fashion, stripes, kelly green, four-leaf clovers, charms, my new glasses, ebay, paul frank, the lacoste alligator, thrift, fat, sleep, pinky, live arts, thinkin about you, outsider art, sponsorship, jennifer, higher grounds' iced coffee, sinking into the ground, the end of the world, messy apartment, stars, tattoos, alex, memories, monopoly, trash, getting blood from a stone, magicians, creative recovery, stitches, big fat greek dinners, closing my eyes... and opening them back up again... small town living... inventive art making... wondering wtf???... being a loner... www.etsy.com... old pictures of my family... telling funny stories and or lies... trying to grow up... cleaning, destroying, cleaning again... dreaming about my dream house... drinking too much coffee and having a panic attack... stealing lyrics from songs... making up stories to go along with songs...making art to go along with stories that i've made up about songs, trying to get off my butt and go for a walk... the pill that makes me sleep until 2 in the afternoon... my new friend, Shannon... my old friend, Wistar... my punk rock friend, Amber... talking about stuff, my rockstar therapist, looking for hotties, thinking about revolutionizing the way i live my life, worrying to much about the sky falling down on my head, confusion. lost in a cloud... dreaming.

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Music:

cNeutral Milk Hotel, the Pixies, the Pogues, Elliot Smith, PJ Harvey, Lauren Hoffman, the Sugarcubes, Apples in Stereo, Sparklehorse, the Church, the Smashing Pumpkins, Beck, Olivia Tremor Control, Elf Power, Cat Power, Radiohead, Aimee Mann, the Shins, Belle & Sebastian, Echo & the Bunnymen, Bjork, the Postal Sevice, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, the Hives, the Lovers, Secret Square, David Bowie, Tripping Daisy, Yo La Tengo, Sleater-Kinney, Rufus Wainwright, Mazzy Star, Diagable Planets, Mary Prankster, Violent Femmes, the Arcade Fire, Public Image Ltd., Brian Kelly, Johnathan Richman, Joy Division, Cibo Matto, the Talking Heads, Shannon Worrell, Dave Matthews Band, the Cardigans, the B-52's, Southern Culture on the Skids, Liz Phair, Broken Social Scene, Shonen Knife, the Noisettes, Sarah White, REM, Feist

Movies:

Benny & Joon, Basquiat, Rebel Without A Cause, Return to Oz, Punch Drunk Love, Dancer in the Dark, Magnolia, Frida, What's Eating Gilbert Grape?, Lost in Translation, Donnie Darko, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, House of Yes, I Heart Huckabees, Me and you and everyone we know, the Squid and the Whale, Prozac Nation, Thumbsucker, Naked World, Shortbus

Books:

The Man That Fell In Love With The Moon, The Alchemist, In The City of Shy Hunters, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol, anything by Murakami, Neverwhere, Middlesex, The Virgin Suicides, the Griffin & Sabine Trilogy, War Boy, A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters, An Unquiet Mind, The Time Traveler's Wife, Edward Gorey, Max Makes a Million, Matilda, The Artist's Way, Sabrina Ward Harrison, SARK, Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain, (Un)fashion, COLORS magazine, Craft:, Art in America, Tibor, My Name is not Tina, Paradise Garden

Heroes:

mi familia, Squeak Carnwath, Joseph Cornell, Joseph Campbell, Howard Finster, Maira and Tibor Kalman, Rob Brezsny, John Arnold, Brian Andreas, Starboy, Sabrina Ward Harrison, SARK, Julia Cameron, Doctors, Social Workers, people who can play lots of different instruments, men who aren't afraid of the colors purple and pink, wwmurr, j-bop, people who aren't afraid of life...

My Blog

LISTS

things normal people do: 1. brush their teeth. 2. smell good all the time. 3. hangout with friends. 4. make love. 5. have a nice house. 6. kiss & hug. 7. say goodbye.   in another l...
Posted by christos v. on Mon, 07 Jul 2008 09:44:00 PST

the drug counselor

she said, "when i was a kid all my stuffed animals had drug problems.  i showed them educational videos on the nature of addiction.  that rusty projector, beaming my insides onto the blank w...
Posted by christos v. on Tue, 01 Apr 2008 03:17:00 PST

trust

do i trust you?  do i trust me?  i my head there are vampires galloping on horses...  they want me.  i lay down on the bed, the world crumbling around me, i sink into the soiled sh...
Posted by christos v. on Sun, 30 Mar 2008 09:35:00 PST

SS

girl:  "what is your painting called?" me:  "slow suffocation." girl:  "hmm... how about SS?"
Posted by christos v. on Sat, 29 Mar 2008 01:42:00 PST

an experiment in pod living

how long can i hibernate?  can i be an active member of society without ever leaving the house?  i have really bad anxiety right now...   i don't want to be outside or be h other p...
Posted by christos v. on Sat, 08 Mar 2008 06:58:00 PST

&

i'm going through lots of change... some parts of me getting bigger, while other parts of me are getting smaller.  some parts of me in conflict with other parts of me....
Posted by christos v. on Sat, 09 Feb 2008 06:18:00 PST