Punk rock and High Art. Thoughtful, sarcastic, feisty, diplomatic. A study in contradiction. The hottest smart girl at the party. Nerd chic and dork couture. Sometimes I get lost in my own mind...there's a lot of rooms in here, and it's kinda dark.
Art, cultural paranoia, comics, digital networks that will bring about the revolution, songs about insect sex, noisy love songs, philosophy books disguised as novels, novels disguised as comic books.
Artists, curators, musicians, writers, and people with a fresh idea in their heads.
Now I'm starting to understand why people are so bitchy about friend requests on this site. Please send me a message before you friend request me, unless you know me. Thanks.
Finally, I am married, and also monogamous. Thanks anyway.
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Postpunk, industrial, Weimar cabaret. Currently listening to: The Soft Pink Truth, Gnarls Barkley, Bally Sagoo, Adult., Nitzer Ebb, Gogol Bordello. Always listening to: Lhooqtius' Punx Kick Azz mix, with False Prophets, Fear, Big Black, The Adicts, Warsaw, The Adolescents, Dezerter, Stracony, Wlochaty, Ratos de Porao, Angry Samoans, X, Guitar Wolf, Mad Capsule Markets, to name a few; 16 Volt, Fugazi, Pixies, Lotte Lenya, Alien Sex Fiend, H3llb3nt, the Slits, Corvus Corax, Helium Vola, the Cramps, Mr. Bungle, the Cruxshadows, PiL, the Damage Manual, Dead Language, Fantomas, Mindless Self Indulgence, the Dead Milkmen, Tubeway Army, Severed Heads, Man or Astroman? Ministry, Laibach, MileMarker, Ladytron, Fadgadget, A Place to Bury Strangers, Hiljainen Kevat, Kill Me Tomorrow, the Newlydeads, Rudimentary Penii, World Inferno Friendship Society, Foetus, Hanzyl und Gretyl, Iggy, Sisters, Joy Division, the Damned...
Anything by Hayao Miyasaki, anything animated by Ray Harryhausen, Grave of the Fireflies, Japanese zombie romances (especially Stacy and Wild Zero), Syriana, The Three Burials Of Melquiades Estrada, Kubrick films, anything about closeted gay Marines (Jarhead, Full Metal Jacket), The Hebrew Hammer (it's chilarious!), Bubba Ho-Tep, Chelsea Girls (except the endless sequence where Eric Emerson dances for like an hour, I fell asleep, but Brigid Polk being a bitch is really funny, and besides, it's New York, before Warhol went all soft and ruined it), Shaun of the Dead, Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle, Sid & Nancy, The Accountant, Fallen Art, Don Hertzfeld's Rejected (I am a consumer whore! And how.)
THE WIRE. I also love the Daily Show, Invader Zim, South Park, the Muppet Show. The Brits do it better: The Young Ones, Goodness Gracious Me, The Jam, Python, BlackAdder the First, My Wrongs..., Fur TV, and of course Monkey Dust. Notice how they're mostly cartoons...who wants to look at real people, drawings are much better.
Zak Smith: Pictures of Girls, published by DAP
The Art and Films of Lynn Hershman Leeson: Secret Agents, Private I, ed. by Meredith Tromble
Telepresence and Bio Art by Eduardo Kac
The Electronic Disturbance, Electronic Civil Disobedience, Flesh Machine, Digital Resistance and Molecular Invasion by Critical Art Ensemble, all published by Autonomedia
Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
Wreckers of Civilization: The Story of COUM Transmissions & Throbbing Gristle by Simon Ford
Object to be Destroyed by Pamela M. Lee
Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
The Acme Novelty Library by Chris Ware
Swimming Underground by Mary Woronov
Also William Gibson, Neal Stephenson, Milan Kundera, Arundhati Roy, J. G. Ballard, Alan Moore, Frank Miller, Haruki Murakami
Jim Campbell, Marjane Satrapi, Lucy Lippard, Steve Dietz, Lotte Lenya, Center for Land Use Interpretation, Museum of Jurassic Technology, Mario Merz, Harald Szeeman, independent artists and curators everywhere who make this horrible business work for them without losing their souls, their nerve or their passion.