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About Me

::a look back into my family tree tells me i'm a hybrid of gypsy & pirate.::i'm from the north.::i am an artist and book whore... currently engaging in a battle between my intutition and the weight of academia...working towards my MFA.::i'm fatally attracted to: dark things, and scorpios...dark - far more interesting than light, passion, pink and other fleshy colours, jellyfish, sea creatures and all other things miniature, shyness and awkwardness, tension, tangles, seeing the poetic side of life, investigating taboos.::i am interested in anything to do with the body, and all of those truths that can be found within it...i think conciousness dwells in those touches, in that contact of skin with itself... fragmentation, distance, minimal aesthics, the abject, and spaces as a metaphor.::i hate idle chatter.::i am no good at small talk, i'd rather talk about 'fleshy' things. discovering others quirks makes me feel warm.::i believe mass culture is numbing, and above all i admire sensitivity.
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courtney --
[noun]:
A beat poet working the streets
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My Interests

. art . music . travel . culture . the north . iceland . new york . self aware people . quirks . taboos . confidence . doing things with abandon . intrigue . mystery . darkness . delicate things . diversity . dancing like no one is watching . sensuality . rawness . existentialism . thinking about what replaces truth . astrology . freestyle cooking . red wine . the darkest chocolate . sexuality . green tea . naturopathy . surprises . farmer's markets . independent films & music . reading . philosophy. halloween . getting lost in coversation . generally getting lost. learning . shoes . odd piercings . pink and black . fishnet stockings . worrying . bettie page. vintage . mom, dad, and my little sister (who is often wiser and more together than me) . grandmas and grandpas . eva hesse . kiki smith . louise borgieous . christian boltanski . miranda july . vincent gallo . julia kristeva . michel serres . matthew barney . mona hatoum . rachel whiteread . turbulant boys . passion . intensity . binary opposites . obsessions . longing . secrets . never becoming too comfortable . questions . perspectives . being in touch with your desires . knitting . making things . cuddling up with someone in a ton of blankets (making a nest) and watching movies all nite . fine dining . martini bars . dive bars . cooking for people . live shows . kissing . touching . taking your time . collecting . being seduced by taboos....

Music:

currently... sigur ros . bjork . the sugarcubes . tortoise . mogwai . mars volta. xiu xiu . brave new waves - literally & metaphorically . cocorosie . cat power . blonde redhead . jesu . red sparowes . joanna newsom. neko case . will oldham and palace music . mum . the smiths . inuit throat songs. pretty girls make graves . billie holiday . ella fitzgerald . the organ . nina simone . the fitness . interpol . modest mouse . godspeed you black emperor! . tagaq . johnny cash . hank williams . jenny lewis . rilo kiley . tool . wintersleep . ratatat . air . elevator to hell. the album leaf . amina . antony and the johnsons . mono . pelican . isis . explosions in the sky . sun kil moon . belle and sabastian . elliot smith . arab strap . yeah yeah yeahs . the boards of canada . M83 . add n to (x) . the autumn project . tool . jose gonzales . frankie sparo . julie doirion . the like young . the wind up bird . silver mount zion . okkervil river . little wing . vincent gallo . gregor samsa . liars . castanets . smart hip hop . lightning bolt . sunn0))) . and on and on...

Movies:

.pan's labyrinth. willy wonka and the chocolate factory . the princess bride . ameilie . the virgin suicides . logans run . maelstrom . dancer in the dark . pi . spirited away . napoleon dynamite . thumbsucker . welcome to the dollhouse . smoke signals . junebug . anything david lynch (my favs are eraserhead. blue velvet .) and stanley kubrick's flims,and classic hitchcock . the last unicorn . eternal sunshine of the spotless mind . the royal tenenbaums. life aquatic. a great and creepy old canadian film called the peanut butter solution (where this creep grows the hair of children at an alarming speed and fashions the hair into paint brushes, these paint brushes unleash some type of other dimension...see it.). lovers of the arctic circle. the spirit of the beehive. an angel at my table . B horror flicks like evil dead . and dead alive . zombie movies . bladerunner . most or all criterion collection movies. most tim burton films (corpse bride . nightmare before christmas . edward scissorhands .) ..."me, you and everyone we know" by ms.miranda july . vincent gallo: the self-proclaimed happiest sad person in the world (buffalo '66 . and brown bunny . ) he is mad genius...miike's "audition" was such a powerful film, best horror flick i have seen to date...

Television:

ummm...i guess - the wedge, real sex, sex and the city, arrested development, the passionate eye, and twin peaks - i've been watching it for the first time- lovely and creepy. and i like the cbc radio.

Books:

raw books, books with provocative ideas, theories, art books, romantic ideas, books about crazy perpectives...i love books....antoine de saint-exupery "la petite prince" . . bataille . nietzsche . zizek . julia kristeva "powers of horror" . lacan . mary douglas "purity and danger" . roald dahl . luce irigaray "the sex which is not one" . jean-paul sartre "nausea ' . gabriel garcia marqez "love in the time of cholera" . patrick suskind "perfume" . michel serres "les cinq sens" . richard van camp "angel wing splah pattern" . sherman alexie . anais nin

Heroes:

my grandma.

My Blog

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i am never on here anymore...submitted to the evils of facebook...
Posted by courtney. on Sun, 17 Jun 2007 01:46:00 PST

towards a barren air; you are still felt there.

my solo show is finally up, and tomorrow morning i'll be setting up the group show. if you are around please stop by for some art and wine. both receptions are being held this wednesday december 6th (...
Posted by courtney. on Mon, 04 Dec 2006 10:19:00 PST

.so crucial.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfIpXBMSQc0 if i should find myself in am 'absoludacris' situation tomorrow, i will recoup. wishes of luck for this horrid theory presentation. boo. ...
Posted by courtney. on Thu, 12 Oct 2006 09:38:00 PST

.november rendevous.

it is done. i'll see you in november, lovely lover.
Posted by courtney. on Tue, 22 Aug 2006 05:47:00 PST

.on parasites.

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ +++++++on parasites and symbiosis:Necrotrophs: parasites that use another organism's tissue for their own nutritional benefit until the host...
Posted by courtney. on Tue, 25 Jul 2006 10:30:00 PST

. baa baa black sheep, have you any end?.

ackward = endings. end. courtney. . we surely would be friends . ...
Posted by courtney. on Wed, 12 Jul 2006 06:18:00 PST

.had a feeling of intention, but i kept quiet didn't mention.

the lady beside me is listening to celine dion and other lite "adult contemporary" hits (i think thats the freakin genre), and the batteries on my ipod are almost dead. GRRRrrrrrrr.... people actually...
Posted by courtney. on Thu, 29 Jun 2006 11:29:00 PST

.yummie.

painting is "generally" dead in my opinion...but these, these i love:)! ms.eliza griffiths, beautiful provocative stuff indeed. "phantom love projection", 1999 "arcadia", 1999 ...
Posted by courtney. on Thu, 29 Jun 2006 09:30:00 PST

.*(if you were tagged read on lovelies)..caught me, i'm it...miss sonya.

So, the rules are once you've been tagged you have to write a blog with 6 weird things or habits about yourself and make a blog titled "Tag - I'm It." In the end you need to choose 6 other people to b...
Posted by courtney. on Thu, 29 Jun 2006 09:06:00 PST

.subject line reads "hi cute lady".

*i couldn't make this up. spelling mis haps and all are real, contact names have been concealed to perserve self worth. i am not mean, but come the fuck on!! express some gratitude in your...
Posted by courtney. on Wed, 28 Jun 2006 03:08:00 PST