What I really LOVE to do is explain myself in canned witticisms.
I have to go to grad school in California so I can make my art and then set it on fire and blow it up with Survival Research Laboratories . This shit is way cooler than painting.
art, art people, ceramics, potters, sculpture, sculptors, politics, politicians, biology, biologists, fixing things, fishing, giving people a hard time, confusing people, pissing people off, reading, painting, painters, anatomy, dead things, making furniture, making girlfriends uncomfortable, being the alpha girl, winning the lottery, dogs, moisturizing, brushing my teeth, socks, bras that fit, sexual innuendo, annoying the downstairs neighbor, setting things on fire, camping, traveling, sleeping, being too poor to think, getting in uncomfortable situations with people who overanalyze me, hanging out with people who can't get their heads out of the gutter, colors, cleaning the bathroom, being smarter than most of you, or at least more smart-assed than most of you, not doing dishes, watching bad spaghetti westerns, fishing, fishing for compliments, accidentally sleeping with my friends, kerrville folk festival
Men without baggage. Women without self-esteem issues. People who don't want to push me down to get above me. Santiago Calatrava (look him up). Responsible pet owners.
This Looks Suspiciously Like Comment Whoring. Its not. Its practical as my comment link is at the bottom of the page, which confuses Allison.
this changes as i remember what i listen to besides NPR...
Tom Waits... charismatic story-teller with a
penchant for freaky people and unusual
settings. You thrive on the concept of the
underdog coming out on top.david byrne, talking heads, old country, pixies, elvis costello, leonard cohen, blackaliscious, flaming lips, social distortion, adam ant, supersuckers, southern culture on the skids, 80's music, morcheeba, flogging molly, peter murphy, tom waits, classical xylophone music, radiohead, beastie boys, old jesus and mary chain, combustible edison, neil young, dave grisman, marvin gaye (but not let's get it on or sexual healing, those songs suck), dead can dance, joe strummer, deftones, dirty dozen brass band, old 97's, django reinhardt, otis redding, frank sinatra, iggy pop, jane's addiction, the clash, ladysmith black mombazo, richard thompson, laytrx, prince, lou reed, the velvet underground, sneaker pimps, stephane grappelli, taj mahal, the legendary shack shakers, old morrisey and smiths, tool
i finally got around to looking at what i listen to...
dune, B-grade horror flicks, slasher flicks, thrillers, boondock saints, ones with good special effects, spaghetti westerns, blazing saddles, spoofs of spaghetti westerns and bad B-grade horror flicks, 70's and early 80's sci-fi movies, indiana jones movies, real genius, tron, four rooms, old steve martin movies (particularly the man with two brains), pleasantville (i like the analogy, its a good movie), the underworld movies (kate beckinsdale is hot in pleather), the descent, slither, in the mouth of madness, house of 1,000 corpses, the devel's rejects, the hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy, sheitan, rosencrantz and guildenstern are dead, muppets, bill murray or adam sandler in the goofy-yet-thought provoking flick.
Fuck all you hippies. I have cable. In fact, I have extended cable. I'm compensating for not having it as a kid. Plus, if you offer me information in a flashy, multimedia format I remember ALL of it.
all of them. really. and all their friends - magazines, newspapers, blogs, labels, road signs, instructions, you get the picture. and Robert Frost poetry.
my father, my little brother, my mom, my best friend allison, my other best friend glenn, the rest of my friends, anyone who rises above it, ernest hemingway, issac newton, people who realize life is what it is and live their personal struggles with dignity and a low-whine quotient, gertrude stein, the guys who stole billions of dollars from ELF in france and got to keep it