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C.

trying to see the forest for the trees

About Me

writer & dreamer of dreams, listening to billie holiday records, sippin' oolong tea.

sometimes, when not feelin' lazy, i make songs outta poems, i hope u will like them: http://www.myspace.com/cdepp

im also a-singing & playing some-o-the-times with my music group, Invisible Friend, we got our music up o'er here, miss: http://www.myspace.com/invisiblefriendband

finalement, c'est possible to read some of me poemes & stories here, lovingly illustrated by aeron bergman & stefan johansson, as part of the 2005 issue of lucky kitchen's "this land is your land": http://www.luckykitchen.com/tliyl_05/indepp.html

My Interests

cats, coffee, books, music, pine trees, paris, nyc, karaoke, chinatown, friendship, cinema, video art, museums, walking, cities, ecouter de jazz, red red wine, heineken, ciggies, funny jokes, kissing on the cheek (le bisous), cops, reading, dancing to new order, listening to stories, trying to understand, asking questions, meeting people who make things, talking, babysitting, drawing, sometimes cooking, meeting people, telling jokes, bullshitting, KTV, ninjas, monsters, Jonny McGovern, deery lou, sanrio, morning glory, irises, photography, Louise Bourgeois' salon, gossip, whispering, walking after midnight in the moonlight, falling falling falling...

I'd like to meet:

freebirds. friendly people who like art & like jokes & like to meet & go to see events & readings & art shows & music & people who read lotsa books, artists, people who make things, musicians, writers, drawers of drawings, people who paint things, people who write stories & poems, people who tell funny jokes, people who need to see & hear new things, people who like to meet new people. write me if u like i'll write back.

Music:

Billie Holiday, Robert Pollard, Guided by Voices, Cat Power, Chet Baker, New Order, Nina Simone, Lisa Ekdahl, lispector, Leonard Cohen, Dylan, Supremes, Joy Division, Police, Lennon & Ono, Gainsbourg, Keren Ann, Louis Armstrong, Smiths, Cure, B-52s, Aretha, Jimmy Scott, Sade, Smashing Pumpkins, R.E.M., Elliott Smith, Faye Wong (Wong Fei), Stereolab, Sonic Youth, Strokes, Cocteau Twins, Radiohead, Dinah Washington, early Sarah Vaughan, Cole Porter, Miles Davis, Angelo Badalamenti, Philip Glass, Le Tigre, Neil Young, Beatles, Tom Waits, Nellie McKay, Make-Up, Beck, Piaf, Maurice Chevalier, Coltrane, Calvin Johnson, Interpol, Coldplay, Tori Amos, Bonnie 'Prince' Billy, Need, FannyPack, Cibo Matto, Jonny McGovern, MetalMags, Eno, Roulette Sisters, Mirror Mirror, M. Ward, Daniel Johnston, Invisible Friend, Morrissey, Sinead O'Connor, Pulp, Hal Hartley, James Taylor, Patsy Cline, JLo, Billy Joel, Aeron & Alejandra, Tchaikovsky, George Winston, Kraftwerk, Marvin Gaye, Francoiz Breut, Daho, the list goes on...

Movies:

Andy Warhol, Chantal Akerman, Robert Bresson, The Care Bears Movie II, David Lynch, Bruce LaBruce, Christopher Walken, Woody Allen, old radio dramas like 'I Was a Communist for the FBI', Al Pacino, early Hal Hartley, video artists Sadie Benning & Miranda July, coming of age films, Smeagol, Mel Gibson's 'Hamlet', avant-garde theater stuff like Robert Wilson & Richard Foreman, scary scary movies, Wong Kar-wai, Maggie Cheung, Sylvie Testud, Sidney Pollack as an actor, Golden Chicken, Jim Carey in 'Cable Guy' & 'Lemony Snicket', Owen Wilson, Blue -the Japanese coming-of-age film, Spacked Out, Our Song, Martin Donovan, Jennifer Lopez, Halloween, Man Ray photos, Nan Goldin slides, video art, movies Chris Straayer shows in class, Jonny McGovern's videos, karaoke videos, concert documentaries like 'the Cure in Orange', Clue with Tim Curry, BBC nature documentaries, after-school specials & health movies, Groucho Marx musicals, French movies, Andy Lampert film projector performances, talkies

Television:

Twin Peaks, My So-Called Life, the Care Bears, the Wiggles, the Kids in the Hall, G.I. Joe, Saved by the Bell, Dave Garroway, Ren & Stimpy, Beavis & Butthead, cop shows, police dramas, World's Wildest Police Videos, Unsolved Mysteries, Ali G, the Office, the old Batman with Caesar Romero, America's Next Top Model, Mr. Hankey from South Park, Thirtysomething, Northern Exposure, Quantum Leap sometimes, 120 Minutes, MuchMusic, scary programs about ghosts, NY 1, Rich Conaty's "Big Broadcast" on WFUV radio in the Bronx, NPR, old jazz radio stations, live tv, golden age teevee like Lucille Ball and George Burns & Gracie Allen, documentary television, orphan tv shows like Punky Brewster & Diff'rent Strokes

Books:

Langston Hughes, Amos Tutuola 4eva, Shakespeare, Le Petit Prince, Lady Sings the Blues, Island of the Blue Dolphins, Judy Blume, biographies, poetry, orphan novels, Paul Eluard, Vonnegut, Jerry Salinger, Joyce Carol Oates, Clarice Lispector, Hal Sirowitz, Gertrude Stein, Mary Oliver, orphan novels, Julie Doucet, Lynda Barry, Nigerian popular literature, 'Typings' & 'A Letter for Queen Victoria' by Christopher Knowles, the Secret Garden, Oscar Wilde, the Picture of Dorian Gray, the Strand bookstore (12th & broadway), David Sedaris, Will Oldham lyrics, George Orwell, 1984. Favourite visual artists: Andy Warhol, Nan Goldin, Louise Bourgeois, Robert Frank, Vincent Van Gogh, Munch, Man Ray, M.C. Escher, Kiki Smith, De Chirico, Magritte, Tony Oursler, Charles Ray, Edward Hopper, Georgia O'Keefe, Diane Barcelowsky's drawings, Stefan Johansson's comics, Jing Yu's paintings, Aeron Bergman's drawings, Lucky Kitchen's album covers/packaging, Allyson Raimondi (prettybird)'s photos, people who's art makes me laugh laugh laugh & cry cry cry

Heroes:

Billie Holiday, Robert Pollard, Lynda Barry, Langston Hughes, Amos Tutuola, people who follow their dreams, Jimmy Jimmerino

My Blog

i picked a mango (for stefan)

i picked a mangoyum yum yumyum yum yumi sliced a mangotasted the juicewith my tonguei picked a mangothe soft ones are ripeman, i love to eat mangoknow where was your womanlast night?...
Posted by C. on Thu, 26 Jul 2007 10:08:00 PST

Invisible Friend live this Friday night with lispector in Long Island City, Queens!

come one, come all! please join us this Friday evening for a very special performance by paris, france's own lispector, in a rare NYC appearance! lispector is the best & brightest in apple-cheek ...
Posted by C. on Tue, 22 May 2007 01:34:00 PST

SENSATIVE (poem by Matt Depp)

I'm sensative I'm sad Words tend to hurt Cryin' feels good I think I'll lay down Friends ya they lie I'm sensative thats why Slow songs sound nice Whats a matter they ask Don't worry it'll pass I'm go...
Posted by C. on Tue, 01 May 2007 10:25:00 PST

Closing Night Party at "Mörka skogen" art show this Sat!

Hosted By: C. Depp & Stefan Johansson & JesusWhen: This Sat 21 Apr 2007, 08:00 PMWhere: Marquise Dance Hall291 Grand St (btwn Roebling & Havemeyer)Williamsberg, Brooklyn, NY 11211United St...
Posted by C. on Mon, 16 Apr 2007 03:12:00 PST

open letter from Spider-Man & "Mörka skogen" fan

Dear Spider-Man, My mom & dad took me last saturday out to Williamsberg, Brooklyn, that really cool neighbourhood filled with well-dressed young down-&-outters, to see the "Mörka skogen" art ...
Posted by C. on Mon, 16 Apr 2007 03:08:00 PST

"Mörka skogen" art show, Mar 24 - Apr 21 in Williamsberg, Brooklyn

Hosted By: C. Depp & Stefan JohanssonWhen: Opens this Saturday 24 Mar 2007 at 7pm (& open every Saturday thereafter)Where: Marquise Dance Hall291 Grand Street (L to Bedford or Lorimer, G to Me...
Posted by C. on Mon, 19 Mar 2007 11:08:00 PST

vostok hyperspace search for the emperors grave

vostok hyperspace search for the emperors grave Add to My Profile | More Videos...
Posted by C. on Mon, 12 Feb 2007 07:45:00 PST

talkin' timby jack blues & friends

damn them poems (i am lost again): http://www.luckykitchen.com/tliyl_05/indepp.html
Posted by C. on Mon, 05 Feb 2007 12:14:00 PST

damn them woods (i am lost again)

damn them woods(i am lost again)went out a-walkin't'wasnt nothin'now i findmyselfblindwalkin' knee deepup to myhein-yin it damn them woods(i am lost again)went out a-walkin'early onenightne'er came ho...
Posted by C. on Thu, 01 Feb 2007 08:39:00 PST

grackle grackle (in honour of the many dead grackles found this past Monday morning in Austin)

"grackle grackle" grackle grackle burning bright like a grackle in the night cawing loud then cooing soft blue-black plumage long-tailed aloft   grackle grackle flying low gaggles of friend...
Posted by C. on Thu, 11 Jan 2007 10:15:00 PST