art, literature, and the search for the truth of the Universe......
having heated discussions about religion and politics....
coffee, coffee, COFFEE....
hanging out at the cincinnati art museum--especially on rainy saturdays,
the cincinnati shakespere company,
volenteering for political causes,
literacy and art advocacy,
the contemporary arts center,
reading,
attempting to surf,
the fringe festival,
yoga,
drawing,
painting,
writing,
pretending i know how to snowboard,
and constantly searching to find that ONE perfect medium that combines all facets of artistc expression into one collective genre :)
o' and i want to save the world....
I'd like to meet:
artists, writers, librarians, vampires, gods from greek mythology, individuals who can teach me something, anything and everything, characters from "the sandman", shiva the god of destruction, the voices in my mind, people that are afraid of nothing, fairies, sprites, the 9 muses, figaments of my imagination, people that keep the self-promotion to a minimum, girls that can say "fuck off" like they mean it with a mere glace, hyper-intelligent men who know without asking that i have no intention of dating them--but like me all the same, so on and so forth....
Music:
ummmm.... i like noise....drums.... to be specific.... NIN,NIN NIN!!!! the cure, cure, cure CURE!!!! bauhaus, the pixies, frank black, stabbing westward, brian eno, covenant, she wants revenge, apoptygma, front 242, psychadelic furs, front line assembly, joy division, the smiths, covenant, icon of coil,vnv nation, morissey, ani difranco, concrete blonde, jane's addiction, nirvana, cowboy junkies, tribe called quest, erasure, tori amos, depeche mode....sex pistols, the dead milkmen....massive attack,digable planets, grateful dead, rusted root, black-eyed peas....john coltrane....this, that, and most everything in between....and most importantly--midpoint music festival....
Movies:
"STRANGER THAN FICTION"
"unbreakable"
"green street hooligans"
"reality bites"
"momento"
"everything is illuminated"
"the lady in the water"
"drugstore cowboy"
"pump up the volume"
"pool hall junkies"
"kids"
"closer"
"st. elmo's fire"
"trainspotting"
"the house of yes"
"gleaming the cube"
"lilo and stitch"
"crash"
"the thing called love"
"twin peaks: fire walk with me"
"twisted"
"party girl"
"how to make an american quilt"
"serendipity"
"the crow"
"like water for chocolate"
"v for vendetta"
"under the tuscan sun"
"mona lisa smile"
"amelie"
most everything by david lynch...small, independant, low budget films--that reek of heart and artistic merit....
Television:
tele-what?!?!kill your TV and play around www.cincinnatibeacon.com instead
Books:
currently reading: to kill a mockingbird
currently stuck in the middle of:
love in a time of cholera by garbiel marquez
some of my favorites include: anything by nietzsche, shakespeare, chaucer, henri james, virginia woolf, nikki giovanni, anton chekov, james joyce, oscar wilde, or simone de beauvoir....
hardy's "tess of d'uberville"
spenser's "the fairie queene"
hurston's "their eyes were watching god"
fitzgerald's "tender is the night"
morrison's "song of solomon"
marx's "communist manifesto"
bronte's "jane eyre"
bronte's "wuthering heights"
ayn rand's "we the living"
swift's "gulliver's travels"
chekov's "the sea gull"
jeffery eugenide's "the virgin suicides"
neil gaiman's "sandman" series in paricular, but also "angels of visitations", "american gods" and "the books of magick"
