repetto shoes / passionate people who want to make shit happen / thinking about ornament as a social virus. a mode of thought. or even as a manner of conceptualization / pattern as an expression of the sublime / changing the way we relate to handmade objects in order to radically alter our economic model. reinstating value in what has become cheap through mechanization. but this is not just any handmade thing--it is that which takes practice, skill, and above all, time.
I'd like to meet:
Fellow Asian Americans who grew up latino. We should form a club. Seriously. Don't hesitate--contact me NOW
Music:
etta james. marvelettes. busta rhymes. wire. sonic youth. silver apples. minutemen.
Movies:
cocteau's orpheus. zulawski's possession. most of peter greenaway's. la jetee, and others by chris marker. institute benjamenta. cassavetes' a woman under the influence
wallace & grommit: curse of the were-rabbit = FUNNIEST EVER.
Television:
wonder showzen
Books:
Currently reading Deluxe: How Luxury Lost Its Luster. This book could easily reach Fast Food Nation in sheer what-the-fuckness, minus the gross parts. I've been wanting someone to say this stuff for years. I mean, think about it, at no point in history has fashion been created as disposable, aka built like a piece of shit. Until now. Was the Industrial Revolution all for this? Hooray. [Update: the book isn't all that I hoped for. Still interesting, though.]
Heroes:
women who are forces of nature: lee miller, diane arbus, louise bourgeois, RUTH ASAWA!
