Doodling for artistic exercise . . .ART - creating, studying, and appreciating it in all forms, showing mine when I candancing to something funky, MUSIC, solo travel, political debate, history (social, musical, revolutionary, and artistic), social issues, free expression, fierce independence, LUSH cosmetics , shoes, meeting new people, sex talk ( and the action of course . . .), spending time with good friends, food and spirits, trying to live in the moment, concerts, outspoken individuals, non-conformists, big cities to get lost in . . .. . .and the list goes on and on . . .
I'd like to meet:
Everybody. You?Any artist, no matter the stripe.
Music:
No collection is comprehensive enough. My current love is hip hop, but I'll listen to anything at least once. My tastes are pretty wide open . . .Currently in the player:
** Applejac - Seven Heads Are Better Than One **** Madlib the Beat Konducta - Movie Scenes - 35 Hip Hop Instrumentals **** Asheru - Mix Cd**** Dave Chappelle - For What It's Worth (audio comedy) **** The Roots - Things Fall Apart **** Queens of the Stone Age - Era Vulgaris**
Movies:
Current faves, changes often:Wild Style,The Freshest Kids: A History of the B-Boy, Scratch, Dave Chappelle:Killin' Em Softly & For What It's Worth, Dave Chappelles Block Party (I'm burning a whole in the dvd), Awesome: I Fucking Shot That!, Lackawanna Blues, Rize, Sin City, Singing in the Rain, The Godfather 1 & 2, Napoleon Dynamite, Quills, Amelie, City of God, Control Room, Moonstruck, Gangs of NY, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Y Tu Mama Tambien, Friday, Lost in Translation, Frida, Groundhog Day, Dodgeball, Kill Bill Vol. 1,Ray, Ghostbusters, Pulp Fiction, The Big Chill, Garden State, Seven, What About Bob? Stand By Me, Powder, The Goonies, Weird Science, From Dusk Til Dawn, The Lost Boys, Dead Man, Spirited Away, The Incredibles, The City of Lost Children, Kinsey,Saving Grace, The Yes Men, 9 to 5, Clash of the Titans, Road to Perdition,An American in Paris, Roman Holiday, American Beauty, The Green Mile, Winged Migration, etc. . .
Television:
When I do indulge: Most of the HBO series, but only on DVD. Deadwood (I'm absolutely obsessed), Carnivale, The Wire, Rome, Six Feet Under, Def Poetry, etc . . . I usually avoid TV because I detest commercials with an intense passion . . .BUT, I am not without my *guilty pleasures* What Not To Wear and So, You Think You Can Dance?
Books:
All time favorite - EVER - Skinny Legs and All by Tom Robbins , Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem, Anything by Tristan Crane , Neil Gaiman, Noam Chomsky, Hunter S. Thompson, Joyce Carol Oates, historical biographies, non fiction, graphic novels by Michael Manning. . . I also read A LOT of political columns, anything by Molly Ivins, Frank Rich, Howard Zinn, etc. This could go on forever . . .
Heroes:
Frida Kahlo, Gustav Klimt, Max Ernst, Georgia O'Keefe, Bansky, Dave Chappelle, Mos Def, Bill Maher, Keith Olberman,Joyce Carol Oates, music makers, dreamers of dreams, and pretty much all of the artists on my friends list . . .