"Imperfection is beauty. Madness is genius. And it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring." ~Marilyn Monroe ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ defenestration ..(?)d,,-?fe-n?-,,str,,-sh?n.. de- + Latin fenestra window 1 : a throwing of a person or thing out of a window 2 : a usually swift dismissal or expulsion (as from a political party or office). ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I feed on the dreams of the sleeping, so everyone must GO TO BED! NOW!!!! otherwise I can't paint...mmmn no really - to bed, to bed.~ "I don't want realism. I want magic! Yes, yes, magic. I try to give that to people. I do misrepresent things. I don't tell truths. I tell what ought to be truth." ~Blanche DuBois, Street Car Named Desire. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ UP Coming Shows! a href="http://www.msplinks.com/MDFodHRwOi8vd2ViLm1hYy5jb20vcG FsZWhvcnNlZGVzaWduL1BhbGVfSG9yc2UvSG9tZS5odG1sPg=="http://we b.mac.com/palehorsedesign/Pale_Horse/Home.html/a New SHOW! Opening March 15th in Tampa, Florida...thanks Brandon!
I would especially like to meet: Terry Gilliam!!! If you know how to put me in contact...well, let me know. Things can happen which we ourselves cannot possibly imagine, either beforehand, or at the time when they are taking place, or afterwards when we look back on them~Isak Dinesen
Ratatat, Arcade Fire, Bat for Lashses, St.Vincent, Rasputina, White Stripes, Bowie, Dixieland, Big Band, Ella-Etta-n-Billy, Beatles after drugs, the Stones before '85, Covenant, VNV Nation, Chopin, Patti Smith, PJ Harvey, Ani DiFranco, Sugar Cubes, Explosions in the Sky, Sigor Ross, Godspeed You Black Emperor, The Faint, Peggy Lee's verson of "Fever" and the PIXIES.....Je deteste Belle and Sebastian.
Movies that you may not have seen that I would recommend: I Heart Huckabees (You can't make magic without manure),Joe verses the Volcanoe...this is the greatest unsung film of the 80's! The Empire of the Sun (the first Christian Bale film), Breakfast at Tiffanys, Henry and June (Anias Nin and Henry Miller), Cemetery man (Sexy Rupert Everett), Being There (I LOVE CHAUNCY GARDNER) Camille Claudel, Last Temptation of Christ, A Pure Formality (a mystery, a crime, a very rainy night), The Reflecting Skin (A dark American tale), Drowning by Numbers(Peter Greenway films don't Nexflix well), Titus (Anthony Hopkins is a brilliant chef), Buckaroo Bonsai (Where ever you go, there you are), Twin Falls Idaho(I love this film about sick conjoined twins)
All hail the screen!!! and mourn all the imaginations it has wasted in hours of it's perfect changing pictures....I hate TV! This is my proof that there are demons on earth, they made this monster. (oh shit....I am on the computer again....)
Jon Bienart, of the Surrealist Art Forum, has published METAMORPHOSIS! To purchase: http://beinart.org/shop/metamorphosis.php This book features 50 visionary and surrealist painters including Hussar, Chet Zar, Alex Grey, and little 'ol me. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "Metamorphosis" ....everyone looks good holding this book.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
All PROGENITORS!! Terry Gilliam,C S Lewis,Dr. Seuss,Oscar Wilde, George Sands,Jim Henson, J.M. Barry,Cervantes,Poe,HP Lovecraft, Di Vinci,Elizabeth McGrath!!!,JUDITH SCHAECTER,Camille Claudel,Charlotte Perkins,Cara Walker, the founding fathers of this nation and their mission against tyranny,the members of Monty Python's Flying Circus and their mission of lunacy, Douglas Adams (I LOVE and miss him horribly), Mark Twain, Hemmingway, Virginia Wolf, Napolean, Queen Elizabeth I, ORson Wells, Van Gogh, Jules Verne, and Madeline L'Engle....J.K. Rowling, Marcel du Champ,and Georgia O'Keefe and Stieglitz, Anias Nin and Henry Miller, Slyvia Plath,Nicola Tesla,Emily Dickinson, Christ, and all rebelling angels.... "Imagination is the greatest of man's single working powers - and the trickiest; as the intellect is the frailest, the most subject to derangement, the the most given to cowardice and betrayal, unless it be held steady and sane by the power of Instinct." - Louis Sullivan (also my hero!) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I like the relationships. I mean, each character has his own story. The puppy is a bit too much, but you have to over look things like that in these kinds of paintings. The way he's *holding* her... it's almost... filthy. I mean, he's about to kiss her and she's pulling away. The way the leg's sort of smashed up against her... Phew... Look how he's painted the blouse sort of translucent. You can just make out her breasts underneath and it's sort of touching him about here. It's really... pretty torrid, don't you think? Then of course you have the onlookers peeking at them from behind the doorway like they're all shocked. They wish. Yeah, I must admit, when I see a painting like this, I get emotionally... erect. -Steve Martin