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Linda

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About Me

Go here for paintings and poetry. No, don't roll your eyes. Go here for good paintings and poetry. Do it now.Click Here!This profile was edited with Thomas' myspace editor™ V2.5

My Interests

Painting, drawing, film photography, my guitar, books, open mic poetry. I aspire to little old cat lady hood. I want a sun hat and a garden. I also like cigarettes and whiskey.

I'd like to meet:


Cheshire Cat

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Music:

Elliott Smith, Crooked Fingers, Tom Waits, Bad Religion, Johnny Cash, Nick Cave (and the Bad Seeds), Social Distortion, Tori Amos, L-7, Bikini Kill, Lunachicks, Flogging Molly, Nirvana, Tool, Cibo Matto, Modest Mouse, Dinosaur Jr., Rasputina, Bjork, The Pogues, Me first and the gimme gimmies, Dead Kennedys, Misfits, Sex Pistols (my favorite boy band), Moby, Western Addiction, Dead Milkmen, Radiohead, Pink Floyd, The Doors, Janis Joplin, Billie Holiday, Nick Drake, Robert Johnson and Marilyn Manson. Violins. Favorite GG Allin song (er..cover); Die when you Die.

Movies:

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Shaun of the Dead, Cecil B. Demented and many many more. I'm looking for a copy of Jean Cocteau's Orphic Trilogy. I have a soft spot for anything that has to do with Alice in Wonderland.

Television:

MASH. oh, and

Books:

Anything by Vonnegut, Hemingway, Hunter S. Thompson, Tom Robbins, and John Irving. House of Leaves, Fight Club, White Oleander, and stuff by Max Barry. I also like reading philosophical essays and classics, free verse poetry, and the biographies of people who did interesting things (Like Lenny Bruce or Jim Morrison.) I read Art in America to keep my contempt and hatred of the contemporary art world fresh and burning.

Heroes:

Sometimes I'm too jaded and crochety for heroes. sometimes.sometimes I like pirates too though.

My Blog

The Art world is cold and confusing. But I knew that.

Update on the CRL Senior show this coming sat - the amazing wonderful painting that I was positive would be selected for the show was not selected. I don't understand, and I'm hurt and confused, but t...
Posted by Linda on Mon, 19 Feb 2007 04:00:00 PST

Gravity

There's this feeling.Like the sky is breakingopen, and the light's been sucked up, into gravityreversed, out ward, leaving like a tornado, particlesrushing & streaming,circlingand shimmering--this...
Posted by Linda on Sat, 10 Feb 2007 02:38:00 PST

there's no where to go but up... right?

It's 6:23am and I'm half way through a bottle of Jim Beam. I'd quit for awhile, spent the night sipping on it mixed with coke and ice and reading. I started at 9:30, now half way through a bottle drin...
Posted by Linda on Sat, 27 Jan 2007 05:09:00 PST

art show! yay!

Hi everybody! Don't be scared, I'm in a good mood today. :)My first (and only...) student art show is next wed, oct 18th at 6:30pm. There will be food and art and... contortionists. okay, no contortio...
Posted by Linda on Tue, 10 Oct 2006 09:24:00 PST