Design, art, music, architecture, the creative mind, humanists, ethicists, wabi-sabi, gardens, obscure cultivars, frogs, seahorses; failure of cultures, kindness, taxidermy, butter, x-rays; furniture, form + function, functionless form, cabinets of curiosity, bugs on pins, bones, rusted objects, debate, the financial truth of our government, G-Star, High Heels, comfortable shoes, my very amusing menagerie including rabbits and dogs, my extraordinarily gifted friends, people who can write, Esoterica, Erotica, Minimalism, Modernism, Post Modernism, -Ism's, post -ism's, chasms, holes, rust, people who do not fit within a standard envelope, enigmas, photography...
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Gaudi + Buddha. It's easier to say I am NOT interested in people who are merely collecting prolific MySpace numbers. I actually consider this a method of communication between existing friends and new people I have had the pleasure of meeting through this medium. I take umbrage at those who are merely seeking accolades and are not willing to reciprocate either through art, music, or the written word. "Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born." -Anaïs Nin
Carter Tutti, Lustmord, Millimetre, Objekt4, Nick Drake, Turin Brakes, Dead Can Dance, Talk Talk, Sufjan Stevens, Starsailor, God Speed! You Black Emperor, Queens Of The Stone Age, Radiohead, Beck, Sigur Ros, Autchre, Legendary Pink Dots, Pj Harvey, Pink Floyd, Cabaret Voltaire, My Bloody Valentine, Mekon, Vivaldi, Grieg, Brahms, Joseph Arthur, Iron &, Wine, Tom Recchion, Shiver Skin, Aphex Twin, George Sarah, CEE-LO, Gnarls Barkley, Fiona Apple, Elliott Smith, Massive Attack, Zero 7, Cocteau Twins, Bonnie Prince Billy, Tindersticks, The Beta Band, Monster Magnet, Basteroid, T Rex, Underworld, May I Stop Now? There's Too Much For Which I Am Grateful and it's impossible to list my ecclectic taste here. Let's generalize with : good pop (Radiohead, Beck, Macey Gray), Great Ambient and Electronica, and most anything Baroque. I don't know where to put Iannis Xenakis and Cage, but you probably do...
There are many. I do not however like (rarely, if at all) major Hollywood “blockbustersâ€: An Inconvenient Truth; The Corporation; Who Killed The Electric Car; Jesus Camp; The Secret; (Most Documentaries, In Case You Can't Tell); SHORTBUS,Bladerunner; Willie Wonka And The Chocolate Factory; Harvey; Sweet Charity; Auntie Mame; Clockwork Orange; Apocalypse Now; Mrs. Brown; Mad Max; Morvern Caller; American Psycho (but you must read the book first); The Singing Detective (The BBC Series); Edward Scissorhands; La Jetee; Matrix; Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind; Niagra Niagra; Grey Mansions; Anything with Audrey or Lauren; Would Someone Please Make A Film Out Of SNOW CRASH? And Please Don't Fuck Up PERFUME, One Of The All Time Greatest Books Ever Written.
LET'S CHANGE THIS CATEGORY TO ARTISTS, SHALL WE? Lucian Freud, Lazlo Moholy-Nagy, Robert Smithson, Chiho Aosima, Nara, Barbara Kruger, Cosey Fanni Tutti, Matta, Paul McCarthy, Jonathon Rosen, H.R.Giger, Mona Hatoum, Derek Jarman, Odd Nerdrum, some Ruscha, Rothko, Arbus,some Dali, anything Bauhaus, Le Corbusier, Starck (sorry, yes), Rosenquist, Beuys, Thomas Struth, Eva Hesse, Vernor Panton, Laura Owens, osseus labyrint, Morimoto, Weegee, Goldsworthy,Rauschenberg, deKooning, Richard Serra, Martin Parr, Joel Peter Witkin, Orozco, Gerhard Richter, Leonardo DaVinci, Jessica Joslin, Tracey Roberts, Jonathon Rosen, Anna Livia, John Fleuvog...
Perfume; Gray's Anatomy; Derek Jarman's Garden; Enduring Love; Written on The Body; The Giant's House; Plath; Fight Club; Hemmingway; Nin; Colette; Keats; White Teeth; The Shipping News; The Elegant Universe; David Foster Wallace; Fermat's Enigma; The Story of the Eye;virtually anything by Jeanette Winterson, Nicholson Baker, Martin Amis (earlier Amis), Henry Miller, Joyce Carol Oates, Maslow, House of Leaves, David Sedaris, VAS: An Opera in Flatland, Douglas Coupland, Mishima,
Moholy-Nagy, Grenouille, Darwin, Burroughs,Derek Jarman, Gysin, Ginsberg, The Marquis de Sade, Kafka, Sartre, Roald Dahl, Howard Zinn, Eddie Izzard, Michael Moore, The Martha Stewart, Stephen Hawking, Rilke, my therapist, my attorneys, my doctors, Frank Lloyd Wright, Le Courbusier, Ernst Haeckel, Gaudi, Buddah, People who pursue an interesting course of life. . .