defining myself in a non-tangible way, cooking, learning butoh, exploring my photography, dissecting film, writing manifestos, dancing with reckless abandon, working on my photojournal, reading, giggling at chindogu, collecting finger puppets, practicing rapid cognition, flirting with no intended purpose, maintaining a Fluxist perspective
Donny Hathaway:
Dorothy Iannone:
Henry and Ian, back in the day:
And Damian Ortega:
And now, a list of people I wish would fall off the earth (and take their crappy art with 'em!): David Lynch, Alex Katz, Charles Bukowski (ok, well, too late for him..), Stephin Merritt, Marina Abramovic, Stupid Fucking FERGIE, Diana Krall, Jeff Tweedy and Wilco (dammit, enough!), Pavement, Guided By Voices, Julian Schnabel, The Splasher (who I will murder if I ever meet in person), Neck Face (ok... I admit.. he's growing on me...), Toni Morrison ...ok, that's all for now. More to come....
Been really into the Misfits lately. I would be remiss not to include the following bands on my list of things I can't live without: Animal Collective, Akron/Family, Tyondai Braxton, John and Alice Coltrane, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, From Monument to Masses, Goldie, The Police, Martha Wainwright, Serge Gainsbourg, Sufjan Stevens, Devendra Banhart, Oumou Sangare, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, New Pornographers, Jaga Jazzist, Stereolab, Donovan, Joshua Bell, Antibalas, Black Star, Vetiver, Seu Jorge, DangerDoom, Can, Kings of Convenience, Fela Kuti, Gang of Four, Beck, Mogwai, Nick Cave, Sigur Ros, Elton John, Bjork, Justin Timberlake, A Silver Mt. Zion, Mastodon, Sonic Youth, Aretha Franklin, Vashti Bunyan, Gang of Four, REM, Explosions in the Sky, Neko Case, Outkast, Grizzly Bear, Gram Parsons, Nico, Metallica, Ohmega Watts, Feathers (both Miami and Vermont-based), Nina Simone, Radiohead, Macha, Donny Hathaway, PJ Harvey, The Smiths, MIA, Kaki King, Red Sparowes, Thom Yorke, Erlend Oye, Tom Petty, Ladytron, Beck, Unwound, Neko Case, Cursive, Mary J. Blige, Elvis Costello, Cee-Lo, The Specials, Jamiroquai, and Patsy Cline.
If I were to teach a class on films that made me who I am today, this would be a partial list: To Sir With Love, Fame, Auntie Mame, The Wiz, Raising Arizona, Brimstone and Treacle, Bell Book and Candle, Magnolia, Virgin Suicides, Trust, Radio Days, Baraka, Get on the Bus, Dead Ringers, Babe, Slam, Talk To Her, Dynamite Chicken, Hudsucker Proxy, Dancer in the Dark, Paradise Lost, Rushmore, High Fidelity, Mystery Train, The Red Violin, Sideways, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Southern Comfort, Metropolitan, The Science of Sleep, Better Off Dead, Naked, Irreversible, The Ballad of Jack and Rose, The Fast Runner, Old Boy, Tarnation, Me and You and Everyone We Know, Rabbitproof Fence, Psycho, Smoke Signals, The Dreamers, Flirt, The Aristocrats, Chungking Express, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Pi, Dark Days, Starship Troopers, Dead Alive, Billy Elliott, The Motorcycle Diaries, The City of Lost Children, Microcosmos, Vera Drake, Dead Alive, The Fisher King, Bamboozled, Eyes Wide Shut, Heavenly Creatures, Election, The Five Obstructions, Royal Tenenbaums, Waking Life, Whale Rider, Some Kind of Monster, Eve's Bayou, Ghost Dog, The Ice Storm, Tony Takitani, Shaun of the Dead, Secrets and Lies, Safe, Personal Velocity, The Devils, Dogtown and the Z-Boys, Benjamin Smoke, Amores Perros, La Heine, Chuck and Buck, Dogville, The Proposition, Adam's Apple, Tsotsi, Benjamin Smoke, Buffalo 66, The King, Dead Poets Society, District B13, Pusher 1, Evil Dead, The Descent, Sympathy for Lady Vengeance, Night of the Living Dead, and Sex, Lies, and Videotape.
I am a friend of public television. The only other time I usually watch TV is at someone else's house or when Law and Order is on. Or Charlie Rose and Tavis Smiley. Oh, and I really like Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Metalocalypse, Freaks and Geeks, and Arrested Development.
Currently reading The Omnivore's Dilemma and Palestine, Peace Not Apartheid. Next on the list: The Diary of Anais Nin, the new Harry Potter, White Teeth, a lil Chekhov, The Wrong Side of Paris, How To Be Alone, and Dave Egger's short stories. Some of my all-time favorite books are: The Phantom Tollbooth, The Prince of Tides, The Secret History, Geek Love, Microserfs, Still Life With Woodpecker, In Cold Blood, The Baron in the Trees, The Hobbit, Matilda, Elvissey, The Tipping Point, Walden, Tender at the Bone, Blink, Kitchen, Freakanomics, Pattern Recognition, Eleanor Rigby, Harry Potter 1, 4, & 5, Camera Lucida, Satanic Verses, I Love You More Than You Know, The Secret of My Familiar, Morvern Callar, Maribou Stork Nightmares, Killing Yourself To Live, Invisible Monsters, Liza Lou and the Yeller Belly Swamp, Mysterious Skin, Black Boy, The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, Little Alters Everywhere, and The Way To Cook.
Astrid Rosario, Banksy, Assata Shakur, Yoko Ono, Yayoi Kusama, Tantoo Cardinal, Kasi Lemmons, Steve Jobs, Grace Jones, Bill and Melinda Gates, Charlie Rose, Martha Stewart, Thomas Friedman, Jared Diamond, Woody Allen, Ruth Reichl, Sherman Alexie, Carrie Mae Weems, Salman Rushdie, Kazuo Ohno, Barack Obama, Jonas Mekas, Robert Redford, Jim Jarmusch, Pedro Almodovar, Fidel Castro, and Cornell West.