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Brandi Von Fortune

a lady never admits that her feet hurt

About Me

I've never been good at writing about myself

Art and fashion are my life

I am a homebody and a hard worker and I've fought to get where I am.
I curse like a sailor and dress however the fuck I please.

If you don't like me you can piss off.

My Interests

+old 1800s family photographs
+art
+music
+gaudy costume jewelry
+the 20s, 30s, 40s, and 50s
+pin-ups
+art history
+gnomes and trolls
+postcards
+Vargas girls
+marionettes
+accordians
+old jazz
+faux fur
+Universal monsters and their movies
+psychobilly
+shoes
+new york city
+50s cars
+vintage coats
+button down shirts
+shopping
+yoga
+movies
+sleeping whole days away
+chocolate
+sandwiches
+cigarette pants
+musicals
+coffee, light and sweet
+lowbrow art
+grafitti
+my job
+makeup
+Las Vegas
+sex

I'd like to meet:

Girls who dress up because they like to, not because they have to.
A fashion designer who wants to give me all their clothes and/or shoes

Various artists whose work influences me in various ways

Photographers who want to work together

I wont add your band, so don't bother. And if you want to send me some assinine comment trying to hit on me, don't bother because it just means you're too stupid to realize I'm taken.

I DON'T ADD ANYONE I DON'T KNOW UNLESS IT LOOKS LIKE WE MAY HAVE SOMETHING IN COMMON. IF YOU CAN'T TAKE A SECOND TO SEND ME A MESSAGE I'M NOT GOING TO ADD YOU EITHER. I DON'T CARE TO HAVE 20 MILION FRIENDS.

Music:

against me!
nekromantix
dickies
james intveld
frank sinatra
johnny cash
horrorpops
tiger army
billie holiday
head automatica
elvis
the meteors
mad sin
culture club
louis armstrong
stray cats
ella fitzgerald
demented are go
batmobile

etc.etc.etc.

Movies:

Cry Baby
Reefer Madness
anything muppets
anything tim burton
labrynth
garden state
eternal sunshine of the spotless mind
any old horror movies (frankenstein, dracula, etc)
dream for an insomniac
secretary
old bad b horror movies
alot...i love movies alot...

Television:

sex and the city
queer as folk
the L word
project runway
i love tv

Books:

anything by:
+vonnegut
+gide
+dostoyevsky
+tolstoy
+turgenev
+bukowski
+celine
+palahniuk
+rilke
i like books almost as much as tv

Heroes:

any artist who followed/follows their dreams, lord whimsy and all the people out there who remember a time long ago, and alan for teaching me what life and love are really supposed to feel like and giving me the courage to embrace both

My Blog

10 things most people don't know about me

Since most people on my list I don't know in person, I figured I'd make a short about me list of a few things that most people don't know. 1. I never wear sneakers. Sometimes if someone is lucky they ...
Posted by Brandi Von Fortune on Wed, 27 Dec 2006 04:05:00 PST

Lord Whimsy in New York!

For those of you in New York:       I will be there so come say hello!...
Posted by Brandi Von Fortune on Tue, 03 Oct 2006 01:50:00 PST

Glamour

There was an interesting article in The Atlantic on how the idea of glamour has changed with the advent of superheroes in film. What really got me is the paragraph explaining glamour:   ...
Posted by Brandi Von Fortune on Fri, 29 Sep 2006 07:27:00 PST

just how bored I am

Sitting in a hot gallery when its 100 degrees out and there is nothing to do leaves you no other choice...   1. In two words, explain what ended your last relationship?distance sucks2. What made ...
Posted by Brandi Von Fortune on Tue, 01 Aug 2006 01:05:00 PST

Rockstars

Last night = awesome. Enough said.     ...
Posted by Brandi Von Fortune on Fri, 23 Jun 2006 08:47:00 PST

days long past

its funny how one day you can get a message from someone and you are suddenly overwhelmed with this memory of what your past was like. you can remember every conversation, every laugh, every cry, ever...
Posted by Brandi Von Fortune on Sat, 08 Apr 2006 01:14:00 PST

its my birthday

I think for my birthday this year what everyone wants is for me to gain weight. Alan buys me like 8 chocolate bars and an ice cream cake for my party. My mom buys me two boxes of thin mint girl scout ...
Posted by Brandi Von Fortune on Sat, 28 Jan 2006 10:11:00 PST

why do I read so many art magazines?

 While Art Basel, Scope, Frieze, and the other numerous art fairs are taking place down in Miami, Florida, some of us are left to tend to the galleries that our coworkers have left behind for (so...
Posted by Brandi Von Fortune on Sat, 03 Dec 2005 01:22:00 PST