DISCOVERING AND LEARNING!! ART-LIFE-DEATH. old cemetaries are sooo beautiful!! Napa valley and New Orleans have some beautiful sites, you can picnic in a quaint, off road cemetary in napa and the deer will come right up to you..........................................
ARTISTS, ESPECIALLY WOMEN PAINTERS, I HAVE ONLY GUY PAINTER FRIENDS AND A GIRL WOULD BE SO GREAT. actually i can't say that any more thanks to myspace!! I found an awesome painter chiquita who lives just a few minutes away from me. i still need more.......must feed the kitty RAAAR!!! meeeeow ;} MUSICIANS, INVENTORS, WORLD TRAVELERS, ENTREPENUERS,FUN PEOPLE, TRUE PEOPLE.
ANY THING WITH INTENT! HERE ARE SOME I LIKE: NINA SIMONE!!!, i can't stop listening to her,she is soulfull and uncommonly beautiful, just filled with intensity and dark magic. BJORK, what can i say besides mmmmmmmmmm....., i am in love w/her Vespertine albumn!!, SISTERS OF MERCY!! i have missed them sooooo, i went out and bought all their albumns and am in love with them all over again, OF MONTREAL, i just added them to my library, groovy-cool.... JEFF BUCKLEY for belting it out straight from his soul-for sharing his most inner fears and sadness , i just discovered DAVID GARZA!! I AM ADDICTED TO HIM-LIKE CHOCOLATE!!, i put him on my ipod and while i'm painting i can listen to his albumn and be carried away each time, he suprizes me with all his styles that are diff. but still mesh and get his point across.NATATCHA ATLAS, she has that core strength mixed with sex!, THE CURE, great high school memories!, PORCUPINE TREE , DAVID SYLVIAN, i absolutely love dead bees on a cake cd , ALI AKBAR KHAN, JOHN LENNON, TOURTISE is great to paint to, SIOUXIE AND THE BANSHEES, love the juju albumn, THE CLASH, gets me all riled up!, NORAH JONES, voice of slow dripping honey....she can fuckin' sing! FIONA APPLE, if not for even these lyrics---- i want to make a mistake, goona do it on purpose..., VIOLENT FEMMES!, MY HEROS, i could not stop listening to them in school, i was forced to school in utah partially, we are talking complete hick-ville u.s.a. , their music helped me just say,FUCK IT !!!!! I DON'T HAVE TO HAVE FEATHERED HAIR AND TIGHT JEANS! I DON'T CARE IF YOU TRY TO BEAT ME UP EVERY FUCKING DAY, I'M GOONA DO WHAT I FEEL LIKE DOING!! thanks guys!!!PATSY CLINE for being tragic yet strong, RICHARD ASHCROFT , really great songwriting! so take that rolling stones!, ALICIA KEYS, for bringing back awesome soul, JILL SCOTT , so sweet, KATE BUSH, her voice makes me feel transported back in time, RHCP'S, blood sugar sex magic is just plain good stuff! COLD PLAY, cuz they feel heartfelt and dreamy...., BAUHAUS and washington drizzled days, smokin' and reading tom robbins novels...., TONES ON TAIL, for continuing my lust for this bands music and holding my attention RADIO HEAD, GYSPSY KINGS , TORI AMOS, poetry and piano, what could be better? THE SMITHS, cuz they prove attitude is ALL THAT! DANDY WARHOLS, dreamy-whirly-spinning-dancing on mushrooms..... MEAT BEAT MANIFESTO, opened my eyes to boy music, they are the yang to my yin, THE DOORS, poetry and organ music CAN be mainstream! I love soft parade albumn LED ZEP, fucking raw beautiful sex! I love misty mountain hop PLEASURE CLUB they actually put jingle bells in the songs and it sounds rad! BLACK REBEL MOTORCYCLE CLUB makes me want to live in the 60's.. ,PORTISHEAD she-they are amazing! i love the live at roseland cd!!!!!!!!! ,ERICA BADU for being a BAD ASS!, OURS, jimmy's voice is great and the 1st albumn, distorted lulabies is a masterpiece, THE SHINS, great to clean my ears out with.....in a good way! LIBBY KIRKPATRICK, she is a traveling fairy who sings from her heart, she is beautiful! RACHMANINOV, for pulling out such sadness and beauty but still has sooo much power and force,that it makes me cry. SIMON AND GARFUNKLE, they make me feel like a kid again, GRATEFUL DEAD, of course, for their lifestyle in our conservative world and for the albumn american beauty! SAM HAYNES, intense and lovely pianist ;} DOVES, hope they get out there more i love dancing to some good blues{must be in a small, smokey, bad lit bar......}, i'm getting into the 80's sound alike bands also, like POSTAL SERVICE, and i love lOUIS XIV, raw and good frickin rock, ah yes, and i almost forgot NINA HAGEN!! never had so much fun dancing as to "new york!!" MASSIVE ATTACK'S cd mezzanine albumn, MINISTRY, they have evolved! also they were my fight voice when i was living in hell, AKA roy, utah, and being beat up and called a "preppie-faggot" even though i wasn't a "preppie" and they didn't even know how to insult properly!, i think this list is way too long.....but i can't stop, i keep remembering.....there are so many.....ahhhh help! ok, more......how could i forget , PRINCE!, the 1st time i saw him on mtv, with his 1999 video i was absolutely mesmorized! in love since then, don't really care how lame he can be at times, he is always my "music boyfriend"!
I HEART HUCKABEES! existentialist detetctives.............just rented "the corporation" --luved it. FAV. ALL TIME MOVIE IS , LIKE WATER FOR CHOCOLATE! SECOND IS THE RED VIOLIN NEXT, DONNIE DARKO, i can watch it over and over,BRAZIL, GOYA IN BORDEAUX,it is like a moving , living painting---sooooo enchanting and lovely and dark, CHOCOLAT, I LOVE THE LOOK OF BLACK AND WHITE MOVIES W/GLAMOUROUS STARS LIKE VERONICA LAKE AND CARY GRANT, BUT THEY ARE KIND OF ANNOYING. TITUS,the imagery is spectacular, LORD OF THE RINGS, DANGEROUS BEAUTY,CITY OF LOST CHILDREN, DUMB AND DUMBER, KUNG POW- ENTER THE FIST, i saw this on hbo one day, i tuned in half way through and didn't know what the fuck i was watching and just kept with it and i laughed my ASS off!!!, THE COOK-HIS WIFE-THE THIEF AND HER LOVER, WOMEN ON THE EDGE OF A NERVOUS BREAKDOWN, CROUCHING TIGER HIDDEN DRAGON, STEALING BEAUTY,SUPER TROOPERS, ANY THING BEAUTIFUL, MAGICAL OR STUPID FUNNY.
THE DAILY SHOW!!!!! HGTV, CIVILIZATION CHANNEL W/ALL THE ANCIENT SOCIETIES AND HISTORY., THE SCIENCE CHANNEL! COMEDY CENTRAL---SOUTH PARK! AND LIKE SEX IN THE CITY(yes, i admit it, it fucking funny as hell!, in small doses of course)
MARLO MORGAN'S, MUTANT MESSAGAE FROM DOWN UNDER, MERLIN STONE'S , WHEN GOD WAS A WOMAN, BARBARA WALKER'S ENCYCLOPEDIA OF WOMENS MYTHS AND SECRETS, ANNA KARENINA BY LEO TOLSTOY,i love the food lover's companion, i am a total geek and just look things up at random, i also love the DICTIONARY! hours of entertainment for me, hey i think i'm a xeric by now!by the by, the poor letter X only has 1 1/4 pages in the ''DIC'' and when you go to say the word it's always a zzzz sound......hmmm. although X is one of the sexiest letters, along with S and Z ;}RICHARD BACH'S, ILLUSIONS, THE TAO TE CHING, GORE VIDALS WRITINGS , AND I LOVE EVERYTHING BY TOM ROBBINS, ESPECIALLY JITTERBUG PERFUME, MARIJA GIMBUTAS'S THE LANGUAGE OF THE GODDESS, THORSONS PRINCIPLES OF COLOUR HEALING BY AMBIKA WAUTERS AND GERRY THOMPSON, AND ALWAYS USING MY COMPLETE BOOK OF ESSENTIAL OILS AND AROMATHERAPY BY VALERIE ANN WORWOOD. I LIKE BOOKS THAT TEACH ME SPECIFIC THINGS, LIKE WINE, OR HOW TO BE A GOOD MUSHROOM HUNTER, ESCAPISM & BIOGRAPHYS.
I DONT HAVE HEROS, JUST PEOPLE THAT I ADMIRE CERTAIN THINGS ABOUT, LIKE,ELIZABETH CADY STANTON,MARIJA GIMBUTAS-for painstakenly cataloging all of the goddess artifacts and art, which gives me great inspiration for my own art, JOHN LENNON,MY MOTHER- not for being a perfect saint, but pulling herself out of hell and being determined not to have us wallow in it!