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Esther

I am highbrow; I am lowbrow; I am the postmodern dilemma.

About Me


I have a baby midget hippo which I bought at the zoo and is the most rocking stuffed animal in the world AND he can breakdance. I love film, fashion, music, Marilyn Monroe, old school glamour, accessories, anyone who lives in or owns a combi, anyone who goes out in public with a perspex mannequin to a nightclub and pretends it's postmodern sculpture, wacky people in general as long as they don't kidnap me on epic Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas style adventures for too long, English breakfasts done Australian style, playing pool, costume and production design, did I mention cinema? making things happen, tequila slammers and BBQs. I seem to attract unexpected randoms at bars in the early hours of the morning when I am the last person standing. This also happens on street corners, planes, trains and automobiles. For the last several years I have lived a gypsy existence but the novelty of tethering those goddamn ponies is starting to wear off. I had the most incredible weird-arse hippie upbringing that defies description or categorisation of any kind. I change my look, hair style and colour more often than anyone I know. My hairdresser hates me. I will post a picture of me with a glorious perm as soon as I lay my hands on one......I am the only person I know that can max out my credit card at st vinnies. I am full of contradictions. I like Matthew Barney; I like Bruce Lee, I like Hubert Selby Jnr; I like Henry James; I like Messaien; I like pop; I like Rembrandt; I like Chagal; I like Helmet Newton; I like Nick Knight; I like Sam Taylor-Wood.

My Interests

Anything that is vaguely melancholic has probably got me going at some point. For cathartic experiences, nothing beats swimming in the open surf at night. Just don't do it drunk.

I'd like to meet:

People who have vision, a plan and hopefully a method. People who mean something. Rolling around in flower beds with the mannequin just doesn't cut it.

Music:

I Love Rock. I Love Electro. I generally like it dark. I don't like it mixed together. I love classical music, and jazz from Charlie Parker to Miles Davis with everything in between. Gil Evans' arrangement of Concerto de Aranjuez. Nina Simone, Mahalia Jackson, Billie Holiday, Ella, Frank and the rest.

For the others: Johnny Cash, the Beatles, The Doors, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Bob Marley, David Bowie, Joy Division, New Order, The Smiths, Gary Numan, The Kinks, Lou Reed (A Perfect Day gets a special mention), The Velvet Underground, Queen, Madonna's first punk album - it seriously rocks, Sonic Youth, Royal Trux, Nirvana, Stone Temple Pilots, Soundgarden, Silverchair, everything from the Bristol movement from the early-mid 90's, Leonard Cohen, Nick Cave, Tom Waits, Elliott Smith, Daniel Johns, The Dissociatives, Tim Buckley, Jeff Buckley, Adam Green, Radiohead, Air, Plaid, Boards of Canada, Aphex Twin, Perry Blake, PJ Harvey, JJ Johansson, DJ Shadow, Beastie Boys, Sage Francis, Grand Buffet, Cex, Kid 606, Eminem, Aggroberlin, Jeff Mills for the memories. Depeche Mode. Bjork. Dolly....Patsy Cline. The Strokes and The White Stripes. Ezra Reich. And GORAN BREGOVIC - solid gold! Crazy Eastern European Gypsy music to get drunk to. Jenny Green that one is for you. Plus whatever shit or weird song I may feel like listening to at the time. I have a short attention span. Fuck I love music in general.

Movies:

All-time top ten. It is too traumatising to list my faves as there are so many (like Hi-fidelity, or Clerks or anything with Jim Carrey in it) but for what it is worth, I think the following films are built for endurance. .....
1. Andrei Rublov-Tarkovsky.
2. 2001 Space Odyessy-Kubrick.
3. Clockwork Orange-Kubrick.
4. Apocalypse Now-Francis Ford Coppola.
5. The Godfather (counting the trilogy as one)-Francis Ford Coppola.
6. Casanova-Fellini.
7. Europa Zentropa-Lars Von Trier.
8. Seventh Seal-Bergman.
9. Raging Bull-Scorcese.
10. Bladerunner The Director's Cut-Ridley Scott.
11. Breathless-Goddard.
12. The Bicycle Thieves-Vittorio De Sica.
13. Le Samurai-Jean-Pierre Melville.
14. Underground-Emir Kusturica.
15. Floria Sigismundi - VCs and art.
16. La Reine Margot - etc etc
For laughs:
Beyond the Valley of the Dolls-Russ Meyer and Rocco goes to Prague

Television:

I have never owned a TV. Television is the opiate of the masses.

Books:

FICTION:
Down and Out in Paris and London (George Orwell), The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald), Anna Karenina (Tolstoy), The Idiot (Fyodor Dostoevsky), Portrait of a Lady (Henry James), Nostromo (Joseph Conrad), The Rainbow (DH Lawrence), Middlemarch (George Elliot), Confessions of an Opium Eater (Thomas DeQuincey) Les Fleurs du Mal (Baudelaire), Un Saison d'enfer (Rimbaud), The Penguin Edition of English Verse. Everything by John Le Carre. I hate the pretentious 80's NYC writer thing. But I love everything by Hubert Selby Jnr. Currently reading nothing. I need to start reading again.
NON FICTION: Ozzy Osbourne's biography, biographies in general, art books, graphic art and photography, film, couture etc etc.

Heroes:

Arthur Rimbaud - the ultimate genuis who didn't give a fuck but was so consummately brilliant that he didn't need to.

Lewis Carroll - for creating a world of mystique and dreamscape and bringing it into my bedroom as a small child - and making me believe in the endless possibilities of following the white rabbit to see where it goes.

My Blog

Back at work

I don't  think tht there is anything worse han being at work on four hours sleep for the second day in a row with nada à  faire. The clock is glaring at me it is only 10.30 and I h...
Posted by Esther on Tue, 06 Feb 2007 01:38:00 PST

ET ENCORE PIRE

Your Taste in Music:90's Alternative: High Influence90's Hip Hop: High InfluenceOld School Hip Hop: High Influence80's Alternative: Medium Influence80's R&B: Medium InfluenceHow's Your Taste in Music?...
Posted by Esther on Tue, 30 Jan 2007 02:09:00 PST

QUELLE HONTE

What Classic Movie Are You?personality tests by similarminds.comBUT HONESTLY THE CHOICE WAS FAIRLY LIMITED, THANKS CATRIE...
Posted by Esther on Tue, 30 Jan 2007 02:05:00 PST

Started full time work again

what can I say - not by my troth that is for sure.  It seriously sucks, especially trying to balance my artistic endeavours on the side....BUT STILL? WHO NEEDS SLEEP
Posted by Esther on Tue, 30 Jan 2007 05:15:00 PST

Very funny but useless - I Hate London - I think it was secretly meant to be NYC

You Belong in LondonYou belong in London, but you belong in many cities... Hong Kong, San Francisco, Sidney. You fit in almost anywhere.And London is diverse and international enough to satisfy many o...
Posted by Esther on Tue, 30 Jan 2007 05:13:00 PST

Have a Go

What Famous Leader Are You?personality tests by similarminds.com...
Posted by Esther on Tue, 09 Jan 2007 12:02:00 PST

Australia's Indie Rock Scene

Read all about it in my latest article in Issue 67 of Oyster Magazine. Indie Rock Article for Oyster Magazine
Posted by Esther on Sun, 07 Jan 2007 03:35:00 PST

Last photo shoot

let's change the tone a little, depressing crap is wearisome, so here are some portraits I did last year for a French R'n'B singer. Hip Hop PhotosEnjoy ...
Posted by Esther on Sun, 07 Jan 2007 06:11:00 PST

And another

This poem has a particularly special place in my heart. I WONDER by my troth, what thou and IDid, till we loved ? were we not wean'd till then ? But suck'd on country pleasures, childishly ? Or snorte...
Posted by Esther on Sun, 07 Jan 2007 04:59:00 PST

Janis, Jack and Malborough Lights

I have a mobile phone with bluetooth, infrared and internet capabilities, I have wireless, I have all sorts of different types, forms and styles of computers, I have a camera with voice recognition.&n...
Posted by Esther on Thu, 28 Dec 2006 07:19:00 PST