Sandorfi, Rubens, Magritte, Cecily Brown paintings, dragon snappers and honeysuckles, Matthew Barney, CIndy Sherman, Fransesca Sundsten, Matthew Ritchie, The Bauhaus, anything velvet, the zoo, mind games, clement greenberg, ann gale, stripes, glitter,mint green, costumes-masks-and make-up, Odd Nerdrum, anything kitsch, gooey paint- gobs of it. Going to museums and sculpture gardens anywhere... But i love Cheekwood in Nashvegas and Laumeire Sulpture park in STL.
I'd like to meet:
Hybrids, people who have eating disorders, people who worship matthew barney and the genius himself, Cecily Brown in all her chicness, cat-people, vegetarians with new recipes, women from iran...
Music:
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Nico, The Velvet Underground of course, Kraftwerk, YO LA TENGO, bowie, THE RAPTURE, Moving Units!(x and y!), INTERPOL, Metric, the the, beck, Hot Chip, SCALE, violent femmes, patsy cline, patti smith, Stars, VHS OR BETA, The Birthday Massacre, The flaming lips, THE SEA AND CAKE, air, belle and sebastian, the unicorns, clap your hands say yeah, the searchers (needles and pins!), diana ross, bright eyes, the streets, Annie Lennox, gin blossoms(don't laugh), the radio departed, Patricia Mabee, the concretes, frank, r.e.m., stereolab, IVY, st. sebastian, tegan and sara, Le TIGRE , THE SMITHS, the wiggles, persephones' bees, aimee mann, modern lovers, islands, LADYTRON, Talking heads, the faint, STEVIE NICKS, wilco, tom waits, bowie, FIONA, the pixies, sonic youth, INTERPOL, tori, the cranberries, ani defranco, rilo kiley, the shins, ANNIE LENNOX, the cars, the contortions, B-52's!, jefferson airplane, aimee mann, dandy warhols, Altered Images, THE DREAM SYNDICATE, cyndi lauper, BJORK, bikini kill, wolf parade, death from above 1971, cut and copy, of course elvis, le tigre, BROADCAST, marmoset, islands, buddy holly, of montreal, CAT POWER!, quixotic, GOLDFRAPP, sleater-kinney, tracy and the plastics, ladytron, KATE BUSH, Radio Berlin, New Order, Siouxsie and the Banshees, of course THE CURE, Dolly, Lauryn Hill, Trick Daddy, the dresden dolls, the make-up, of course the cure, and most french music simply because...
Movies:
The Cremaster Cycle, Reality Bites, Mannequin, Quills, Marie Antoinette, The Dreamers, Beetle Juice, Mannequin, Nightmare before Christmas, Russian Ark, March of the Penguins, Waking Life, Rivers and Tides, Amelie, Happenstance, All Dogs Go To Heaven, Charade, , Girl Interrupted, When Harry Met Sally, Rushmore, With a Friend like Harry, What About Bob?, Vertigo and most hitcock films.
Books:
Poetry by Rumi, The Giver- love it when i was younger and appreciate it more now, Alan Lightman's Einstien's Dreams, Suicide Casanovas, The Fuck-up (Most Arthur Nersiesan- Chinese takeout and so on) Akashic Records: Past Lives and New Directions by Robert Chaney, Modern Painter mag, Cindy Sherman: A Retrospective, Cunt- a very empowering read, Odd Nerdrum, really...any books on artists, Sylvia Plath always, A light in the Attic- always, Artforum... Pablo Neruda- thank u Kenneth! ( i still have ur book- sorry!)
Heroes:
Matthew Barney, of course Cecily Brown, Cleopatra, Artemsia Gentilinschi, Ghandi, my NANA, Tim Leary, The guerilla girls, mom and dad, and of course my sister.