Making paintings, making music with The Hidden Mitten, providing grief counseling for my cat, and playing with my beautiful son.
Music
I enjoy that of the tree frog. Also, various other delightful bands and performing artists such as Blonde Redhead, Trans Am, Robert Crumb and the Cheap Suit Serenaders, Renaldo and the Loaf, Public Enemy, Lambchop, Mew, Traening, The Postal Service, Flaming Lips, Electric Six, Junior Senior, The Talking Heads, Air, Radiohead, Pixies, Andrew Bird, Elvis Costello, Stars Like Fleas....I grow weary now and can list no more.
Movies
Baby Snakes!I just watched it again and have such a renewed love for Frank, Adrian Belew, Terry Bozzio, and that claymation guy. I'm also quite fond of Fishing With John, Stranger Than Paradise, Willard, and I had a strange infatuation with Trading Places in high school-watched it almost every week and certain parts over and over and I don't really know why. Also The Beaver Trilogy.
Television
Louis Theroux's Weird Weekends. And one morning when it was still dark I was summoned by my husband to come see the strange penis things on PBS. It was "Boobah" and the website is equally enchanting.
Books
I like books with pictures in them-Frank Auerbach, Redon, Guston, de Kooning, Miro, Yayoi Kusama, Bonnard. When I want to read words, I enjoy Kobo Abe, Roald Dahl, Ron Padgett, Dick Gallup, Murakami. When I'm sick, I read mysteries.
About me: www.melaniepbrown.com/gallery
www.myspace.com/thehiddenmitten
Who I'd like to meet: Someone who can edit all of the Thriller album to be devoid of any lyrics, but keep all the in between "uhs" and such. I'd like to hear what it sounds like that way.
we missed you too! are you around on teh 5th? maybe we could hang out earlier in the evening. I am performing int eh sketch show that night and am looking for a sitter--maybe we can work something out?
this is your invitation!--James;s birthday party is at our house march 21 (friday) starting around 7 and going til whenever. there will be sausage and peppers....droool..... hope you can join us!! bring the baby!
Thanks for the wild turkey and the passenger pigeon…destined to be shit out through wholesome American guts. Thanks for a continent to despoil and poison. Thanks for Indians to provide a modicum of challenge and danger. Thanks for vast herds of bison to kill and skin…leaving the carcasses to rot. Thanks for bounties on wolves and coyotes. Thanks for the American dream: To vulgarize and to falsify until the bare lies shine through. Thanks for the KKK. For nigger-killin’ lawmen, feelin’ their notches. For decent church-goin’ women, with their mean, pinched, bitter, evil faces. Thanks for “Kill a Queer for Christ” stickers. Thanks for laboratory AIDS. Thanks for Prohibition and the war against drugs. Thanks for a country where nobody’s allowed to mind their own business. Thanks for a nation of finks. Yes, thanks for all the memories…all right, let’s see your arms. You always were a headache and you always were a bore. Thanks for the last and greatest betrayal of the last and greatest of human dreams
