vintage jewelry . abstract expressionists . dead trees and single trees in a vast field. seafood . maurice de vlaminck . best friends . a cutthroat game of pool . artists' biographies! . the oceon, or any body of water - including swamps . bhuddism . meditation . reading . intimate artworks . romantic art . coffee . poplar trees (their leaves make the most beautiful sound) . andrew wyeth . fauvism . kissing in public . laughing . the smell of lilacs and clover . blackjack gum . smoke-free bars . fat snowflakes . art museums . new forms of art . great writings/essays/novels/plays/books . walking through the woods or downtown . llamas
Music
SUEDE . ron isley . ray charles . the british sea power . godspeed you black emperor . smog . interpol . eyedea & abilities . the flaming lips . the twilight sad . astronautilus . brett anderson. m83 . pale saints . slowdive . ray lamontagne . alkaline trio . the beatles . citizen cope . the grateful dead . van morrison . blonde redhead . the cure . the smiths . bjork . bad religion . bob dylan . john frusciante . jeff buckley . radiohead . the blackheart procession . the mountain goats . imogen heap . starflyer 59 . grovur . the gloria record . mineral . the smashing pumpkins . pedro the lion . sunny day real estate . portishead . piano magic .trespassers william . the twilight sad . MORRISSEY . seafood . the tom waits. leonard cohen . rachmaninoff . beethoven . blackalicious . led zeppelin . modest mouse . neutral milk hotel . binary star . krs one . aesop rock . sage francis
Movies
life is beautiful . requiem for a dream . run lola run . amelie . pi . waking life . basquiat . into the wild . barfly . modigliani . michael clayton . the saddest music in the world
Television
nope.
Books
the picture of dorian gray . who is myself . goodnight moon . The Wonder (series by Tony Fitzpatrick)
i.me.mine . be here now . touching peace . straw for the fire - poems by roethke . on the road, the dharma bums and some of the dharma by keroauc . siddhartha . the american century of art and culture . news: the politics of illusion . Off the Wall (Robert Rauschenberg and the Art World of our Times) . gardner's art through the ages . rimbaud collected poetry . artist biographies . baudelaire collected poetry . roget's thesaurus . and the books i have written myself
Heroes
my mother and father, sister and brother - and the whole of my family who have endured many trials and tribulations....mark turcotte, oscar wilde, bukowski, rilke, roethke, baudelaire, kerouac, and all of the other devastatingly hopeless romantics... van gogh, rembrandt, wyeth, fitzpatrick, pollack, rauschenberg, kimler, de kooning, purvis young, hopper, lucien freud, mucha, derain, vlaminck, duchamp, mary ellen mark, chirico, magritte, kahlo, twombly, hockney, johns, turner and of course, all of the artists that have paved the way for more great expression and beauty.
About me: i paint in oil.
my inspiration comes from dead trees, the oddities of life, and the intoxicating smell of oil paint.
napthol crimson is most beautiful to me.
i love to eat grilled salmon, olives and wood-fired pizza.
i love city life.
and i love running.
Out now on Domovoi Records DOM001 Mike Bruno - In Memory CDr
Twenty three tracks of raw, emotional, and deeply cathartic acoustic songs, seemingly wrenched from the deepest, darkest corners a guitar can go whilst being plucked and strummed this gently. Mike's voice truly transcends the barrier between 'barely there' and absolutely destructive. All live tracks recorded over the span of five years, all over New Jersey. A true gem from a great friend, and my personal favourite underground acoustic album of the year.
Housed in completely handmade paper jackets with original artwork, enclosed with yarn.
To order a copy, visit heofthehouse.com $8 US $10 Kanada&Mexico Get in touch for International orders Trades are welcome, and we also have many other great distro items on the site
I thank you kindly for the add, it's quite a pleasure to make your acquaintance! If you would like to view more artwork, please visit my homepage GRANDPASTUDIOS.COM!! I currently only have cropped detail images of my drawings on myspace.
hey hows it going? jus got home from work.. how you been? jus checkin your page out, wacthin the lion king wit my kids n cooking rice n beans n pork chops... hopefully that will put them to sleep lol... ne wayz jus shown luv hope you have a great weekend... M.E.
Julia!! So at this point, I kinda know what you're thinking and it's probably something along these lines: "Oh great, another generic comment from another generic band that'll probably only talk to me when they're whoring out their "hot," single on iTunes or dropping a random useless Youtube video that will massively slow the crap out of my page!" Honestly, we have no iTunes singles (hell, I don't even own an iPod so chew on that for awhile, haha) nor any stupid Youtube videos or obnoxiously oversized flyers to litter your page with. Outside of being a band, we do normal things like cook with our easy bake oven (though the batter is kinda stale, haha), mug senior citizens for their orthopedic back pillows, and play ring around the rosy until the street lights come on . . . um, er . . . I mean we do incredibly masculine things like punch each other in the face and crush beer cans on our heads, haha! Anyways, feel free to trespass through our page (we won't call the myspace police, haha) and peep our sound mixing Rock and Psychedelia, or just shoot the breeze with us, cause not sure how apparent it is, but we've got a fairly decent sense of humor when it comes to this myspace thing, haha! Peace.
