strange theories and ideas, implicate and explicate orders of universe, collage, assemblage, art, books, boys, Quimby Mouse, palmtrees, trees, plants, moss, lichen, insects, critters, rocks, stones, fire, looking through trash & bookstores, flame-throwing metal-machines, elves and fairies, porn, finding cool discarded things on the streets, music, very dear friends and kindred-spirit types,
Music
Autechre, Jon Wahl & the Amadans, Bach, Bad Brains, Beasties, Beefheart, bluegrass, delta blues, Bob Log III, the Boredoms, Branca, Brecht/Weill, R.L. Burnside, ButtholeSurfers, Buzzcocks, Carnage Asada, Nick Cave, Guy Clark, the Clash, David Alan Coe, Rodney Crowell, the Crystal Method, Daft Punk, Nick Drake, Dvorak, Bob Dylan, Steve Earle, Einsturzende Neubauten, the Fall, Edvard Grieg, Gun Club, Merle Haggard, Hungarian music, Jandek, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Joy Division, Aram Kachaturian, Daniel Lanois, Listing Ship, Arthur Lee & Love, Lutefisk, Felix Mendelsohn, Mark "Mark Miller" Miller, Morricone, OLLIN, Charlie Parker, Gram Parsons, Pearls Before Swine, Pixies, Iggy Pop, Popdefect, Public Enemy, Radiohead, Willis Alan Ramsey, Saccharine Trust, Eric Satie, Savage Republic, Sibelius, SkeeterTruck, Therapy?, This Mortal Coil, TrashBand, John Trubee, Universal Congress of..., UNKLE, VU, WACO, Hank Williams, R. Vaughan Williams, Woodpussy, Robert Wyatt, Townes Van Zandt, X, lots & lots more... lemme keep adding.
Movies
Dead Man, anything w. Forest Whitaker, Rosencranz and Guildenstern are Dead, Blazing Saddles, Buckaroo Banzai, JLG by JLG, Monty Pythons, In The Mood For Love, Dark Star, Galaxy Quest, Greaser's Palace, Carnival Of Souls, La Dolce Vita, Enter The Dragon, Cirkus Rediculess, LOTR, Naked (w. David Thewlis), most OLD movies, The Aristocrats, Slingblade, Ernest Goes to Jail, Bad Lieutenant, Goodfellas, Reservoir Dogs, Scarface, Apocalypse Now,
Television
The list below is very outdated! I haven't had cable or decent TV reception for a couple years. Lately I no longer can afford cable but for some reason get Spike Channel, so I watch CSI Vegas and Andy Griffith reruns incessantly. (I can't even get PBS!)
OLD list: Deadwood, Huell Howser, most old movies, Andromeda, Firefly, that gay cable-channel LOGO even tho' I'm not gay, the Hitler Channel, The Weather Channel, Daily Show (IF I could stay up that late), Lost of course, ....
NEW list: CSI Las Vegas reruns, Andy Griffith, uhh.... not much else available, AND IT ALL GOES AWAY IN FEBRUARY (might not get an HD box.)
Books
Many, far too many books. Oh my god, SO many books: reference books, Dickens, some Iris Murdoch, Patrick O'Brian seafaring historical novels(I've read 19), Man Without Qualities, Dream Of The Red Chamber (aka Dream of Red Mansions, Story of the Stone), Remembrance of Things Past (over&over), Moby Dick (one of the best novels in the world), violent medieval Icelandic sagas like Egil's Saga by Snorri Sturluson, Gravity's Rainbow (2 1/2 times), brainless escapist sword'n'sorcery novels, religions & philosophies, Arthur Rackham illustrations, Will Durant histories, This Is Burning Man by Brian Doherty, The Meaning of Lost & Mismatched Socks by Hal Robins,
Heroes
Hal Robins, Ed Ruscha, Al Ridenour, John Law, Scott Beale, Chicken John Rinaldi, Joseph Cornell, Kurt Schwitters, Max Ernst, Chris Ware, David Bohm, Ken Wilbur, Harry Partch, Thomas Pynchon, Icky Bob, Gore Vidal, Shane Cooper, my big bro' John, my 9-yr-old former-homecare-nursing-patient who's just about completely WELL now after 7++ years (he's an excellent little person and one of my best friends), MY BELOVED DAD above all else, my now-dead mentor Martin, my many INCREDIBLE & amazing local musician and artist friends, Heckle & Jeckle,
About me:
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ME ME ME ME ME (what MySpace is about, right?)
aka Amanda. . .
Hmmm, my profile tells me THAT I AM IN MY OWN EXTENDED NETWORK!. I'm terribly relieved to hear that. I think so much better of myself now. ....... (Oh, I just found out that statement can be altered on my profile. Nice.)
I'm a skeptical believer, cynical mystic, a syncretist. Very
sweet & occasionally curmudgeonly... nay, even pissed off at times. Hopefully disillusioned, or vice versa. An artist in my sensibilities and soul, if not so much out in the world. .......
Hey, lemme tell ya the story, sometime, about my
now-ex-husband the very brilliant Los Alamos physicist who
became an alien from the Pleiades (never specified
which star of the 7 or the 200+), lost his Q-clearance for
awhile but got it back & is again designing complex lasers & triggering devices for our govt. which obviously DOES employ "alien technology" DIRECTLY, no need for retro-engineering! (I smell conspiracy and neo-MK Ultra.)
...........Also, PLEASE SEE PICS ON FLICKR -
http://www.flickr.com/photos/disparateimages/sets/
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Who I'd like to meet: Some sweet smart strange delightful deep odd NICE people.
...and maybe Steve Earle, Rudy Rucker....um... or....John Thaw, Richard Boone, Jim Varney .... Oh yeah, those last 3 are dead, dammit.
thanks a lot. I'm happy to became your friend ;) IONONSOIONONSONOUNARTISTA www. gaetanoleonardi. com
ITA:
"Il mito è uno strumento di trasposizione della realtà, il mito e' spiegazione di un rito, di un atto formale che corrisponde a esigenze della tribù, il mito e' struttura delle credenze di un gruppo. Oggi il mito si evolve, muta, divenendo icona, icona commerciale, sexy e nello stesso tempo divoratrice di uomini, plasmatrice di luoghi comuni del pensiero. Nell'ultimo decennio l'arte si beffa della socio-cultura attraverso la raffigurazione delle nuove icone. La scelta e il richiamo ai "super-eroi", il mito antico letto attraverso la chiave moderna degli ultimi 50 anni, non deriva da un fattore estetico bensì dalla volontà di rappresentazione della vacuità dello status symbol. Una iconografia lasciva, lussuriosa, audace si abbraccia agli eroi attuali generando lo scontro etico tra il mito classico e contemporaneo."
ENG:
"Mith is a tool to translate reality, mith is the explanation of a ritual-a formal way to express tribe needs-mith is a structure from the believings of the group. Nowadays mith is evolving, changes, becames an icon, a commercial icon, sensual and "man-eater", molding common ideas and archetypes.In the last decades art mokes on social and culture through the representation of new icons. The idea of evoking superheroes-ancient mith through the modern view of the last 50 years-is not taken from an aestethic reason, is derived from the willing of represent
Sorry you couldn't make it to the show. We are playing Pasadena on Saturday and Boyle Heights the Saturday after that. Thanks for coming to so many of our shows.
Too bad about the fires. Try one of house painters masks like they wear in Tokyo. I thought I saw ashes falling from the sky today but it was actually snow flurries Burrrh!
Hey Amanda... Great to hear from you; thanx for the add :) Love your pics... very kool! If ya think of it, send me any emails of fun things goin on round town... I'm outta da loop even though I'm a member of myspace! LOL
