If you would like to use any of my poems in music, film, theatre,
at poetry readings or you would like to collaborate in writing
your lyrics, contact me via www.HollaceMetzger.com. Thank you.
The above images are of projects I have served as either primary or secondary project manager, designer and/or construction administrator during 10 years of work experience. If you are in need of architectural consultation services, building code analysis, feng shui, interior design, artwork or furniture selection, existing conditions & feasibility surveys and/or design advice, kindly send an email via www.HollaceMetzger.com. Thank you. (CV)
Mus(e)ic col-Lab projekt
If you would like to use any of my poems in music or at poetry
readings or if you would like to collaborate in writing your lyrics,
contact me via www.HollaceMetzger.com. Thank you.
Exhibited, Published & Promotional Work: Exposition METZGER / PLAZANNET (Paris, Oct.2009) :: F/STOP International Festival for Contemporary Photography (Leipzig) :: Arthouse (Thessaloniki) :: UN-J Association of Geneva (Switzerland): historical photo-documentation of Cany-Barville (Normandie, France) :: Schmap Guide to Glasgow: photo-documentaion of the Mackintosh School of Art building :: 3:am Magazine (Paris) :: The Toronto Quarterly :: Negative Space Zine (Boston) :: Magazine BLU (Philadelphia) & MagazineBlu.com :: Hecale (UK) :: Gentle Music Men 2008 album cover (Vilanova) :: Bernie Worrell (New York) :: Micka Luna (Barcelona) :: Thomas Bel (Toulouse) :: Dennis Cahlo (Brooklyn) :: Guy Licata (Brooklyn) :: Posh Army (Cleveland) ::
kundalini, tactility, "touches, tastes and tangibilities," chiaroscuro, conducting social experiments of proximity and eye contact on the subway, oneness, pâtisseries, paganism, polycarbonates, percussion brushes, T'ai Chi Ch'uan, thrifting-being thrifty-being nifty, convertible road trips w/ mixtapes, gnocchi @ Acqua Santa, chado ritual, the quinta essentia, cooking, baking, necking, cubism, futurism, contortionism, literature, used bookstores, multiplicities, complexities, free verse, beatniks, onomatopoea, tension-compression, nonlinear thought, Beethoven's Kreutzer, sweet guys w/studded belts & studs w/white belts, sexy divas, fashion, muses, teuchters, translucency, tennis, snowboarding, baci ball, wine-stained lips, meditation, forces around us which we have no control over, Time-Space & Electromagnetism = String Theory, man-scarves, soup can telephones, Venetian glass, fine wines & a good beer, the process of sharing a boiled artichoke, amber, frozen time, mental orgasms, Morago, Jan Saudek, vintage lingerie, SIM-City, Trajan's Column as the first film, random acts of kindness, furry creatures, international travel/languages...
Autumn...
Paint.
Foreign hotel rooms...
Williamsburg, contemporary galleries, old vinyls-older books-even older buildings (juxtaposed to really new buildings), strange fruits, vintage drafting tools, Magnolia Bakery, excessively bubbled baths, gelato, singing loudly, walking in the rain, skipping, rooftops, cartwheels, eye contact, multi-hued sunsets, mancala, the Kentucky Derby, sipping mint juleps under a big floppy hat, silk scarves and big sunglasses, gaelic, George Ohr's vessels, my Dremmel, power tools, beating on taut leather stretched over anything ovalyn, syzygy, chantney, dinner parties, Zinc Bar, scars w/ stories, imperfections, thinking in Italian when affected w/ wine, grape stomping, feng shui, Vespas & anything that makes me feel like I am the missing member of Devo...
And for the past 12 years, my life has been very devoted to this:
Music
Storytellers from the Mississipi Delta to Mali...
+ Any drum beat that throws me into convulsions, lavotte, goltraige-gentraige-antraige, anything w/3-chords+12-bar sequence, John Dowland-Booke of Songes, qawwali music + Afro Celt Sound System, The Afrosippi Allstars, Air, Alaska in Winter, The Album Leaf, Alessandra Celletti, Ali Farka Toure, Alpha Blondy, Alison Krauss, Andrey Vinogradov, Angelo Badalamenti, Anita O'Day, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Antonio Vivaldi, Antony & the Johnsons, Arab Strap, Arcade Fire, Arcana, Art of Noise, ARVO PART, Astrud/Joao Gilberto, AUTECHRE, Ayub Ogada, Babatunde Olatunji, Bardukah, Bata tribal chants, Beirut, Belle and Sebastian, Ben Folds Five, Ben Harper, Ben Mitchell, Ben Webster, Bessie Smith, Big Bad Plus Give, Billie Holiday, Bill Laswell, Boards of Canada, Bob Dylan, Bjork, Blarvuster, Brian Eno, Buena Vista Social Club, Carlos Gardel, Cat Stevens, Cecilia Bartoli, Cesaria Evora, Charles Aznavour, Charles Lloyd, Chavela Vargas, Chemical Brothers, CHRIS CUZME, Christine Primrose, Clancy Brothers, Claude Challe, Claude Debussy, Clint Mansell, Cocorosie, Coldplay, Conjunto Cespedes, Cristiano Serino, Crosby-Stills-Nash, Cure, Dafinis Prieto, Daft Punk, Danez Prigent, Danilo Perez, Dave Brubeck, David Gray, David Wilcox, Deniz Atalay, Devendra Banhart, Devotchka, Dhruva, Dinah Washington, Django Reinhardt, Dmitry Shostakovich, The Doors, DuOuD, Durutti Column, Dvorak, Edith Piaf, Eleni Karaindrou, Elis and Tom, Elisa Rose, Ella Fitzgerald, Ellis Paul, Ennio Morricone, Eric Satie, Erkan Ogur, Etoiles, Explosions in the Sky, Etta James, The Faint, Finbar Furey, Flight of the Conchords, France Gall, Franz Ferdinand, Franz Schubert, Gang Gang Dance, George Abdo, George Friederic Handel, Giacomo Puccini, Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, GLENN GOULD, Gogol Bordello, Gotan Project, Gothart, Gotye, Giuseppe Verdi, Guillaume de Machaut, Gustavo Santaolalla, Gypsy Kings, Hans Zimmer, Harry Belefonte, Harry McClintock, A Hawk and a Hacksaw, Herbie Hancock, Hildegard Kleeb, Hildegard von Bingen's lyric set to music, Interpol, Jack Johnson, Jacques Brel, Jaga Jazzist, Jamiroquai, Jane Birkin, Jayhawks, Jeanne Moreau, Jean Paul Egide Martini, Jeff Beal, JEFF BUCKLEY, Joan Baez, Joanna Newsom, Jocelyn Pook, Joe Lovano, Johann Sebastian BACH, John Jacob Niles, John Lennon, Johnny Cash, Joni Mitchell...
"...to dance beneath the diamond sky with one hand waving free..."
...Jorge Benjor, Jose Feliciano, JOSE GONZALEZ, Joshua Bell, Julia Kent, Kaki King, Kalai, Kane Roth, Karine Polwart, Kayhan Kalhor, KEITH JARRETT, Kenny Anderson, King Creole, King Creosote, Kings of Convenience, Kingsuk Biswas, The Kinks, Kocani Orkestar, Kraftwerk, Krister Linder, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Ladytron, LEIF, Lelonek, Leonard Cohen, Lila Downs, Lisa Gerard, Loney Dear, Lorne Cousin, LUCKY DIOP, Ludovico Einaudi, Ludwig van Beethoven, Luke Slott, MADREDEUS, Mahala Raï Banda, Majek Fashek & The Prisoners of Conscience, Malinky, Mandragora, Marc Cohn, Maria Callas, Maria Rita, Markos Vamvakaris, Mary Hopkin, Martin Sexton, Matou & Monsieur B, Maxwell, Meat Beat Manifesto, Mediaeval Baebes, Mendelssohn, Micka Luna, Mickey Hart, MidiVal Punditz, Mikis Theodorakis, Miles Davis, Miriam Gauci, Mississippi Fred McDowell, Misstress Barbara, Mogwai, Moby, Moody Blues, My Latest Novel, Nana Mouskouri, Natacha Atlas, Natalie Haas, Neil Young, Neutral Milk Hotel, The New Lost City Ramblers, NICK DRAKE, Nicola Piovani, Nino Rota, Norah Jones, Norman Blake, Nouvelle Vague, Nuova Orchestra Sarm, NUSRAT FATEH ALI KAHN, early Oasis, Odetta, Offenbach, Olafur Arnalds, Omar Faruk Tekbilek, Orchestre Baobab de Dakar, Ornette Coleman, OTHA TURNER, Ottmar Liebert, Oumou Sangare, Paganini, Pajtasi, Palyrria, Papi Oviedo, Pat Metheney, Paul Giovanni, Pearl Bailey, Peter Paul and Mary, Peter Tosh, Pharoah Sanders, PHILIP GLASS, Pixies, PJ Harvey, Portishead, RACHEL'S, Rachid Taha, Radiohead, Ravel, Ravi/Anoushka Shankar, Ray Lamontagne, Red Snapper, Rising Star Fife & Drum Band, Robert Duncan, Robert Nesta Marley, Rossini, Royksopp, Rufus Wainwright, Ruy Mingas, Saint Etienne, Saint-Saens, SALIF KEITA, Sam Mangwana, Sarah Brightman, Schoenberg, Sebastien Tellier, Sepideh Vahidi, Serge Gainsbourg, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Shye Ben-Tzur, Sigur Ros, Simon and Garfunkel, Sinead O'Conner, The Smiths, Sol Seppy, Spaccanapoli, Stan Getz, Stephane Pompougnac, St. Germain, The Stills, Sub Swara, Sufjan Stevens, Swans, Talvin Singh, Tarab Orkestar, Taraf de Haidouks, Tartini, Tartit, Teitur, Tito Puente, Tommy Makem, Tool, Totico y sus Rumberos, Underworld, Van Morrison, The Velvet Underground, Vikter Duplaix, White Stripes, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, William Fitzsimmons, Wynton Marsalis, Yael Naim, Yan Tiersen, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Yo la Tengo, Yngve, Zlatne Uste + anything with a cane fife, chanter or Armenian dudek. It's all about the mood and absolutely MUST have soul.
Oh, and SILENCE...
Movies
Séraphine, Downtown 81, 32 Short Films About Glenn Gould, Die Blechtrommel, Farinelli, Trilogy: The Weeping Meadow, Cinema Paradiso, Mystery White Boy (It will be good!), Last Night, The Suspended Step Of The Stork, Bent (if you're gay, see it), The Red Violin, Exploding Plastic Inevitable, Chelsea Girls, Roma, Pinero, Il Postino, A Clockwork Orange, East of Eden, Not One Less, Serenade, East-West, Chungking Express, The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, Braveheart, Vanilla Egg Creme, Man on the Moon, La Vita e Bella, Basquiat, Amelie, Delicatessen, Goya in Bordeaux, Kafka, Tengoku to Jigoku, The Life of Oharu, Orfeu Negro, Gangs of New York, What Happened to Kerouac?, Chocolat, Breathless, Pi, Manhattan, Nashville, The Picture of Dorian Gray, The Pianiste, Alphaville, Swing Kids, The Animation Show, Raise the Red Lantern, My Architect, Memento, Crazed Fruit, To Build a House, Angel Heart, Shawshank Redemption, Julien Donkey-Boy, Truman Show, Coffee and Cigarettes, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Saturday Night Fever, Frida, Red/Blue/White, Pollock, La Dolce Vita, Rebel Without a Cause, Malena, Vincent and Theo, The Belly of an Architect, any Muppet movie/Show...yep, Blade Runner, Grease, Pulp Fiction, Dead Poet's Society, A Beautiful Mind, Moliere, Gone With the Wind, O Brother Where Art Thou, Last Tango in Paris, Gosford Park, Seabiscuit, The Notebook, Scent of a Woman + anything Fellini, Girard, Godard, Jeaunet, François Girard, Kurosowa, Mizoguchi, Antonioni, Angelopoulos, with or by Werner Herzog + new-school Pixar-type/old-school Disney animated...
and all things Noir.
"Life is (already) a stage."
Television
?
nein.
But, I guess sometimes it can be fun.
Books
Books
"Forse se tu gustassi una sol volta
La millesima parte delle gioje,
Che gusta un cor amato riamando,
Diresti ripentita sospirando,
Perduto e tutto il tempo
Che in amar non si spende."
MiNE :) + Webb/Corby: The Little Book of Hand Shadows (1927), Torquato Tasso's 15C. poetry (see above), Guido Cavalcanti, Fernando Pessoa, Günter Grass: Die Blechtrommel, Frances Mayes: A Year in the World-Journeys of a Passionate Traveler; Rassa Shastra: Inayat Khan, Oscar Wilde, Anais Nin: Delta of Venus & Little Birds, Lee Sannella: The Kundalini Experience, Berendt: City of Falling Angels, Schiele: Eros & Passion, Chopra: Spontaneous Fulfillment of Desire, Mike Tyler: From Colorado to Georgia (stolen from the Carleton Arms Hotel, nyc), all Ishihara, Eugénio de Andrade, Mallanaga Vatsyayana, Neihardt: Black Elk Speaks, Le Parfum, Wilde: The Picture of Dorian Gray, Odysseus Elitis, Lobagola: An African Savage's Own Story (a true story of a Jewish African cannibal's migration to New York), Duras: Blue Eyes Black Hair, Mann: Death in Venice, Gide: The Immoralist, Swami Narayanananda: The Primal Power in Man / The Kundalini Shakti, Bradfield: History of Luminous Motion, all Derrida, most Nietzsche & Schoepenhauer, Mathew Gregory Lewis: The Monk (1796), Barthe: A Lover's Discourse, Kubler: The Shape of Time, Le Petite Prince, The Oxford English Dictionary as opposed to the Urban Dictionary, all Jalaludin RUMI & Thoreau, Man and His Measure, most Marquis de Sade (for stormy nights), Heller: Catch 22, Rand: The Fountainhead (just like everyone else!) & Atlas Shrugged, Bender: The Physics of Qi, John Hay: The Breadwinners, all Pablo Neruda & Robert Desnos' poetry, Vitruvius, Illiad, Odyssey, Rowe/Slutzky: Transparency, Hejduk: Such Places As Memory & his Last Works, Sanctuaries, & his all-around inspiration, Highwater: The Primal Mind, Koolhaas: Delirious New York, *Jeanette Winterson: The Passion*, Turgenev, Ezra Pound, Strindberg, Bataille, Breton, Sebald, Keats & Yeats (they're on your side), Gill: Art Lover-Biography of Peggy Guggenheim, all Kerouac & Ginsberg/Beat Poets, Sylvia Plath, Henry Miller, Kundera: Unbearable Lightness of Being, Hall-Tharpe: Mrs. Jack, Robilant: A Venetian Affair, all Italo Calvino & Shakespeare (read thrice!), Arthur Miller's plays, The Heavenly City of the 18th Century Philosophers, many many many cookbooks, America Oggi & Il Gazzettino newspapers, a few sentimental items of exchange & acquisition: A 1898 copy of The Merchant of Venice; A paperback of The Phantom of the Opera given to me at a hotel in Barcelona; Guide to the Adirondacks given to me while hiking the Adirondacks; The Pictish Guide given to me as a departing gift from Glasgow; A canal water-soaked Taschen publication of Carlo Scarpa: Complete Works acquired from a Venetian gypsy...& a fond appreciation for any author buried under the cobbles of Westminster Cathedral (minus Edward I).
Heroes
People who stick together.
People who dream of ways we can all stick together.
And, people who cause other people to stick together by sticking together.
John Carroll University
Cleveland, OH
Graduated: 1996
Student status: Alumni
Degree: Other
Major: advanced physics
1996 to 1996
University Of Kentucky
Lexington,Kentucky
Graduated: 1999
Student status: Alumni
Degree: Professional
Major: architecture
Minor: graduate Shakespeare studies
Clubs: School of Architecture Student Body President, Tau Sigma Delta Honorary Society, AIAS, student teacher, Dean challenger & religion according to Le Corbusier
1994 to 1999
West Geauga High School
Chesterland,Ohio
Graduated: 1994
Student status: Alumni
Degree: High School Diploma
Major: fine art & technical drawing
Minor: photography
Clubs: tennis, cheerleader, etc.
...and all of the other roofs I've climbed to catch a different perspective of the World.
....
My roots are Bohemian with a little Russian & a lot of German anti-spice. I'm an architect, (x-)dancer, poeta, painter, closet-wannabe-folk-singer/photographer, lover & f(r)iend...and a FIRE sign: attracted to fire, mesmerized by fire, gravitate towards fire (not conflict) - Sagittarius, Capricorn rising - Chinese year of the Rabbit. My middle name means 'virgin' in the French biblical sense, last name means 'butcher' in German, 1st name means 'near the valley' in Olde English. Put them together & you've one angry, lonely chick with big knives!
Not to worry - I am sane, I promise:
I prefer amulets to talismens, alphabetize my spices (they were inherited), spell everything you say in my mind when I'm nervous (traumatized by a spelling bee loss in my youth). I prefer autumn, study faces intently, notice the rhythm people move to & the orchestra they create together, do things in even numbers, know clave, can dance on clave (which is not an even number so I guess you know I am a liar as well), weighed 10 lbs when born & thus had to sacrifice a natural birth, press the snooze button atleast 6X, involuntarily close one eye when applying lipstick, have something in common with Maude Lebowski (minus the apparatus although I am looking for this), make funny noises when playing tennis, I should have died twice in my life but for some reason I never have...
pre-25 years of liver damage>> ...I was born with something extra (which was promptly removed then wanted to come back, but since my grandmother had the same thing, I never thought it important to get rid of it), study body language for fun, talk/laugh in my sleep, have a moderate foot fetish, am pierced but not tattooed, was born 55 or 250 years late. My surroundings disappear when I'm dancing. I don't eat meat but will cook you a mean steak if you're a guest in my home, will deliver cookies at Christmas (unless you're Jewish, then I will make the same recipe minus red/green sprinkles, add some blue dye & deliver them a bit earlier probably getting the day wrong). I became a cheerleader in high school because I didn't understand them, sang at a coffee shop in college, once had dreadlocks, love my family although we have little in common. My pet rabbit, Manhattan, traveled in the passenger seat of my cramped convertible as I moved to NYC - we had a conversation. He eventually leapt to his death & after my grandfather's funeral, I replaced him with another, naming him "Buckley" in an attempt to reincarnate Jeff & my grandfather. I can tie flies, shoot skeet & sailfish, grew up taking fishing trips to a tiny, unclaimed island in Canada that we claimed with a carved wooden sign. I managed to make my way solo from Barcelona to Nice & back to Venice on zero dollars, just by being nice. I've broken into the Roman Colosseum to be where the warriors were killed (severely bruising my ribs in the process), swam under a full moon eau-naturel in Barcelona & scaled a 20-foot wall in a sun dress to share a mushroom pizza in the Roman Forum at midnight. I spent a good majority of my childhood years disappearing into the forest (alarming a few search parties in the process) to build tree houses, collect various mosses & leaves, play with worms & halves of worms & retrieve dying birds & mice that I believed I could sing back to life. When I was not saving lives, I would tirelessly swing on my swing-set for hours on end, making up songs for my next rescue. Most were some derivative of "Eye of the Tiger." Also, I would like to be a sea otter in my next life (for a few undisclosed reasons) although this life hasn't been so bad.
Prinz Friedrich Wilhelm, my family's importation device to the US
Who I'd like to meet: probably you. +
+ Callipygians, Crooners, Couchsurfers, Creatives & other Counter-reformed Catholic schoolgirls...
...Oenophiles. Omphalopsychites. Other troubadours. Active thinkers with passion for life & learning. B-Z types. Altruists. Anti-fanatics. Eunuchs. Reikis. Warriors. Poets. Warrior-Poets. All of my chakras at the same time. Glass-blowers. Instigateurs of laughter. Nonpareils, Nonlinear thinkers & those w/ positive energy. Gals who know they're beautiful, Guys who don't. People who have made a conscious choice to preserve & respect the environment. Someone who can sing my Peter, Paul & Mary knowledge under the table. People who will model nude so that I may draw them. Artsy man in unbuttoned white button-down who will let me watch him play cello. Other affectionate women. Partners to take more dance classes with. People who can raise a roof with their own voice (or opinions). Web-footed boatmen. The gender-ambiguous. Beings who are not afraid to allow their heart to make their mind up for them. Those who still believe in the practice & efficacy of chivalry. A "long-legged, guitar-pickin' man." People who spell 'theatre' as noted, have afternoon tea or eat crumpets but still think it's funny. People who like to say crum-pets. Naturists, at your place. People who speak in a Venetian dialect...or, who want me to design their home, cd-jackets, furniture or give 'em a little bit of that Feng Shui-fusion!...Oh, & anyone who can transcribe recent MR images of my brain for free, please.
+ Allen Ginsberg, Carlo Broschi, Jean-Louis Lebris de Kerouac, Arthur Schopenhauer, Álvaro Leite Siza Viera, Mikhail Baryshnikov under a full moon (and preferably, with my best dress on), The Countess of Dia, Paolo Soleri, Christine de Pisan, Caravaggio, Bernini, Michelangelo, Christopher Wren, Egon Schiele, David Myriam, Le Corbusier, Audrey Hepburn, Mario Ruoppolo, Pablo Neruda, Mama Cass, Jean Carlu (after he lost his arm), James Dean, Pablo Picasso, Joan of Arc, Marlon Brando, Nelson Mandela, Edith Piaf, David (preferably not caste in stone), Galileo, Shakespeare, Mr.Tambourine Man, Helmut Newton, Helen Frankenthaler, Frank Lloyd Wright, Marcel Duchamp, Santiago Calatrava, Voltaire, The Dalai Llama & Jesus (in the same room), Jeff Buckley (in my room), Julia Childs (in my kitchen), Tankman, Twiggy, The Crocodile Hunter, Queen Victoria, Bob Ross and all of his "happy" things, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Carlo Scarpa (unless having a chat with him at his grave counted), Emperor Augustus, my great-great-grandfather in Koln, my great-great-great...grandmother in Bohemia (I know Beethoven was ugly, but I could have been a f'ing heiress!?!), any of the great Doges of Venice, Lee Krasner, Mies van der Rohe, Alberto Giacometti, Mr. Rogers, Georges Braques, Robert Nesta Marley, Guiseppe Terragni & Oscar Niemeyer (for a sketching session & political debate), Frida Kahlo, William Wallace, Vitruvius, Hitler (so I could pop him one in the jaw & tell him he sucked as an architect), Piet Mondrian, Kurt Schwitters, Wassily Kandinsky, Vivaldi, Brunelleschi (in Florence, I'd like to understand his perspective), Fred Astaire, Andrea Palladio on axis, Sigmund Freud after one of these crazy dreams I have, Robert Doisneau, Kazimir Malevich, the maternal grandfather of every man i meet in the future... and your Mother, of course.
~ho//ace's Spazio di 11,946 Amici~
ho//ace's 7-Nation Army of Sexy, Talented Loveliness:
Bonjour, Je passais sur ta page et je tenais à t'informer que j'ai posé de nouveaux titres en ecoute. Je t'invite à les écouter et à me faire part de tes commentaires. En espérant qu'ils te plairont, j'attends avec impatience de lire ton point de vue. Je te remercie de ton soutien * GHETTO R1BO
Hello beautiful. Thank you for being friends. I think that you are a wonderfully talented lady with much to show the world. I hope you keep in touch and maybe listen to my songs once in a while. much love and joy to you. X Paul Saxton X
People who can raise a roof with their own voice (or opinions). Web-footed boatmen. The gender-ambiguous. Beings who are not afraid to allow their heart to make their mind up for them. Those who still believe in the practice & efficacy of chivalry. A "long-legged, guitar-pickin' man." People who spell 'theatre' as noted, have afternoon tea or eat crumpets but still think it's funny. People who like to say crum-pets. Naturists, at your place. People who speak in a Venetian dialect...or, who want me to design their home, cd-jackets, furniture or give 'em a little bit of that Feng Shui-fusion!...Oh, & anyone who can transcribe recent MR images of my brain for free, please.
+ Allen Ginsberg, Carlo Broschi, Jean-Louis Lebris de Kerouac, Arthur Schopenhauer, Álvaro Leite Siza Viera, Mikhail Baryshnikov under a full moon (and preferably, with my best dress on), The Countess of Dia, Paolo Soleri, Christine de Pisan, Caravaggio, Bernini, Michelangelo, Christopher Wren, Egon Schiele, David Myriam, Le Corbusier, Audrey Hepburn, Mario Ruoppolo, Pablo Neruda, Mama Cass, Jean Carlu (after he lost his arm), James Dean, Pablo Picasso, Joan of Arc, Marlon Brando, Nelson Mandela, Edith Piaf, David (preferably not caste in stone), Galileo, Shakespeare, Mr.Tambourine Man, Helmut Newton, Helen Frankenthaler, Frank Lloyd Wright, Marcel Duchamp, Santiago Calatrava, Voltaire, The Dalai Llama & Jesus (in the same room), Jeff Buckley (in my room), Julia Childs (in my kitchen), Tankman, Twiggy, The Crocodile Hunter, Queen Victoria, Bob Ross and all of his "happy" things, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Carlo Scarpa (unless having a chat with him at his grave counted), Emperor Augustus, my great-great-grandfather in Koln, my great-great-great...grandmother in Bohemia (I know Beethoven was ugly, but I could have been a f'ing heiress!?!), any of the great Doges of Venice, Lee Krasner, Mies van der Rohe, Alberto Giacometti, Mr. Rogers, Georges Braques, Robert Nesta Marley, Guiseppe Terragni & Oscar Niemeyer (for a sketching session & political debate), Frida Kahlo, William Wallace, Vitruvius, Hitler (so I could pop him one in the jaw & tell him he sucked as an architect), Piet Mondrian, Kurt Schwitters, Wassily Kandinsky, Vivaldi, Brunelleschi (in Florence, I'd like to understand his perspective), Fred Astaire, Andrea Palladio on axis, Sigmund Freud after one of these crazy dreams I have, Robert Doisneau, Kazimir Malevich, the maternal grandfather of every man i meet in the future... and your Mother, of course.
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