I love working with both still and moving imagery.
In front of and behind the camera.
I am a film maker both producing and directing, as well as an actor.
I style shoots and sets for my projects.
I am a graceful, yet fearless, dancer with an improvisational flow peppered with incongruous "Kamikaze" style moves.
I got kicked out of "Dancing School"...
I need to, and do, dance in shows, any chance I get.
I write screenplays, poetry, comedy...
and have written a children's book, that once illustrated, will soon be published.
I am trained in the Trapeze, so literally, if all else fails I CAN "join the circus", though I'm so flexible and tiny, Cirque du Soleil , would probably be more appropriate.
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Paintings by Gustav Klimt are my favorite, the colorations, complex layering, and mood is perfection to me.
I would love to own Klimtesque fabrics.
My home always tonaly channels Klimt.
Caravaggio is sexy, raw, earthy and real to me.
His work reminds me of a Southern Italian Chicken Dish, my Grandmother used to make.
It was so brightly orange, dense and heavy it could break the plate.
And William Holbrook Beard's bizarre, fantasy bear dancing paintings are frighteningly wrong, and I love them...
Music
I really adore
anything with a real orchestra,
a lush piano,
a violin that pulls my eyes to a wash of tears,
a haunting baritone electric guitar like Roger Smith plays in The Cure,
a jaunty flute that floats and lingers in the air like a hummingbird
begging me to march aboard a tugboat,
a smooth base that pulses under my bellybutton,
a horn that stretches the corners of my mouth skyward,
crunchy electronica that can reanimate a zombie corpse with it's infectious groove,
And I am percussion incarnate...
Artists I enjoy...
Duran Duran,The Cure, John Coltrane, Billy Idol,Pixies, Bebel Gilberto,Earth Wind and Fire, Thelonious Monk,The Cars, Blondie, Elton John(70's),Tangerine Dream,Miles Davis,David Bowie,Pat Benatar, Chet Baker,Massive Attack,Rob Zombie,Frank Black,Vivaldi,Mendelssohn,E.L.O., Stones,Stan Getz,Sonny Rollins,Curtis Mayfield,The Sugar Cubes,Proppellerheads,Garbage,Keane,
The The,Prodigy,Kenny Burrell,Mazzy Star,Etta James,Shirley Basey,Curve
Morcheeba, Portishead, Goldfrapp, LCD soundsystem, Roisin Murphy,Damien Rice ...
And the song in my heart...
and Dizzy Gillespie
(whom I had the joy of visiting in his home and watch play intimately on 2 occasions...
Amazing!)
Movies
Central Station,Whale Rider, The Sweet Hereafter,Blade Runner,WALL-E
Life is Beautiful,The Gift of the Magi, Faces,Splendour in the Grass, City Lights
It's a Wonderful Life, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Lost in America Repulsion, Nosferatu
Waiting for Guffman, Days of Heaven,Finding Nemo, The Frighteners
Dr. Strangelove,Passion of the Christ,Raising Arizona,The New World
Rear Window,Cinema Paradiso,A Woman Under the Influence,Dancer in the Dark
A Face in the Crowd,Bonnie and Clyde,Batman Begins,The Turn of the Screw
The Fall
Iron Man, Clockwork Orange,Devil's Backbone,Alien,Dog Soldiers, Bottle Rocket
Dark City,Like Water For Chocolate, Sexy Beast,Satyricon,Little Miss Sunshine
Exotica
Rambo,The Dark Knight,The Orphanage,In Bruges,No Country for Old Men
300
Braveheart,2001,There will be Blood
Memento,Cul-de-Sac,Seven,Dreamlife of Angels,Graveyard of the Fireflies
Breakfast at Tiffany's,A Place in the Sun,Breaking the Waves,Rebecca
Wings of Desire...
"There's no greater story than ours.
Last night I dreamt of a stranger.Of my man.Only with him could I be lonely.Open up to him.
Surround him with the labyrinth of shared happiness.
I know it is you."
Television
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Lived without T.V. for 6 years...
Now I Tivo.King of the Hill, Fawlty Towers,
Beverly Hillbillies,Little Britain,Absolutely Fabulous,30 Rock,Sanford and Son,COPS,Honeymooners,Mighty Boosh,The Office,Scare Tactics,Family Guy,Robot Chicken,O'Reily Factor,Bewitched,and more COPS!
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In truth...given a choice, I'd rather create, read,write...
And I need more sleep!
Books
Sonnets by Pablo Neruda, The Awakening by Kate Chopin, All Alexander Dumas, Cassavetes on Cassavetes by Ray Carney,Winston and Clementine-The Personal Letters of th Churchills by Mary Soames, The Artists Way by Julia Cameron, Rebel without a Crew by Robert Rodriguez, All Shakespeare and The Sonnets, Nikhil Parekh's Poetry, Loving What is by Byron Katie,The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis,Carl Sandburg's Poetry, The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle,The Four Agreements by Miguel Ruiz,The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien All by Allen Watts, The Power of Intention by Wayne Dyer, True an False by David Mamet, Slaughterhouse 5 by Kurt Vonnegut, Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov, The Wings of the Dove by Henry James, The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka...
And The Monster at the End of This Book by Jon Stone, a brilliant Children's Book, that made me giddy with shrieks of delight and trepidation...at the "unknown" of each coming page... Fretfully, yet Fearlessly, learning to "turn the page", and face my fears with each slightly, worried GIGGLE... It was, in essence, my first "Self Help Book"!
