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Carrie's Interests
General
"Imperfection is beauty. Madness is genius. And it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring." ~Marilyn Monroe
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defenestration
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de- + Latin fenestra window
1 : a throwing of a person or thing out of a window 2 : a usually swift dismissal or expulsion (as from a political party or office).
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I feed on the dreams of the sleeping, so everyone must GO TO BED! NOW!!!! otherwise I can't paint...mmmn no really - to bed, to bed.~
"I don't want realism. I want magic! Yes, yes, magic. I try to give that to people. I do misrepresent things. I don't tell truths. I tell what ought to be truth." ~Blanche DuBois, Street Car Named Desire. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
UP Coming Shows!
</a New SHOW! Opening March 15th in Tampa, Florida...thanks Brandon!
Music
Ratatat, Arcade Fire, Bat for Lashses, St.Vincent, Rasputina, White Stripes, Bowie, Dixieland, Big Band, Ella-Etta-n-Billy, Beatles after drugs, the Stones before '85, Covenant, VNV Nation, Chopin, Patti Smith, PJ Harvey, Ani DiFranco, Sugar Cubes, Explosions in the Sky, Sigor Ross, Godspeed You Black Emperor, The Faint, Peggy Lee's verson of "Fever" and the PIXIES.....Je deteste Belle and Sebastian.
Movies
Television
All hail the screen!!! and mourn all the imaginations it has wasted in hours of it's perfect changing pictures....I hate TV! This is my proof that there are demons on earth, they made this monster. (oh shit....I am on the computer again....)
Books
Jon Bienart, of the Surrealist Art Forum, has published METAMORPHOSIS! To purchase:
http://beinart.org/shop/metamorphosis.phpThis book features 50 visionary and surrealist painters including Hussar, Chet Zar, Alex Grey, and little 'ol me. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
"Metamorphosis" ....everyone looks good holding this book.
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Heroes
All PROGENITORS!! Terry Gilliam,C S Lewis,Dr. Seuss,Oscar Wilde, George Sands,Jim Henson, J.M. Barry,Cervantes,Poe,HP Lovecraft, Di Vinci,Elizabeth McGrath!!!,JUDITH SCHAECTER,Camille Claudel,Charlotte Perkins,Cara Walker, the founding fathers of this nation and their mission against tyranny,the members of Monty Python's Flying Circus and their mission of lunacy, Douglas Adams (I LOVE and miss him horribly), Mark Twain, Hemmingway, Virginia Wolf, Napolean, Queen Elizabeth I, ORson Wells, Van Gogh, Jules Verne, and Madeline L'Engle....J.K. Rowling, Marcel du Champ,and Georgia O'Keefe and Stieglitz, Anias Nin and Henry Miller, Hunter S. Thompson, Slyvia Plath,Nicola Tesla,Emily Dickinson, Christ, and all rebelling angels....
"Imagination is the greatest of man's single working powers - and the trickiest; as the intellect is the frailest, the most subject to derangement, the the most given to cowardice and betrayal, unless it be held steady and sane by the power of Instinct." - Louis Sullivan (also my hero!)
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I like the relationships. I mean, each character has
his own story. The puppy is a bit too much, but you
have to over look things like that in these kinds of
paintings. The way he's *holding* her... it's
almost... filthy. I mean, he's about to kiss her and
she's pulling away. The way the leg's sort of smashed
up against her... Phew... Look how he's painted the
blouse sort of translucent. You can just make out her
breasts underneath and it's sort of touching him about
here. It's really... pretty torrid, don't you think?
Then of course you have the onlookers peeking at them
from behind the doorway like they're all shocked. They
wish. Yeah, I must admit, when I see a painting like
this, I get emotionally... erect.
-Steve Martin
Mad Girl's Love Song
"I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead;
I lift my lids and all is born again.
(I think I made you up inside my head.)
The stars go waltzing out in blue and red,
And arbitrary blackness gallops in:
I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead.
I dreamed that you bewitched me into bed
And sung me moon-struck, kissed me quite insane.
(I think I made you up inside my head.)
God topples from the sky, hell's fires fade:
Exit seraphim and Satan's men:
I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead.
I fancied you'd return the way you said,
But I grow old and I forget your name.
(I think I made you up inside my head.)
I should have loved a thunderbird instead;
At least when spring comes they roar back again.
I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead.
(I think I made you up inside my head.)"
- Sylvia Plath
Who I'd like to meet: I would especially like to meet: Terry Gilliam!!! If you know how to put me in contact...well, let me know.
Things can happen which we ourselves cannot possibly imagine, either beforehand, or at the time when they are taking place, or afterwards when we look back on them~Isak Dinesen
Hi Carrie, Your works are more and more astonishing! So many shows! WOW! The Drinkers are celebrating hooking up with a local label, and heading into the studio to cut a CD! We're gonna showcase the tunes we picked this Thursday at L'etage. If you're in town it'd be great to see you! Thanx for your great support!
your new stuff is positively mind-meltingly awesome. good luck with your upcoming show in denver and beyond - i can't wait to get a chance to see your work in person.
