cinema (foreign, indie, cult, classic, grindhouse, and s/exploitation), cultural/media/feminist studies, postcolonialism/postcolonial theory, pulp and indie lit, garage/estate sales, photography, art/graphic design, song writing, bass guitar, tambourines, body painting, performance art, d-i-y/indie music, body modification, bdsm
the longer, rambling version:
wandering the Village late at night. dirty dancing on crowded floors. dicewalks. endless late-night subway rides. people watching. coffee and conversation with friends. solemn contemplation. babbling nonsensically. talking to bums and tattoo artists in North Beach. getting ink done. getting into trouble. (sometimes.) anything remotely exhibitionist. (sometimes.) sharing cigarettes with strangers. sharing intimate moments with strangers. karaoke. drunken karaoke. movieokie. pinning boys against brick walls. making out in dark alleys. dim sum runs. crashing art gallery openings. taking dirty pictures at the black-and-white photobooths at the Musee Mechanique. giant, man-made roadside oddities. freakshows. flashlight tag. midnight movies. midnight movies hosted by angry drag queens. good shows. neighborhood crawling with good friends. staring at the ocean. running into oncoming traffic. getting lost. dying. living. learning. making mistakes. falling in love.
Music
is made in Brooklyn. or Portland. or Seattle. or Canada.
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hey, remember all of those annoying bands that started to pop up in the late-90's/early 00's? yeah, them plus all that obnoxiously obscure shit from the 70's, 80's and early 90's, with some random Euro-pop from the 60's just to be even more irritating. in short, I enjoy two extremes: songs that sound like quiet, lovely dreams held in kid's gloves or danceable opuses involving killer bass lines and introverts rocking Cassio keyboards. that said, you can occasionally catch me dancing naked to the following (and if it's not listed, I just stopped keeping track): Black Tambourine, Matt & Kim, the Blow, the Besties, My Bloody Valentine, The Jesus and Mary Chain, The Smiths, The Cure, Joy Division, New Order, Echo & the Bunnymen, Infidels, Bravo Silva, Interpol, Dirty on Purpose, Young Marble Giants, The New Pornographers, the Magnetic Fields, Animal Collective, I'm from Barcelona, Architecture in Helsinki, Takka Takka, Azure Ray, Of Montreal, Metric, Broken Social Scene, the Arcade Fire, Wolf Parade, The Robot Ate Me, Tom Ze, Jeffrey (and Jack) Lewis, Kimya Dawson, Lach, Sufjan Stevens, The Decemberists, Beat Happening, The Crabs, Holly Golightly, Helen Love, Dream Bitches, Juniper Moon, Le Tigre, Electrocute, Jason Trachtenburg/The Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players, The Stills, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Kim Novak, Beulah, the Envelopes, The Tyde, The Brian Jonestown Massacre, the Dandy Warhols, Frausdots, The Rosebuds, All-Time Quarterback!, Death Cab For Cutie, the Postal Service, Manitoba, Serge Gainsbourg, the Dresden Dolls, the English Beat, the Bodysnatchers, the Dead Milkmen, Gene Defcon, Atom And His Package, the Aquabats, TMBG, X, The Rapture, The Clash, The Pixies, Eagles of Death Metal, Cibo Matto, The Specials, The Rave-Ups, Devo, The Violent Femmes, the Buzzcocks, any/most every antifolk artist, any Matador or Rough Trade compilation (specifically Indiepops). the K records label is great, as is anything off Olive Juice Records (go go Major Matt Mason USA!). also...I adore The Voluptuous Horror of Karen Black. (all other live shows pale in comparison.)
Movies
movie du jour: Chopping Mall
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in general: 24 Hour Party People, 8 1/2, All About My Mother, All the Colors of the Dark, Alphaville, American Splendor, The Apartment, Audition, Bad Education, Band of Outsiders, La Belle et La Bete, Bill Osco's Alice in Wonderland: An X-Rated Musical Fantasy, the Black Emanuelle series (oh, Laura Gemser!), Blue Velvet, Born in Flames, Bottle Rocket, A Boy and His Dog, Brazil, Breathless, Buffalo '66, The Candy Snatchers, Chopping Mall, Christiane F., Chungking Express, City of God, City of Lost Children, Cleo from 5 to 7, Coffee and Cigarettes, The Company of Wolves, Days of Being Wild, Demons, Dig!, Donnie Darko, The Double Life of Veronique, Evil Dead II, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Fishing with John, the Forbidden Zone, Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai, Ghost World, The Hardcore Collection: The Films of Richard Kern, The Happiness of the Katakuris, Harold and Maude, Heavy Metal Parking Lot, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, The Holy Mountain, I Am Curious (Yellow + Blue), I Heart Huckabees, Ilsa: Harem Keeper of the Oil Sheiks, Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter, Jerkbeast, Kieslowski's Three Colors Trilogy, Kill Bill: I & II, Lady Terminator, Laura, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, Live Nude Girls Unite!, Lost in La Mancha, Lost in Translation, Love Affair: Or, The Case of the Missing Switchboard Operator, Love and Death, Maniac, Meet the Feebles, The Monster Squad, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, My Life to Live, Mystery Train, Night on Earth, Notorious, Orgy of the Dead, Paperhouse, Performance, Pierrot le Fou, Pretty in Pink, the Rapture, Real Genius, Repulsion, Reservoir Dogs, Rushmore, Salon Kitty, Sawdust and Tinsel (Gycklarnas afton), She Killed in Ecstasy, Sherman's March, Shock Treatment, Sholay, Sid and Nancy, Sisters, Southland Tales, Switchblade Sisters, Straight to Hell, Sugar Cookies, Tarnation, The Thief of Baghdad, Thriller--A Cruel Picture (not related to MJ's extended music video), Times Square, Tuvalu, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, Vagabond, Vapors, Wet Hot American Summer, Withnail & I, Women in Cages, Young Frankenstein, Zelig, Zizek!, Zombie, VHS 80's horror, giallos, anything and everything s/exploitation related, and far too many other films that escape me at the moment
Television
Free to Be...You and Me, The Sarah Silverman Program, Wonder Showzen, Jerkbeast, The Young Ones, The Office (BBC), Extras, Twin Peaks, Kids in the Hall, The Kumars at No. 42, Knowing Me Knowing You with Alan Partridge, The Twilight Zone, The Simpsons, Futurama, South Park, The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, The Tick, Mr. Show, My Name is Earl, Scrubs, the Burg (theburg.tv)
Books
Eeeee Eee Eeee, The Ghastly One: The Sex-Gore Netherworld of Filmmaker Andy Milligan, The Other Hollywood: The Uncensored Oral History of the Porn Film Industry, Sleazoid Express, Seduction (Baudrillard), Marked Women: Prostitutes and Prostitution in the Cinema, Inside the Pleasure Quarters, A Confederacy of Dunces, Stranger in A Strange Land, Sanctity: or There's No Such Thing as a Naked Sailor, Book of Changes, Talk to Her, China Chic, Fruits, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me, Against Interpretation & Other Essays, The Cahiers du Cinema series, Requiem for a Dream, Zazie in the Metro (Queneau!), Cannery Row, The Crying of Lot 49
Heroes
Andy fucking Milligan.
Tao Lin.
Slavoj Zizek.
Randy Sarafan.
New York University
New York, NEW YORK
Graduated: N/A
Student status: Alumni
Degree: None
Major: Cinema Studies. [briefly.]
2002 to 2004
donna u. wanna's Companies
Barnes and Noble Cafe of Union Square New York, NY US barista/cafe slut.
October 2004 - June 2005
Sarafan Truck and Equipment Miami, Florida US inventory consultant/mover of stupidly heavy shit.
July 2005 - August 2005
Diann Bernhardt, Florist. Santa Fe, New Mexico US florist's assistant/flower painter.
May 2006
danica uskert, inc. New York, NY--San Francisco, CA US self-employed opportunist.
like, you know...forever.
donna u. wanna broke, mindful of the observation: "People that are least able to go to the expense must have their tea though their families want bread." Posted at 7:34 AM Oct 8 view more
Who I'd like to meet: collaborators. co-creators. instigators. interns. wanna-learns.
assists. on demands. helping hands. the lacking-of-plans. the big
hearts. the something-starts. the like-minded. the
need-to-be-reminded. the cloud watchers. the situation botchers. the
dreamers. the schemers. the
been-down-so-long-it-looks-like-up-to-me-ers...the friendly. the shy.
everybody who happens by.
I went to the site and it was already too late to enter =( oh well, maybe next year. bananas brulee woulda kicked my ass for sure. lol. well i miss you lots. u should come visit me and my new pug, his names kingsley. he'd love to meet ya!
Hey you! I thought you had fallen off the earth! Where are you? Still in New York? Anyway, yeah I'm in Finland and it is awesome. Soooo beautiful. I am loving it here and never want to leave. So message me your address and hell yeah I'll send you a postcard! Talk to you soon. We need to catch up. :)
HEY! :D What's going on? I never would have expected you were so wild and crazy from how you are in class LOL! :P You look so happy in your pictures... :3
Awww, thanks for the compliment! I've had the bangs for a while now, maybe 6 months or more? Don't remember; I had been growing my hair out a bit, but I chopped off the layers about a month ago; now I get to regrow it again. :)
Where are you right now? I promise, next time you are in SF, not even a loose ligament in a plaster cast will stop us from hanging out. :) xoxo
