art, music, dogs, photography, surfing, travel, tapdancing, museums... (One of my favorite places is the Natural History Museum in London. I could spend days in there.) The one in New York is also so neat. The displays are like glimpses into frozen moments in secret worlds, and seeing them that way is one of the only ways to get to be part of those worlds. I guess I love dead stuffed things, though it saddens me when they are killed, rather than salvaged... which is maybe why Sarina Brewer is one of my heros. She's pretty neat, alright. I also like buying antique rubber toys and repainting their faces.
Music
Neko Case and Bob Dylan are my all time favorites... Old George Jones with Tammy Wynette, Freakwater, Loretta Lynn, EmmyLou Harris, Gram Parsons, Aimee Mann, The Innocence Mission, the Byrds, Flying Burrito Brothers, Gene Clark, Gene Watson, the Arlenes, Lilys, Camera Obscura, Johnny Cash, Concrete Blonde, Thad Cockrell and Caitlyn Carey, and Carolyn Mark are all on my IPOD, as well as my recent additions... Frank Makak (one of my top myspace friends) who reminded me to dig up the Clash.. and the Sadies new release... I'd be proud if I were hit by a car, and someone swiped my ipod off my broken bloody carcass... because they'd be in for a real treat!!!
Movies
Dogville is my number one movie, because it changed the way I think of myself, and of other people, for that matter. I loved the Butcher Boy, and the Legend of 1900, Sympathy for Lady Vengence, and I am not ashamed to say that Dumb and Dumber still kicks my behind!!! Ferris Bueller's day off gave me permission to take cutting classes to a whole new level. Watching In the Mood for Love is like watching a painting come to life, and so is Sleepy Hollow... and I really liked Raise the Red Lantern. I was inspired by Titus... the forest scene where Levinia's hands and tongue are gone... beautiful and disturbing scene... beautifully disturbing! OH YES...Grey Gardens... that movie was huge for me! I went out and got tap shoes for my birthday present to myself after I saw that!!! Little Edie is my hero. Big Edie is none too shabby either. Grizzly Man really was something... I try not to go all Timothy Tredwell... That's our new saying for when you lash out all angry, then immediately apologize, and act all sweet and loving.
Television
So happy everything has ended for summer... more time to paint, make music and play with dogs!!!
Books
Perfume, the Master and Margarita, Not Wanted on the Voyage, the Windup Bird Chronicle, The Company-Portrait of a Murderer.
Heroes
Terry Miles... aka 'my Terrydactyl', Neko Case, Bob Dylan,
Little and Big Edie, Sarina Brewer, and Ray Caesar, who is one of the most brilliant artists of our time, and a kind man as well! My mom is also pretty cool. So is Gregory (the GOOSE)... Gotta love Gregory!!!
...and I would put Neko Case's name a million times, because I can't paint without hearing her. She is an endless well of inspiration for me. I love her. She's the Bee's Knees!!! My newest hero, for her super coolness and incredible fashion designs is Jennifer Nicholson... jenNicholson.com i only wanna paint girls wearing Jen dresses. they are amazzzzzing. I have one. hehe...
also, my hero is whoever invented fruit pies. I love that person.
Kelly's Details
Status:
In a Relationship
Here for:
Networking
Body type:
0' 1"
Zodiac Sign:
Libra
Smoke / Drink:
No / No
Children:
Love kids, but not for me
Occupation:
Artist/hairdresser
Kelly is disappointed that myspace has been become a place to see an inbox full of spam and impersonal messages. Posted at 6:07 PM Sep 14 view more
About me: (to see more of my work... check out www.kellyhaigh.com)
I live in Vancouver with my Terrydactyl, as I call him...
we have a band together called Ashley Park. (www.ashleypark.net)
I love painting, music, dogs, diet coke, Neko Case and orange marmalade... not neccessarily in that order.
I am a hairdresser for half the week... and a painter for the other half... I am also a full time co-parent to three of the cutest dogs in the whole world! If I could have a few more, I'd be thrilled.
It's my dream to have an island of my own... a Doctor Moreau kind of place, where I could make my own dog mixes... only I would never sell any, and I would love them all. I suppose I'd have to start importing people to help us pet them. I'd also love to have a tomatoe garden, and a graveyard there, like Olsamy cemetary in Prague, with gothic headstones, covered over in ivy. YES! (there would also be pizza delivery... for when we're too tired to cook.)
Also... every single time I get on an airplane, I am convinced it will crash, but I am equally as sure that I will somehow survive... and since Lost, I now scan the other passengers and imagine who I'd like to hang out with should we end up on a deserted island. My last trip was to Prague, and the one girl who I decided would be my new best pal ended up being the very person to sit smack beside me. When she offered me some of her goldfish crackers with a friendly smile, I got a little concerned... I figured it was a sign... but, thankfully that wasn't the case.
Sometimes a goldfish cracker is just a goldfish cracker.
Who I'd like to meet: I'd like to meet the person who invented pie. I love cherry pie, and blueberry pie... i have loved every pie i've ever met...
I would like to meet Bob Dylan...
I'd also like to meet Mikhail Bulkogov, and Haruki Murakami. I'd really like to discuss a few things with them. I'd like to meet Ray Caesar, because he amazes me constantly.
I'd like to meet Ricky Gervais, because I love him... and ever since seeing his standup act, all of my funniest thoughts pop into my head in his voice, with his accent... though, when I try to tell the jokes I think up, they're just not as funny coming out in my own voice! ha! it's the strangest thing...
"Kelly is disappointed that myspace has been become a place to see an inbox full of spam and impersonal messages."
I know right? I hate when I see that I have a comment, and then when I check it out it is just some one spamming me with their own agenda. And it is like obnoxious, like 8 paintings in a row or 12 videos. So basically they did not become my friend because they were interested in me or my art, but just to promote themselves.
Hello Kelly; I..ve been waiting to find the moment to visit your space and to read all what you have written about yourself and I wonder, if all the people who had request your friendship had read it?.
I think that you are an amazing person who have an extraordinary mind, a fabulous gift to tell things or to write things, a lovely sense of humor... etc, but many ,many things that makes me wanna be your friend :)
I..m also an art teacher, I do love to teach to children and old people, I guess... that I love people :) and what I love most of them is that they are humans. I think you are too human, and that is the best part of you.
Your dream of having an Island with Pizza delivery its wonderful. I want to visit your page to see your work, but I think it will be other day. I hope you..re ok and that the next time I visit you, you..ll be closer to your dreams.
ONE NIGHT A MAN HAD A DREAM. HE DREAMED HE WAS WALKING ALONG THE BEACH WITH THE LORD ACROSS THE SKY FLASHED SCENES FROM HIS LIFE FOR EACH SCENE HE NOTICED TWO SETS OF FOOTPRINTS IN THE SAND ONE BELONGED TO HIM AND THE OTHER TO THE LORD WHEN THE LAST SCENE OF HIS LIFE FLASHED BEFORE HIM HE LOOKED BACK AT THE FOOTPRINTS IN THE SAND HE NOTICED THAT MANY TIMES ALONG THE PATH OF HIS LIFE THERE WAS ONLY ONE SET OF FOOTPRINTS HE ALSO NOTICED THAT IT HAPPENED AT THE VERY LOWEST AND SADDEST TIMES IN HIS LIFE THIS REALLY BOTHERED HIM AND HE QUESTIONED THE LORD ABOUT IT LORD YOU SAID THAT ONCE I DECIDED TO FOLLOW YOU YOU'D WALK WITH ME ALL THE WAY BUT I HAVE NOTICED THAT DURING THE MOST TROUBLESOME TIMES IN MY LIFE THERE IS ONLY ONE SET OF FOOTPRINTS I DONT' UNDERSTAND WHY WHEN I NEEDED YOU MOST YOU WOULD LEAVE ME? THE LORD REPLIED MY PRECIOUS PRECIOUS CHILD I LOVE YOU AND I WOULD NEVER LEAVE YOU DURING YORU TIMES OF TRIAL AND SUFFERING WHEN YOU SEE ONLY ONE SET OF FOOTPRINTS IT WAS THEN THAT I CARRIED YOU <333333
another story....this one from memory...
ONE DAY A LITTLE GIRL SAW ALL THESE STARFISH WASHED UP ON THE SHORE SHE KEPT TRYING TO SAVE THEM BY HURLING THEM BACK IN THE OCEAN... THIS MAN WALKS UP TO HER AND SAYS LITTLE GIRL WHY ARE YOU DOING THIS LOOK AROUND YOU THERE ARE SO MANY YOU CAN'T SAVE THEM YOU CAN'T MAKE A DIFFERENCE! SHE WAS DISCOURAGED AND LOWERED HER HEAD ..AS THE MAN WALKED AWAY...BUT THEN SHE GRABBED ANOTHER ONE AND HURLED IT INTO THE OCEAN WITH ALL HER MIGHT..AND SAID TO HIM AS HE LOOKED ON...
I MADE A DIFFERENCE TO THAT ONE!!!!!
that we would all have this spirit.......we can change the world...one person at a time!
