Design, art, music, architecture, the creative mind, humanists, ethicists, wabi-sabi, gardens, obscure cultivars, frogs, seahorses; failure of cultures, kindness, taxidermy, butter, x-rays; furniture, form + function, functionless form, cabinets of curiosity, bugs on pins, bones, rusted objects, debate, the financial truth of our government, G-Star, High Heels, comfortable shoes, my very amusing menagerie including rabbits and dogs, my extraordinarily gifted friends, people who can write, Esoterica, Erotica, Minimalism, Modernism, Post Modernism, -Ism's, post -ism's, chasms, holes, rust, people who do not fit within a standard envelope, enigmas, photography...
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Music
Carter Tutti, Lustmord, Millimetre, Objekt4, Nick Drake, Turin Brakes, Dead Can Dance, Talk Talk, Sufjan Stevens, Starsailor, God Speed! You Black Emperor, Queens Of The Stone Age, Radiohead, Beck, Sigur Ros, Autchre, Legendary Pink Dots, Pj Harvey, Pink Floyd, Cabaret Voltaire, My Bloody Valentine, Mekon, Vivaldi, Grieg, Brahms, Joseph Arthur, Iron &, Wine, Tom Recchion, Shiver Skin, Aphex Twin, George Sarah, CEE-LO, Gnarls Barkley, Fiona Apple, Elliott Smith, Massive Attack, Zero 7, Cocteau Twins, Bonnie Prince Billy, Tindersticks, The Beta Band, Monster Magnet, Basteroid, T Rex, Underworld, May I Stop Now? There's Too Much For Which I Am Grateful and it's impossible to list my ecclectic taste here. Let's generalize with : good pop (Radiohead, Beck, Macey Gray), Great Ambient and Electronica, and most anything Baroque. I don't know where to put Iannis Xenakis and Cage, but you probably do...
Movies
There are many. I do not however like (rarely, if at all) major Hollywood “blockbusters”: An Inconvenient Truth; The Corporation; Who Killed The Electric Car; Jesus Camp; The Secret; (Most Documentaries, In Case You Can't Tell); SHORTBUS,Bladerunner; Willie Wonka And The Chocolate Factory; Harvey; Sweet Charity; Auntie Mame; Clockwork Orange; Apocalypse Now; Mrs. Brown; Mad Max; Morvern Caller; American Psycho (but you must read the book first); The Singing Detective (The BBC Series); Edward Scissorhands; La Jetee; Matrix; Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind; Niagra Niagra; Grey Mansions; Anything with Audrey or Lauren; Would Someone Please Make A Film Out Of SNOW CRASH? And Please Don't Fuck Up PERFUME, One Of The All Time Greatest Books Ever Written.
Television
LET'S CHANGE THIS CATEGORY TO ARTISTS, SHALL WE?
Lucian Freud, Lazlo Moholy-Nagy, Robert Smithson, Chiho Aosima, Nara, Barbara Kruger, Cosey Fanni Tutti, Matta, Paul McCarthy, Jonathon Rosen, H.R.Giger, Mona Hatoum, Derek Jarman, Odd Nerdrum, some Ruscha, Rothko, Arbus,some Dali, anything Bauhaus, Le Corbusier, Starck (sorry, yes), Rosenquist, Beuys, Thomas Struth, Eva Hesse, Vernor Panton, Laura Owens, osseus labyrint, Morimoto, Weegee, Goldsworthy,Rauschenberg, deKooning, Richard Serra, Martin Parr, Joel Peter Witkin, Orozco, Gerhard Richter, Leonardo DaVinci, Jessica Joslin, Tracey Roberts, Jonathon Rosen, Anna Livia, John Fleuvog...
Books
Perfume; Gray's Anatomy; Derek Jarman's Garden; Enduring Love; Written on The Body; The Giant's House; Plath; Fight Club; Hemmingway; Nin; Colette; Keats; White Teeth; The Shipping News; The Elegant Universe; David Foster Wallace; Fermat's Enigma; The Story of the Eye;virtually anything by Jeanette Winterson, Nicholson Baker, Martin Amis (earlier Amis), Henry Miller, Joyce Carol Oates, Maslow, House of Leaves, David Sedaris, VAS: An Opera in Flatland, Douglas Coupland, Mishima,
Heroes
Moholy-Nagy, Grenouille, Darwin, Burroughs,Derek Jarman, Gysin, Ginsberg, The Marquis de Sade, Kafka, Sartre, Roald Dahl, Howard Zinn, Eddie Izzard, Michael Moore, The Martha Stewart, Stephen Hawking, Rilke, my therapist, my attorneys, my doctors, Frank Lloyd Wright, Le Courbusier, Ernst Haeckel, Gaudi, Buddah, People who pursue an interesting course of life. . .
About me:
Not that it of any spectacular relevance, but I am 46 years old, and live in Los Angeles California. There have been several incarnations of me – 1980 – 1995 I was a talent manager, working with some of who I consider the most unique, visionary artists: Carter Tutti, Foetus, Diamanda Galas, Killing Joke, Faith No More, Monster Magnet, Nine Inch Nails, Orbital, Michael Kamen - there’s a long list, and I’m honored to have had the time with these creative souls. In 1996 I left the business, and New York, to follow my heart to London. That didn’t work out as I had hoped, and I returned to America, landing in Los Angeles, and at a museum of contemporary art where for 5 years I was the creative director. A remarkable challenge – designing for a museum, which represents artists – working around great artworks to embellish through word and graphics. After 5 years there, I decided to take another diversion – life has so many options if we decide to see them – and took my lifelong hobby of gardening and interest in global ecology, and formed an environmental design company, and I now design for both residential and commercial clients who want unique, earth friendly living and breathing space. I also spend time as a mentor at an underserved LA high school. Teaching kids about options other than those thrust at them by a school system that doesn’t seem to care. I continue to dabble in the music and art world, and am currently working on a global art installation slated for 2008, as well as a non-profit arts organization focusing on the nexxus of art and music. Kindness and honesty towards others and respect for the earth are two of my primary concerns as I spend my time on this planet, and I enjoy the company of like-minded people. Creativity and an unusual perspective are paramount. I adore words, images, music, hiking, the ocean, the mountains, snow, sand, and animals. Tea and coffee are good too, as are shoes, boots, and socks, a non-smoker, I am a big advocate of nicotine gum :-) (I personally recommend Habitrol).
PLEASE NOTE this note no one reads: Although I spent many years with bands, and have a number of musician friends, I AM NOT COLLECTING BANDS ON MYSPACE so please understand this.
Also, I AM NOT LOOKING FOR ROMANCE ON MYSPACE. Sorry, ladies and gentlemen, but my hands are full :-)
If you would like to add me to your MySpace friends list, consider sending me an email telling me about why we should be "friends".I have made some wonderful connections here, but not through indiscriminate acceptance.
You Belong in Amsterdam
A little old fashioned, a little modern - you're the best of both worlds. And so is Amsterdam.
Whether you want to be a squatter graffiti artist or a great novelist, Amsterdam has all that you want in Europe (in one small city).
Who I'd like to meet: Gaudi + Buddha. It's easier to say I am NOT interested in people who are merely collecting prolific MySpace numbers. I actually consider this a method of communication between existing friends and new people I have had the pleasure of meeting through this medium. I take umbrage at those who are merely seeking accolades and are not willing to reciprocate either through art, music, or the written word. "Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born." -Anaïs Nin
OLGA! I was trying to get to sleep and thinking HARD about the Masque and I remembered seeing you! Just for an instant i remembered seeing you and then it went away. Was it my imagination?
We have a new International Petition for a total ban on whaling for both commercial and scientific purposes. If you've joined this group then whaling is obviously something you disagree with so please follow the link below to sign the petition.
My goodness, how can i put into so many words the little i know & unfold of you...you look listen & feel, i look listen & feel, there is nothing more momentous than being able to love another human being in awareness & mystery, because you can.
& the love of a child is so wise & real & obvious & innovative where are the worlds children.
ignorance is not bliss & bliss is not ecstasy, one must have the assurance of peace to even achieve a moments ecstasy
i say, it is you & i- the children & the broken timelessness of a multiplicand mess of the ancients, the carmine, indigo, vanilla woven hues of parkas in the fog while the Amazonians remind us of what we destroy & what we must activate,
the
spells of all the architecture, of all blinding cities of centuries, that are striving towards civilizations perfection
in folding arches of polished steel, cracked enamel 1888,beasts crawling & mating to turn some tar burnt page, lies & fury, order chased into papers, the edged sheens of dreams into books, forecasts into hovering future, rebellion &
facing the earth in it's time.
we ask ourselves can this be done?all these changes, all unfolding out of the hands of a child
our hope activates awareness & it is done, materializes.
this is how i love you, because i can.
you nourish the core of me that is persistent, aware & resilient.
So I don't know if you fixed the phones, so I'm not relying on my message getting thru.
You have a lunch appointment with me the end of this week.
Thurs / Friday
<see how pushy you've made me get?>
Getting a headache: the neighbours are playing (really) bad (wasn't it all tho'?) 80's rock outside.
save me from this pestilence!
