Art - collage, mixed media, computer altered photography, computer collage.
Writing, Poetry, Reading, and blogging.
TREES - especially Live Oaks on my Mississippi Gulf Coast. BILOXI LIVE OAK - Hwy. 90 - post Katrina.
RED WALL WITH CRESCENT - Firedog Saloon - post Katrina.
OUTSIDE IN WITH CRESCENT - Firedog Saloon - post Katrina.
BROKEN BLUE - Pass Christian.
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Other interests include Weather/Meteorology, all things Hurricane Katrina and the Mississippi Gulf Coast
Katrina over Mississippi – Aug. 29, 2005
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Birds - especially Indigo Buntings
and– CROWS -The Language and Culture of Crows - an incredible site!!
and cats!! cats!! cats!!
"Cats are smarter than dogs. You cannot get eight cats to pull a sled through snow." - Jeff Valdez
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Night out at Two Stick to hear a band.
BANDS–
The Lavellas, Art School, Film School, Abel and Baker, Interpol, New Roman Times, The Vera Violets, Centro-matic, Life of pi, Stone Roses, Ride, Radiohead, The Cure, Catherine Wheel, The Album Leaf, Brand X, Mercury Rev
Songs that I can listen to over and over: "HOLES" -MERCURY REV, "ON & ON" –FILM SCHOOL, "REST MY CHEMISTRY," "STELLA WAS A DIVER. . ." -INTERPOL (actually most all interpol songs), "ISIS MOURNING PT. 1" -BRAND X, "Collapse" & "Some Say You Are -THE LAVELLAS, "Blur the Lines" -The Meeting Places.
SOME OTHER FAV SONGS:
"Mayonaise" - Smashing Pumpkins
"Disintigration" - The Cure
"Comfortably Numb" - Pink Floyd
"Bismark" - Life of Pi
"Perfect Digital" - NRT
"Angel" – Sarah McLachlan
"Large Hearted Boy" , "Lethargy" , "Hold on Hope"- GBV
"Cortez the Killer" - Neil Young
Movies
Pearlington, MS - post-Katrina visit - August 30, 2006
This is the town that has been forgotten.
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Driving in on Hwy 604, the thing I noticed about Pearlington was that at least they had their trees and nature in general looked green. Unlike Waveland (just a few miles east) which has thousands of dead pines and other trees and Live Oaks stripped of branches and most of their leaves.
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No place to shop. No bank. No School. St. Joseph's Catholic Church destroyed.
For more information on how you can help our coast please visit: http://katrina-in-mississippi.blogspot.com/
"Profound Disconnect" - Katrina inspired mixed media on canvas. Acrylic, E-mails printed on acetate...emails exchanged between me and friends on the coast in advance of Katrina, then afterwards my "searching for" emails when communications were down.
MOVIES: Big Bad Love, Dead Poet's Society, The Bird Cage, Pollock, Surviving Picasso, Amelie, Basquiat, The Straight Story, Bowling for Columbine, Farenheit 9/11, Imagine, The Passion of Christ, The Hours, Robin Hood-Prince of Thieves, Planes, Trains, and Automobiles, Romeo + Juliet, Notting Hill, Love Actually, Bridgett Jones's Diary, Mona Lisa Smile.
Television
Favorite t.v. /reality/documentaries- The Deadliest Catch, Meerkat Manor, Project Runway, The Little Zoo that Could, The Weather Channel
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Brit telly: The Young Ones, Jeeves and Wooster, Inspector Morse, Absolutely Fabulous, Mulberry, Lovejoy, As Time Goes By.
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Old Skool Saturday Night Live and Johnny Carson
Freaks Geeks and Nerds, My So-Called Life, Brooklyn Bridge, Junkyard Wars, Nikita, Wonder Years, X-Files, Seinfeld.
Books
I'm a bookaholic.
Always in process of reading :
The Art of the Commonplace, Katrina-Mississippi Women Remember, The Horn Island Logs, Give My Regards to Eighth Street, Hayden Carruth Collected Longer Poems, Joseph Cornell Theater of the Mind, The Incarnation of Frida K., anything about Frank O'Hara and Hayden Carruth, various art and poetry books, and anything concerning The New York School era.
Heroes
The Alabama Gulf Coast Zoo - featured on Animal Planet's "The Little Zoo that Could." The zoo personnel evacuated all of the animals last year for THREE hurricanes –Dennis, Katrina, and Wilma! Those are some heroes! Visit them and help them out:
http://www.alabamagulfcoastzoo.com
Snickers-abandoned and lost after just having kittens.
Milkie-a feral cat I've been caring for for a couple of years.
"Every life should have nine cats." – Annonymous
"Cats are smarter than dogs. You can't get eight cats to pull a sled through snow." – Jeff Valdez
Who I'd like to meet: My Volvo, Greenie, all refurbished and restored, that's who I'd like to meet. For now, I dream on as she sits slowly disintegrating. "Long may you run, long may you run, with your chrome heart shining in the sun, Long may you run" – Neil Young
As for meeting people:
Robert Smith, Anderson Cooper, Willie Nelson, Neil Young, and all of the personnel at Alabama Gulf Coast Zoo - see my "Heroes" to find out more.
Love 'em! I keep the same ones for ever then cash 'em out. I'm just trying to stay busy, do some renovations on the studio and find time to make noise. Cheers to you!
Nice to hear from you, hope all is well there. We're always happy to hear that people have heard some of the "off myspace" tracks. Thanks for writing, kind regards, Rob
May your day be filled with happiness, joy, and lots and lots of lovely jubbly presents. And if you could save me a piece of cake, that would be simply smashing.
Toodle-pip! Enjoy your day. Kisses and cuddles from your number one pal, the Travelocity Roaming Gnome. Hurrah! xxx
