The World of Claire Parker and Alexandre Alexeieff, Takashi Murakami, Alberto Varga, Painting, Writing, books, Music, Gonzo Journalism, Learning funny things in other languages (MONTARE LA TENDA!), Traveling
Music
The song "Happy Trails" by Roy Rogers and Dale Evens (you'd have to work at Hastings to understand), The Cars, The New Radicals, LCD SoundSystem, Block Party, Mat Mahar, Green Jelly, Lemon Demon, The Vandals, Liam Lynch, Scissor Sisters, Eric Hutchinson, Lok, CKY, Clutch, Radiohead, George Winston, Beck, Gnar Kill, Sandre Lerche, Ok Go, Dismemberment Plan, Ted Leo, U2, Bic Runga, Res, The Roots, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Foo Fighters, The Fine Young Cannibals, Beastie Boys, Les Savy Fav, yeah yeah yeahs, Har Mar Superstar, Gorillaz, Why, Snake River Conspiracy,Roger Miller,Ben Folds, Wynnona Judd (deal with it), Bat for Lashes, Bobby Darin, Dean Martin,
P.S. The best song of ALL TIME is "Walking in Memphis" by Marc Cohn. If you say it isn't, YOU ARE WRONG.
Movies
The list keeps growing: Starting to be a pretty big fan of Kurosawa and Buster Keaton (thanks to Zachariah), Just about any Mel Brooks film, Punch Drunk Love, Bubba Hotep, Haggard, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil,Just about any Mel Brooks film, Over the Hedge, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Man on the Moon, The Royal Tenenbaums, The Life Aquatic, Cabaret, Shine, Just about any Mel Brooks film, Battle Royal, Talledega Nights, Over the Hedge, Upon a Time in Mexico, Just about any Mel Brooks film, Pirates of the Carribean, Boondock Snts, Wilde, CKY 1-4, A Very Long Engagement, Just about any Mel Brooks film, Office Space, MST 3K, Mortal Kombat, Street Fighter (oh come on, it's a classic), The x-men movies and cartoons, Marx Brothers, Marx Brothers, Marx Brothers! (and just about any Mel Brooks film)
Television
Colbert, occassional adult swim (though it's nowhere as good as it used to be), and Myth Busters (I also seem to watch a lot of Law and Order, but that's not by my doing).
Books
The Screw Tape Letters, Housekeeping, The Movie Goer, Shakespeare's Winter's Tale, The Great Gatsby, Some Denis Johnson short stories, a lot of John Updike stories, Tempest, and Hamlet, Beowulf,The Light the Dead See, Anything by Hunter S. Thompson, Poetry of Louise Gluck, Walt Whitman, James Wright, Quan Barry, and James Tate among others. I also love stuff in middle english like Chaucer..the Canterbury tales are truly excellent in their original form. And...
Heroes
My dad, Addrienne Monk, Mel Brooks, Benny "the Jet" Rodriguez,and high school teachers that actually make a difference (Charlie Parsons) :)
Oh yeah...and who can deny this:
And of course:
About me: I try to keep my life simple. I'm graduating in May with a couple of degrees (art crap and english bull). I have a nice little job where I work with all the cool kids. I'm from a small town and the more I think about that the more I sorta like it (though I could never move back).I like donkeys, sloths, cotton candy, palmagranite juice, and ms paint:
And I try to constantly appreciate the little joys of life (my 'casa taco' cactus, watching dad work on a bonzai, $0.88 flea market flipflops, and learning recipes from my mom)
I also love the Kids in the Hall:
A whole year without you. It still doesn't seem real. We all miss you so much. The world was touched by your brilliant spirit, heart and mind. Thank you for being my friend and being such a magnificent person.
I miss you terribly. Think about you all the time. Wish we were having a beer and trashing this commercial society that has abandoned real artists and substance. I wear your gloves and strangely I develop a larger curiosity for the world around me, I wear your sweater and feel like your tiny frame is next to me, I watch my daughter play dress up in your wigs and I can see that fire growing in her that was so prominent in you. I love you and I remember you everyday kate.
KATIE I MISS YOU LIKE CRAZY. I WAS JUST ENTERTAINING THE IDEA OF GOIN AND SEEING UR MOM SO SHE COULD SAY "KATE, MEL AND GRACIE STOPPED BY!" THIS SEEMS LIKE A NIGHTMARE, ALL I WANT TO DO IS TURN THE T.V. OFF AND SEE UR SMILING FACE. I WILL ALWAYS CHERISH THE MEMORIES WE HAVE FROM SCHOOL AND THE OLD SKOOL SOCCER DAYS LOL.EVEN THE DAYS IN MS. WILLS CLASS WHEN I WOULD COME IN GRIPING EVERYDAY ABT SOMETHING NEW AND U WOULD SAY "WHATS WRONG NOW?!" LOL..THOSE R THE GOOD OLE DAYS AND I I WILL NEVER FORGET!!!!
Thanks Potaters, I'll keep it up for a while but I don't know how long. That may be too intense for me to handle.
I think I might be shopping. Otherwise I may just stop by on Saturday. I'm hammering out my schedule tonite and tomorrow. I'll definitely let you know.