I LOVE ART...love outsider art, mexican art, B/W photojournalism, expressionistic art, collage and assemblage, environmental art...I'm a vegetarian but not cranky towards meat-eaters (been known to eat a hot dog every 14 years)...cheese freak...into tons of music and going to concerts (pub gigs are the ones i like the most)...the sky gets me happy~~clouds easily distract me...parkour...Fred...camping primitive and cooking campfire food, microbrews~always trying new beers, keeping my art journal, going to museums and galleries, old movies and indies, junk shops (tiny treasures I find and can use for my assemblages and collage)...reading and writing poetry and braving the open-mike nights on rare occassion...into artists' trading cards...guerrila-la art...tribal tats but all of them really...fusion/tribal bellydancing...tiny boxes...feeling the need to be a freegan more and more...early 20th century Paris and German film, poetry and art...being of service in some way every day...on a beachcombing binge in a heartbeat...music stores with vinyl...irish ponies...body art...coffee junkie...chocoholic...love treehouses...kayaking on ponds and lakes...crazy for full moons...enjoy women with wild, open hearts...am always ready for adventures...
Frida Kahlo
LOVE IS MY RELIGION~~ZIGGY~~
Kat~~Parkour~~
Music
Women Rockers Rule! A woman and her ax...how sexy is that! Unless it is a woman and her acoustic! Joan Jett,Pink, Bitch, Indigo Girls, Joni Mitchell~~a beautiful mind, a creative goddess of words, sounds, and if you have never seen her artwork find it and feast...Melissa Etheridge~~"Awakening" is her best cd yet...Ferron, Girl in a Coma, Peaches, Cleo Lane, Chavela Vargas, Nina Simone,70's bands, The Cliks, Blondie, B-52's, REM, Talking Heads, Kristen Hall, IZ, Barnkickers, Ella, Heart,Iggy Pop, The Ramones, Bjork, Patti Smith, Gloria Estefan, Jim Brickmen, Jamie Anderson, Queen, The Beatles (John was/is the greatest artists of them all), Laurie Anderson, Radiohead, 9 inch Nails, Rage Against the Machine, Tool, Queens of the Stone Age, Antigone Rising, Catie Curtis, Debbie Harry/Blondie, k. d. lang, Mary Black, I go on disco binges for fun...on and on I could go because I love so many different genres and so many different artists....
The Way I Am ..
Movies
My NEW favorite movie is The Curious Case of Benjamin Button!!! Metropolis (with or without the music), Wizard of Oz once a year in the Fall...The Hours, In the Garden of Good and Evil, Fight Club and Snatch (I don't watch violent movies but I love the mind-bend), City of Angels, Young Frankenstein, Harold and Maude, Something Wicked This Way Comes, Waking Ned Divine, The Day the Earth Stood Still, What Dreams May Come, K-Paz,Rent, Nell, Fire, The Isle of Roan Inish, Thin Man Series, The Color Purple, Bell Book and Candle, Picnic, Hope Floats, Some Like It Hot, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Rocky Horror Picture Show, Tank Girl, Chocolat, Practical Majick, Moulin Rouge (though in my head I re-write the ending...musical number and all!), any old black and white movies...love to cuddle up with popcorn and a friend and do Hitchcock or actor-themed marathons, Sci-fi...Blade Runner, Mission to Mars, Alien series, Solaris, tons more and too many to list...oh, and Harvey...I love that movie and Meet Me In St. Louis...and and...grin...oh, never wanna see Bambi (Dumbo bummed me out) or Gone With the Wind
Television
don't watch much tellie any more...
Books
Classics, Art books, poetry, gardening, cooking, graphic novels...favorite books of all time~~To Kill a Mockingbird, The Color Purple, Silas Mariner, Dust Tracks on a Road, La Batarde, The Eros of Everyday Life, Daughters of Copper Woman, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Hunter S. Thompson's insane/brilliant), Lost Soul Companion, Borrowed Black, Treasure Island, The 4 Agreements,Illusions, Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit, Frankenstein, Shakespeare everything but especially Midsummer's Night, everything Willa Cather, Gert Stein has this weirdly tender spot in my heart...just dig that she and Picasso and Hemingway hung together, everything virginia wolfe, everything ray bradbury but especially Dandelion Wine and Martian Chronicles, oh, and the book I am writing~~~Favorite Poets~~Nikki Giovanni, Sharon Olds, Emily Dickinson, Chrystos, Joy Harjo, Ferron, Alix Olson, Lucille Clifton, Patti Smith, Amy Hedrick, Maya Angelou, Audre Lorde, Adrienne Rich, Renee Vivien, ani difranco...and on i could go...
alix olson...unsteady things
Heroes
People of action who speak up for Peace and Justice...Maya Angelou is at the very top of the list!!!
Alix Olson "America for Sale"
Free Hugs Gloria Estefan - No Llores
About me: Words and images are my addictions. Poetry...art...music.. Happiest at the beach!!! I build sea turtles out of sand, seaglass and shells~funky sandcastles and driftwood creatures~wanna build a driftwood fort with me?
In the woods I am an elf...knowing every flower has a song, every tree a story. Every rustle of leaves could be an elf scurrying and then there are the fairydiddles and water sprites! I believe in bad arse fairies, scruffy angels and mischevious elves
I'm a Libra~~so you might catch me eating a raw carrot one minute and the next a Pixie Stix; sippin a split of champagne with a straw or pounding back a can of coke; reading a collection of Emerson's essays or a children's storybook...
I'm an instigator of adventures and always have my backpack ready. I've traveled and lived in other countries. Nova Scotia and Ireland have been my favorites...
I'm a Lesbian...not a man-hater stereotype (my BF was my brother). I've been out since I was a teenager. I believe, for me, it has been a great teacher and a blessing. I love who I am...I call myself a happy Pagan...I'm part Cherokee and part Irish and was brought up with both traditions/ways blending. Nature-centered and close to the Earth...
Do you ever weep at seeing things in Nature that are so beautiful and so connected in the moment with you? I often find tears in my eyes in such moments...they are tears charged with an amazing Joy...
Who I'd like to meet: Those who can be child-like but not childish...big difference. I like women who can say a poem with just the look in their eyes.
Somewhere Over the Rainbow
Hi
Colleen, thanks for being my friend ... Here is a slide show of some of my art, I hope
you like it ... I hope you get time to listen to my music and maybe read a few
of my poems.
You
may like to look at this “PEACE SITE” I have set up:-
