May Ling Su

Bio:

Let me tell you a story about a nerdy girl with no boobs, who pretended to be a hot sexy porn starlet. Some amateur sex videos with her husband, one pro video shoot, New York gallery art and her own websites later, she found herself in a world-famous book entitled "XXX: 30 Porn Star Portraits" and on an HBO documentary called "Thinking XXX." She hardly ever left her house.

The truth is May Ling Su is a character I put on like a pair of stilettoes. She is the alter ego to my mousy bookish true self. May Ling Su opened doors for me that I would never have had the nerve to knock on. I'm shy, and in my early years the only way I learned how to make friends was through collaborative theatre and music projects. I've been singing and writing songs longer than I've known about sex. Music is my first love. It's been upstaged lately, but first love never dies.

Who I'd like to meet:

Artists, musicians, attractive and creative people to collaborate with. Nerdy gals, geeky guys, witchy women, literary geniuses, photo bugs, mad scientists, anime characters, kind hearted fools, kitty cats, dirty dogs, teddy bears...

Strip Karaoke from May Ling Su on Vimeo.

Influences:

On My iTunes Playlist:

Belle and Sebastian, PJ Harvey, The Breeders, Butthole Surfers, Ween, Beck, Tom Waits, Patti Smith, Neil Young, Tenacious D, Willie Nelson, Dolly Parton, David Byrne, David Bowie, The Pixies, Mitchell Vaillant, Morrissey, Radiohead, Lou Reed, U2, R.E.M., Macy Gray, Steely Dan, Blondie, Elvis Costello, Brian Eno, Frank Zappa, The Ramones, Queen, Sex Pistols, Smashing Pumpkins, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, X

In My DVD Library:

Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Spinal Tap, Monty Python's The Holy Grail, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, City of Lost Children, The Princess Bride, The Matrix, Little Big Man, Being John Malkovich, Black Cat White Cat, Tank Girl, Young Frankenstein

In My Bookcase:

Jitterbug Perfume, Still Life With Woodpecker, Skinny Legs and All - by Tom Robbins; Philosophy in the Bedroom, Justine - by the Marquis de Sade; Story of the Eye - by Georges Bataille; Cat's Cradle - by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.; The Little Prince - by Antoine de Saint Exupery; The Lover - by Marguerite Duras; The Tao of Pooh - by Benjamin Hoff; Where The Wild Things Are - by Maurice Sendak

In My Heart:

Both my grandmothers - one was a fashion designer who lived to sew, the other is a strong willful woman who pushed her children to excel; both my grandfathers - one was a bureaucrat who wrote poetry, the other was a musician and suave ballroom dancer.

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