Art Deco, Art Nouveau, Fonts, Calligraphy, illustration, music, Portland, Oregon, murals, public art, lithography, Jazz Age, illustration, handmade, etsy, 1920s, 1930s, French Art Deco, Paris, France, travel, reading Europe, art history, pop art, New Mexico, Albuquerque, Dixieland, Israel, Turkey, Egypt, Morocco, Croatia, Slovenia, Great Britain, graphic desin, art screenprinting, gocco, poster design, album art, hebrew calligraphy
Music
belle and sebastian, iron and wine, decemberists, clap your hands say yeah, lucinda williams, go team, beirut, guided by voices, the shins, sufjan stevens, islands, tapes and tapes, calexico, johnny cash, devendra banhart, bob dylan, cat power, my morning jacket, new pornographers, neutral milk hotel, woody guthrie, the smiths, envelopes, lou reed, new order, merle haggard, radiohead, spoon, edith piaf, of montreal
Movies
His Girl Friday, Goodfellas, Short Cuts, Annie Hall, Gone With the Wind, Absolutely Fabulous, BBC, The Royal Tenenbaums, Grey Gardens, Brideshead Revisited, Before Sunrise, I Heart Huckabees, Moulin Rouge, Pride and Predjudice, Boogie Nights, Gladiator, Trading Places, Roman Holiday, The Departed, Forsyte Saga, What Ever Happened To Baby Jane, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Television
BBC, Absolutely Fabulous, Law and Order, PBS, Antiques Roadshow, Project Runway, Sopranos, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Freaks and Geeks, Seinfeld, Masterpiece Theatre, Mystery, Anthony Bourdain
Books
Piano Tuner, Devil in the White City, Great Expectations, Brideshead Revisited, House of Spirits, Agatha Christie, Jane Eyre, Me Talk Pretty One Day, Pride and Prejudice, Vanity Fair, A Farewell to Arms, This Side of Paradise, P.D. James, Historical Fiction, Zadie Smith, Leaves of Grass, Walt Whitman, Robert Graves, Joseph Campbell, The Pallisers, Middlemarch, David Sedaris
Who I'd like to meet: anyone interested in original designs, handmade crafts, calligraphy, illustration, album art, wedding invitations, hebrew calligraphy, art deco, art nouveau, notecards, tees, aprons, moleskine journals, silkscreen, the magical art of gocco or unique, hand-crafted fonts.
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"As I make it to the top of the staircase I stand tall, shoulders slouched, a torn iniquitous mirage, shadow remnant of the god king himself that only hours ago – before the sun rose to shed light on our wicked union – called for the grail… “More wine for my people! Sing in praises, rejoice, oh savage children...” I undressed you for all to see, my sweet Maenad. By morning I would feel my remorse, by night however, I fed your sincere lunacy. I am torn and I am proud, and a reigning kiss was all it took.
My guitar lays inanimate, I kneel down and stroke its strings, a shy rustling reminiscent of a Kumeyaay Gourd Rattle cuts through the droning hum left in wake of the night. And as a dying desert shaman to his fallen tribe, the amplifier was left buzzing in our wake and absence..."
Sorry it took so long to get back to you, my friend...been visiting a lot of old haunts with my pals and gals from Broadway.
Stayed at the Sherry Netherlands facing Central Park. As usual, we're the tall one in the middle. ..
I enjoyed a great deal of time visiting, seeing some shows and just talking shop with the gang. Didn't know I'd miss the theatre district so much...Times Square never looked so good.
It wouldn't have been a stay in town without catching the latest at Radio City Music Hall.
And of course a day in Chinatown... Love the atmosphere, love the food and as soon as I leave, in an hour I want to go back!
Spent part of each Sunday with the boss; figured it couldn't hurt. ..
And now I'm off to Rochester to celebrate the 4th with my folks! ~Ross
Maybe you already know about her, but just in case:
I just “virtually” stumbled over a dutch artist, combining the classiness of the 20s paintings with nowaday’s underground symbolism – which is so perfectly matching my own contemporary feeling, quite often…
So, if you aren’t already doing, I am sure you will love her artwork, just like me:
Thanx for stopping by. I’ve been very busy trying to trim all my trees back around the house but have decided to call someone in that actually knows what they’re doing. Nothing worse than an old man yelping as he rapidly descends from a four story tree!
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