Being A Smart Aleck-Scavenging-Pillaging-Playing-Creating-Making Waves- Drinking Up- The Angst Ridden Wonderlustainery-Taking Day Trips-Talk-talking and Face to Face Flowerings for The Nighttime Fires that are To Keep Us Burning Within.Stircrazy... Stargazing. Explorative Abandonments to Graveyards and Yardsticks.Dog Lickings at the brink of...and just after-Thinking of the meaning escapes-2 heads are said, better than 1
Music
I have been said to be a music snob,high-browed taste in that, which is great and small, such as hailing from Scotland etal. The Pale Fountins, The Orange Juice, Breathless, Dif Juz, and from England; Eyeless In Gaza, The Durutti Column, The Jam, Tracey Thorne and Ben Watt (Hull), The Black Dog, B12, Luke Slater,Luke Vibert, Lemon Jelly, Art Of Noise, As One...of 10cc's of Too many to Mention,and so many Lovin'Spoonfuls...The Aftertastes.
Movies
Dinner At Eight (And All Baby-Jean Harlow's Films), Bringing Up Baby, My Man Godfrey, Arsenic And Old Lace, Hud, Baby The Rain Must Fall,Touch Of Evil. And just about too - so many in the Horror Genre-Hammer, A.I.P films etal. Many modern-Mostly older modern-Classic-And some too, sent from Heaven-as well as,From Hell.
Television
Creature Features, Kolchach:The Night Stalker, Columbo-all, Dark Skies, Twilight Zone, Night Gallery too
Books
An American Bible-1911 by Elbert Hubbard,leatherbound and published by The Roycrofters,Art Books, and greatbooks of rare distinction to numerous to mention.
Heroes
Frank Lloyd Wright, Louise Brooks "I have the gift of enraging people",Bruce Connor, Asa Ames, Nathaniel Currier, Thomas Cole, Poe, John Plumbe Jr., Mathew Brady, Alfred Jarry, Clifford T. Morgan, Jay Gatsby, My Brother, The late great Richard (1955-2006) Later great Jimmy Henry (1961-2008)-Above all-All of the above sans one are...were- each- Uniquely American Artists...Genius'-and rarified "Heros Are Hard To Find"
About me: Steph. Gorkii is my prefabricated namesake in the annals of art history I was an internationally published black and white photographer of the male nude. I am to touch- daft and aroused,all about, inside and ,vilified by the Lurid Red from my head to the assembled image, put forth, as art without artiface. My old book" The Nubile (and the Nostalgic)" still speaks in Volumn, as reference to tantalize fancy and the satiate desire, as well as, to picture a lost gorgeous glimpse, beguiled- into the past-most imposing-or the present, most classic. I am, all in all, fragmented and fractured from out of teeth, a mold,in pieces, scattered across- all that is lost in time. Justifiably, I am the sardonic-impish and brash ,creepy and fascinatingly insane, genius-jolted and wildly askew -and simply, a wit whip of a guy -a dark angel on earth-and a rather strange brew,of bats in the belfry and spiders webs in the attic is where my mind has coiled and ensnared in itself- to live with the morbidity it takes, to hang upside down.
You can read reviews of my book here.
Who I'd like to meet: Affable curious & absurd, Your wonderment, imagination of delving inside an ambling mind ,such as your sentimental longings-its morbid fixations-its heartened discourse with soul fed fondness for depth-charged Art-comes an Anti-artist curling his tongue -snide,if angelicesque and alive-truthful is to be so brutal-useful is to be so open ended-mindeyed to layers-overlapping into your colours -weather white on black-darker shades-grey-ever brighter colors-your rainbows end as never before seen-or will be seen in the same light again.So just be it yourself-to be it -true-the realist and randomness-and even if your the shinny red delicious or tart green variety of Apple-its no matter which-just you admit-its likely there will always be a worm inside-right where you reside from-so why hide-it-why be exact of 2 varieties at all...In fact-I'd most like to meet the 3rd -exotic,oddity-the weird and spotty apple ,maybe its bruised, plucked to soon ,but the brighter side-the other variety-mixed bag-unique-picked still-never too sweet-but less tart and full of creative juices...Is this.You too-well done-if not youve-poisoned your own- of 2 kinds-its the 3rd and only type -worms wont find as appealing ,as I will
At the moment, I'm at my friend house and got a little tipsy for the first time in a while. As for the photographers, yes, I've done a titty bit of modeling, only 4 shoots, but I'd love to do more. Anyways< love hearing from you. Another shot is calling for me. Haha!
..."Sweet youth, Tell me why, sad and sighing, thou dost rove These pleasent realms? I pray thee speak me sooth What is thy name?' He said, 'My name is Love.' Then straight the first did turn himself to me And cried, 'He lieth, for his name is Shame, But I am Love, and I was wont to be Alone in this fair garden, till he came Unasked by night; I am true Love, I fill The hearts of boy and girl with mutual flame.' Then sighing, said the other, 'Have thy will, I am the love that dare not speak its name."
