I'm a sculptor, photographer, writer, spoken word artist, filmmaker, producer, former casting business development person...a new aunt to an amazing little girl, and a lot of other things...maybe too many other things. But, these are all of the things I do with my time...
"The Delicate Delinquent." 2009
"ZaSu". 2009
"Sentimental Tommy." 2009
"Bernadine." 2009
"Don't Drink the Kool-Aid." 2009
"The Lower Ninth." 2009
"Elective Affinities." 2009
"Untitled." 2009
Production Still from short stop motion film, "Typewriter Tests." 2007
Blue Nude. Oil Painting.
Although I'm Susan E...no relation-- I found this a few graves over while shooting "Resurrection Apprentice" on location in Jersey City.
"Ink runs from the corners of my mouth...there is no happiness like mine...for I have been eating poetry.." (~Mark Strand)
Is it the shape of the letters...or the sound they make in my head when I look at them?
"Poets are soldiers that liberate words from the steadfast possession of
definition." -Eli Khamarov
"All writers...have pretty wives. Someone should look into this." Kurt Vonnegut
This is my vagabond shadow, cast on the Kerouac Memorial several years ago...for my Lowell, MA. Self-Portrait.
This picture...makes me happy. (It's the only one from my collection of 11 typewriters that I brought along to Nashville, the rest reside in storage in NYC) It makes me want to live in a silver airstream trailer in the desert with an astro turf lawn and a pink flamingo on a stick out front. I expect a John Waters character to walk in when I am typing on it.
This is one of four new puppets I've been working on. Most of them still need clothes, some need me to make bodies over their odd little puppet skeletons.
I also collect vintage watches(1930's & 40's)and pre 1960's polaroid cameras, I enjoy the hell out of a good cup of coffee(Cafe' Du Monde in New Orleans makes the best)the stronger the better.
I sleep very little...and have a tendency to stay up creating well into the night...sometimes into the next morning.
I'm a huge advocate of taking time to relax, walking just to get away and think, I sometimes yell at the television when I watch hockey. I don't do it enough, but I love camping, sunshine, the smell of fresh air...also love POETRY (spoken, written, thought, lived).
I'm currently learning Italian (have spent 2 years with a bunch of bad podcasts, tons of incredible italian music and finally invested in Rosetta Stone, don't ask me to say anything to you just yet - I'll prob. only mutter something under my breath that makes no sense.)...I'd like to live there one day or have a very extended stay...I think Italy just may be paradise. "Positano bites deep", Steinbeck wrote. "It is a dream place that isn’t quite real when you are there and becomes beckoningly real after you have gone."
When I first meet someone...I notice their hands...I find that a persons hands say a lot about them..I find that interesting.
Untitled Painting 1999.
This is a super rough experimental puppet/animation piece that I recently made playing around with a new camera. Clearly not a finished film by any means....This was inspired by my feelings over the death of my brother's wife, Suzanne.
Check out my cute as hell new baby niece, Matilda Ruby. She is rockin out in her hat and little sunglasses. This little girl is my world -- so full of joy.
And, well...baby feet. Need I say more?
I am very inspired by my family. They have helped me chip away at the pieces of life...and become the woman I am today.
My grandmother--the woman who first gave me the breath of poetry...and gave me the confidence and inspiration as an artist....
My mother--who showed me the beauty of imagination and took me on nature walks when I was little.
My dad, for becoming my best friend when I grew up...and could really appreciate what an amazing man he is, how truly brilliant he is and be thankful for where we travelled with him as a family because of his work.
Music
This is my VERY FAVORITE Chikinki song...when I listen to it...it is stuck in my head for DAYS! ASSASSINATOR 13
Jeff Buckley, Rich Price, JJ Grey & Mofro, AutoVaughn, Trances Arc, Sweet Eastern Saints, Ben Sollee, SafetySuit, Warren Haynes, Rob Zombie, Ray LaMontagne, Govt. Mule, Head Automatica, Derek Trucks Band, Susan Tedeschi, Amadou & Mariam, Zenima, Odyze, The Chemical Brothers, Nick Drake, Cary Brothers, John Lennon, Nine Inch Nails, D.O.C., Outkast, Chris Cornell, 80's Music, Rick Springfield, Dave Matthews, DJ Logic, Robert Randolph, Nina Simone, John Coltraine, Grateful Dead, Rilo Kiley, Jack Johnson, Our Lady Peace, David Amram, Alice Coltraine, Men At Work, Sade, Beastie Boys, Citizen Cope, U2, Albert Hill, Janis Joplin, Thelonius Monk, No Doubt, Lester Young, Charlie Parker, Jovanotti, Leonard Cohen, Mike Ness, Max Pezzali, Gianna Nannini, Tom Waits, Leo Kotke, Miles Davis, Norah Jones, 50 Cent, Ludacris, Ani DeFranco, Zero Assoluto, LL Cool J, Run DMC, NWA, Public Enemy, Johnny Cash, Gorillaz, Social Distortion, Mary J. Blige, Reik, Fischerspooner, The Zombies, A Tribe Called Quest, Audioslave, Kids Against Combs, Bob Marley, Cake, Oasis, Mars Volta, Phil Lesh, Stereophonics, Cassandra Wilson, Cat Stevens, Chikinki, Methods of Mayham, Crystal Method, Bob Dylan, Lou Reed, Filter, Morphine, Garbage, Primus, Greyboy, Lauryn Hill, Lo Fidelity All Stars, Portishead, Medeski Martin & Wood, Paolo Conte, North Mississippi All Stars, Poe, Robert Walter, Sex Mob, Galactic, Skerik, Inner 61, Dubstar, Placebo, The Killers, Butthole Surfers, De La Soul, Digable Planets, John Lee Hooker, Scissor Sisters,White Stripes, Youssou N'Dour, Concrete Blonde, Sneaker Pimps, Colin Hay, The Smiths, Van Morrison, Frou Frou
Movies
Experimental film I was in Directed by Tim Duffy for 2nd year SVA Project. He ran the film backwards in the end, the music was Ladytron - Seventeen. Cool little flick. His other later films on Youtube are pretty cool with dark edgy feel to them.
This is one of my all time favorite Stop motion videos that I discovered early on when I was first getting into stop motion shorts. Incredibly moving.
Boondock Saints, Rize, Wristcutters: A Love Story (Tom Waits--How cool is it that it has Tom Waits in it!?), The Dead Girl, Thank You For Not Smoking, Stephanie Daley, Little Miss Sunshine, Half Nelson, Stealing Heaven (one of my favorite tragic/love stories - though very dated looking to watch now), V for Vendetta, Shopgirl, Roman Holiday (Gregory Peck is one my all time favorite male actors), Fahrenheit 451, How to Steal a Million, Love in the Afternoon, Vision Quest, Groundhog's Day, Clerks, Office Space, The Mother, Garden State, Charade, Sabrina (both versions), Kieslowski's Color Trilogy: Bleu, Blanc, Rouge. **Occupation: Dreamland**, North by Northwest, My Favorite Wife, An Affair to Remember, The Door in the Floor, Let's Make Love (my favorite Marilyn movie--I LOVE Yves Montand), Blue Velvet, Breakfast Club, When Harry Met Sally, We Don't Live Here Anymore, Pulp Fiction, The Pillowbook, Seven, Casablanca, The Matrix, The Usual Suspects, American Beauty, Poltergeist, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Fight Club, Crash, Secretary, Anything Monty Python, Raging Bull, The Descent, Silence of the Lambs, Twelve Monkeys, The Shining, Jaws, Crawlspace, Ghost World, The Devil's Rejects, Reality Bites, Black Christmas, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Halloween, House of 1000 Corpses, Nightmare on Elmstreet, Silver Bullet, Ghost Ship(best first 6 minutes of a horror film EVER), Mallrats, Chasing Amy, The Incredibles, Cabin Fever, Finding Nemo, Blade Runner, The Graduate, Lost in Translation, Sixteen Candles, Old School, Un Chien Andalou, L'ge d'or, Little Otik, Darkness/Light/Darkness, anything Louise Brookes, Charlie Chaplin, Silent Films, Any horror film I can get my hands on....Black and White, foreign with subtitles and passion...etc
(and of course The Resurrection Apprentice a movie written & Directed by the amazingly talented Glenn McQuaid & produced by me. Starring Larry Fessenden) It's the time of your life that may last a lifetime.
What John Hughes movie Are You? brought to you by QuizillaThe Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (song "Slept So Long" by Orgy) (the actual entire movie is amazing--1919 German Expressionist film...worth seeing)
Television
Fell face first into LOST (and watched all 4 seasons in a week thanks to Tivo) DEF POETRY, Weeds, Entourage, Californication, Dexter, The Tudors, Brotherhood, Carnivale, Deadwood, Sex in the City, Six Feet Under, Ab Fab, Sopranos, Dead Like Me, most things on TCM and yes admittedly, sometimes commercial television. (we'll not mention my late night MSNBC or cooking channel addiction...pretty much anything Alton Brown)
The british do comedy better then most...
I think we all have one...mine, seems much more illusive however.
I love a good TV love triangle. Sexy is sexy...
Books
I am a literary FREAK. Words...are what drive me. Writing, is my passion. Writers...are the source of inspiration that makes me tick, very few people know that above all other things that I do...I am a writer, and spoken word artist and have been doing this since I was a child...these are only a few among my many favorites: I read quite a lot of David Sedaris' work. His sense satyrical style is very much in line with how I think and express myself.
On the Road by Jack Kerouac, Shopgirl by Steve Martin, Still Life with Woodpecker by Tom Robbins, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by HST, Jitterbug Perfume by Tom Robbins, Running with Scissors by Augusten Burroughs, Dry(also A. Burroughs), Junky by William Burroughs, George Orwell's Essays and most of his books, Geek Love by Katherine Dunn, Sara by J.T. LeRoy, Eddie's Bastard by William Kowalski, The Tao of Pooh,The Catcher in the Rye, The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath and Ariel by Sylvia Plath, A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole, Mao II by Don DeLillo, Getting to Know the General by Graham Greene, Monkey Hunting by Christina Garcia and Dreaming in Cuban also by C. Garcia. Different Dances by Shel Silverstein, or anything illustrated by Maurice Sendak.
Heroes
My big brother. I've always thought he was amazing...always...he was the best husband (he and Suz gave me hope for love) he's such a loving father...and is beyond creative, humble, completely zen and I am now learning all over again why he has been such a strong inspiration to me throughout my life.
My grandmother. She lived her life with a frenzied passion--flirted with every man, made lifetime friends with every woman, joked at any awkward situation, and always wore bright fuschia lipstick even when she had on her pajamas. The classiest woman I've ever known.
About me: I relocated to Nashville in 2008 after over 10 years in NYC -- it has now almost been a full year. Although originally from the South -- it is STILL new and strange place for me at the moment as I adjust to sweet tea, parking lots, cowboy boots and the occasional sincere smile.
My family roots:
"Humility Conquers Pride."
~Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio
I took this at my aunt's house, after Katrina blew through Satellite Beach, Florida...the place I consider my hometown.
I'm no average drugstore cowboy.
"The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over. " HST
Near my hometown in Florida...
I took this last year in the Bahamas...it was a beautiful night, I was waiting for the hurricane.
my grandfather was a WWII fighter pilot...I respect his fearlessness and aspire to exercise it with his sophistication.
Crash landing off the Coast of New Guinnea (grandfather standing next to prop.)
"Believe nothing.
No matter where you read it,
Or who said it,
Even if I have said it,
Unless it agrees with your own reason
And your own common sense."
~ Buddha
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Our recent songs can be heard on our MySpace page.
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Hi! If you're going to be in the Nashville area next week, I hope you'll stop by the Opry Mills Mall Barnes & Noble to say hi!
I'll be there on Thursday night, Sept. 3rd at 7 p.m., signing copies of my horror novels COVENANT, that came out last fall in paperback, and my new book, SACRIFICE which just hit stores in May! My third novel, THE 13TH is out in hardcover now, and will be in paperback just in time for Halloween.
If you'd like a taste of my fiction, I've posted links to some of my short stories that are available on the web on my MySpace profile page!
DJ Alex F is here on Quanza with his well known Tech Tribal sound ! 3 tremendous tracks with all what a dancefloor would need, drums, deep basslines, grooves and synths. No doubt Alex F adds and delivers a special flavor to Quanza.
Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude. --Denis Waitely
Blue Nude. Oil Painting.
"All writers...have pretty wives. Someone should look into this." Kurt Vonnegut
I also collect vintage watches(1930's & 40's)and pre 1960's polaroid cameras, I enjoy the hell out of a good cup of coffee(Cafe' Du Monde in New Orleans makes the best)the stronger the better.
I'm a huge advocate of taking time to relax, walking just to get away and think, 
This is a super rough experimental puppet/animation piece that I recently made playing around with a new camera. Clearly not a finished film by any means....This was inspired by my feelings over the death of my brother's wife, Suzanne.
Check out my cute as hell new baby niece, Matilda Ruby. She is rockin out in her hat and little sunglasses. This little girl is my world -- so full of joy.
My grandmother--the woman who first gave me the breath of poetry...and gave me the confidence and inspiration as an artist....
(and of course The Resurrection Apprentice a movie written & Directed by the amazingly talented Glenn McQuaid & produced by me. Starring Larry Fessenden)
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (song "Slept So Long" by Orgy) (the actual entire movie is amazing--1919 German Expressionist film...worth seeing)
I think we all have one...mine, seems much more illusive however.
"The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over. " HST
"Believe nothing.
No matter where you read it,
Or who said it,
Even if I have said it,
Unless it agrees with your own reason
And your own common sense."
~ Buddha
A friend of mine from a lifetime ago once told me he had thought of writing a book about me that he wanted to call..STALKING JACK KEROUAC. At the time, I found it incredibly amusing. Looking back, it was apropos. I couldn't think of three better words to sum up my college years. Now...well...now that I have found him (and am a little older)...I live with the ghost of his words in everything that I do.
And all that I can say...is welcome back Mr. Kerouac...where have you been?
"The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars."
-Jack Kerouac
Krzysztof Kieslowski is one of the most influential filmmakers in my life. His movies are profoundly touching, simple and human. The experiences we are taken on are beyond painful...yet basic in the emotions we are faced with as a viewer. They are difficult to watch. It is the same sensation I imagine one must feel when you scratch under a cast with a pencil to satisfy an itch. It is essential. Kieslowski is essential.
Hi! If you're going to be in the Nashville area next week, I hope you'll stop by the 
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