You could just about squeeze my interests into the Grand fucking Canyon.
The kindness of strangers, vintage vinyl, the mind, art, natural death care, astronomy, antiquarian books, candle-lit tub baths, laughing, writing poetry, the moment when you know a painting is finished, dancing, libraries, trespassing in old abandoned mansions, anagrams, skinny dipping, iridescent oil sticks, rosemary, science, hiking, rituals, antique Mustangs, gallery hopping, old coins, hoop dance, standing naked in torrential rains, music memorabilia, ASL, philosophy, cats, stargazer lilies, pandora.com radio, cooking (my pea soup kicks your pea soup's ass), second hand stores, walking through cemeteries on cloudy October days, sushi rolls, movie marathons, pumping iron, animal rights, humility, gratitude, vegan cuisine, thunderstorms, mullet haikus, roller coasters, Halloween (every damn day), Indian food, music, music, and yeah. MUSIC.
Who Needs Expensive 3-D Graphics When You Can Have Classic Pixels From The '70s?
Music
I am the frontwoman of a hipper-than-thou experimental art fag band called Pocahontas Hump. In a tangent universe.
Cocteau Twins is the voice of god... then... David Bowie, Thelonious Monk, Kate Bush, This Mortal Coil, Bjork, Portishead, Jazz Butcher, Clan of Xymox, Sam Rosenthal, Cramps, Karen Dalton, Chrome Cranks, Happy Rhodes, Tori Amos, Nick Cave, Pixies, Richard Butler, Billie Holiday, Stephin Merritt, Franz Joseph Hayden, Vidna Obmana, David Darling, Swans, Red House Painters, Cab Calloway, Dead Can Dance, Johnny Cash, Johann Sebastian Bach, Sigur Ros, Zuill Bailey, Dark Muse, Innocence Mission, Muse, Ink Spots, Florence Foster Jenkins, Flock of Seagulls, Tones On Tail, The Milling Gowns, Fad Gadget, George Philipp Telemann, Bob Dylan, Talking Heads, Little Jimmy Scott, Mrs. Miller, Lou Reed, Nina Simone, Jacqueline DuPre, Steve Roach, Ella Fitzgerald, C. Lastovicka, Kidney Thieves, Ani DiFranco, Georg Frideric Handel, Prince, Wolfgang Press, Layne Redmond, Cabaret Voltaire, Edith Piaf, Jelly Roll Morton, Peter Gabriel, Kat Larios, Baird Hersey & Prana, Joy Division, Esquivel, The Cure, Killing Joke, Count Basie...
4AD, Projekt, Mute, Factory, Beggar's Banquet, intoxicating hazy dream pop, new wave, shameless '80s, britpop, shoegaze, art fag, avante ghetto, bloke folk, punk, blues, punk-blues, big band, psychedelica, ambient, new romantic, industrial, goth, experimental, trance, jazz improv, classical, down-tempo, krautrock, post-punk, house, techno, disco, rockabilly, space age bachelor pad, swing, kazoo choir... ad infinitum.
Not a big fan of country, hip-hop, reggae, or heavy metal, but will tolerate it according to mood.
I'm a total music slut. I have worked in music since 1990, so i dig almost any groovy grooves from darkwave to discopunk. I'm very open-minded about music, unless we're talking about 21st century mainstream. If it's current Top 40, don't be surprised if I haven't heard of it. Most of it rips the very fabric of time and space with the sheer force of its mediocrity. And, okay, it SUX BULBOUS.
SUPPORT INDEPENDENT ARTISTS !!
If this man sang "Wild Is The Wind" to me on my deathbed, I'd be instantly transported to the Andromeda Galaxy
my blood and guts... HAPPY RHODES, "Temporary and Eternal"
HAPPY RHODES COVERING DAVID BOWIE'S SPACE ODDITY
Movies
THE ONLY MOVIE I'VE EVER STARRED IN, A SLEAZE FILM FROM THE '90s (terrible quality, hilarious dialogue removed). I'm the dyke at 2:50.
Contact, Chasing Amy, Citizen Ruth, A Beautiful Mind, Ghost World, Basquiat, Female Trouble, The Blob (1958), Hedwig and The Angry Inch, 50 First Dates, A Thief in the Night (1973), Donnie Darko, High Fidelity, Jacob's Ladder, The Man Who Fell To Earth, Sybil, SLC Punk, Filth and Fury, Serial Mom, Angels in America, Kill Bill, Zoolander, The Fountain, Terminator 1 & 2, Drop Dead Gorgeous, The Prestige, The Color Purple, Alien, Walk The Line, Bridget Jones' Diary, American Beauty, Anne of Green Gables, Pushing Tin, Life of Brian, Pecker, Requiem for a Dream, 2001, Perfume... Waters, Tarantino, Mike Myers.
From "High Fidelity"
Television
FLIGHT OF THE CONCHORDS, Bowie episode
I get my news from The Colbert Report.
Don't watch TV otherwise, but dig great shows on DVD... Twin Peaks, Six Feet Under, Flight of the Conchords, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Lost, South Park, Ab Fab, Seinfeld, Weeds, Dexter, Scrubs, Sex & The City, Ren and Stimpy, MST3K, Whose Line Is It Anyway?, All In The Family, intelligent standup comedy.
Books
Philosophy, science, psychology, nutrition, mysticism, graphic novels (that's comics, not porn), Sandman, biographies, vintage and/or underground music magazines, AdBusters.
Carl Sagan, Tom Robbins, Lester Bangs, David Rees, Arthur Rimbaud, Sylvia Plath, Alan Watts, Sparrow, Simone Felice, Tom Reynolds
I rarely read fiction, but enjoy a few now and then.
I also collect antiquarian books and keep them in a bad-ass, antique bookcase. IF IT'S REALLY OLD AND LOOKS COOL, I DROOL.
How lame of MySpace not to include favorite VISUAL ARTISTS... Rene Magritte and all the surrealists, Lora Shelley, Richard Butler, Dave McKean, Scott Ackerman, Holly McCabe, Kathleen McGuinness, Jackson Pollock, Adam Culbert (a.k.a. Sam Brown), Joan Steiner, Brian Andreas, Jean-Michel Basquiat, John William Waterhouse, Dina Pearlman, Neil Vandervloed... and all the genius my eyes have not yet beheld...
"GUESS WHAT? I'VE GOT A FEVER. AND THE ONLY PRESCRIPTION IS MORE COWBELL!"
GIANT UNDERPANTS !!
"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. He to whom the emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand wrapped in awe, is as good as dead-- his eyes are closed." --Albert Einstein
"The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men."-- Alice Walker
"The worst thing about being dead is that you can't be funny anymore. Or charming."-- Sparrow
"Every passing hour brings the Solar System forty-three thousand miles closer to Globular Cluster M13 in Hercules -- and still there are some misfits who insist that there is no such thing as progress."-- Kurt Vonnegut
"One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion."-- Arthur C. Clarke
"I worry that the person who thought up Muzak may be thinking up something else." --Lily Tomlin
Messier 13
Who I'd like to meet:
Mind-blowing artists and manifestors.
I'd also like to meet Jesus and apologize on behalf of his fan club. Then I'd buy him a root beer and we'd go hang gliding.
<br Hi Sharon, here is a video of Ma Gaia a womens frame drum group in Cyprus who have studied with Layne. It is a trailer for a documentary of Cyprus.:.Aprhodite.:.Ma Gaia committed to bringing back a womens lineage of drumming. Enjoy, Miranda & WDWW
Thank you Sharon, for connecting. Awesome to hear you interviewed Layne. Let us know if there is a link we can catch of the interview. Great to meet you! I met Layne 15 years ago and she never ceases to amaze me. All the best, Miranda
The 420 Funk Mob PFunk's Mike Clip Payne Mike Kidd Funkadelic Hampton Garry Starchild Shider Andre Foxxe Gabe Gonzalez Adam Widoff (DRUGS) Ted Orr (Blob) and friends
According to a visibly disturbed US Weather Department a 'heavy mass of clouds are gathering over the Hudson Valley, whether it is saucer shaped or not is open to your interpretation"
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Hi Sharon! We are overdue in thanking you so much for all your kind compliments about our music and artwork! And we're excited that you added "Violet Wrist" to your profile! Cheers to you ~ S.
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