Collecting Vintage goods
American Fashion (1940s-1969)
Sweden,Iceland,Netherlands,London,NYC
Reading
Collecting Vinyl
Old Barber Shops
Birds, and wishing I was a bird
Old Sailor stuff, and wishing I was an old sailor
Tattoos
Shoeboxes (the Ford kind)
Traditional Hot Rods
Music
Currently:
Misfits, Miles Davis, Johnny Smith, The Smiths, Morrissey, American Nightmare,Bloodshot Bill, Coalesce, Duke Ellington, Johnny Cash, Shorty Rogers,
Movies
Buffalo 66, Le Mans, Solaris (Tarkovsky), 8 1/2, Stroszek, Rebel Without a Cause, Wes Anderson, Amelie, Two Lane Blacktop, The Big Sleep, Alphaville, Divorce...Italian Style, Il Posto, On the Waterfront, The Silence, Scenes From A Wedding, A Woman is a Woman, In Cold Blood (original film with Robert Blake), No Direction Home, The Harder They Fall, etc.
Television
Tom Verlaine played for them. Getting their start at CBGBs in New York, they released the albums titled Marquee Moon and Adventure respectively, in which the latter sounds like a Huey Lewis album.
Books
C.S. Lewis, Kurt Vonnegut, J.G. Ballard, Haruki Murakami, Albert Camus
Heroes
Walter Gropius, Godard, Fellini, Thom Browne, Hedi Slimane, Olafur Eliasson, Edmund Husserl, Martin Heidegger, David Lynch, Eddy Merckx, Humphrey Bogart
Update October 12th:
Currently working at the Gap.
Wishing I worked for Steidl.
Apparently everything I own needs to be 60 years or older these days.... Being married is fantastic.
My wife and I collect vintage home-wares, electrics and clothing, as well as make our own clothing from vintage patterns.
Who I'd like to meet:
My maker
Andreas Gursky, Thomas Struth, Elger Esser, Edouard Baldus, Edward Burtynsky, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Stephen Shore, William Eggleston, Thomas Ruff, Clifford Ross, Lartigue, Francis Bacon, Alexander Calder, John Cassavetes, Anselm Kiefer, Ed Ruscha, Federico Fellini, Joel Sternfeld, Frank Gohlke, Peter Hujar, Christian Boltanski, Christopher Wool, Franz Kline, Richard Serra, Andrea Zittel, Darren Almond,Thomas Demand, Robert Adams, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Carsten Holler, Pierre Huyghe, Olafur Eliasson, Johhny Smith, Chet Baker, Marlon Brando, J. Spaceman(done), more.
thanks. happy easter to you too. and i will :) nothings that new except that i can drive noww :))))
wooo. oh and we got connor a swing for the basement. lol
whats new with you?
This area is great. Especially compared to Ypsi. I actually feel safe at night. Just started at Whole Foods a week or two ago and it's nice. I feel simple and happier here. I haven't been to the record stores yet, Tymm says they're aren't really good ones out here. I live a block behind Holiday Market! Still haven't been in there yet. How are YOU doing? And your bride? I hope everything is nice. IS it snowing in London? I don't know these things. Miss ya dude.
hahah swing dance. sounds like fun. connor good, we both just went back to school from break. i cant wait until next year though cuz im switching schools. woo! cheers going good. next weekend we have a competiton at eastern university and MADE from MTV's gonna be there cuz my coaches are like the coaches for some girl who wants to be made into a cheerleader. then we have another one at cobo hall the weekend before my birthday where were going for a bid to worlds. =]but just 2 weeks ago we were at kalahari in ohio and we took 2nd out of 3 sooooo. yeah.
lol. and my dad says "your cars a piece of shit." his words, not mine.
It sounds very nice actually. Granted, I was just about doing the same minus the food and company. Waahhh. LOL I am doing better now... after forkin over almost $400 btwn doc visits and meds. 4 shots of Nasonex up the nose? Yes please. 2 giant horse pills? Sure! A cpl of drops in the eye? Why not!? And since youre being such a good sport, maybe we'll give Spirit a UTI since we're bombarding her owner. Gah!!!!! I cant imagine vet visits....
Did you get my message? Thank you for the movie. I always liked Lust/Caution. I'm pretty perturbed that you didnt receive your gift on time. Gah! Oh and I meant to ask you if I couldnt just put your cards in the mail with a cpl stamps? Mom said I may have to take them to the pot office or something???
aww MAN! That sucks! Is it on youtube at all??? I don't have much money at all so therefore I don't know if I can visit this summer. I'm trying. promise!
heck no! I didn't give up on them. Just gotta get'em back from the optometrist haven't had any time to pick them up. It is indeed a drastic change for me.
nothing much. were going to birch run next weekend. then its christmas break, then i have midterms, and the week after that were going to rhode islandd. so ive got a pretty packed monthh.
