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"Everything we do is important. Every little thing we do...everything we do in the direction of a different world is important, even though at the moment they seem futile, because that's how change comes about. Change comes about when millions of people do little things, which at certain points in history come together, and then something good and something important happens." --Howard Zinn on The Uses of History and the War on Terrorism

"Most artists are brought to their vocation when their own nascent gifts are awakened by the work of a master. That is to say, most artists are converted to art by art itself. Finding one's voice isn't just an emptying and purifying oneself of the words of others but an adopting and embracing of filiations, communities, and discourses. Inspiration could be called inhaling the memory of an act never experienced. Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void but out of chaos. Any artist knows these truths, no matter how deeply he or she submerges that knowing."--Read this article ASAP.

I trip over my own feet a lot.

Just about everything is better with cumin and cayenne.

I really love perforated paper - you know, the kind where you crease it and it tears so nicely...

I [heart] drinking from tiny glasses.

I [doubleheart] vanilla snack packs. Though I could survive on cheese, pickles, and wine alone.

I find it strangely satisfying to watch sillyputty melt into a giant blob of goo.

I like my banana's slightly yellow-green, and most other fruits must be crisp like an apple if you want me to eat 'em (pears, apricots, plums, nectarines, peaches, you name it). I particularly enjoy a nice crisp nectarine.

My friends tell me I'm a total Betty in the kitchen. Wheeee! I LOVE FOOD.

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The bus is near empty, save one well-dressed young-ish man, probably about mid to late 20s, an equally well-dressed cool & casual woman of about the same age as the man, and myself.He sits in his navy blue pinstriped suit looking out the window, motionless, speechless....

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Movies

Run Lola Run, Nightmare Before Christmas, So I Married An Axe Murderer, Footloose, Amelie, SLC Punk, Natural Born Killers, '97 Romeo & Juliet, Lockstock & Two Smoking Barrels, Snatch, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Office Space, Swingers, Requiem For a Dream, Shawshank Redemption, Kill Bill, Napoleon Dynamite, Sin City, I [heart] Huckabees, The Dreamers, Memento, Batman Begins, The Beach, Benny & Joon, Ferris Buehler's Day Off, Pretty in Pink, The Goonies, Kung Fu Hustle, City of God, Billy Madison, Dracula with Bela Lugosi, Meeting People is Easy, Harold & Maude, Y Tu Mama Tambien, Life Aquatic, Royal Tenenbaums, Old School, Anchorman, The Big Lebowski, The Pianist

Music

Thievery, Thunderball, Gomez, Beasties, Beck, Bjork, Massive Attack, Tricky, Ani, Tori, Pumpkins, Portishead, Radiohead, Morcheeba, Damien Rice, DieselBoy, BussahRhymes, The Roots, LTJ Bukem, Cure, Gorillaz, Flaming Lips, Tool, G.Love, Guster, Violent Femmes, Quantic, The Dining Rooms, The Theater Fire, Ghostland Observatory, Boards of Canada

Television

I don't watch TV, but if I did, these would be in the mix: Deadwood, Sopranos, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Six Feet Under, Carnivale, Rome. Does HBO count as TV?? If the biggest highlight of your week is The OC or Desperate Housewives, American Idol or any sort of reality-based game show, go away. Family Guy ('nuff said)

Books

Some Favorites - Old & New:, Gilligan's Wake (Carson), Bless Me Ultima (Anaya), Demian (Herman Hesse), A Clockwork Orange (Burgess), America: Democracy Inaction (Stewart), A Brave New World (Huxley), On The Road (Kerouac), Neuromancer (Gibson), The Catch, Feminism, and the Future (Baumgardner/Richards), Black Water (Oates), The Bluest Eye (Morrison), Zen & The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (Pirsig), Reviving Ophelia, The Tipping Point (Gladwell), Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking (Gladwell), Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All For You (Durang), Art & Physics (Shlain), The Demon Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (Sagan), A Confederacy of Dunces (Toole), The Falls (Oates), The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on The Evolution of Human Intelligence (Sagan), GOT ANY SUGGESTIONS?? I like suggestions. Send them my way.

Activities

Running, Travel, Roadtrips, Cooking, Reading, Figure Drawing, Reading, Writing,

Interests

Dreaming about my next glass of Scotch. Philosophy. Smokes.

Artists

Klimt, Rothko, Muscha, Erte, Yves Tanguy, Yves Klein, Arp, Moore, Albers, Damian Hirst, Man Ray, and more to come.