....Always: Love, compassion, respect, sincerity, forgiveness (the hardest one), faith (also hard), kindness, gratitude, but not hope (I'm building on rocks from now on). Walking the talk. Failing a lot. Living passionately. Moxie. Gumption. Verve. Feminism.
Right now: Decorating, exploring my neighborhood, living poorly (but creatively!), thumbing through cookbooks for recipes for dinner parties, tea parties, pizza parties, un-birthday parties. "Upcycling." Box/community/urban gardens.
In general: reading and writing (especially hyperfiction, nonlinear fiction, short fiction and essays), making things, learning things, aspects of time, photo-based art, performance art, Total Artwork, paper, intense conversation, laughing heartily/listening to laughter, systems, cognitive science, augmented humans/cyborgs, haptics, the body, specimens/specimen-making, trees and bark and branches and leaves, ice, swarms, thunderstorms, walking for entertainment, health and meditative purposes, thrift stores and flea markets and garage sales (the pursuit of the undiscovered!), the ecstatic, systemic thinking, growth, renewal, cycles, etc.....
Music
In general: Pre-disco soul, r&b and funk, singer-songwriters, angsty girl groups of the '60s, rockabilly, psychobilly, alt-country, old country, honky-tonk, swampy backwoods stuff, and folk.
In particular: Cowboy Junkies, Joni Mitchell, Lucinda Williams, Emmylou Harris, Tanya Tucker, Miles Davis, Devil Doll, Royal Trux, Woody Guthrie, Jude, Sinead O'Connor, K.D. Lang, X, Bob Dylan, John Prine, The Carpenters, Laura Nyro, Carole King, James Taylor, Dolly Parton, Beth Orton, Kasey Chambers, Kristin Hersh, Gillian Welch, Juliana Hatfield, Marvin Gaye, Solomon Burke, Stevie Wonder, Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels, Frank Zappa, Cheap Trick, The Fifth Dimension, The Jackson Five, Dave Brubeck, Sam Cooke, Aimee Mann, Kate Bush, spirituals, Dusty Springfield, Rush, anything nostalgic (lots of grunge and Janis Joplin), and many others.
Movies
....Old movies, Funny movies, Quirky movies, Pretty Movies
Some movies:
The Science of Sleep
The Women T
he Cooler Marty
Anything with Gene Wilder
Danny DeVito movies
Rebel Without a Cause
West Side Story
Singing in the Rain
Other musicals
Scoop Qui etes-vous, Polly Maggoo?
Run Lola Run
I Heart Huckabees
Me and You and Everyone We Know
Singles
Amelie
Secretary
The Driver's Seat
Saved!
Some Like It Hot
200 Cigarettes
The Nutty Professor (w/ Jerry Lewis)
The Last Unicorn
Beetlejuice
V for Vendetta
Network
It Happened One Night
Silent films like Nosferatu and Daddy-Long-Legs
The Strange Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
Adventures in Babysitting
Gaslight!
The Ladies' Man (w/ Jerry Lewis)
Etc. And more.
And does anyone else agree that Gene Hackman is completely underrated as a comedic actor?....
Television
On Boston Legal - This show is so refreshingly absurd, sweetly neurotic, politically prescient, and astonishingly irreverent that it is worth an hour of your time each week. Plus, the character acting is phenomenal (and bizarre)!
Books
....Currently Reading: The Demon Haunted World by Carl Sagan.
Involved With:
Virginia Woolf
Dave Eggers
Frankenstein
Jane Austen
A Room with a View
William Faulkner (especially As I Lay Dying)
Ernest Hemingway
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Vladimir Nabokov
Gertrude Stein
Julia Kristeva
Anita Brookner
Written on the Body (Jeanette Winterson)
Anais Nin
Steve Tomasula
Marguerite Duras (especially The Malady of Death)
Georges Bataille
Arthur Rimbaud
Ralph Berry
Catch-22
Margaret Atwood (so brilliant)
The House on Mango Street (Cisneros)
Blueberries for Sal (of course I say Al)
Haruki Murakami
Zilpha Keatley Snyder
...and more, always more.....
Heroes
Believers, "smart and well-informed" women, Gertrude Stein, Mary Wollstonecraft, Dolly Parton, Jane Austen, Miss Piggy, Sacagawea.
Cranbrook Academy Of Art
Bloomfield Hills,Michigan
Graduated: 2005
Student status: Alumni
Degree: Master's Degree
Major: Fiber
Clubs: Studio Council, The Writing Club, Listen Up! creative writing journal
2003 to 2005
Kansas City Art Institute
Kansas City,Missouri
Graduated: 2003
Degree: Bachelor's Degree
Major: Creative Writing/Fiber
Clubs: SDA, Student Council, Beaux Arts/Beaux Arts Fashion Show Committees
1999 to 2003
Platte County High
Platte City,Missouri
Graduated: N/A
Student status: Alumni
Degree: High School Diploma
Clubs: Art Club, Academic Bowl, Quill and Scroll, The Pirate Clipper, Writers Inc., National Honor Society, Science Club, Spanish Club, etc.
1995 to 1999
Alison hasn't enough discipline to wear white. view more
A rich creamy blend of clown and silent film star, with a dollop of cartoon, and just a dash of Debbie Reynolds mixed in at the last possible moment. Maybe a little I don't know what on the side.
Oh, and my favorite words are flummox and plumb bob.
Enticing Quote:
"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.
- Albert Einstein
Who I'd like to meet: ....Tortoises and people worth trusting. Those who treat you like they mean it. Also, sheer brilliance, Artificial Linguistic Entities, visionaries, artists, scientists, someone who will walk me to my car, and anyone who looks good in a skinny tie. Oh, yeah, and a man who listens.....
Miss you! Come to The Office on North Oak on Saturday to see Phil and Co.! Thank you for getting me a present. I love ya bunches and I'm so lucky you're my buddy fo life. ;)
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