Friends, Activity Partners

Sep 2003

Nuba-sur-Courtableau

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Bumming around, taking photos, kissing strangers

The International Blavatsky NGO -- funding the purchase of fabulous outfits and makeup for lipstick lesbians in war torn areas of the world.

Absurd daydreams and the pipe dreams that follow, darkroom madness, permaculture, identity, free speech, making shopping lists for Napoleon and Ronald Reagan, social justice, smoky jazz clubs, thrift stores, used book stores, self-transformation and reinvention, random travel, transcending race / class / gender, being Jamison, being Scotch, being DePrimo, being Blavatsky, multilingualism, biographies, theatrics of daily living

Rimbaud's Illuminations, Blake's Book of Urizen among other things, Baudelaire's Fleurs du Mal, Camus' L'Etranger, everything Ginsberg, Sartre's La Nausee, Hesse's Siddhartha, everything Artaud, Plath's The Bell Jar, everything Lorca, Neruda's Residencia en la Terra, Cesaire's Une Tempete & Cahier d'un retour au pays natal, Wilde, Genet's Thief's Journal, Lautreamont's Les Chants de Maldoror, Celine's Death On the Installment Plan, everything Sedaris, everything Burroughs, everything Kafka, Nan Goldin's Ballad of Sexual Dependency, everything Mapplethorpe, Gide's Lafcadio's Adventures & Les Faux-Monnayeurs, Cocteau's Thomas L'Imposteur, Paz's The Labyrinth of Solitude, Menchu's I Rigoberta Menchu A Woman of Guatemala, Yeats, Carlos Fuentes' The Orange Tree, Pasolini's Roman Poems, Rilke's Das Buch der Bilder, Patti Smith's The Coral Sea, Goethe's Sorrows of Young Werther, Kerouac's Satori in Paris, Camille Paglia's Sexual Personae, Rita Mae Brown's Rubyfruit Jungle

Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Billy Eliot, Moulin Rouge, Kandahar, Y Tu Mama Tambien, Nosferatu, Wilde, Caligula, Philadelphia, anything by John Waters, Amelie and Happestance (really anything with Audrey Tautou), Bergman, Almodovar, Wings of Desire, Ghosts of Versailles, A Streetcar Named Desire, Cat On a Hot Tin Roof, Reds, Magnolia, Fargo, Stalingrad, Salvador

Edith Piaf, Elvis Costello, Patti Smith, Bob Dylan, Tom Waits, Billy Bragg, Jello Biafra, Crass, Puccini, Rachmaninoff, Stravinsky, Tchaikovsky, Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton, Aardvark Zucchini, Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey, Boukman Experyans, Nina Simone, Josephine Baker, Giordano, Bizet, Soviet Army Marching Band, The Specials, David Bowie, Lou Reed, Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Violent Femmes, Leonard Cohen, Catalini, Marlene Dietrich showtunes, various forms taken by 80s trash pop

This category is useless, so i'll just count my list of favorite artists as a silent rebellion: Mapplethorpe, Brancusi, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Agtet, Otto Dix, Cindy Sherman, Tony Schermann, Kirschner, Hannah Hoch, Winston Smith, Clementine Hunter, Walter Anderson, Francis Pavy, Lautrec, Mucha, Lord Leighton, Michalapoulous, Ansel Adams, Nan Goldin, Nadar, Joel-Peter Witkin, Picasso, Cezanne, Bernini, Chagall, Degas, Louise Bourgeois, Modigliani, Van Gogh, Herb Ritts, Yves Tanguy, Frida Kahloe, Dali, whoever did those fabulous pompeii frescoes

I enjoy chainsmoking and talking shit with friends over coffee, driving around the US with Canadians, cavorting with the rich and famous, sleazing my way around berlin, skipping over landmines in bosnia, avoiding cutthroats in tangiers, and walking around manhattan with out of control homosexuals. I skip drunkenly through deserted streets and i tango in the aisles of crowed trains. I'm a silly culture queen and escape artist (poof!). I giggle. A lot.

I abandoned new orleans a couple of months before everybody else did, which i suppose makes me a trend-setter... but now that it's a part of the New Gulf - Atlantis Reality, i'll have to look for other epicenters of vice and scandal or else create scandals through my own vices. Deviance in Sudan, anyone?

Well, obviously the following:

Any radical po-mo muthas out there with alter-egos, schizophrenic vagabonds, fag hags distributing free martinis, anyone involved in a high-profile scandal, canadians with a few fudgee-os to spare, storyville madams, trashy divas, people who giggle, people who want to be famous, people with batmobiles, circus runaways, the Adoratskys, people dirty with paris, polyglot streetkids, roamers, ukrainian dancers, midgets, roadies, weave technicians.

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