Charlotte Benedetto

"The true university is a collection of books"

Artist's Model

-Ism's in my opinion are not good. A person should not believe in an -ism, he should believe in himself. I quote John Lennon, 'I don't believe in The Beatles, I just believe in me.' Good point there. After all, he was the walrus.

Robot wives, very large houseplants, art stars, serious yoga, Burning Man, gentleman callers, good smelling things, violin, secret societies, mandolin, cults, NRM's, snuggly animals, science, clean water, free furniture, nerds, good and evil, baking, apocalyptic theory, penmanship, epistemology, painting, printmaking, art history, cosmology, folklore, the American West, Baroque design, catabolic and aerobic workouts, and the legal rights of nudes.

Abbey, Atwood, Auster, Ballard, Banks, Boyle, Bukowski, Celine, Dick, Doctorow, Eggers, Greganus, Hardy, Hawthorne, Hamsun, Heinlein, Melville, O'Connor, Pahlaniuk, Robbins, Ld. Russell, McKenna, McPhee, Thompson, Wolfe, art books with color plates, tiajuana bibles, The Great Gatsby, Catch 22, odd dictionaries, biblonyms, non-pulp true crime, old books with engravings and any first person, nonfiction primary source narrative about The Old West

Black Orpheus, We're All Devo, Barry Lyndon, Fantastic Planet, Some Like It Hot, The Wizard of Oz, old-timey porno flicks

birdsong, A Train, Sexy Sadie, little children singing aimlessly when they think they are alone, Once in a Lifetime, Orange Blossom Special, This Must Be The Place, the air raid sirens being tested at 1:10pm every Monday afternoon, Lion With A Shark's Head, 2000 Man, Take 5, Desolation Row, All the Things You Are, No Alarms, Wrecking Ball, Let's Move to the Country, True Dreams of Wichita, Home on the Range(Bing Crosby version), Electric Avenue, Happy Birthday, Ana'l Raqq, Sharp Cutting Wings, God is in the House(Nick Cave), Jingle Bells played on a car horn. Demo on any Casiotone keyboard turned up very very loud and left to play for hours.

The Simpsons. Arrested Development. Spanish language programming.

I enjoy pleasure and avoid pain. However I can endure pain to get to pleasure. Some day, my species will leave the earth with only coded memories of this planet. I hope to contribute my memories to that project.

Please come to my house if you need food. We have plenty and you can be fed. Let me also give you a shirt if you are cold. I have more shirts than I could ever need. Avail me to send you a box of books for you to read. I'm here to help.

"May my last breath be inhaled through a pipe and exhaled in a pun."

Cowboys, smarty pants', nudes, visionaries, grammarians, 5 foot 2 & eyes of blue, dead people (but also the un-dead), old hippies, courtesans, activists, office heifers, witches, gonzo journalists, tycoons, pop stars, misfits, the aware, politicos, yogis, philosophers, the hungry, freaks, burners, diplomats, intellectuals, the wild-eyed, punks, extra-terrestrials, little people, psychonauts, artists, queers, acid-casualties, acid-dealers, lovers, cats, Aspies, rabbits, Dr. Megavolt, teenagers from the Philippines, les etrangeres, orphans, secret admirers, kidney donors and paranoid conspiracy theorists. Una persona que necesita aprender ingles de un hablera nativa-- en excangar de instruccion en el mandolin.