Website: http://www.crookedletter.com

Occupation(s): Art Freak/Diva/Jill of All Trades

Hobbies: Reading. People watching. Conversation. Dancing. Art making. Porch sitting. Lollygagging. See list of interests below.

Interests: Ah, fuck it, here's my list from my livejournal profile page: absurdism, anne boggart, anthropology, art, autobiographical narratives, avant garde, bagels, ballroom dancing, banter, bicycles, biking, bitches, books, camp, children's folklore, collarbones, comedy, conversation, conversion narratives, costumes, curmudgeons, dance, dancing, deja vu, depression, dialogue, diamanda galas, dias de muertos, diners, directing, dorothy parker, drag kings, drag queens, eavesdropping, edith head, ella fitzgerald, emily dickinson, erotica, experimental film, experimental video, exuberance, fairy tales, fantasies, fantasy, feminism, film, flaws, flipcharts, foibles, folk tales, fountain pens, fundraising, gender bending, group dynamics, group process, hats, high tea, history, hospitality, hyperbole, intellectual omnivores, interviewing people, interviews, irony, jane austen, laughter, laurie anderson, learning, leonard cohen, letter writing, libraries, listening, loners, louise brooks, lydia lunch, mae west, malingering, manners, meandering, mirrors, musicals, myths, necks, nightmares, nina simone, north central florida, oak trees, obesity, observing, obsessions, patrick califa, performance art, performing, photography, porn, prince, puns, radio plays, reading, religion, repartee, sass, satire, science fiction, self help, sex, shaking that ass, simple pleasures, sincerity, singing, skeletons, smut, solitude, songs, southerness, spanish moss, speaking, surrealism, susie bright, sweet tea, tableaux, talking, tallulah bankhead, teaching, tempests, the algonquin round table, the rhetoric of capitalism, the tempest, the vicious circle, the wee hours, theater, theatre, theory, thinking, thunderstorms, tragedy, traveling, video, viragos, wandering, watching, wigs, wit, women science fiction authors, woolgathering, word play, words, writing, yiddishkeit.

Music: All over the map: bluegrass, opera, electronic, folk, blues, rock, choral, classical, jazz, country, experimental, lyrical, lush, atonal. I like things from pretty much every style of music I've ever heard, and I dislike things from those genres as well. Lately I've been into: Etta James, Leonard Cohen, Shoskovitch, Yiddish Radio Project, The Long Road to Freedom, Blondie, classic Country, The Lyre of Orpheus, Bill Withers, Jimmy Scott, Casandra Wilson, Missy Elliot. That said, I spend a lot of time not playing music. I like listening to the sounds of the world around me.

Films (Non-Medicine): Everything I've ever seen by Maya Deren. Carolee Schneeman's Fuses, Derek Jarman's version of The Tempest. Sally Potter's The Tango Lesson. Stuff by Peter Greenaway even though he is pretenious as all get out. Caberet. (Pretty much anything with Bob Fosse choreography). A Star is Born (with Judy Garland). Shall We Dance? (The original Japanese movie- not the crappy hollywood remake). Strickly Ballroom. Mansfield Park. Spirited Away. Dancer in the Dark (despite the maudlin, mother sacrificing all for child ending). Musicals. Weird docs and experimental films- especially when made by my friends. I also don't mind to going to see trashy hollywood pics now and again.

Books: I love books, and I'm an intellectual omnivore so I read all sorts of things from pulp to theory. (I'm going to do this by categories). Classics: Pride and Prejudice (as much for the family dynamics as the banter filled love story). Feminist: Angry Women (came at a critical place in my life and impowered me to become the perforamcne freak I am today). Plays, Modern: The Universal Wolf, Going Going Gone (Anne Bogart created with her performers), Rosencranz and Guildenstern are Dead, Blanco Y Negro. Plays, Classics: A Midsummer's Nights Dream, The Tempest (all time favorite). Trashy, escapist fiction of choice: fantasy. Essays: Joan Didion and Hunter S. Thompson. Spiritual: Lovingkindness by Sharon Salzberg & Pronoia by Rob Bresny. Psychology: Going to Pieces Without Falling Apart. About Depression: Where the Roots Reach Down to Water and Noonday Demon. Self-help: How We Choose to Be Happy. Poets: Sylvia Plath, Sonia Sanchez, Pablo Neruda (there are others but names are escaping me. Sex Intellectual: Public Sex by Pat Califa. Sex Filthy: Bondage Fairies (absolutely nasty). Sex How To: The Ethical Slut, The New Bottoming Book & The Good Vibrations Guide to Sex. (These things change, but these are pieces I've either liked forever or keep going back to.)

Artists: Diamanda Galas, Laurie Anderson, Maya Deren, Jane Austen, Emily Dickinson, Derek Jarman, Anne Bogart, Peter Greenaway (despite the fact that he's pretentious as all get out), Sonya Sanchez, etc and so forth.

Dreams: And here I will be earnest: To make art, to love well, to treat people kindly, to enjoy as many moments in my life as fucking possible. Oh, and I want to launch an empire, sort of of.