Website: http://www.iamelliptical.com
Occupation(s): English Teacher / artist
Hobbies: photography, video, gallery hopping, fine dining,philosophy, reading books,music and sound-art, cinema, and aimless long-distance walking in urban spaces.
Interests: bodies, faces, intensity, nostalgia, clever word-play
Music: Dj/Rupture, Tricky, My Bloody Valentine, M.I.A., Kid 606, Go Home Productions, Broadcastatic,Christian Fennesz,ENE, LCD Soundsystem, Public Enemy, early P.I.L., Sebedoh, Velvet Underground, Can, ODB, Jeff Buckley, Throbbing Gristle, Underworld, Weezer,Xiu XiuDigiki, Ice Cube,Supercar,Ramones .
Films (Non-Medicine): Holy Mountain, Tape,San Soleil, The Graduate, anything by Godard, Amateurs, Nadja, Bladerunner, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, David Holzman's Diary, The Garden (by Derek Jarman), In the Realm of the Senses,Tetsuo Iron Fist, Fight Club,Heathers,Waking Life,Sex , Lies, and Video Tape, Farewell my Concubine, The Eye, In the Mood for Love, Fallen Angels, Chung King Express.
Books: Anything by Deleuze or Blanchot.criticism by Susan Sontag. Dennis Cooper, Wind-up Bird Chronicles by Murakami, Nietzsche,David Toop's Ocean of Sound and Haunted Weather.Simon Reynolds' Blissed Out. Jeannette Winterson's Written on the Body.
Artists: John Cage, Duchamp, Man Ray, Richard Prince, Pipolotti Riist, Gabriel Orozco, Paul McCarthy, Doug Aitken, Shirley Tse, Bruce Nauman, Vito Acconci, Tibor Kalmans.
Heroes: John Cage, Nietzsche, James Joyce, Tommy Birchett and Ben Owen.
Enemies: The current political administration in the U.S.. Apathy.
Dreams: Art Stardom. Teaching in a University.
