High School: Crossroads - Santa Monica, CA
College: San Francisco Art Institute, Cal Arts and Boston Conservatory
Tagline: Stare. It is the way to educate your eye, and more. Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long. -Walker Evans
Favorite Bands:
Nine Inch Nails...anything Trent Reznor does, produces or touches, Gerald Collier, Concrete Blonde, Jeff Buckley, the pain in the ass that is Cisco and The Reasons Why, John Lee Hooker, Best Kisser in the world, CeDell Davis, The Cure, Damien Rice, RL burnside, Queen, Johnny Cash, Elvis Costello, Exene Cervenka, John Doe, Ryan Adams, X, AFI,T Model Ford, Bauhaus, Hole, Jellyfish , Sigur Ros, old school AC/DC, Clutch, HIM, The Toadies, Yo la tengo, Billie Holiday,Mahalia Jackson, Ella and Memphis Minnie...Catpower, David Bowie, the Black Halos, Blonde Redhead, Ministry, Hanoi Rocks, Muse, Bright Eyes, Maria McKee, Lone Justice, Autolux, Motley Crue, The Dresden Dolls, Dead Can Dance, Prick, Janes Addiction, The Cranes, Cocteau Twins, Sisters of Mercy, The Raconteurs, Peter Murphy, Skinny Puppy, Tom Waits, Tool, James Hall, Betty Blowtorch, Against Me, Tori Amos, Social Distortion, The Cult, Iggy Pop, The Clash, The Breeders, Pixies, Helmet, The Postal Service, Love and Rockets, Jesus and Marychain,Pink, Marvelous 3, Type O Neg, The Academy Is, Death Cab for Cutie , Starling, Pulp, The London Suede, Skip James,Mars Volta, Mercury Rev, Jason Falkner, and Bob Dylan.
Favorite Films:
Betty Blue - Manhattan - The Hairdressers Husband - Citizen Kane - Happiness - Love Song for Bobby Long (a must for anyone who loves New Orleans)- Devils Rejects - The Hunger - Edward Scissorhands - Taxi Driver - Permanent Midnight - Man bites Dog - Angel Heart - almost anything with Philip Seymour Hoffman including Love Liza - Big Fish - Reservoir Dogs - Annie Hall - Irreversible - A Streetcar Named Desire - Streets of Fire - Some like it hot - Sid & Nancy - Audition - Gummo - American History X. You get the picture I like odd foreign films and the movies most people find to be too depressing or just too weird.
Favorite Books:
I am a book FREAK...nothing better than a clawfoot tub and a book. If you don't like to read we will probably not get along. Love Is a Dog from Hell - Charles Bukowski A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, You Shall Know Our Velocity - Dave Eggers Hell's Angels - Hunter S. Thompson Tropic of Capricorn - Henry Miller The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things - J. T. Leroy Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America : A Memoir - Elizabeth Wurtzel Permanent Midnight - Jerry Stahl Liquor : A Novel - Poppy Z. Brite The Diary of a Teenage Girl - Phoebe Gloeckner American Psycho - Bret Easton Ellis The Liars Club - Mary Karr This Boy's Life: A Memoir - Tobias Wolff Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides The Devil Wears Prada - Lauren Weisberger A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole Cavedweller - Dorothy Allison The Coming Plague : Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance - Laurie Garrett Dry : A Memoir - Augusten Burroughs My Mother: Demonology - Kathy Acker Philosophy in the Bedroom - Marquise de Sade Story of the Eye - Georges Bataille Nausea - Jean-Paul Sartre
Favorite Artists:
Mary Ellen Mark, Sally Mann, Annie Leibovitz, Charles Bukowski, Helmut Newton, Hunter Thompson, Johnette Napolitano, Jack Spencer, Zorita, Jan Saudek, Chris Cunningham, Bill Viola, Ellen Von Unwerth and Pennie Smith...
5 Items I Can't Live Without:
Canon 20D and 1.4 50MM Coffee My dog Riley (Akita) My beloved husband my cellphone (sigh)
Body Type: slender
Sexual Orientation: bi
Ethnicity: white_caucasian
Relationship Status: engaged
Religion: other
Into:
???
Occupation:
Photographer
Philosophy:
“There is a time to stop reading, there is a time to STOP trying to WRITE, there is a time to kick the whole bloated sensation of ART out on its whore-ass.”
Makes Me Happy:
Lovely red wine, antiques, cooking up a storm for my friends and family, Autopsy on HBO, being a bit of a spaz, Motorcycle rides to the ocean in the middle of the night (it has been WAY too long), blood orange anything, having a ton of books and the time to read them, bubble baths by candlelight with said books preferably bukowski with a glass of wine at 3am, my Canon 20d, vintage christian dior, COFFEE (did I mention coffee?), concert photography (that does not suck), old crucifixes/rosaries and religious etchings, ..aries, dogs...epecially mine, old school Louisiana style gardens, interior decorating/flea markets, manolo blahnik's shoes, medical oddities and anything having to do with infectious disease (turns out my grand-uncle was the liason between the federal infectious disease department and the World Health Organization so go figure), my old motorcycle boots, my "girls"...you know who you are, New Orleans food, old houses and fixing them up, cymbidium orchids, reading about religions and interesting cultures, retail therapy, san francisco circa 1990's, obscenly expensive shoes, smoking too much, southern history, thunderstorms, snake handling and people who are not complete disasters.
Makes Me Sad:
suffering of the innocent, emotional and spiritual vampires, people who hurt animals and no good red wine in the house.
Gets Me Hot:
red wine my husband the new Mark III good art travel
Vices:
wine smokes couture shoes and clothing coffee
Current Crush:
my beloved
Most Humbling Moment:
shooting Black Sabbath...long story
Fantasy:
not worrying about money
Final Words:
“Some people never go crazy, What truly horrible lives they must live” - Bukowski
