I am sometimes an avatar of social chaos. Other times just an avenue of social connections. But all the time I am a huge lover of film, art, and the way that we as humans use cultural expression to connect to each other.

The sort of films I love are

Out of the Past, or really anything to do with Robert Mitchum, Pandora's Box, Mulholland Drive, Coffee &; Cigarettes, From Morn to Midnight, Moulin Rouge, Robin &; the Seven Hoods, On the Town, Heroic Trio, Down By Law, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Mariachi Trilogy, Eating Out, Vertigo, Lost Highway, It, Scarface (the 30's one), The Blue Angel, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Reservoir Dogs, The Killer, Illuminata, Malcolm X, Ma Vie En Rose, He Got Game, Clockers, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Freaks, Romeo is Bleeding, Freeway, Henry &; June, Forbidden Zone, The Crow, Cry Baby, Relax It's Just Sex (mainly for Susan Tyrell), Blue, Red, La Double Vie de Veronique, Pillow Book, Fire Walk with Me

My other interests are: staring at skylines, climbing up rocky hills, drinking too much coffee, writing, reading, listening to journey on the 101, baking bread, yelling, dancing like a crazy, pomes, crocheting, humming old vaudevillian songs while thinking of my moms accordion, walking in the woods, swimming in lakes, walking along the mississippi in new orleans, catching the words of dreams as they float by

In terms of music: Patti Smith, Yankee Sheila, Charles Mingus, Dean Martin, Janet Klein, Robert Mitchum, Gossip, Josephine Baker, subincision, wally pleasant, moore brothers, Mr. Bungle, Hole, Suede, tribe 8, dresden dolls, gswing, Missy Elliot, Pink, Le Tigre, Spearhead, Concrete Blonde, John Zorn, Lounge Lizards, Tom Waits, Dinah Washington, Etta James, Screamin Jay Hawkins, Betty Blowtorch, Subincision, Diamanda Galas, Pansy Division, Faith No More, Chuck E. Weiss, Bikini Kill, PJ Harvey, Devotchka, Jolie Holland, Mildred Bailey, Janice Joplin, Ink Spots, White Stripes, Bitch, Victoria Williams, Rufus Wainright, The London Suede, Marlene Dietrich, Josephine Baker, speakeasy tunes, old weird 20's soundtracks and circus music

In terms of literature: Scrambled Eggs &; Whiskey - Hayden Carruth,Letters to a Young Poet -Rilke, Rose -Li Young Lee, Zami, a new spelling of my name -Audre Lorde, Good Poems -Garrison Keillor, Macho Sluts - Pat Califia, Why Things Burn - Daphne Gottlieb, Godspeed - Lynn Breedlove, and work by and not limited to: Lauren Wheeler, Meliza Banales, Michelle Tea, Charlie Anders, Ryka Aoki de la Cruz, Thea Hillman, Bucky Sinister, Edna Millon, Cooper Lee and more more more