Re: re: Identity

This follows a recent thread, how much of this stuff is essential to who I am? I made this list a few weeks ago

Interests

public radio
educational media, documentaries
discussions of truth in art, truthfulness as manipulation
found sound
found photography
ephemera
biking
aggressive images
guerrilla practices
intricate, outsider art practices
discussions of form
beat literature
French literature
American literature
American mythology, what it means to be an American
mythologies of the American west
country music (and the socio-cultural climate that bore it, similiar to previous listing)
explanations of the impulses behind emotional actions, or natural occurences
social criticism
location, home, place, Chicago
craft
knitting
sewing, embroidery
kite building
film
video
spaghetti westerns
collage
puppy belly
proper nomenclature
personal journaling
fringe culture
punk
noise
not giving a fuck/denying the system (including the gallery system)
un-design (i.e. NASA)
a comparison of personal and impersonal, imagined narratives
the news
mapping
charts, technical descriptions of everday things and processes
space
immediacy in art [African art, outsider art (to a certain degree), tribal sort of art]


Interests

public radio
educational media, documentaries
discussions of truth in art, truthfulness as manipulation
found sound
found photography
ephemera
biking
aggressive images
guerrilla practices
intricate, outsider art practices
discussions of form
beat literature
French literature
American literature
American mythology, what it means to be an American
mythologies of the American west
country music (and the socio-cultural climate that bore it, similar to previous listing)
explanations of the impulses behind emotional actions, or natural occurrences
social criticism
location, home, place, Chicago
craft
knitting
sewing, embroidery
kite building
film
video
spaghetti westerns
collage
puppy belly
proper nomenclature
personal journaling
fringe culture
punk
noise
not giving a fuck/denying the system (including the gallery system)
un-design (i.e. NASA)
a comparison of personal and impersonal, imagined narratives
the news
mapping
charts, technical descriptions of everday things and processes
space
immediacy in art [African art, outsider art (to a certain degree), tribal sort of art]


A list of movies I like:

Sorry, wrong number
81/2
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
The Seventh Seal
Wild Strawberries
A Woman Under the Influence
La Jette
The Virgin Spring
In the Very Eye of Night
Meshes of the Afternoon
Cut-ups
Mothlight
Window Water Baby Moving
Man with a Movie Camera
Streetwise
Aguirre, Wrath of God
Grizzly Man
The Saddest Music in the World
The River’s Edge
Harlan County, USA
The Last King of Scotland
Match Point

books:

The Stranger
The Plague
The Razor’s Edge
Mythologies
On The Road
A Question of Bruno
Feed
Ender’s Game
Cosmos
anything by Harry Stephen Keeler
anything by Agatha Christie
Utah Blain (by Louis L’amour)
H.P. Lovecraft Stories
Catcher in the Rye
As I Lay Dying