Katie

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Gender Female
Industry Arts
Occupation Painter & Student
Location Middle of Nowhere, United States
Introduction I am a painter. I like to use the color red the most. I am obsessed with the music and culture of the 1960's. I love playing old LPs in my room, singing REALLY loud when i drive, and looking at the stars really late at night......
Interests I love reading til my eyes burn, i love looking at the stars anytime anywhere (especially in the summer on the back of a trampoline), i love singing REALLY loud while i drive, and i love painting til the wee hours of the morning. I love art. Favorites I can think of on the spot: Frida Kahlo, Robert Rauschenberg, Kathe Kollwitz, Dale Chihuly, N. C. Wyeth, Andrew Wyeth, Jackson Pollock, Lee Krasner, Edvard Munch, Matisse, Blue-period Picasso, Some Warhol, John Schueler, Some Basquiat, Georgia O'keeffe, Edward Hopper, Gustav Klimt, Edgar Degas, Edouard Manet, Ralph Steadman, Salvador Dali, Rene Magritte, Auguste Renoir, so so many.......
Favorite Movies Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas, Corrina Corrina, Moonlight Mile, Braveheart, Lady in the Water, Across the Universe, Pan's Labyrinth, Fight Club, The Big Lebowski, Stand By Me, Little Miss Sunshine, Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Moulin Rouge, Wristcutters, When Harry Met Sally, Saved!, Almost Famous, The Last Waltz, Bridges of Madison County, Billy Elliot, Pride & Prejudice, UP, Planet Earth. i currently am in love with Milk, it makes me want to help start a revolution.
Favorite Music Music is a staple in my life. Music that I could not live without: Counting Crows, Ryan Adams & The Cardinals, Billy Joel, Alexi Murdoch, Death Cab For Cutie, Van Morrison, The Cure, John Butler Trio, The Shins, The Wristcutters Soundtrack, Bad Religion, The Jam, Elton John, The Breeders, The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Muddy Waters....blues is badass, The Beatles, Peter Gabriel, Sam Cooke, Ray Lamontagne, Del Shannon, Damien Rice, U2 (Contrary to popular belief - WAR is the best album, not The Joshua Tree. So there.), Jim Croce, The Black Keys, Big Brother & The Holding Company (Janis Joplin), Aretha Franklin, T-Rex (Marc Bolan is foxy), The Black Keys, Modest Mouse, The National, The Moonlight Mile Soundtrack, Robert Johnson, Journey, Sam Phillips, Drive-by Truckers, Tom Waits, Tonic (Emerson Hart's voice is good therapy), Bob Dylan, Jakob Dylan (with and without the wallflowers), .........much much more........
Favorite Books anything by C.S. Lewis, The Everyboy by Dana Adam Shapiro, The Message Remix Bible, Velvet Elvis by Rob Bell, ANYthing Jane Austen, Charles Frazier, Public Enemies: America's greatest crime wave by Bryan Burrough, Truman Capote, Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Allen Ginsberg Poetry, ANYthing Hunter S. Thompson, and yeah once again i could go on forever...................