I love live music, I make art, I'm a good photographer and sometimes a good writer. I roam strange places late at night when I'm in the mood. I ride bikes, skate, ski, and boat, hike, climb, and backpack, drive too fast, 15+ years of yoga , I drink good beer, eat everything except dolmathes. I prefer vintage to retro, analogue to digital, fake to faux. Except for Anasonic, who is Faux Real. I am not a racist, homophobe, or a republican. I have a chocolate tooth not a sweet tooth, and I am uncaffeinated. I can ride my bike for hours at a time in levi's and avoid logo-infested clothing. I love western/cowboy kitsch. I'll read the phonebook if I can't find anything else, and I spend a good 45 minutes with the Rocky every morning. Comics first. As for that good beer, I drink less in two months than many people drink on a Saturday night. And even though I'm 90 % vegetarian, I'll snarf fifty bucks worth of sushi and saki any time. I like my buffalo hot and bloody, my tuna raw and icy cold.
I have friends from all walks of life, all ages, and many parts of the world. I don't buy into trends much and have my own style and my own ways of getting stuff done. I could live happily anywhere, isolated in a hut in the mountains or desert, bumming around third world countries, or stuffed into a studio apartment in a big city, as long as I have a place to do my art.
I drive a practical car but I have a soft spot for trucks, old trucks, and other vintage vehicles, especially but not limited to those from Detroit. I really want that black 67/68 convertible Camaro. With stripes, please. One of these days I'm gonna get that project car going, and I know how to do lots of the work myself. I also like Schwinn bicycles and the people who work on them, people that like to dance, tattoos and people who have them and make them, and things that go bump in the night. I have a small collection of unusual things that glow in the dark, some choice Art Deco items, and a six-inch, blue glass cockroach. Hair dye, I love hair dye too. Which can lead to greasy black hair, or two tone red.
Music
I just inherited 300 plus blues, jazz and old country cds, so that's what's going on right now, but my shelves include everything from Beasties, Buzzcocks and Blasters, Blondie, Jeff Beck and Beck Hansen, Bowie, Cake, Cheap Trick, The Cramps, The Dickies and The Damned, Elvises, Frank Sinatra and Frank Zappa, Garbage, Hole, Iggy, Link Wray, Lou Reed, Long Beach Dub All-Stars, lots of local bands, Misfits, Sex Pistols, Sublime, Southern Culture on the Skids, Pixies, Poe, and Portishead, P-Furs and P-Funk, Smiths, Sixteen Horsepower, Tom Waits, Tones on Tail, Velvet Underground, White Stripes, X, Dread Zep and Led Zep and pretty much some of everything in between, beyond, and before. I'd like more jazz, more rap, and more Louis Armstrong, and I don't have any Louis Jordan, so hook me up!
Movies
Yup. I watch 'em. I prefer things that make me think, documentaries, indies, historical dramas, stuff like that. Hollywood does come up with a good flick now and then, but they continue to prove they have very little imagination left.
"Good Night, and Good Luck" should be on everyone's "must see" list, as it is so pertinent to everything going on now with censorship and privacy violation. "Something about Mary" was NOT a good movie.
Television
CSI shows? I just can't care. They always solve the crime. House ALWAYS figures out the obscure disease. Like my movies, I prefer stuff that makes me think, and an ending I can't see coming before I even turn the tv on. I never, ever watch any form of ball sports, but I do appreciate athleticism and skill- racing of all sorts, skating, climbing, stuff like that. Although I'd rather do it than watch it on teevee.
Books
I have a thousand of them. I've read, hmm, six thousand? Well I am of a certain age, after all, so maybe that is a low estimate. I just finished reading lots of things on art, pop culture, and pop art as I finished up my thesis paper for my MH. Pop art gets a lot of negative criticism- but that's a sign that people take it seriously, and I like that. Proves that it should be taken seriously, and I want my fifteen minutes, damnit.
Heroes
and role models: R.I.P.: My brother Dave, Katlyn Baker, Rex Beauchamp, Joe Heidler, Marc Moskowitz. And my kitty Wicca. Love you and miss you all so much, every day. Mother Teresa. Dr. Seuss. Others: Astronauts, Doctors Without Borders, physicists, solitary travelers. Anyone who has a job she or he loves, bonus if you can live off it.
Fine-art fotos for all your needs. Archaic, antique processes to the latest in digital. Portraiture, head shots, promo pics, album covers/art. I'll go where you need me to, and beyond!
About me: UltraDawn's PACT: Pre-apocalyptic Continental Tour 2009. I am prepping to ride my bike across the country, mostly on the American Discovery Trail, and the Western Express, California to Delaware, that's right, sea to shining sea. Check out the routes at www.discoverytrail.org and adventurecycling.org.
This is a self-supported tour to mark my 50th anniversary. Anyone is welcome to share any part of the ride, but you're on your own for gear etc.
I'm gonna take my time on the tour; I like to go fast but I do not like to hurry. I have to do it in two stages as I can only take 3 months off a year, and besides, I don't wanna be doing hard riding in the midwest in the winter. If I run out of money due to unforeseen expenses, I'll be home sooner.
I am new to bike touring, so if you have any hints or tips please pass them along. If you know anybody along the way that might put me up for a night, that would be awesome as campgrounds do get old.
The biggest challenge and obstacle is financial- jobs that let one take months off work don't pay very well. I have not sought corporate sponsorship, although I am having a fundraiser raffle at my job. At this point, I'm still not close to meeting my expenses. If you're feeling kind and generous, you may send a donation to: UltraDawn, P. O. Box 973, Denver, Co, 80201. Leave the "Pay to the order of" line blank unless you know my public name. Even a dollar helps. If by chance I have money left after expenses, I'll donate it to the Derailer Bicycle Collective. Yes, I spelled that right. I'll send you an original piece of bicycle-centric art for your trouble!
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In case you're new to my myspace:
I went to college, but most of my smarts come from the school of hard knocks. A blue collar gal with a good education, this administration's worst nightmare. I am hardly ever scared. I don't do windows- I've been an Apple girl since the Mac Plus. Bicycle, not motorcycle, most of the time, currently not nearly enough miles a week- I am a whiny baby when it's less than 25 degrees. Twilight is my favorite time to be outdoors, and I would much rather be out than in, almost all the time. I love a good road trip but hate to drive unless it's more than 20 miles. The more I know about life, the more I like my bicycle. 1000 books. A rubber living room floor. Darkroom, not digital.My artwork hangs in private collections on three continents, and I've been to them, too. I like to eat ice cream when it's 14 below zero outside. Dove Give In To Mint has crack in it.
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Sanuk!
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~P.s. Unless you send me a message, I will not accept your offer of friendship. I will not friend you if you don't send me a message! If you wanna be my friend- please be sincere.
Other than some of the bands, 95% of my friends on here are my friends in real life too. I love to make new friends, though, so if you want me to add you, please send me a message.
i like this. it reminds me of Phoebe's work, a little bit. Of course Phoebe's is better because some of it lives in my house and is personal to me.
Who I'd like to meet: Anyone who cannot describe anything related to his or her life with the word "average".
I'm also really into people who know the difference between too, two, and to.
I'd also love to meet cyclists in the downtown- cap hill- congress park etc. neighborhoods of Denver that like to ride for the sake of riding. Anyone I can call and say "hey, it is a gorgeous evening, I need to ride, want to ride?" Anyone who knows that gorgeous can be anything from 40 degrees and raining to 30 degrees and a light snow to just needing to feel the air and move the body on the wheels. Get in touch and let's ride.
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As for new friends, I like creative, calmly energetic, intelligent people who are passionate about living. I am especially attracted to those who appreciate a unique aesthetic sense and have shy smiles. Your appearance isn't as important as how you feel about the way the world appears to you, and you have your own style. I try to avoid self-destructive behaviours and gravitate to those who are self-creative. You are also interested in being healthy and fit so you can be an active old fart. If you strive to be your own person with your own rhythm and are trying to know who you are, I'd love to talk to you. If you like the kind of conversation that lasts for hours and veers wildly from one topic to the next, I'd like to meet you and hear what you have to say. I would also like to meet anyone who has a clue.
Cadavre Exquise
This is the place where I will muse from time to time on getting creative and the processes of artistic growth. The title of this space is from the parlour game known in English as The Exquisite Corpse, a dada exercise in which one person writes a line of poetry, folds over the paper so only part can be seen, then passes it to the next person to be continued. Alternately, one person begins a drawing at the top of the page...
I ride to ride, not to get from A to B, although that is sometimes a side effect. It's one more form of self-expresion for me. I'd be a bike punk, but that seems to be for the younger cyclists. I have my own style and my elderly knees don't appreciate the fixie though my aesthetic loves the purity...
Sanuk!
HEY! You're doing yoga?? I just got back into it and am doing it a few times a week at Samadhi. We should go to wash park and ride and then do some yogurt!! For Real!(not faux).
I am pretty sure I am right on time... For what, you ask??? Well, I am pretty sure you know, and if not, I guess I will have to go back to wandering around aimlessly... Don't make me do that, I really don't like doing that one bit, but if I have to, I will...
