today's playlist.

i hurt you - pretenders
when your minds made up - glen harsgard & marketa irglova
personal jesus - depeche mode
she just wants to be - REM
razor - foo
the violence of truth - the the
don't fade away - DCD
colder - throwing muses
helter skelter - U2's version
low - foo
the purest blue - love and rockets
big sky - kate bush
faith - violent femmes
unsung - helmet
cure for pain - morphine

God, the universe and Dad

I trust that God, the universe and Dad will help guide me to the best place.

My Sweet Valentine

6 words

a friend forwarded this the other day - what would yours be?

mine (today):
photographer for sale - is nice too.

http://www.smithmag.net/sixwords/

Summing It Up (in Six Words)
By Jennifer 8. Lee
For sale: terse memoirs. This week.

The New York-based, online Smith magazine is releasing a collection of six-word memoirs called “Not Quite What I Was Planning: Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous and Obscure” (Harper Collins, 2008). The project was inspired, in part, by the legend of Ernest Hemingway responding to a challenge of a six-word story with “For sale: baby shoes, never worn.”

Ordinary Americans’ memoirs are published alongside Stephen Colbert, Richard Ford, Aimee Mann, Dave Eggers and other luminaries. There is a certain beauty in terseness, which is also seen in the five-word acceptance speeches at the Webby Awards. (Our favorite is still Al Gore’s “Please don’t recount this vote” from 2005, which brought down the house).

Smith magazine (which shares the name of one of its co-founders, Larry Smith) began in 2006 to celebrate personal narrative, both large and small (and apparently, very small). The book, which was co-edited by Rachel Ferschleiser, started with an online submission form, but grew to solicited contributions from notable New Yorkers.

Some of the highlights:
· Canada freezing. Gotham beckons. Hello, Si! — Graydon Carter
· Secret to life: marry an Italian. — Nora Ephron
· Brought it to a boil, often. — Mario Batali
· Nobody cared, then they did. Why? — Chuck Klosterman
· Eight thousand orgasms. Only one baby. — Neal Pollack
· I asked. They answered. I wrote. — Sebastian Junger
· Dad died, mom crazy, me, too. — Moby
· Eat mutate aura amateur auteur true. — Jonathan Lethem
· Fifteen years since last professional haircut. — Dave Eggers
· Born bald. Grew hair. Bald again. — A. J. Jacobs
· Well, I thought it was funny. — Stephen Colbert
· Relatively famous parents, very low self-esteem. — Molly Jong-Fast
· Fearlessness is the mother of reinvention. — Arianna Huffington
· Eat drink man man man man. — Michael Musto
· Mom, Dad. Daphne, Owen. Who’s next? — Sean Wilsey
· Gave commencement address, became sex columnist. — Amy Sohn
· I write because I can’t sleep. — Ben Mezrich
· Started small, grew, peaked, shrunk, vanished. — George Saunders


My new crushes: Snoop Dogg and Dave Grohl
My new fav tv show's: Celebreality and Breaking Bad

dear diary,

dear diary, the last year has changed my life significantly - and i love it. i wish this change in me came before, but it didn't - and that's part of the lesson. i've spent the last couple of decades trying to prove myself to others, trying to prove my worth, to prove that i'm the best person that i can be. The lesson here? i'm the only person i need to prove myself to. While this may be an obvious concept to my millions of my blog-fans, this is a new notion to me. I believe i knew it logically but not in my heart. Luckily my soul was tired of being kicked around and spoke up. There are so many somewhat macabre/decaying shots i've taken in my life that i am now realizing were self-portraits. Luckily, they were also beautiful. See above...

gotta go...A Knights' Tale is on.

Baby Loves Disco

Baby Loves Disco was a blast!! Hysterical! We highly recommend it! Bubble-machines, Chill-out room, organic juice boxes on the bar, snacks from Whole Foods, a goodie bag that included Baby-legs leggings(!) - so much fun!

movies that make me cry every time

Once
The Notebook
Beauty & the Beast (disney)
Shakespeare in Love
Princess Bride
Punch-drunk Love
Chocolat
Saving Silverman (not kidding)
Children of a Lesser God
Ever After
A Knight's Tale
Life Is Beautiful
The Fisher King
Serendipity
Miracle on 34th Street
It's a Wonderful Life

Playlist 02.06.08

Let it Die - Foo Fighters
Wise Up - Aimee Mann
Optimistic - Radiohead
Valentine - The Replacements
Blame - Soul Coughing
When You Die You're Dead - JCS
Bittersweet - Hoodoo Gurus
Keep on Runnin' - Journey
Dazzle - Siouxsie and the Banshees
Dreamer - Supertramp
A Sort of Homecoming - U2
Time the Avenger - The Pretenders
Another Boy Dorwning - The The
Freakshow - Ani


dvd worth watching - Waitress

today's playlist

Missing - Ministry
Sheeps go to Heaven - Cake
Real Love/Its only Life - Mike Doughty
Alex Chilton - Replacements
Green Eggs and Hamlet - Mary Prankster
40 'til 5 - Jarflys
Crush - Smashing Pumpkins
Dum Dum Girl - Talk Talk
GO! - Tones on Tail
Lie to Me - Depeche Mode
You Are My World - Communards
Radio Clash - Clash
Screw - The Cure

Current playlist

Stone In Love - Journey
Eighties - Killing Joke
Falling Slowly - Glen Hansgard & Marketa Irglova
Still - Foo Fighters
Amazing Grace - Ani DiFranco
Hell - Foo Fighters
All Those Yesterdays - Pearl Jam
Trip Throuh Your Wires - U2
Love Is An Unfamiliar Name - The Duke Dpirit
Stubborn Stitches - The Duke Spirit
My Hero - Foo
Do It Again - Kinks
Such Great Heights - The Postal Service
Samson - Regina Spektor
This Must Be the Place - Talking Heads
Truth Hits Everybody - Police

Call for participants

i'm currently working on a series (photography) about death. Basically, the scenario is that i interview people that have lost someone close to them. I ask them a series of questions about the person, experience, etc. and photograph them as they answer. The answers will be recorded so i can have quotes to go along with the images. So, i am looking for volunteers. The person who died needs to have been an extremely important figure in your life. If you are interested please contact me. momp@mompphotography.com Please pass this info along to anyone you think may be interested - the goal is many faceted - its about art, connecting, healing, being heard and tribute. All subjects will need to sign model release forms in order to participate. This protects both parties. Thanks!

more autobiography

10 favorite places i've traveled to (in no particular order):

1. Paris - easily my favorite place on earth.

2. Rome, Florence, Venice and parts of Tuscany. Stunning.

3. Greece - Athens and Mykonos - dreamy.

4. Bangkok - crazy.

5. San Francisco - tremendous city.

6. Athens, Savannah and Tybee, Georgia. Athens - wicked cool. Savannah - extremely peaceful and charming. Tybee beach - gorgeous.

7. Cinque Terre - Olive groves, lemon groves and the ocean. Oh my god.

8. St John's, USVI

9. NYC - of course.

10. Philadelphia

How lucky am i?!?!?!