List : Top Ten All For Lisa in Portland

i have a new penpal and we started this exchange by chance, some things just feel right and this is one of those things that feels just right. these kind of conversations are impossible to plan as each turn of the corner you learn something new. i should really make her a cassette tape mixtape today but its really sunny again and i want to take advantage of it while its good weather so i'll just do a little typing then shoot off out again. so here we go. . .

1. Bicycles, Generally.... all kinds . ones with one wheel ones with two girls on bikes, couriers bikes, i like them all ! it is fitting that i have a portland bicycle photograph to illustrate number one !













2. Alela Diane (from portland i think? fantastic music) actually i'd like to extend this one too ALL GIRLS WHO LIVE IN PORTLAND although that is quite a lot of people if you look at portland as part of the world then its not very many people at all and there is something special about portland i cant quite put my finger on it right now but there is definitely something in the air in that town, something in the air that i really love!

















3. Kurt Schwitters Kurt Schwitters


















4. Words In Lists . Poems made from thoughts and things.

i could probably simplify that one to just words or even just letters as i like letters and words equally and i like patterns in words on a page like Guillaume Apollinaire's Calligrammes






5. Tiny little things like little cds that still play, tiny memory cards: these things impress me a great deal!












6. my camera that i take everywhere .







7. PVA Glue (preferably high quality PH neutral)













8. Collections . . Generally . A3 posters, coins, ART , Paper , VHS videos , records , Stereo Photographs , i could go on !








9. Pies (english delicacy) So so wrong but so good these always make my mum feel sick because she used to work in the factory when she was younger.

10. Projects . this is the one thing that keeps me rolling towards something . i'm not sure what it is at the moment but my "projects" give me something to aim for and often help me



here is Lisa's list of ten things in general that she loves...(in no particular order), perfect .

1. stuff from the 1930s.
2. maria bamford (she's a comedian.)
3. sonic youth.
4. the walkmen. the band and the listening device.
5. mix tapes.
6. my underwood typewriter that was made in 1920.
7. ray's ragtime (a vintage store here where I have gone so much the employees joyfully embrace me when I enter the store)
8. movies involving Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers
9. right now...soup.
10. going to shows. seeing bands. I saw broadcast when they were here recently. I got out of a store meeting to see them.