About Me
Cindy Emch is a pop culture nerd, blog addict and highway poet.
Cindy's work has been been published in the LodeStar Quarterly, There Journal, Tough Girls 2: More Down and Dirty **** Erotica edited by Lori Selke, It's So You: 35 Women on Fashion, Beauty and Personal Style edited by Michelle Tea, and numerous chapbooks. She co-hosted the Aunty Cindy and Unka Lynnee show with Lynn Breedlove on Pirate Cat Radio from 2004 to 2007, and has been a curator for the National ***** Arts Festival since 1995. Emch is the founder and co-host of San Francisco's twice-a-month ***** Open Mic, which is a central resource and performance space for the ***** literary scene.
Occupation
Poet, Performer, Curator, Surly Media Nerd
Favorite Music
Patti Smith, Yankee Sheila, Charles Mingus, Dean Martin, Janet Klein, Robert Mitchum, Gossip, Josephine Baker, Bellmer Dolls, Grinderman, Detroit CObras, Jason Webley, wally pleasant, moore brothers, Mr. Bungle, Hole, Suede, tribe 8, dresden dolls, gswing, Missy Elliot, Pink, Le Tigre, Spearhead, Concrete Blonde, John Zorn, Lounge Lizards, Tom Waits, Dinah Washington, Etta James, Screamin Jay Hawkins, Betty Blowtorch, Subincision, Diamanda Galas, Pansy Division, Faith No More, Chuck E. Weiss, Bikini Kill, PJ Harvey, Devotchka, Jolie Holland, Mildred Bailey, Janice Joplin, Ink Spots, White Stripes, *****, Victoria Williams, Rufus Wainright, The London Suede, Marlene Dietrich, Josephine Baker, speakeasy tunes, old weird 20's soundtracks and circus music
Favorite Shows & Movies
Out of the Past, or really anything to do with Robert Mitchum, Pandora's Box, Mulholland Drive, Coffee &; Cigarettes, From Morn to Midnight, Moulin Rouge, Robin &; the Seven Hoods, On the Town, Heroic Trio, Down By Law, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Mariachi Trilogy, Eating Out, Vertigo, Lost Highway, It, Scarface (the 30's one), The Blue Angel, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Reservoir Dogs, The Killer, Illuminata, Malcolm X, Ma Vie En Rose, He Got Game, Clockers, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Freaks, Romeo is Bleeding, Freeway, Henry &; June, Forbidden Zone, The Crow, Cry Baby, Relax It's Just Sex (mainly for Susan Tyrell), Blue, Red, La Double Vie de Veronique, Pillow Book, Fire Walk with Me, America's Next Top Model, twin peaks, millenium, ugly betty, grey anatomy
Favorite Books
Scrambled Eggs &; Whiskey - Hayden Carruth,Letters to a Young Poet -Rilke, Rose -Li Young Lee, Zami, a new spelling of my name -Audre Lorde, Good Poems -Garrison Keillor, Macho Sluts - Pat Califia, Why Things Burn - Daphne Gottlieb, Godspeed - Lynn Breedlove, and work by and not limited to: Lauren Wheeler, Meliza Banales, Michelle Tea, Charlie Anders, Ryka Aoki de la Cruz, Thea Hillman, Bucky Sinister, Edna Millon, Cooper Lee and more more more
Relationship Status
Married
Interests
staring at skylines, climbing up rocky hills, drinking too much coffee, writing, reading, listening to journey on the 101, baking bread, yelling, dancing like a crazy, pomes, crocheting, humming old vaudevillian songs while thinking of my moms accordion, walking in the woods, swimming in lakes, walking along the mississippi in new orleans, catching the words of dreams as they float by, 1920's, activism, americana, beautiful losers, beauty in the tragic, betty blowtorch, billy holiday, charles mingus, clara bow, concrete blonde, cuddling, day dreaming, dean martin, detroit, detroit motor city, dinah washington, down by law, eating out, exploring musical landscapes, fabulous disaster, fantomas, flappers, from morn to midnight, gardening, gentlemen prefer blondes, good poems -garrison keillor, gossip, heroic trio, hole, it, janet klein, jazz, john zorn, josephine baker, le tigre, lost highway, louise brooks, lounge lizards, mariachi trilogy, math rock!, michigan, mildred bailey, missy elliot, moore brothers, moulin rouge, mr. bungle, mulholland drive, muscle cards, mythology of baseball, northern state, on the town, pageantry of catholicism, pandora's box, patti smith, pink, poetry, pop culture, profane vs sacred, reading on the grass, revolution, robert mitchum, rose -li young lee, scarface (the 30's one), secondary high, smashing the state, spearhead, subincision, suede, swimming, theda bara, tom waits, ty cobb, upper penninsula, urban landscapes, vertigo, walking in parks, wally pleasant, writing, zami
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