Male

I am the thinking man's Perez Hilton. No, wait, I'm the male Camille Paglia. No, I'm the female Courtney Love.

('Cause Courtney is really a drag queen. Kurt even said so!)

What the F am I?

OK, let's start with plain facts.

My name is Tony Longshanks LeTigre. I currently live in Portland, Oregon although I am leaving at the end of March '09 to stay on Maui for a while and help my cousin write his autobiography, which will hopefully become the next "Naked, by David Sedaris." I plan to work on my own novel and screenplay as well as paint while I'm there. San Francisco is next after Maui. There I intend to start an art collective called The Nightshade Family. There won't be any gender/sexual orientation/age criteria for membership, but I am interested in art that challenges, provokes, maybe even offends. I am a lifelong aficionado of horror movies and trash culture of the kind enshrined in the films of John Waters, and tend to be a contrarian and to go against the grain. I am happiest when working on four creative projects in four different mediums at the same time. Staying creative keeps me from going self-destructive.

If I can write a book half as magnificent as Finnegans Wake, or make a movie as beautiful as The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974), or paint an image as arresting and confrontational as some of Robert Mapplethorpe's photographs, then I will die a happy man.

I am currently contemplating the best way to approach hot English actor Ben Whishaw with an offer of gay marriage.

I tend to be pretty "socially aggressive" on here, so I may add you without the formality of asking first, it just means I looked at your profile or you posted something that I found interesting, the worst you can do is not add me back. Oh well!

I have a strong sense of being on an artistic mission of some sort and life no longer seems as infinite as it once did, so I need to get busy. I have published my own magazine, curated art shows, freelanced for several local papers and magazines, made short films, recorded experimental music and met famous and interesting people. I see myself going further in the direction of film and video work and possibly performance art as well. I want to meet people to make art and movies and music with. I don't bite, unless you really deserve to be bitten.

I don't use Tribe much these days. Look me up instead on my homepage blog, www.tonyletigre.com, or MySpace (www.myspace.com/anthonylockwood) or on Flickr (www.flickr.com/photos/glamrocktiger/)

aloha, mahalo


tony aka glamrocktiger