Dr. Lisa Gives A Sh*t

Chris Doucette started his comedy career by showing livestock at the 4H Club as a kid. I tell him that he seems really grounded for a comedian and we take it from there. By the way that photo is from when he works with Jane Lynch, not from the RFB studio. #comedy #art whttp://www.chrisdoucette.com/comedy/home/

Eric Doeringer talks about make lemonade from the lemons of moving his art studio which led to his Richard Prince/Rob Pruitt ebay auction art project. Sean Fader discusses what happened from being a stolen subject in Richard Prince's instagram project. http://ericdoeringer.com/ http://www.seanfader.com/ https://news.artnet.com/art-world/richard-prince-sucks-136358 #RichardPrince #EricDoeringer #ArtNet #PaddyJohnson #art #radio #gagosian

Carol Kino, a personal friend and major art writer ( NY Times, WSJ, USC Annenberg / Getty Arts Journalism Fellow, http://carolkino.com/) is in the house. Carol Kino bravely initiated a direct conversation discussing her feelings and experiences growing up with an accent that doesn't fit in and the complex background behind it. Carol adds "Yes! And I forgot to mention that I've often had people imitate my accent back to me: English when I'm in America and America when I'm in England. Talk about inhibiting! Once in my college dorm I threw a bowl of soup at a boy who did that! He never imitated my accent again . . . ."

David Kramer is a friend of mine and as far as I can see a successful, money making artist. David talks reality of what his life is like-(Great right now!) and we parse the ups and downs of a creative career. David told me after I soft-balled this interview with him but I'm not sure if it's countertranference or if I was just being uptight because I was nervous about a shoot the next day.

Mimi Hoops is one of a kind. She is herself to such a degree that compromising isn’t as much fun as doing all the amazing things she does! Yoga, improv, Hula Hooping. Mimi is most well known as the houla hooper of #TCGS The Chris Gethard Show. She's referred to as "kinetic wallpaper" because she hola-hoops the whole time in the background! It was her birthday-she is 62 only 3 years older than I am so we got to talk ab it about what it’s like being badass old ladies in the world of 20 and 30 something performers. http://thechrisgethardshow.com/about-the-show/

Jessica has made an exciting life for herself. All on her own. She has multiple talents-music and comedy. She started and runs NY Funny Songs Festival. http://www.nyfunnysongs.com Currently she has her own place, The Unicorn, where there’s music shows, classes and comedy. Jessica is married. We talked boys-she dated Kurt Metzger- and parents. A father she didn’t get to know till later in life. We exchanged presents and discussed how uptight it is not to open them. http://www.jessicadelfino.com https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessica_Delfino

Lauren Hennessy is a transgender man but in saying that it is SO simplifying our conversation. Hennessy helped me understand her particular brand of transgenderness in a way that I could really understand that I never have before. She's also charming and fun and sexy in a dude way. She's married to Keith and the Girl podcaster, Chemda Hennessy and works as comic Judy Gold's assistant . http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/09/23/transgender-man-medical-intervention_n_5869118.html

Matthew is from a family of brainiacs, his father is has been credited with helping create the field of molecular epidemiology, He makes very complex and beautiful work, mostly videos done with 3d modeling. In this chat, I came to understand that Matthew was dyslexic and instead of getting in his way, he used it as an asset. Also, he doesn’t have unrealistic expectations of what he can and can’t do. I too think I have some form of dyslexia and this conversation was healing for me. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Weinstein http://www.matthewweinstein.com/

Prince Harvey is famous for creating an entire album in the Apple Store. He’s 25 and lived in various situations but currently lives with his mom. He’s a totally cool moma’s boy. After that I had I conversation with artist, Karen Marston who had attended the screening of a documentary about me getting married to get her perspective and discuss the movie and how I felt about my wedding. http://www.avclub.com/article/rapper-prince-harvey-secretly-recorded-entire-albu-222103 http://karenmarston.com/w/

Born in Jerusleum and then lived in Russia with her Grandmother-then moved to Austin, Tx with her mom at age 5. She moved to New York at 18 to attend FIT. Julia has great stories about growing up with a ballsy mother who left Russia and earned several degrees in the U.S. Julia was inspired by listening to her mother's self-help tapes in the car. A family of driven ladies! Russia.http://www.juliasinelnikova.com

I found Amber Nelson to be a particularly kind, open personality. As a fan of her work it was great to hang. She's dealt with a lot of shit-her family was living in Saudi Arabia when she was born and quickly had to move back to the states when something heavy happened (listen to the show if you want to know!) Because of her experience in Saudi Arabia, she really valued education here which is the reason (I think) her life has turned out so well and she's not living in the sticks where she grew up. She's tough and can handle anything.

Dr. Lisa has a last minute guest cancellation - so she goes to the streets and finds Giani Onassis to psychoanalyze. Interesting fella! Has resolved some heavy anger issues from his childhood with a military man stepfather. Since Tom is around, Dr. Lisa takes the opportunity to let him know how her projection onto him has helped heal some of her authority figure issues.

Part group therapy, part a discussion about art, artist and gentrification, Dr. Lisa was thrilled that Hrag requested this follow up session so the whole group could go deeper. And thanks for the cupcakes Christopher!

Dr. Lisa hasn't met Ben previously, but manages to find out about his childhood and a crappy girlfriend experience.

We find out that artist and Assistant Chair at Pratt Digital Arts & Social Media, Carla Gannis' mom was a Cher impersonator. And artist Eric Doeringer, (represented by Katherine Mulherin Gallery), talks us through what it was like recreating On Kawara's life and work during the 3 month exhibition of On Kawara's work at the Guggenheim Museum

Dr. Lisa talks gentrification, artist, the concept of colonialism and finding out if everyone's comfortable with Hrag Vartanian of Hyperallergic, Christopher Stout of Bushwick Art Crit Group and gentrification activist, Anthony Rosado.

Dr. Lisa attempts to psychoanalyze comic artist and New York Times art critic, Ken Johnson through his work, Ball and Cone. Ken weighs in on the analysis.

Dr. Lisa Talks with Bushwick Daily founder/editor in chief, Katarina Hybernova. Dr. Lisa finds out how Katarina came from Slovakia and made all this amazing shit happen and get married to an amazing guy, Ken Kocses, an artist. We get to find out how some of Katarina's dating life before Ken.