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AE: You guys seem to lead very nomadic lives, though. Do you ever just long to have a stable piece of property somewhere?
DS: You know, a piece of property is right. I definitely feel like in the next two years, I hope to buy with friends a piece of property where we can live as a community and make art together. But I also know that with the work that I have done in my life and that I will be doing, that traveling will always be a part of it. So we've been lucky to have [our home here].… I haven't been here since May, but it's definitely our little nest, where we feel at home, and I know we'll make that anywhere we are. We also have a talent to make that wherever we are, even on the road. We're always cooking and making a home for our friends. I guess I never long for being in one place—I never have—but I long to have a place that we'll be able to come back to. But I guess I already have that, and I'd like for it to be more inclusive of other people.… Ideally it would be like everyone could stay in trailers or build a little shack on the land, you know.

AE: That sounds like an idyllic world!
DS: I just want my own kitchen, that's all. [Laughs.] I guess that's something that's so great about us being together: that we both are such nomads and we have been for several years. We have a lot in common, just around how we want to live in the world but also in the things we like to make. And she's such an inspiration. She's such a phenomenal artist and groundbreaking person in the world, and I feel like [she] has such heart in all the art she makes and has so much talent. I feel inspired by her every day.

AE: So I have to ask you: Do you know if you're going to be appearing in the next season of The L Word?
DS: I don't know that…. First, we don't know if the season will be picked up…for the next year. And then we find out; they go through their whole writing time, which is in that spring time, early spring; and then they write me in or they don't. So I don't know. We don't know for sure until springtime.

AE: So what are you working on now? Do you have any other films coming up besides what you're working on with Bitch?
DS: There are a few different projects. You know how films are…everything really is up in the air until it's like, “OK, we're doing it tomorrow” kind of thing. There are a few different projects which I'm working with. I have two different directors I'm working with on some ideas right now, and may or may not be filming something in the winter. I guess I'm just waiting to see, really, and I'm working on this thing with Bitch this winter when I'm done. I'm still not finished filming for The L Word, so I'm guess I'm waiting for that to be done to really dive in, but in December—I'll be done by the middle of December, and then I'll do my holiday thing. Bitch and I are definitely going to go visit her grandmother's [who's] 96. We're going to go over to England , that's where her grandma lives and my brother lives, and we'll probably go to the film festivals in February. John's movie will be premiering. We'll be doing stuff like that, and then working on the script.

AE: So you have a busy schedule for the next few months.
DS: Yeah, I do, and…just running any kind of business is a busy thing. But I'm happy to be back in my own little office, too. I have a little desk. My roommate and I and Bitch all share an office space and we all have our own desks and it's fun; sometimes we're all in there working on our stuff.

AE: That's cute.
DS: I know.

AE: Did you miss your dog? Did you have your dog with you in Vancouver?
DS: Oh yeah, he comes everywhere with us. I missed him when Bitch went on tour—she took him with her.… When we go to the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival every year [is] the only time usually that we put him away in a kennel.

AE: Were you there this year?
DS: Yeah. But I was shooting, so I couldn't come until Friday night and left on Monday afternoon, so it was short but sweet. But I knew I couldn't miss even a piece of it. So I missed Bitch's show, which was sad, because we had planned this whole thing…but you know, you can't do it all. I was filming—I can't remember what I was filming. [Laughs.]

AE: Well, thank you so much for your time; I really appreciate your being so open with me about everything.
DS: I'm really proud of [us] as a people—lesbians or queer people or whatever—and sometimes I think it's easy in this world to feel like we have something to be ashamed of, [that] what we do isn't as good, or it's not adequate compared to the rest of the bigger picture. I've had [some feelings] before where I feel like I have to be more uptight or not tell the whole story, but I just feel like I don't have anything to hide. Just like any straight dude—he's not hiding that he's married or something. So I have that policy of being open, and I hope that it works all right people interviewing me.

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