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10/27/10 06:47 am |
7/21/10 01:17 pm - gimp leg summerbones made me this slimy salad and i've been eating it at least once a day- handful of spinach with 1/2 and avocado mixed into it with my hands topped carrots red pepper various nuts and seeds dressing-ish-goop made with tahini, lemon, raw garlic, braggs ![]() this is from when i did hourly comix for a week when i was at my parents' house in the winter and bored and depressed, which is i guess the only time i am productive so i've been spending lots of time gettin' sidewalk slammed with my roommates and have been tearing through sketchbooks but this has been do nothing summer 2010 for real. my bike is always fucked up forever, and i sprained both my ankles and i have all these knee bruises from being in this synchronized swimming play thing about jason and the argonauts where i have to scramble in and out of the pool. i get pushed in twice. sean got an ice cream maker and i can't seem to make anything that is not ice or soup. i am trying to make a coconut vanilla lavender nutmeg ice cream right now, fingers crossed. i wanna be more productive but it's so hot i can barely motivate myself to sit up or put a shirt on, much less get shit done. mostly i lie around in my bed or madison's basement blanket fort and read comix. read these, they're awesome... i want you-lisa hanawalt flesh & bone/ venus in blue jeans-julia gfrorer monster treasure digest-maria sputnik jin & jam- hellen jo atomic books merged with celebration summer and they are a block from my house and i don't work enough to afford a new record and two zines a week and i really shouldn't have more stuff but i can't help myself. yesterday i bought a siouxsie lp and it's been playing since. been super into joy division lately also. who wants to go to the eighties with me |
5/23/10 08:49 pm - oh i have one of these still+garden plans +summer mixtapes +accordion acquisition +big ol' giant linocuts to work on in the summer +idapalooza! -madison and sean are traveling all summer -bmore sorta-sweetie is as crazy as i am and we probably shouldn't be involved -croton is awful! i always forget! |
1/31/10 01:36 am![]() scary/super nineties mural in goodview that watches me while i make coffee +making lots of zines and comics +making so much art in general, having a studio rules +incredibly adorable new house/roommates who are super awesome and vegan feastmakers +living in sleepy hampden and not having to look at mica architecture all the time +classes are great (stop motion animation/artist's books/ queer lit/american folk life&folk art) +plans to go to baltimore churches to listen to gospel music/ pretending to be alan lomax with julia +UFO zine making/soup eating dates with cuties +snooooowwwwww snow snow snow snowwww -i think my lock on my locker in dolphin got cut and all my screenprinting inks got thrown out? -ugh so much crap i'm still unpacking |
1/12/10 09:56 pmi made a tumblr, hooray a place to dump all of my old photos of naked girls and dead things, be my friend? http://acouplereasons.tumblr.com/ lalala doing hourly comix all this week, i need to pack, i need to finish my zine, i need to stop getting stoned and watching the history channels' "the universe" and trying to contemplate the vastness of space until my brain hurts. rereading orson scott card's "speaker for the dead" which always makes me cry. i realized that i really like driving, which freaks me out a little bit because it took me so long to learn since i was so vehemently anti-car for a while. tea & overdue library books time. |
1/3/10 11:21 pm |
12/9/09 11:49 pm - life plani've been thinking about my childhood obsession with unexplained mysteries and all of the alien dreams i have had. i think i am going to make a zine of the alien dreams i could have had but haven't. |
10/25/09 04:03 pmyeah so +++permibus people coming and giving an amazing street medic course! and holding their chickens and getting all of these striped feathers. +herbalist traveler kid staying at our house and making really good tea and not making fun of me for bringing him to a disappointing and fucked up show +all of the amazing programming at 2640 lately +friends quitting drugs and not drinking in the morning anymore +nebulous quiltmaking plans +even more nebulous plans for a singing saw/accordion band with jonathan +oh yeah honk fest ruled. boston is cute! +drawing comics +crass & caffeination +great weather -except when the halloween parade gets rained out -library fines, gah fuck why can't i get things back on time -fucked up shit involving friends and not being able to talk about it with them -not understanding how to make a pinhole camera and i am supposed to have a bunch of photos done by tuesday |
8/26/09 01:54 pm - end of summer![]() enoch pratt library rules, they have a little wifi cafe with a coffee machine and you can watch people playing with a giant chessboard and they have a ton of foreign films and big ol' art books and an exhibit about old bookbinding tools. +watching 'the dreamers' for the millionth time, the guy at vanguard video erased my fines because he is incredibly nice (also always stoned and hilarious) +i stood on a step stool for two hours drawing red emmas' new menu with whiteboard markers and it looks good and i get free sandwiches +duncan street garden is amazingly productive right now, even though it is overgrown with weeds +school starts next week! +applying for a book store job +going to try and buy a bike today +3/4 of the way through infinite jest, and it is starting to make sense +circus saturday at the charles this week, again, which means dressing up and playing a couple times an hour and getting free drinks -kitchen is a mess (always) -friends are mad at me because of bad communication -all of my money going towards coffee |