| justus |
[Aug. 12th, 2008|09:16 pm] |
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| | dillwyn, va | ] |
| [ | music |
| | cicadas, woodpeckers, crickets, frogs | ] |
Lisa and Clarke have been living in Boston so a few days ago Paul and I flew out there to meet them. We mostly walked around a lot. There are a lot of super serious beefy Irish white dudes in Boston and they all have intense Boston accents. We ate some pretty random food but the vegan pizza in Cambridge was not bad. Also in Cambridge we saw a huge brawl unfold in the streets right before our eyes. What was most amazing was that the fight started AFTER the cops arrived! People got maced and it was nobody's fault. The rain was coming down hard. We took a long spiritual journey to Allston and had to disagree with Seth Putnam of Anal Cunt's opinion that everybody in Allston should die. The neighborhood seemed like a pretty cool mashup of world cultures: Russian, Cambodian, Korean, Latin American and more upon one block. Plus some hesh metallers and a vegan pizza and deli run by crusties.
After Boston we took the Chinatown bus to New York for a casual Sunday afternoon. New York super instantly in your face. Ladies whispering "Chanel purse" in your ear as you walk past crowded shops and African immigrants selling knockoff designer luggage. I was right about New York: definitely Sesame Street multicultural banging trash can lids together in the alley. Lower East Side. We also took the subway uptown to 42nd St. then the express downtown to 159th Ave. A New York dream. Times Square was full of rowdy Dominican teenagers celebrating the pride of their Republic. Lots of police and lesbians of color. Waiting by the airport in remote Queens we encountered people which were not real in any sense: at the liquor store a young Italian-American wearing boxer shorts printed with dollar bills left his car running and hip hop blasting while he went in to buy cigars and lottery tickets. Acrossthe street another Italian dude IN A VELOUR TRACKSUIT chatted with his friend, a shorter longhair but balding sleazy porn man who was doing some building repairs. Another tan It-Am in neon shorts rolled up to buy lottery tickets. Tracksuit got in his limo and said to his friend, "If you need me I'll be driving around."
Our southern journey continued to Philadelphia to hang out with Bryan and Thera and get some sleep. Mostly though just to have the experience of being in the Northeast's three largest cities in one day. We gossiped about old friends and then got pretzels at 12:30 fresh from the pretzel factory's late-night operations.
We're now in Virginia at our final destination: Lisa's dad's family farm. We arrived late in the afternoon yesterday and of course set off fireworks immediately. Then we took a walk around the lake where Lisa found a large mammalalian bone and a turkey feather. Lisa decided to brave the lake sludge to reclaim the paddleboat so we took a joy ride around the lake. The trip did not have a 100% happy ending as Lisa threw out her back trying to beach the boat. Paul cheered her up with a mashup display of m-80's flanked by colorful smoke bombs and infinite bubbles. This was followed up by a sparkling firework fountain and a variety of roman candles. Then we made a found food dinner of canned and frozen items. Actually we also made two desserts: spice cake and peanut butter cookies which were jammin' indeed.
Today we headed into the Big City (Farmville) to pick up some important supplies: old books, mason jars in which to brew sun tea, a vacuum, and a week's worth of snacks. Then we came back and got down to business. After a while Lisa and I decided to take a break and head to the secret spot, "where all the animals go to get married." On the way back to the house we discovered some more gifts from nature: down feathers, miniature pinecones, and the remains of animal which looks to have been a racoon. Some of its parts include a long penis bone, a claw, and some grayish fur. We also saw some tiny frogs. Having a blast: EASTERN EDITION!! |
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| here at the NEWS-eum |
[Jul. 15th, 2008|10:10 pm] |
I bought a new computer. That's bangin' cause the screen went dark on mine like six months ago so I haven't really been full-on computers since then. If you haven't seen my cool computer using style of shining a lamp at the screen, too bad it was a REAL TREAT. Now I am in fancyland in preparation for a FUN four years of school.
Paul moved back from Greensboro and we are looking for somewhere to live in Oakland. Where I can glue paper and stick stickers to other things and he can keep banging out the awesome posters like this one. SEEYA SF suckers! I can't wait to commute on BART, every day!
Except right now I am not commuting anywhere except my kitchen for some snacks cause it's SUMMER dudes. Only you wouldn't know because it's always cold in San Francisco. A few weeks ago PJ and I drove down to visit my parents but on the way stopped at many special places I have always wanted to visit including 1) Bodie 2) hot springs (Buckeye it's a thumbs up) 3) Manzanar 4) Death Valley
At DV it was 120 degrees YES. The desert is so mystical/trashy. It's because there's so much of it so you can basically do whatever you want, real no parents no rules NATURE edition. We didn't make it to the Salton Sea because Paul's car basically broke down so unfortunately we did not get to hear Leonard Knight sing us his personal song about his love for Jesus. We did see Sam in LA and visit the Integratron however.
In a more general news sense, besides starting school and moving to Oakland, I just finished some artwork for a KIT 7" and am having a show in October or November. Paul and I are also heading east to visit Lisa and Clarke in Boston in August, after which we will drive down with Lisa to her dad's farm in Virginia.
As far as this weblog goes I think I will probably be moving it somewhere else more contemporary soon as it's no longer the 90's. Where are the RSS feeds livejournal! I need to let everyone know about my boyfriend drama/struggles with teenage depression ASAP! GET REAL I HAVE A NEW COMPUTER SO I KNOW WHAT I AM TALKING ABOUT. If you are desperate for important news, you can check out my website or look here or here or here or even here or just call me. |
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[Jan. 8th, 2008|11:20 am] |
I have come out of the terrible doom world of sickness and there are still storms. This morning I woke up, made myself some french toast, read a book, and listened to my new Cambodian garage record. I shouldn't be buying any records because I am broke in an unbelievable way, but I bought this before I knew that. Erin is coming by soon and we are going to plan out our art show which is opening February 7th, and then I have a meeting at SF state where I will hopefully avoid taking a really difficult test in order to get my English teaching credential. I have also a new job, working in an elementary school library two days a week. Good timing on getting it - their librarian just quit! Life path being totally figured out now, one thing I enjoy as a result of an extended time out of town.
I should write something about Chicago but I am going to go clean my room now. |
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[Sep. 24th, 2007|09:03 pm] |
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HI all. I apologize for the lack of "life updates," a criticism which has recently been directed towards me. I think I did enough journal writing and blogging over a couple months to last me for a year, but apparently some people require new cool events to be happening in my life all the time. (ps. just look at my photos what more do you need.
Anyway, school started again so I'm back to work. Having three months off was pretty exceptionally awesome. I got an art studio in August so that's pretty much where I've been most of the time, hence, the lack of life updates.
Right now I am sick but am about to head out to a killer bus show with KITES among others after I eat this rad vegan pizza I made. I'm on a KICK. This one has two kinds of fake meat and some Japanese eggplant, with one half cashew cheese and one half follow your heart vegan gourmet style. Why? Why not!
I am working on a series of "dream houses" right now which is based on my all-time favorite childhood activity of making collages out of my parents' JC Penney and Sears catalogues. Right now it's just landscapes with some houses (pretty loose interpretation) but will eventually involve interiors (I got plans but its tricky). There will be a new zine to go with it to. Deadline is Lisa's art show in Chicago (that's December 1st midwesterners, we might be there a while so make plans to hang out with us!).
Also I think I'm going to start doing some posters again. The Business Lady record i did the artwork for is apparently coming out in November, and the Foot Village one some time next year.
In the meantime, here's this:
Happy fall everyone! I am totally feeling sentimental as I do every time this year. PS. Who wants to go camping with me?? |
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[Jul. 8th, 2007|02:24 pm] |
| [ | mood |
| |  peaceful | ] |
| [ | music |
| | native american songs and dances | ] |
went on us tour with woman's worth. saw many things, made many friends. learned small towns and improvised music are not the best combos i.e. stick to cities unless yr in a rock band, then you'll rage. although i guess psychedelic rock and new music are compatible cause that was a huge chunk of the shows. hit my quota there for a bit.
( tour info )
so now i'm settled back into real life. san francisco is beautiful and shiny and gentle and there are so many possibilities. there is a strong community here to be a part of that i love, full of wonderful busy people. being gone was exciting and reenergizing and made me appreciate all this beauty. also reinforced the major negative - lack of space and cost. i am so torn. paul just bit it and moved to greensboro to attain more space at less cost. i feel conflicted - so many people i love and want to collaborate with but life is so expensive. everywhere had these amazing spaces to envy. so maybe i'l move someday, we'll see. still don't think it's time for school again, i dunno what but right now life is awesome.
lisa and i impulsively rented an art studio saturday. we've been needing one badly and it's not the ideal space by far but it's the best opportunity for now and i think it's going to triple our awesome life experience. i feel like i'm in her mindset last year: loving this life here but simultaneously wanting to go everywhere.
oh, think i am getting unemployment at least for summer. whatta gift. i am never bored by not going to work and now i have time for living. how can i do this always.
i'm trying to finish some stuff for a gallery show today/tomorrow. it's a pretty fancy situation i'm not used to. hope it comes out ok. arrgh. after that, i think more zines (forest and forest life is done, email if you want a copy) and more silly art. i have lots of books to read and have been learning to play the kalimba. i got really excited about the possibilities of solo voice/kalimba loops on tour so i will accept any line 6 pedal you want to give me.
here's what's in my salad: romaine lettuce, shiitake and button mushrooms, yukon gold potato, smoked tofu, heirloom tomatoes, pink radish, beets, leeks, grilled eggplant. life most certainly rules hard. |
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[Apr. 15th, 2007|06:36 pm] |
did some trippy artwork for the business lady record coming out on load ('torture footage' look for it)
trying to get a zine on forests out for ape next week but heavily slacking
bought an ipod recently and wasting all my time organizing mp3s
transferred my obsession with buying old jazz and international record into heavy downloading
kellen moved back to the us for a while suddenly and is living in our house until he can go back
we need to get 2 new roommates, epic
woman's worth us tour in june, i'm coming for fun, come see us all over
went to visit my parents in riverside over spring break, spent most of the time in the car
stayed at sam's house in los angeles with lisa for a night
got heavy into the always awesome la noisepunx scene for 3 shows, positive totally
working too much! the kids like me now tho. friday they said my look was "poppin"
i know a lot of cool hood slang now
really jamming out on this music:
alice coltrane - journey in satchidananda
the witch - lazy bones
abe vigoda - kid city
max roach's freedome suite- we insist!
archie shepp - blase (finally "got" it)
old rhythm and blues, reggae and rocksteady (hi i'm 16 again)
panda bear - person pitch
notorious big - ready to die
gamelan recordings |
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| really cool snack zone |
[Feb. 22nd, 2007|12:22 pm] |
my computer broke so i have been bad at writing back to emails and i just haven't been posting here anyway. keep meaning to write real life stories, too busy with art.
instead, here's what i ate yesterday:
cup of coffee
bowl of oatmeal w/blueberries
piece of sourdough bread w/earth balance
3 radishes
a small pink lady apple w. cashew butter
a banana (thanks rainbow grocery for the midday fruits & veggies)
bowl of angel hair pasta w. grilled zucchini and other vegetables (leftovers)
bottle of natural brew root beer
1/2 sandwich w. smoked tofu, spinach, hummus and sundried tomatoes on sourdough
1/2 chocolate chocolate chip cookie
big cool plate of pad thai made by eva and christina and will
several glasses of red wine
some wheat-free almond tart thing paul made
is that a lot of food? i think it's awesome |
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| just had a realization about the present |
[Feb. 3rd, 2007|09:24 pm] |
| [ | music |
| | sleep - jerusalem | ] |
I'm going to a "goth" party later tonight but right now I'm sitting in my room drinking rum and pineapple juice working on the Business Lady artwork. This involves cutting out pictures of fungi on logs from a field guide to non-flowering plants I bought from the Sebadaoh guy at a yard sale today. While doing this I have been singing "mooooooorels" along to the third track on Sleep's Jerusalem. |
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[Dec. 26th, 2006|11:25 am] |
I'm in Colorado now where the snow is white and so are all the people. Three days driving with my parents and their dog, intense. I'm not someone who needs a huge amount of alone time but after three days spending every moment with humans including during sleep time I tend to start really wanting to be by myself. Last time I went on this trip I sorted myself out with some personal time thrifting for an afternoon but this time I cannot drive the rental car so it's resulted in dorking out on the internet and reading beat literature about nature retreats.
I was gifted with an awesome new digital camera for Christmas which rules really hard. So now I'll be back in the picture-taking game. It does video with sound too so I've got a couple shots of snow drifting across the highway like gentle cloudy snakes to the soundtrack of Jamaican rocksteady.
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Today I am going on a tour of the Fat Tire brewery with my cousins which is going to rule. FREE TASTY BEER. Since I'm sick and not used to be in this warm/cold contrast the past couple days I'll have a beer or something and then just want to fall asleep. It's nice to have hardly nothing to do at all (save for some accounting for my dad) and I don't know what to do with the time so I end up just hanging out being lazy. By the way, New Year's Eve at Huffin House with the compounded party of almost all my best friends in LA and the Bay is going to really rule, everyone should be there or you'll miss out for life. Now I'm going to go eat some fancy cereal and fake sausage and then check out the new Brian Chippendale book. Yes. PEACE. |
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[Dec. 7th, 2006|12:52 am] |
There's always too much to say so a short synopsis will do for now.
Thankstaking was spent at Huffin House in Oakland eating much food, giggling, drinking much wine, game playing, then falling asleep while watching Home Alone 2. Photos can be found here as ush but not too many cause my batteries died. Other dudes got em so check the friends list.
Next day me Katie Adam and John decided to set off on an ill-planned journey to Sykes Hot Springs in Big Sur. Always wanted to go camping/visiting there, this consisted of a 20 mile roundtrip hike up and down a 7,000 mountain. Pretty epic but really fun and we didn't kill each other and are mostly still friends and everything and we went in some warm (not hot) springs with a bunch of naked college students from Santa Cruz getting wasted. We all accidently dipped our feet in various parts of the river and Adam hurt his knee but we ate delicious food and our bodies were exhausted for days afterwards (like really I did not go anywhere).
I have been teaching jr. high in Hunter's Point i.e. the projects lately. It's pretty tiring, they asked me to be their permanent on-site sub but not sure if I can handle it or not. The pay is not bad and I could pay off loans and then travel after it ends mid-June, but it's a stressful job and the hours are longer at this school than most (extra pay to compensate, oh and benefits + 5 sick days, not much in the real world but better than I got). It's tricky because I might be doing some part-time work for AMP, the best most positive nonprofit ever and my always perfect job so it looks like I'll probably have to choose between the two, argh. Not complaining though, options are good.
Looking forward to a 2-week break soon, I'm behind on all responsible type things as well as crative endeavours. also will be cruising to Colorado with the fam for holidays so I'm hoping for a stopover in somewhere insane and gnarly like Salt Lake City. And maybe a friend visit too while I'm there. I'm really into writing again lately. I've always had this feeling that after the several years break I took from creative writing due to college essays then recovery from that experience and then a casual attempt to build a personal style that isn't obviously cliche there would be this outpouring of creative energy. It's been building up for a while and I think it might start flowing, like out the front door and down the street and everything even.
When I first moved to San Francisco I was so stimulated by all the new things that after a month or two I went into panic mood because I was getting "bored" by walking down the same street every day because it wasn't totally new anymore. Then recently I realized what you come to love is knowing the nuances in things, like the knowledge that comes from that daily experience which allows for detailed information and a noting in changes. Like which streets have the most dogs or children or double parked cars, or when there is new graffiti or trash/free stuff or a plant, or where is easiest to park a car or buy my favorite beverages, or the quickest/safest to bike down or where someone cute lives or where I see the old man sitting on his front stoop in the NAVY hat telling everyone who passes by that he loves them. It's nice when your surroundings become like a friendly person you know. And then you have this intimate knowledge of a place, like when Sam and I realized we had lived in San Diego for a long time because of all the shortcuts we knew, like how the quickest way to get to the airport or a show at the Casbah was to jet down this canyon in a quiet residential area.
LG=Life's Good |
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[Nov. 19th, 2006|08:14 pm] |
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| | wilson & erin listening to FYP. i'm not involved. | ] |
I haven't been updating lately because I've been too busy having adventures. I think I've actually updated maybe twice since I've been living here. Oops!
( Anyway, here's a list of adventures which have been accomplished so far )
Okay, there's more but I have to go to practice. There have also been many rides through Golden Gate Park, candy shops in Richmond, trips to Oakland (Berkeley, not so much!), bike rides up Bernal Hill to eat ice cream, afternoons in Dolores Park, and a lot of general snack zones of many kinds.
I still need to do these things:
--spend a day wandering Oakland
--pick blackberries up on Bernal (if it's not too late)
--go down the various slides
--find some cool footbridges
--visit junk shops in the Tenderloin
There's more but I'll add it later cause I'm going to be late. Tonight Paul is playing with Vholtz, one of the best Bay Area bands not kidding. There are two famous peope in it and also our bandmate Matt. I don't know why he agreed to do it because he doesn't like jamming. But he does however enjoy improvisation. There will be two saxophones and I'll probably eat some chips. Then this week I'm going to teach two days of jr. high (i.e. teach a couple of algebra classes, file some papers for the vice principal, and read some narrative fiction). More to come: zine plans, music updates, personal reflection (maybe), travel ideas, information about today's youth, what information would you like to hear?
P-E-A-C-E dudes |
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[Aug. 29th, 2006|11:55 pm] |
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| | watching sopranos | ] |
Tonight was a cool dinner fest. Paul made DIY sushi with carrots, avocado, red bell pepper, and his DIY homemade seitan. I made this:
DIY vegan sweet potato crepes with tamarind cilantro sauce! I wish I was still hungry. |
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| if only we could rip open the fabric of time... |
[Aug. 7th, 2006|11:24 am] |
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| | npr story about sumatran orangutans oh yeah and israel | ] |
Thursday (it's the new Friday): Past roommates new city livers come say hi, no dinner last-minute ART departure. Highschool sneakin whiskey bottle to overcrowded hip gallery show. Really just a bar with too many people, can't even see the art but it's ok. Ladies power trio. Alley swigs with moustache men. Friends with epic crushes. Getting a ride back home, first help the drunk girl find her vibrating cellphone atop her SUV, then wrong way down one way st, empty casual bar one more drink walk home sleep heavily.
Friday: No sleep no work. Or go to work do no work. Power lunch with city official at parent restaurant y2k. Try to speak eloquently and professionally about future plans while maintaining casual demeanor and oh so tired. Grilled vegtable salad not so bad actually. Delicious fancy coffee in quaint yuppie alley. Total lady shoe shopping friend time but in a work context. Decide to skip afternoon work in favor of personal care: shower, rest. Then birthday gift gathering at mission crazy sticker-wielding shops for friends and music time followed by the biggest falafel burrito ever thanks Cave. Nighttime brings another crowded jam, still alcohol-infused but mostly relegated to outdoors. Like a house party only with all people you like. Not watching the popular band, but the one at first I like (lady power jam, just used both those words 3 times now but so true). Back hurts, think it got busted singing too high of notes, not kidding. Finally, watch television drama mafia serious, pretty entertaining, oops now hooked on the storyline (I love narrative). Cozy warm soft sleep.
Saturday: Gotta get up for secret brunch society. Oops, woke up too late, Paul will scramble the tofu for me and I will eat it heartily. Also many fruits and juice, biscuits, gravy, "sausage" patties, and fun. Gentle outdoor summer warmth on deck patio amidst urban backyard bird garden. Scheming for the Hot Tub performance, worst trashy party band ever, just you wait. Then home finally, ah it's nice to sit and look out t'window at the swaying trees, have a coffee, chat with house friends. Eventually gotta get it up to snack at park with birthdaying friends, giftwrap bikeride 2 beers old friends from another country later. The park is crowded but not too much so, there's Japanese candy and cookies and vegan snacks and nice visits to our city. And dogs, Wilson is so happy to see those guys. Time to move again to prepare delicious peanut butter-combo sandwiches for evening guests at performance space who are hungry and love music. Poland helps out, we git er done, oh did I mention back pain gets me hunched over total agony? Many many friends come to see friends play musics, so happy, so positive and loving life music everything. Club Sandwich is life allover. More old friends come new city dwellers arrive with bikes beard hugs and everything else. We miss the party but Los Angeles and New York come to stay over, play silly made-up boozing games regarding rock music memoirs, mostly just giggling and shouting eating tortilla chips and hummus wine-drink, we talk and laugh and then we rest.
Sunday: Send off the temporary visitors, new permanent ones stick around and we make breakfast. But first I get coffee and see old town old co-worker and best couple ever friends and we sit under the shade from the bright sun and discuss ex-roommate couples, S&M participants i.e. professionals who just gotta unwind, swastika friendship tattoos, and the Middle East. Then, after a relax, a 3pm breakfast boom - soy chorizo over rosemary garlic roasted potatoes, pancakes with summer fruits. Naptime is needed, then music joy later. New song again! We hit it then cop some falafel burritos again but we're still stoked on em, then we sit and show pictures of olden times, long friendships from late teenage years bring silliness for sure.
It all happened, check Paul's BLOG.
By the way, everyone keep saving the rainforest okay. |
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[Jul. 5th, 2006|01:46 pm] |
I just crashed my new bike! That was pretty cool. Thanks sneaky black hose at 19th & Bryant. I am used to the roads here being all fucked up so I think when I saw it my brain just registered it as a cool "line" on the road. Those things should be hot pink or something. There is a lot of construction happening near my work. This morning there was a lot of irritating noise happening. I need quiet contemplation when I am listening to Sleep really loud and doing internet research.
Anyway I just scraped my hand and I think my bike's okay, which was my main concern of course. The handlebars were all out of whack and a nice gentleman in khakis came by and helped me straighten them. So I think I just need to tighten and adjust the brakes and saddle and all will be ok.
July fourth was a chilled out day. People came over and we made:
Potato Salad
Spinach salad with strawberries, mango, coconut, and carmelized walnuts
Roasted veggie kabobs
Seitan loaf on kaiser rolls
Steamed white corn on the cob
Two pies: mincemeat and strawberry-nectarine, with whipped cream!
Mmm! After we filled our bellies with snacks and our heads with celebrity gossip, we walked up to Portreo Hill to see fireworks. Back down the hill our neighborhood was like a war zone. Awesome!
I have been kind of mopey the last two days, but I will feel better by tomorrow. Right now I am all shaky from nerves regarding the meeting with pavement. Also today I dropped my cup of coffee while attempting to ride my bike 3 blocks to work with it. Actually I dropped it as soon as I decided it wasn't going to work and tried to get off and walk.
Other life info: I have a cool new job. I am doing research on youth/all ages music and art spaces across the country. Eventually the data we collect is going to be used to create a network between everyone. It's awesome! I enjoy work! Unfortunately I need to get another boner part time job cause makin' art don't pay. Also I am starting voice lessons today. I took them for 3 years when I was an adolescent where mostly I learned how to sing such thrilling songs as "The Rose" by Bette Midler. Here I am hoping to learn vocal improvisation, which is going to be tricky to explain. Hope my teacher is into it. Then the COOL NEW BAND will be even cooler!
New photos to come soon! |
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| casual dayz |
[May. 7th, 2006|07:07 pm] |
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| | noxagt - turning it down since 2001! | ] |
We finally got internets in the house!! We had it before thanks to our neighbors "Fxy" (unfortunately not the Latino market with all the foxy lady employees) but now we got our own up and running.
This weekend has been pretty casual. Child Pornongraphy and Erebus Nyx n Styx played at Gilman Friday and we had our first houseguests at our new place which was lovely and fun. Ettrick totally slayed, super out music! Unfortunately the show had super bad vibes due to some people being unnecessarily surly. I feel justified in my opinion having worked at the Che for over four years and unfortunately, some people's attitudes were similar to negative comments people say about the Che, except true. I want to support collectively-run all ages venues but I wish people could find a way to keep it positive and not be so narrow-minded. Other than that the show was great.
Saturday was casual; I got some stuff done around the house and then went to see friends again at the Bakery which was a totally fun and positive experience. George and I found a copy of the "Girl Talk" game and insisted that the cards be read aloud at the beginning of Child P's set. Erin was really drunk and gave an excellent delivery of lines such as 'Whoever is wearing pink will meet their future husband in the next 10 days' (ah, to be a girl!).
Today was a glorious sunny day; I can finally appreciate sunshine after living here, and especially after March's month-long power rains. I got some coffee at Atlas which is where I like to go when I'm feeling unemployed and I want to read the paper and do the puzzles. Then I came home and ate a bangin' sandwich made with free rolls from the bread dumpster and decided to walk to the park to read the new ANP Quartlerly and drink the beer sitting in my fridge saying "I am cool drink me." The stroll to and from the park was warm, fond, and leisurely. I picked up some cool and useful things at my many casual stops as well: an inner tube so I can fix my bike and maybe ride to go see Acid Mother's Temple tonight; some free papers; a bottle of Simple Green with which to make my bikes clean and shiny and happy and my hands less greasy; a vegetable samosa; the first Noxagt record which I am listening to now; a bag to put on afore-mentioned bikes to contain cool things like patches or snax; and a free white and gold tin in which to keep special treasures.
Now I'm going to go use some of the cool new stuff I got and decorate my room. Then I'm going to eat cool snax and maybe listen to some music while I enjoy how cool awesome and fun my life is. Oh, we found a new roommate and Sam is coming to visit Wednesday! |
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[Apr. 24th, 2006|01:05 pm] |
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| | glenn branca's hallucination city no. 13 for 100 guitars | ] |
SO I LOST MY KEYS 2 DAYS AGO AND I STILL CAN'T FIND THEM!! I AM 24 AND STILL LOSING IMPORTANT SHIT! I ALREADY HAVE ONE PARKING TICKET AND DIDNT GO TO WORK TODAY CAUSE I WAS TOTALLY WORRIED!! NOW I CANT DO ANYTHING COOL ON THIS EXTRA DAY OFF!! I REALLY ESPECIALLY NEED TO FIND THE KEY TO THE KNGDOM SO I CAN UNLOCK ALL THE COOL SECRETS AND SEE THE FUN ANIMALS!! |
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[Apr. 3rd, 2006|12:17 am] |
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| | us maple | ] |
It has been raining a lot here; in fact, the record for the longest consectutive days of rain (set in 1904) continues to be broken daily. Hopefully there will be a break for a nice lazy day in the park soon.
Paul and I have another week and a half before we have to move into somewhere new. I'm not sure where it will be yet but it will probably be special. Friday night was CritMass, my first up here so far and it was fun! Apparently the turnout was poor but it was much larger than anything San Diego ever saw (the record low being SEVEN which mostly consisted of members of Moustache House), and summer is supposed to yield thousands! Later that night I saw a great show with a bunch of noise bands including homies Bulbs. All four bands were good in varying degrees of peaceful and powerful. Saturday night I got to convene with my East Bay relatives for a family meal crazy family style at a Japanese restaurant on a suburban island, then a raucous trip to the neighboorhood pubbery for sloppy punk and trashy 90's music culminating in Charlie Darling, former San Diego resident and well-enunciated storyteller, riding his bike atop a legless chair down 24th St.
Today was mostly spent househunting in the rain with our new fun lady prospective roommate. We met a very special guy who was very awkward and self-conscious about us wanting to live in the house he managed but it costs much monies. Then PJ and myself stopped for a burrito at Tacqueria Can-cun and I have to agree with the confusion over its continuous winning of awards for best SF veggie burrito. I mean it had beans and rice and avocado in it but that's pretty standard. El Metate's actually contain vegetables and Papalote has the extra sneaky cool vegan snacks like marinated tofu and soyrizo in theirs. Burritos here all come with chips and salsa whether eat it there or not, which is an experience I am not accustomed to. Also people aren't really busting out potato burritos anywhere which is kind of a letdown.
Other than that I have had some pretty bangin' snacks lately. There is cool raw food two blocks from me and I have yet to get it. Also there is a dumpster one block up piled with free artisan bread every night after the workers close up shop which is pretty awesome.
I told myself that since I didn't have work tomorrow I would stay up all night and produce something for APE which is next weekend but of course I'm on the internet now. Well, it's good to be back. |
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[Mar. 22nd, 2006|07:15 pm] |
This is a short update as my computer is broken, thus forcing me to use the library computers. I have 13.19 minutes left! Paul and I moved into our cool new house and have already been spoken to TWICE about noise (laughing heartily) by the same people! I think it is because they are crotchety and have decided not to like us because we are young. Good job guys.
In other news, I've been having a casual time. Not much sightseeing, more like everyday activities around the neighborhood but that's fun too. I finally got to work on some projects so let's hope productivity continues! I think I may volunteer at SCRAP, the really awesome non-profit place which sells cool STUFF to make art with next week.
Friday there is a trip planned to Point Reyes to look at albino deer and other animals and go hike on the most westernly point of California. Tommorrow there will be a bike ride across the city to go see friend VC perform at a political rally. It's by the ocean!! There will be trees passed by and maybe squirrels and waterfalls!
Last night I went to a squat party in a beautiful old building. Because I am clumsy and in personal dreamland most of the time I immediately fell into a hole and scraped my knees and heel. Luckily though when I went to get some booze round t'corner I misse dbeing barricaded in by the po-po. Then there was talk of bike riding action but nawt materialized so instead we dumpstered bread from the bakery practically next to my house! Thanks BV for the info on free bread for life!
Julie has been over lots which has been fun; the cat is friendly and there are cool snax and surprises not to mention treasures everywhere!! Also I have been sexually harassed a lot because I don't live in a neighborhood of gay men anymore. My favorite so far other than the marriage proposal was a guy driving down Mission who thought it would be a good idea to shout "He-he-he-HEY bitch!"
Oh well. I did find an everlasting source of food-themed hair ties and of course, there are stickers a plenty. I am not letting myself go to Chinatown yet because I will spend at least $10 on stickers which is not really the best plan when you are unemployed. Think that plan will come to ruin when my parents come to visit this weekend. Maybe I can convince them they want to eat delicious gourmet raw food down the street?
I bought a new bike and will get it maybe soon:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=7222954630
Also this week has been visited upon my in the form of delicious Indian pizza, vegan ice cream banana splits + reunions with old friends, swap meet looking, birthdays bagels and seitan courtesy of Paul, raucous partys, cat pets, all the anarchy for the rest of the year, musics, and XTREME laughter.
Short summary: Life is COOL and FUN! Gotta go! |
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[Mar. 6th, 2006|01:02 am] |
I was just thinking how I wanted to listen to some Neil Young, but can't since I don't have any records or anything where I am, and then I went upstairs and my brother was already doing that. Which is funny because I was unaware he liked Neil Young or much outside bro jam alterna-rock metal bands.
This is more of an update entry since lots of things have gone on in my life in the past week. I said goodbye to San Diego last weekend via the Orthrelm show which was really fun (thanks to Ossian and Norman for double cakes!), a party which featured friends new and old and included special lady dancing time to Thriller, a bangin' yard sale with Martinis provided by Sharon where I got to sit on the couch in the driveway half-drunk at 11am and waltz down the street with a glass of juice booze owning my block one last time, and a party potluck with mega huge amounts of tasty treats and chats.
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So, we managed to pack everything in the van and get going; driving by myself was good for reflective purposes but it would have been nice to get pumped about the same 10 commercial hip hop songs every local radio station played together with Paul. We arrived at his parents late Wednesday night and were greeted by a fresh-baked loaf of cinnamon bread which we had for breakfast the next day. The next two days were typical suburban parent style with the usual attempts to eke out decent vegan food from corporate chains but it was a good chill out. Eventually we made it into the city and our first foray out was a predictably trashy punk show! Paul's mom gave us some chemical vegan jellybeans so we gave them to all the new and old friends.
Saturday we had a charming bike ride through Golden Gate park. Julie re-learned how to ride a bike on the inaugural run of her new yellow (with white lugs) multi-genre two-wheeled buddy and we peaced out while watching ducks and boats on the lake for a while then Paul and I went to check out a place to sublet. Oh man. It is pretty amazing. It's a 1200sq. foot live/work space rented by an attractive late 40's-early 50's total artist lady with a cat. There are lots of plants with bits of gentle sunlight streaming through and tons of work tables. We are going to get so much done! And IT'S HUGE!! There are cool snacks nearby and everything. Since it's a collectively-run space (awesome) we have to go around Wednesday and meet everyone, who are generally the same age as the lady (awesome!). Wait til they get a whiff of our P.M.A. (Positive Mental Attitude). The lady referred to us as going out and both Paul and I had to resist the urge to yell out "Not a couple, just two cool friends!"
Bottom line: WE HAVE A PLACE TO LIVE UNTIL APRIL 13TH!!!
This morning I flew into my parents' which was a weird experience since I've never flown on a place to visit here before. I haven't flown into this airport in many years and I forgot how special it is to blast through that thick layer of smog after whisking past the delicate snow-touched mountains. Not having a car here is pretty brutal so I'm looking into getting a beater bike to keep here but even then I don't think I'll be able to get very far. The service is tomorrow and then I'll be back in the city Tuesday evening for some rowdy fun at ATA with the homies.
P.S. Visitors should totally come during this next month even! There are even little rooms! It is so COMPUTERZ! |
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