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| 11:44pm 19/08/2008 |
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Today there is one month until my birthday. |
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| 01:19am 20/08/2008 |
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united colors of benneton sparkly fun sweater, very sparkly, S
$7
vintage floral slinky silky wrap dress, M
$7
vintage stretchy dress, S/M
$7
beautiful leather dress, super soft, vintage italian bought for $$$ S/M
$10
super cute, modern little dress, barely worn, M
$10
classy low neck little black flowing dress M
$5
and this headband from guatemala that i altered and transformed with treasures
$10
I NEED MONEY FOR TRAVEL! PLEASE BUY! I CAN SEND THEM OFF ASAP! PRICED AS MARKED, PLUS 3 BUCKS SHIPPING. |
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| 03:28pm 19/08/2008 |
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it took my foreverr, but i finally edited all my past entries of the past 5 years.
it was crazy to read some of them.
i can't believe how foolish i was sometimes. and how far i've come.
with that said,
i have made a new livejournal.
and in my attempt to make it more private...
please comment and let me know if you'd like to be added to my new one.
and then i'll go add you.
just too many fake people that i don't need pretending to know about my life.
feels good to start new ♥ |
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| 01:37pm 17/08/2008 |
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Bruno Munari
"A performance at the Campo Urbano event. Munari invites participants to the top of a tower to throw pieces of paper of different forms folded in different ways to fall to the earth following trajectories that are never the same, thus visualizing the air in Piazza Duomo"
13.8.2008- Getting chills reading about Bruno Munari's work in Barcelona on a quiet Sunday morning. Same effect as reading about the Eames two years back in the plane coming home from Gothenburg. Too much! Beautiful work, beautiful lives.
Bruno Munari's bed book
Jason Rosenberg's collages and drawings
Joseph Hart
Olafur Eliasson exhibition at Fundacio Joan Miró in Barcelona
Saul Steinberg
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| 10:57am 15/08/2008 |
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does anyone know how to make ALL past entries ive ever had onthis LJ account diary-mode (so only i can see them)?? i want to start a new LJ...but want to keep my entries here for my personal sake. too many people up in my business! haha
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| this livejournal is still about my dad |
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| 03:43pm 14/08/2008 |
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i live in austin now which is so scary and awesome!! i don't know what i'm doing! but i am living in a cute house with my cat and chelsea and her cat and jake and his washer and dryer, and my room has green walls, and we have a backyard, and i'm taking a math class this semester, and i'm a secretary and i get to dress up everyday again, and i feel really safe and loved and these are all things i have wanted for a long time. i think it is ok to give stuff up to be happy i guess.
me and my dad drove from texas to new york and back and it ruled. we ate every meal at cracker barrel!! we accidentally missed going to the World's First Cracker Barrel in lebanon, tennessee even though we drove right by it. BUMMER. my dad talks about rocks and trucks and stuff a lot and he is cool.
this is my dad's grocery list:
-cat brush
-cat food
-hot dogs
-beer
-card for dad
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| 02:57am 14/08/2008 |
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born in austin, tx
lives and works on the internet |
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| CONTEMPLATE THE SARLACC |
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| 08:51pm 13/08/2008 |
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music: exciter-swords of darkness
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LAST NIGHT
Watched some nostalgic Japanese pop music videos,they discouraged me. I almost wish to be naive,idiotic and blissful again like I was in 2004-2006. I said almost..I wouldn't ever seriously consider reversing any progression or life experience(whatever depressing realizations they have resulted in).Nights like that can be really hard for me. Yes,once in awhile,under certain circumstances and rare mood combinations,I feel extremely lonely. There is no cure either..no stupid crushes to gush over,nothing to really fill that strange void that I rarely experience. Now blasting Exciter while thinking about last night's dilemma,I feel like the main character in Trick or Treat(the 1986 "metal" themed horror film). However once I start to think logically I realize that having girl interests would only make things more complicated and in the case of likely failure,more depressing. I went back to work yesterday(finally)and could barely even function. It took me an hour to copy a single packet. I then got adjusted to the situation though I was being trained/had to work during the day..which was also different for me. I sat down on my bed last night and listened to Transilvanian Hunger in full while finishing some Samuel Smiths. Man...this autumn is going to be bizarre. I plan on combating the new living conditions this fall with routine/discipline..shutting out more of the world. A morning walk throughout the big cemetery up the street in alpenflage. Sometimes it just feels like nothing is good enough. Now if I could just wake up and find out that this reality is programmed by godlike beings who get laughs at our expense. My dad wants to learn how to play drums now.."Can't you just stick with one thing!?"
TONIGHT
AIR
The instrumental kraut/psych Air of Germany is a little better than the French pop duo Air's early career and far better than their mid to late material. Both European AIRs are better than the Japanese Air.
Zach just posted his top 100 albums today. I am stuck at 70 but need to include "Stuntman" by Edgar Froese..so I am technically at 71. As Zach has said in his journal..the top 100 aren't from any music critic type perspective but rather strictly personal. I also have a few possibles which I need to hold out for.
SWEDISH DEATH METAL
I just finished up Swedish Death Metal by Daniel Ekeroth. A jam packed book of detailed information on the roots/beginning of the Swedish death metal scene...but the writing leaves a bit to be desired. I like the interview bits a lot and some of the little stories that are brought to light especially surrounding the 89-90 time period. I know that the author's first language isn't English and knowing this beforehand, I wasn't anticipating vivid and colourful writing. I just wish he would have used a broader range of adjectives but nonetheless..a great book,tons of photos,stories,solid information,and a nice A-Z index of bands. A worthy purchase.
I am now starting "Blood Music" by Greg Bear contrary to what I told Anthony Davis..I said I would read Gene Wolfe's "Books of the New Sun" series next. I can't start a series right now though..soon...soon..soon.
Rather concerned about the Russian vs U.S.,Israel backed Georgia conflict. Don't give a flying fuck about the olympics.Convinced my dad that he cannot blindly vote for McCain. Talked my mom out of a lazy Obama vote. Any given day now I will erupt in passionate anger and smash my busted Yamaha DJX keyboard which has been stashed away in the closet. I am not taking it with me and I see no point in lugging it to Salvation Army so some poor sap can get their hopes up,pay $20 for it and then find out that it not only sucks as is,but is broken. I am only giving complete books,complete toys,unmolested shirts/pants to Salvation Army. Anthony's sister works at Salvation Army now..maybe she will go through my old stuff. My dad played my sister/her boyfriend the hoaxed "sounds from hell" the other night. I couldn't control myself and had to burst in and denounce it for the pathetic hoax that it is. I almost wished I hadn't because they seemed to kind of be buying into it. P=A=T=H=E=T=I=C.
Do some fucking research..the world wide web is at your fingertips.
PROGRESSIVE:
*expanding guitar knowledge
*expanding pencil techniques,paint techniques
*more original drawing ideas
*varied exercise
*finally "getting" some modern classical
FROZEN SOLID
*same food..whatever
*hair seems to be the same length
TOMORROW NIGHT:
"all that you see before you..is mine"
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CYBORG RECYCLING piece..notice the fit eyeless woman at the bottom and spiked fist lamp/sculpture
"In his belly, you will find a new definition of pain and suffering as you are slowly digested over a thousand years." |
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| 05:07am 12/08/2008 |
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i'm just drawing a bit and trying to figure out some stuff. |
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| 10:27pm 07/08/2008 |
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music: edgar froese-a drunken mozart in the desert
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I haven't worked in a week. It is pretty "crazy" I suppose. Most of it is due to my job itself..not enough applications are coming in for people to process/index for me to then double check. Some of these off days were due to my car's break line leaking. I then had to take it to the garage to be fixed. Thanks to the check I received from my sales at that Junc Gallery show awhile back,I am covered for my missed week..of course I had to spend some money on the car repairs. I spent a good portion of the day talking to Zach online about Outrager song titles for our TICKWASP concept album(slated for vinyl/cassette release in 2013). We both added some favorite albums to our 50 top album lists. Zach's is either mental or in a notebook..can't remember. Mine is on my myspace. I got to 63 and then was stumped..but now I remember a few. I am really challenging myself and being picky while realizing that in a year the list will be altered because more will be discovered.I also came to the realization that Alex Jones is directly/or indirectly inspired by Voivod lyrics..
On international power elites:
Certainly out of touch
Opinion grows too much
Diplomatic outfits
To control all the risk
Searching for dissidents
Hyper assassins
Hit with simplicity
Big opportunity
On the police state:
The men in the black forces
Listen to your conscience
Stopping the evolution
The books are the essence
United to burn anything that can make a stand
On killing 80% of the population:
You know the human history
The street must be running red
The citizens can't believe
That they're all the victims
Mistrust of medical institutions/poisonous vaccines:
Discovering the cure, the ravenous medicine
Died through illness, the ravenous medicine
Don't care how many organs you gave
Injecting the drugs
'Till you become the slave
Turn off the machine that keeps your heart beating
They're gonna do it to you !!
Sarah made really good beer bread which I got to enjoy. She gave some to me Saturday night at Anthony's and then got into a really bad bike accident. She is healing up and looking better but the situation is not pleasant. The only person getting by without any depressing issues at the moment is Avery. Avery thinks he might be able to manipulate reality to his advantage. It seems to work..whatever he does or doesn't do. I have seen him make some bad choices and upon being faced with worse consequences he somehow manages to escape or someone bails him out when he leasts expects it. I don't know if it's so much him thinking positive as it is some kind of shield or protection that he might have. He isn't over positive or anything. My dad is positive and fails at manipulating negative situations to his advantage with "positive thoughts." Zach and Jackie will remember finding all of his little index cards which said "I am a money magnet. I get money from known and unknown sources." Writing that down in a bunch of different places and repeating it hasn't done much..we haven't hit the jackpot. Most of the time I think negatively and am prepared for negative situations..when I am prepared for a negative situation and it turns out positive then I am pleasantly surprised. The human experience is mostly negative if you think about it long enough. I mean a lot of positive things happen but they usually involve an absence of war(rare),a vaccine for a horrible disease,self sacrifice for the greater good of others(rare),a discovery that doesn't end up with plundering/slavery/war/famine/disease(probably hasn't happened unless we get technical and consider Antarctica),great inventions(but they can usually be used for greed/control and usually are). You can tell me all about how beautiful life can be,observing nature,observing space,breathing,relaxing,artistic expression,actually living. I realize that and try to enjoy life but I am focusing on the human experience in a nutshell..as a whole. I can only base it on history to present day..who knows..maybe humans will make a gigantic mental leap in the future. That would be nice.
List of Relatively Obscured Krautrock Titles(which I recommend)
First of all let me introduce this list by admitting that I am a newcomer to many of these titles. With the exception of one,I have been listening to all of these for months and can concur that they are truly outstanding and need to be heard. I don't have hard copies of any of these albums. I am hoping to find the Erlkoenig or Rufus Zuphall reissues on vinyl at some point in the near future. I just ordered a record today(Atrocity-Hallucinations) but maybe one of these will be the focus of my next search.
1.Rufus Zuphall-Weiß der Teufel* I raved about this many months ago. It's really well played and well written Jethro Tull styled rock. There is a furious flute solo in the title track and the whole album is very free feeling, full of meandering jams. It's mellow for the most part and kind of dark and spooky. I have really enjoyed listening to it on the way home from work in the cool summer night,in the dark with the windows open.
2.Troya-Eruption*Rather basic rock with progressive/psych elements. Somehow these short songs are highly addicting..maybe it's the esoteric and melancholic atmosphere. I suppose it's played well but the production is kind of a hack job. A rainy day record.
3.Tortilla Flat-Für ein ¾ Stündchen*An upbeat fairly instrumental jazzy flute record. I can't get enough of it!
4.Oktober- Die Pariser Commune*German political prog rock. Awesome synthesizer work,catchy repetitive melodies,a strong possibility of corny lyrics. Maybe my least favorite on this list but only because these songs are way too long! 25,23,22,15 minute tunes here. If I understood German then I might be able to appreciate any kind of story that the lyrics were telling.
5.Nanu Urwek-Irgendwo... Nicht Weit von Hier*1978 jazz/psych album with really warm,lo-fi production that suits the music just fine. My favorite track would have to be the lonely and contemplative "Der Illusionist...Der Clown." The cover,with that night/day winter scene really appeals to me..it's one reason why I looked further into this album.
6.A La Ping Pong-Extrem Musik a la Ping Pong Phase 1- Kind of a gentle,nostalgic sounding pop take on the "kosmiche" sound. Not entirely trippy but relaxing and enjoyable like Manuel Göttsching's first record(guitar delay effects especially)or Klaus Schulze's shorter songs.Complete with some tinny drums,timeless guitar melodies and timid vocals(on one track).
7.Erlkoenig-self titled*Probably the best record on here. A solid organ drenched progressive rock record with every track being a standout. A lazy and vague description..I know.If there were ever a soundtrack to the boring life of a lonely man with a barely there office job...keeping to himself and eating smart dogs for dinner..this would be it.
CURRENT AFFAIRS;
Working on ..a bunch of pieces for my show at Nog in the fall..almost finished a "cyborg recycling plant" drawing today. Still working on the top sheet for the snowboard.
Reading..Swedish Death Metal by Daniel Ekeroth..I am not very far into it..Entombed just released "Left Hand Path"
Listening to..a good variety of death metal,krautrock,synthesizer albums and classical lately. Depends on the mood,the weather,the day.
Amorphis when they were good
Some Drawings
Digging through boxes of musty papers,books and Japanese magazines gets tiring. Especially when I am throwing nearly everything out or giving it to Salvation Army. Today I ran into a good box.
A box almost filled to the brim with drawings from 1990 to 1995? I pulled a few of my favorites out and scanned them.
Here is Buck..
A comic book cover to a comic I never finished(hmm sounds familiar).
A phantom running off of a ladder with his hand outstretched.
Michael Jordan & Larry Bird in mid air. This is a rough game by the looks of it. The guys on the court look pretty fucked up.
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