Staying home blues

In the last 72 hours I...

Graduated college with more honors and degrees than my brother did (just saying). Ok, so I'm not in this photo because I skipped that ceremony but aren't my friends too cute? They look happy here but really everyone spent the day drunk and crying.

Packed up all of my shit in my like 250 square foot room.

Managed to make it all fit in my 150 square foot bedroom in my parents house and somehow make it look nice. Photographed are my cheesey childhood trinkets, my CD collection, yearbooks, box of letters, box of prints and postcards.

Began experimenting with room fragrance. Here is a terracotta bear usually used to keep brown sugar soft. Put in a dish (with a little water, although I'm not sure if the water is necessary) and add a couple drops of lavender essential oil and voilà at least 24 hours of aromatherapy. A far better solution than spraying roomspray over and over again. I am going to assume you could even coat the bear with roomspray instead of oil (or perfume, if you're a big spender) and you'd still get this lasting effect. While the lavender soothes my soul, I think it would be nice to mix it with something else, probably from Demeter, which is $15 at Duane Reade, baby. Don't touch their new Snickers-inspired shit. Dirt and Wet Garden are both good.

Perfected my Egyptian Princess Look. To go with my flannel.

do you still have taste aside from a distaste for capitalism?

A look at ME, then and now.





Then: One of my favorite things in the world used to be Art. I used to like looking at pictures and going to museums, and I was up on all the latest developments of the 20th century!! I particularly liked Egon Schiele, because his art embodies everything meaningful in the experience of the seventeenyearold, such as mirrors



Now: I don't like going to galleries for fear of being mistaken as a pseudo-counter-cultural reactionary. Also everyone else knows more about it than me.




Then: Before I discovered radical feminism, I used to enjoy displaying my body to men because fulfilling their lame romantic-sexual fantasies was a cheap ticket to a MASSIVE EGO.




Now: My current boyfriend gave me a book called "Sex and Philosophy: Rethinking De Beauvoir and Sartre" as a Christmas present three months after we met. Around the same time he also explained to me that he was attempting to explode gender roles in cuddling. It looks like I'm projecting rather a different image. I do still enjoy being manipulative though.





Then: I used to buy "vintage clothing" because I thought it would make me cool.




Now: In pursuit of a minimalist lifestyle, and also in protest against poor working conditions, the death of craftsmanship in the face of mass production, and disposability culture, I tend to limit purchases to extremely expensive objects and old shit.





Then: I used to enjoy reading novels and short stories, partly because it's quite fun, but more importantly because because I was destined to be an artiste!! Poetry is kinda boring frankly, and I never really got the point, but I had to read a lot of that too, if only for appearances' sake.




Now: I don't really read anymore because fiction is self-indulgent, and often doesn't have enough transformative content. However, I read the Daily Mail's "Femail" section obsessively. N.B. for American viewers: this has nothing to do with feminism

In sum:
Then: dilettante
Now: hypocrite

WHICH DO YOU PREFER???

hello sunshine

happy weekend! perhaps this will make you cheerful (or ill)

hello friends

mostly so cool

SORRY NOT COOL, SO BORING
lilla, aka mon homeboy. lit hum 1st & 2nd semester. coined phrase "if you were achilles what would YOU do?" "well i wouldn't kill people if my friend died" "you dont believe you can love a friend that much? huh, interesting"


AND YOU?

obama obama

My friends

I have not been updating because I have been consumed by politics. I spent the week of the NH primary going door to door in very cold weather begging, manipulating and sometimes convincing old people and lonely 40 year old men to vote for Barack Obama. What a man!!!!!!!!

I have become very good at convincing people to vote for this man. I do it 1. to feel powerful 2. to feel intelligent 3. to make him president. because I really support him.

FOR A NUMBER OF REASONS I CALL THE FOUR I'S AND ONE V. They are:

integrity

intelligence

vision

image

electability. (pronounced ilectability)

STAY TUNED FOR I #1.

right so

prophets, seers

I finally had the chance to listen to Marta's UCL radio show, Feel Good TV Off. I recommend you go there immediately. I had never used online radio before and it is the coolest shit ever (not so much because it is on the internet, but because I don't have a radio and forgot how the radio is like. What is cool about the internet, though, is that you can tune in to your buddies across the Atlantic). You can hear really nice music all day long with no pressure to know what you feel like. Behold their most recent playlist:

Hoooooooraaaayy

two sisters

finally, a reason to visit my sister

Os Mutantes
Friday, July 13, 2007
8:00 PM
The El Rey
5515 Wilshire Blvd.
Los Angeles, California 90036

is this real????????????

old movies on the big screen

I thought it was all hype but it wasn't! No, it is not!

Do It #2

1. find some artist you like.
2. obtain contact information. this is usually available through their galleries.
3. send a nice email or make a nice phone call saying you would like to be their personal assistant or intern.
4. repeat until successful!

it doesn't have to be an artist. it can be some other interesting and slightly obscure professional person, and, according to my art history teacher, preferably a homosexual. i once did this with magazines. i ended up not doing the internship i got, but that's another story.






in other news, this is what i have been reading instead of the shorter cambridge medieval history:


Making Things
fashionable knitting


Lena Corwin
design


Micasa
polaroids, design


La Tartine Gourmande
food pornography

well i guess i don't read blogs i just look at the pictures most of the time.


-paz

Community Service

The Incredible String Band - The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter

red hat? i want a hat of blood!

what i did today, saturday:
11: woke up
11-11:35: got out of bed
11:35-12: mysterious lost period
12-12:45: surfed blogosphere
12:45-1: ate pear
1-1:30: ate apple
1:30-1:45: read fan email
1:45-2: ate orange
2-2:45: prepared to go to library (shower, put on lots of makeup, style hairs.
2:50: arrived at library
2:50-3:15: read calligraphy books in kansas city room
3:15-3:40: "did research" with evan (watched evan fill in sheet, watched evan play online golf game, watched evan play online soccer game)
3:40: went into stacks
3:44: realized all the gardening books are green


3:50: evan finds my book for me
3:50-4: read albrecht durer's diary, find out everything he ate and how many florins he paid for it



4-5: make librarian do research for me
5-6: sullenly eat dinner in lower left (salad, butternut squash, pastry involving apple) and read book furiously (a world lit only by fire).
6:05: saw this nice tree.

6:15: arrive adams hall. take off all clothes.

my plans for the night include neatening the hovel that is my room (this will involve removing the blood and orange peels from the carpet thank god) perhaps while watching reality bites, doing calligraphy while i listen to anna karenina, writing epic novel about my childhood for the stupid literary magazine i co-edit.

RIP Ibrahim

i am holding a contest to determine the names of kate lovely's next two fish. it will be a national sensation.
past fish names include: betty, solomon, ibrahim

o man #2

how to fight loneliness (is maybe my least favorite wilco song)

for my birthday i want either this:

(veiled chameleon)

or this:

(bunny)

to live with me in my dorm room next year.

Homemade christmas present 2

it is made of 2 skeins of blue sky alpaca sport weight yarn on size 2 needles. those are small needles. but i love artemis very much.

although the pattern suggests that this hat is good for "the slopes" i think it is also appropriate for gathering mushrooms, mixing potions, and communicating with fauna of the forest. i did not adhere so closely to the pattern so if you are planning to copy me, be warned.

i want to go to thisstore.

Should we also flood the Sistine Chapel, so tourists can get nearer the ceiling?

man, i can't wait till i can write an action letter without sounding like a huge prick
"From an evolutionary standpoint, each species in our ecosystem has evolved to its fullest ecological potential to sustain the environment by filling a different biological niche. For example, the water monitor has not evolved opposable thumbs, nor has learned to walk on two feet as homo sapiens, yet it is one of the oldest species on earth. It is unscientific to consider the monitor an inferior species when it has adapted so adeptly to its ecosystem over millions of years."
This merits a "yo Fuck!" for sure.

Do It #1

Sometimes when the wind chill gets up to a temperate -13 degrees or so it is nice to have some desiccated foliage around just to remind yourself of cycles of death and regeneration. Well at flower stores they have a whole bunch of three day old roses just sitting all unwanted and sad in the back. If you ask nicely they will sell them to you for nothing or less. Hang the bouquets upside-down to dry, it is super nice. I chose to decapitate mine but I guess I just thought the picture would turn out cooler than it did.

-paz