That was Beautiful....

One of my favorites..trust me

Next Saturday @ 7:00pm @ LB Gallery

 and yes i cried over this

Museum Trips

Charles Sheeler

Ben Shahn

George Tooker

I can't seem to find much on Jack Stuck.I can't even remember what I saw or where? 

All I know is I wrote his name down with a star next to it...anyone?

Hollyfuckingshit: Gore Comedies

The Silent movie theater will be filled with screams

Color Fields forever

I wish I didn't have to work on Saturday so that I could take the tour

I need me one of these multi tasking hanger boxes

I'm craving colorful socks and frocks

Harell Fletcher has a new project 

Yvan Salomone

New obsession

I think I'd like to own one of these.

Gentleman Boy With a Guilty Smile

Sons and Daughters is one of the better live bands I've seen in years.

I'm happy they're starting to pick up in America

A rising visionary? ..cue end of world music

you've got to be joking me,right?

This is what is wrong .

To say that this person is an icon and the uncompromising voice of fashion .

Some body needs to lose their job.

This is the best this girl has ever looked and will look.

I'm being super nice here too.

Hipster Muse: HA!

Artist Series

H.Curtis does this wonderful web movies and mini documentaries.

I find them incredibly inspiring.I often watch them and then get motivated .

The artist series are some of my favorites. 

It's worth spending some time watching them.

They're not so long,entertaining, informing and for a web film,they look pretty amazing.

 Humans by Mike Mills

Retesting Your "L" Senses

Look:

amazing work and amazing stories

When i lived in Seattle I had a part time job.

I worked the 11pm-4am shift.

The building was this beautiful faded brownstone

Totally out of character for the street,for the city.

With these huge greying windows. 

I worked on the top floor in a room with  one phone and one computer

My job was to monitor the phone sex,for the gay men lines

It was quite an "ear opening experience" for me a young virgin at the time.

However, on breaks I got t hang out with the guys and we talked about music and

owning dogs and whether or not Oscar should go back to school to become a teacher..good times, good people.

I adore the short animations of Arthur de Pins

Listen:

conversations over dinner

i got a new one today..it's shiny and has a lot of songs on it already

Learn:

I'm learning new dance steps. I watch this over and over

I'm on my way, I Have the hat and the clapping down.

I need to guys to complete .

I believe I've mentioned many times how 

Boy Meets Girl is one of my all time favorite films

and that Leos Carax i think is a brilliant film maker.

See I told you so,just have a look at this scene.It's  So beautiful! one of my favorite.

a perfect scene,magic everything about it...It even has a Bowie song.

who knew?

Poke in Real life

This pretty much sums up how i feel about facebook , myspace and all those other sites that i somehow managed to get suckered into signing up for then wondering..now what.

more giggles

R.I.P.

Pain cause by the death of one that you loved is the most difficult of emotions to deal with 

to understand to move on from.

The daily reminders of what was and what could have been for the upcoming years.

Journeys together gone forever

the tears they cause

the laughter

the motivation

You've guided me through many hard  times.

You were there with me everyday. There was not one day in the last 3 years that I've know you that i have not turned to you and turned you on and pushed that shuffle button

Alas those days are gone.

I am not angry at you for that frowning face you gave me yesterday.I am not disappointed.

I know it was just your time. Your time to join the many others. Your time to be by the side of my mini pink that died last year...it was your time. However, the time i did spend with you were some of the most musical times i have ever had.

good bye my sweet ipod you will be missed. At least till noon today when i go in and replace you...Kinda like a gold fish

I was wondering

What do you do when you are alone all day and night?

Dear Mom and Dad: Why America is F*&k'ed

Aaron Draplin of Draplin Design Co. along with  Coudal are creating a three part documentary called Draplin Project.

Here is a Sneak Peek

Before he did the video post he sent a letters to his parents.

DEAR MOM AND DAD: I know you raised me well,and taught me how to speak and behave like an appropriate adult and all that,but,Jess asked the question and I got all fired up and then started swearing like a sailor. These things happen. Don't excommunicate me.

light reading options

This months Atlantic is the Special Fiction Issue 2008.

The Atlantic is i believe the oldest short story literary magazine around. That was up till the decided not to publish short stories every month. People had a hard time accepting this. Little did they know the Atlantic had something up their sleeve and lo and behold. The Fiction issue arrived.Tricky bastards..

You can read some online but i suggest you grab a copy and read them while sitting in a hot bath.This gets the pages all wet the best part about reading in the bath.

A selection of some of short stories doesn't often hold my attention for to long. I always find myself reading half of the book of shorts. I read this whole magazine and really enjoyed most. Especially one in particular .I was softened by the story " The Second Coming of Gray Badger" By Carter Simms Benton.

In Short...

"The Second Coming of Gray Badger" tells the story of two brothers traveling around 1070's America with a stolen racehorse, trying to win enough money to bail their horse trainer father out of prison.

Benton writes in a lovely prose,very minimal and spare. Leaving the reading wondering and wanting. Which is his purpose. It's a grand gesture to the love of writing.A great thing for the love of the reader. I read he is now writing his first novel.

Fashion+ Film=Arty

I enjoy watching little projects like this.

I like doing little projects like this.

I want to do a projects like this before summer ends.

Waltzing You All The Way Home

Opening tonight..sorry i forgot to mention it.

oh man,bummer

Randy Pausch died 

Asleep At the Wheel

I havent adjusted back to LA time . I've been getting up at 5:30 am.

Watching: more of the brilliant BBC documentary 

The Power of Nightmares.

Listening to: The Whitsundays all morning

Adding to the pile another book.

When did they start doing trailers for books? 

not even domestic but the international one at that.

I didnt have any sound but it's worth watching ever lovable second

A different name ,a new killer band..

Nate online

Since when did 16 year olds become so......

S. asked me to do a playlist for my day:

my answer was "I hit the shuffle button"

So S. asked me to do an actual playlist and to listen to it to see how it would affect my day.

So I hit party shuffle and then burned a copy of whatever the tunes picked for me.

Realizing that I must just be opening the gates to a bunch of mocking from friends revealing some of my dubious music tastes..i think most knew already though.

1: The White Stripes

2: Amadeus

3: Descendents

4: Sondre Lerche

5:U2

6: Ali Farka Tour Farka w/ Ry Cooder

7:Aimee Mann

8: AC/DC

9: The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band

10: Bob Dylan

11:Belle & Sebastian

12: Lesson 3 Prendre Un Taxi Ou Lour Une Voitre?

13: That Dog

14: Stevie Wonder

15:Nightmares on Wax

16: Edith Piaf

17: Johhny Cash

18: Bill Bryson A short history of everything

19: Beastie Boys

20: Gabriel Yared

21: Rosemary Clooney

22: The Stanley Brothers

23: Ben Folds Five

24: The Pogues

25: Pixies

26: Robert Frost

27: Michael Armstrong

28:Mavis Staples

29: David Sedaris

30: Blind Melon

31: The Verve

32: Nellie McKay

33: The Chemical Brothers

34: Sonny Rollins

35: Sufjan Stevens

36: Justin Timberlake

37: Built To Spill

38: Travis

39: the 6ths

40: John Hartford

41: Outkast

42: Snoop Dogg

43: Clem Snide

44:The Flying Burrito Brothers

45: Nina Simone

looking at the list..that would have been one heck of a party.

dinner with a side of broken neck

New York was hot and humid ,full of expensive art books. I ran out of clean clothes and had to pack a suitcase full of stink. I will start posting photos when i get the nerve.

mustache's = swell

I'm learning to get my groove on from one of my favorite sites

I've been reading through Philip Larkin. Collecting his words

and storing  them  in the back of my minds file cabinets 

The opening to this poem was something I could relate too.

"They fuck you up,your mum and dad.

 They may not mean to,but they do.

 They fill you with the faults they had

 and add some extra,just for you."

dinner with "friends" is always nice with laughter and awkwardness .

Especially with heels and jazz shoes.

Like a deer in the lights

Phoebe Killdeer & The Short Straws are awesome in every way.

I can't stop watching and listening and neither should you.

I think I've posted this before..but it's been inspiration for a current project I've secretly been working on.mostly in my head,soon to be on still film. You should see the film if you get a chance.

on the wall @ MOMA , Jenny Holzer

I'm home sweet home

I'll post more later,especially images.

I have to catch up on work things first.

Hey New York,see you in seven days

3...2...1..and I am almost there

Holiday starts in 3 days. then I am outta here

plane ride

taxi ride

boat ride

then island living for me for 5 days.

Nothing but porch time, walks,kayaking, canoeing and reading.

Speaking of books:

here is what I am bringing.

A Cold Case  a friend is directing the film.So I thought I'd give it a read .

Animal,Vegetable Miracle. Been sitting on my bedside for months

Audio Book of this and this

and if course my book club book.

Do you think that's enough books.I might pick up one more.

Someone once recommended This  maybe I'll pick it up just in case.

After 5 days on the island i go to NYC for 4 days where i do art related things.

 I received my Louise Bonnet art today. All beautifully framed and no where to hang, just yet.

it could of all been one post

I could have put this whole day into one post.

However, how exciting is it that i have so much to say about 

oh,not much!

I can't stop listening to She & Him

it is quite frankly the band I wish I was in.

Or at least a voice I wish i had.

Also it makes for great daydreaming music.

Great installation on a hot day music.

RIP

I had no idea that Bruce Conner Passed.

a dream collection..begins

I am making it a life long goal to collect all of these.

Just look at the colors, the shapes.

 I of course will accept any as gifts. Heck the whole collection is only $6500.

Like A Rock

A Pocket Watch never lies

I leave for New Orleans in September.

I am having a love affair with the idea of  New Orleans.

I also love pocket watches,cause my grandpaps had one.

I love OCMS. Here are a few favorites. I was certainly born to be a fiddler in a old time band. I missed my calling ,I think I was sleeping that day.

But nothing beats Gillian Welch and Old Crow..

singing on of my all time favorite songs

i heart

My first record i bought was this 7 inch

I played it so much in the first week.My sister came into the room took the record

off the player and smashed it to bits.

Turned to me and said

"gag me with a spoon"

I cried for days, I was very sensitive.