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Cute Little Blood-Sucking Vampires

3 comments September 13th, 2008

Circuit Bending

Wednesday, Mr. Pungsnotded had a circuit bending workshop. Never one to do things by the book, Mr. Pungsnotded decided to let the worms do all the work.

Worms need to express themselves, too!

Taking apart children’s toys, isn’t as easy as it looks, and there are lots of tiny screws to remove.

But the result is worth it. You should try. You don’t have to use worms, you can use a finger.

I do not claim to actually know what a circuit is, or what actually happens when you bend one. I do know what noise is, I like to make lots of it!

-or- there was free Jimmy John’s at the workshop, and I enjoy free food and noise.

7 comments September 12th, 2008

Past Couple of Days…

These past couple of days have been busy, first I caught a BIGFOOT!

And THEN after way too much time spent on the computer, we secured our copy of the “Who Killed Amanda Palmer”, Neil Gaiman Book, T-shirt, etc. Yay! We have been rocking the cd in the kitchen ever since. There are a few cup-smashing-ala-Pump Up the Volume/Breakfast Club moments in that music, let me tell you!

Go get your’n!

3 comments September 9th, 2008

Two New Dudes

So, these two new dudes showed up. One loves math and skateboarding. The other loves beer and hacky sacks. It is like a total bro-down, around here lately.

6 comments August 30th, 2008

It has been the kind of time, these past couple of weeks, where life is suspended and waiting. Everything stops and everything and nothing becomes important. Music has become difficult to listen to, as anything political will not do, and anything enjoyed for the irony, seems well, like the irony is lost. Instrumentals aren’t happening, I need voices and words, to know that I am not sitting here alone. This is the time where I make deals with myself, where I challenge logic and hope this all leads to a positive outcome. -so-

Stacy came to visit last week, and I was desperate for a night out and to hear some live live live music. Anything. We ended up at the ickiest college dive-meatmarket place, but heard something pleasant instead. Something that started (for us, we were late) with John Prine and ended with In the Pines, filled with original music all stuck in between. We drank shots of Jameson’s and laughed about things that only we could laugh about. I do believe we are here for reasons beyond us, and if the reason is music and laughing and friendship then that is probably ok with me. We finished the night by eating nachos and laughing the whole walk home.

So, I bought this great cd, and you should buy one too. Actually more than one. All of them. And go see some live music. It will clear your head for a few hours.

ClickChicago FarmerClick

2 comments August 28th, 2008

“You are the Measure”

My husband whisked me away on a suprise trip to Chicago for our 10th anniversary, last weekend. That’s right, I said whisked. One of the many kitchen tools, I am not familiar with. We went to the Museum of Contemporary Art and ate at Puck’s restaurant there. Oh my. Too much good food, too much good art. Is there such a thing?
When I first walked into the Matta-Clark exhibit, I was so tired and disoriented and I first stared at this piece and I thought to myself, in my snotty inner voice, “Oh, that’s been DONE before.”
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Then my eyes started to focus. Oh, Dear Goddess in Heaven Above, I realized this was the before, GORDON MATTA-CLARK! I should probably learn to read signs one of these days. It was unbelievable. I am still in awe. All the documentation, and handwriting, and letters, and film, it was really overwhelming. But in a good way. So sad, that man died at 35, and left us such a huge body of work. Imagine how big it could have been. Damn you, pancreatic cancer!

This exhibit was so needed to clean my soul. When I first wake up, I always have stared at the ceiling thinking about removing pieces of the floor, foundation, etc. When I was little, I liked to hang upside down on the sofa, and think about how cool it would be if the house was upside down. It would be MUCH cleaner, too. I still think about these things, and when I see an Artist that justs hits the mark, it makes me feel a little less isolated in my thinking. I have learned not to care what others think of me, but I never became comfortable with the idea that others don’t think LIKE me. And living in a bland-Walmart society, it becomes a lonely group, that thinks beyond that green paper that makes everyone bitchy! YOU ARE THE MEASURE!

4 comments May 6th, 2008

Sketchbooks/Robert Irwin/Roger Alan Wade etc.

I read through my sketchbook Friday morning. I found this strange list, in my own handwriting, and I have no idea when or why I wrote it.

Sketchbooks

dishes

stainless steel silverware

kids toys

Narrative

Sketchbooks are great for holding onto ideas, but sometimes, I do question myself, when I am writing down things that I cannot remember, later. And when I am writing 2 page love letters to Miller Lite. As a side note, I heard a new Roger Alan Wade song on his myspace page, and he gives a little shoutout to the Miller’s Lite, in the song DRUNK. Yay! Roger Alan Wade and the Miller’s Lite. I am so happy with that shoutout to the Miller’s Lite, that I have decided I will call it Miller’s Lite from now on!

Robert Irwin Who’s Afraid of Red Yellow and Blue³, 2006.

I saw this piece in San Diego, after Christmas this year. It was a little knee shakingly inspiring and sort of strangely calm at the same time. I wrote this later that evening.

“The simplicity of conceptual Art is such a deceiving thing. Reflections alone alter the subconscious to such extreme levels the concious mind gets to do a little dance, also.”

This would be the part after I have the sticky thighs, and I think before the part where we drank whiskey and cokes with some of my favorite people on Earth. Thank the gods above and below for Art galleries where depression seems ridiculous and life clicks into place.

Friday, my Japanese fabric that I ordered from Etsy seller, Plumtickledfabrics, arrived. Don’t you just want to live in that print? Go and buy some for yourself!

Carry on! Namaste Satanic Dentists!

1 comment April 28th, 2008

Jason Webley

There is music that entertains us, music that provokes us, and then there is that one category that transcends our reality, and makes us part of the experience. Jason Webley transcends all that is. Period. I knew the show was going to be amazing, when I saw him mike the floor. Of all the live performances I have ever seen, this one might be the best. Ever. There is no premise. There is no script. There is just an artist, projecting into an audience and an audience, doing their best to keep up.

All musicians should take note, and see that merely performing one night a month, is not enough. Just as artists cannot turn off the urges to create, great musicians make great music and we are humbled to be in their very prescence. Or maybe we might drink one too many Miller Lites and harrass the living daylights out of such a person. Either way, days later, you will think to yourself, did I really SEE that? Wow.

Mr. Webley has set the bar for every single musician I ever see again. And that bar is high. I urge you to purchase his music, all of it, and make it a priority to see him, anytime you can. We are surrounded with pre-fabricated houses, pre-fabricated movies and god-awful pop music that I could mix in my very own basement. This is real, it is talent, and it is damn entertaining. Thanks, Jason Webley, for inspiring and for keeping music alive these days!

Now, off you go, buy some music and see something real for once!

www.jasonwebley.com

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