About
Often forgets to pick up her phone, walks everywhere, reads under horrible lighting conditions, sighs often, likes to have the telly on for background noise purposes, has an obsession with lip gloss, hides behind the geek-ish veneer of eyeglasses and verbiage, savors every bite, sleeps in late, is a chocolate connoisseur, looks forward to the color and scent of autumn but prefers winter fashion, continues laughing long after everyone else has stopped, has detailed dreams, prides herself on her keen sense of direction, makes notes of aesthetic details, writes everything down, hoards mementos for future sentimentality, subscribes to your blogs, and takes candid photographs of you.
Movies
Star Wars, Amelie, Trainspotting, Studio Ghibli, Harriet the Spy, Little Nemo in Slumberland, Secret Garden, A Little Princess, Kung Fu Hustle, Beverly Hills Ninja, From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, Goonies, Pretty Persuasion, Little Miss Sunshine, La Science des Rêves, The Life Aquatic, A Life Less Ordinary
Music
PINBACK, boards of canada, DNTEL, smashing pumpkins, nine inch nails, kings of convenience, erlend oye, THEOREM, CURSIVE, blonde redhead, ROYKSOPP, Laura Veirs, The Shins, Air, The Submarines, Caural, Cinematic Orchestra, modest mouse, my bloody valentine, fiona apple, sondre lerche, super furry animals, secret mommy, sigur ros, MOGWAI, belle & sebastian, architecture in helsinki, andrew bird
Television
Will and Grace, Sex and the City, Family Guy, American Dad, The Simpsons, Scrubs, The Daily Show, Colbert Report, Mythbusters, The Office, Dr. 90210, America's Next Top Model, America's Next Top Chef, Hell's Kitchen, Top Gear, Black Adder
Books
Atlas shrugged, Brave New World, Flowers for Algernon, Janson's History of Art, James Stewart's Calculus text books, Biological Psychology, Lolita, Freckle Juice, Chocolate Fever, His Dark Materials Series, Wheel of Time Series, Harry Potter series, Dandelion Wine, anything by Ray Bradbury and Shel Silverstein
Activities
Adventures, Pop-Rock Kisses, nostalgia, introspection, consistency, rationality, epistemology, etiology, etymology, silliness, laughing, having picnics, writing secret notes, writing, theory
magical thinker, voracious reader.
SeptemberSep 27 Sunday Sun 09
Time for "Pop" is gone.
With the coming of Anna Halprin (with Anne Collod) to the MCA, I've begun considering all things "exhibition"esque in art and society. Inevitably, I came to the conclusion that shock value has lost its luster. For example, the likes of Warhol and Johns have aged gracefully into soft shock treatment in our society: in advertising and performance. Even internet phenomena that screams too loudly for attention is sternly avoided. The time for fluidity, brevity, and taking into consideration to minute details - excellence - is so much more charming and agreeable to us. But why do we want art to be agreeable? Because, if anything, art is a language, and language exists as a tool with which we use to commune together. We are no longer seeking attention, or rebelling against sensitivity: we are reasoning. Calmly. Colorfully. Everything must be balanced - not entirely balanced - such that we at least have something to hark back to our roots of pop and shock.
AugustAug 11 Tuesday Tue 09
Entry art scene
I haven't been to the Pilsen Art Walk in the past few months, but when I used to go regularly, oh, back in 2006-2007, I remember mostly gawking, and getting generally drunk at the galleries. What better way to enforce camaraderie with a wide array of artists, than alcohol? A reason Skylark is just so precious to us, in Pilsen/Bridgeport/etc.
This past Friday, I got to see the Olafur Eliasson exhibit at the MCA, something I've been meaning to see not because of my rampant interest in all things Scandinavian. But, the advertisement for his exhibit featured his StarGate-like "One Way Colour Tunnel," but there was some obligatory text over it, which read "Take Your Time." What an ironic thing to post on urban public transit. Nevertheless, successful, if not commercially, somewhat philosophically. Cool.
My favorite piece was definitely "Beauty," which is set in a dark room, with a wall of mist illuminated by a single source of light. Absolutely enchanting, and definitely interactive. My favorite art is becoming more and more interactive the older I get. The times? The times.
I won't go on with the entire exhibit here. I would just recommend people look up the man's info, and check out the gallery, wherever you are. The "Take Your Time" exhibit's been roving.
There's even has a book out about this exhibit.
Museum of Contemporary Arts in Chicago
SF Museum Of Modern Art
Museum of Modern Art in NYC
OctoberOct 26 Friday Fri 07
Mortem
I want to be completely desensitized to life and living, because in the end, we are fixated upon death's grips. We listen to dead rock stars and apply their songs to our daily, living, lives as if their messages mean anything in the future they'll never see; this, contemporaneous-ness that we are experiencing that they probably never imagined, or had a chance to imagine because they were so busy being alive.
I want to be busy living, too, someday. But for now, I am preoccupied with death again.
