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[Jun. 16th, 2009|03:14 pm] |
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it's summertime and i made some drawings that i like. it's been a while since i've done that.
(luella s/s 09, francis bacon, cy twombly of course of course of course, dries van noten f/w 09, assemblage?)
it's summertime and i'm going to see jonathan richman next week. should i make him a chocolate malt or is that just creepy? should i go in a striped shirt? i want to, but that's probably creepy, too.
it's summertime and i ate soft serve ice cream.
it's summertime and i wore a short-sleeved top.
it's summertime and i'm dancing in the subway while i wait for my train.
it's summertime and i only listen to the modern lovers and half japanese.
it's summertime and i'm going to see the jacques tati retrospective at the cinematheque.
it's summertime and i'm taking summer school, and i need to stop avoiding it.
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[May. 22nd, 2009|06:16 pm] |
i keep trying to write about myself, but i can't. it feels so self-indulgent. so i decided to write about other people for a change...
GIRLS OF THE INTERNETS
girls who make me sick with jealousy (via my googlereader)
susanna lau
http://stylebubble.typepad.com/
i cringe with every self-deprecating comment that she makes, and by god there's a lot of them.perhaps she really is just self-conscious or humble or something but how, how, how? with the biggest closet ever, outfits i'd be too scared to put on in a million years (that is, if i could even think up such outfits in the first place), and that face! the cute bow mouth, that flat little nose, those soft cheeks... i know she isn't too fond of her 'pancake face' as she calls it, but hey, pancakes are delicious. i am also quite in love with her british mannerisms ("twat", high street", etc). i'd like to speak like that, but i'm not british, so it wouldn't really make sense. i wonder if she has a chinese accent? brb melting
 
 
look, it's luella susie! and pom-poms. i love pom-poms.
tavi
http://tavi-thenewgirlintown.blogspot.com/
i can't really talk/think about her without getting angry, and i'm not even an angry person. the free rodarte stuff (twice!) was one thing, but spending a day with the mulleavy sisters in their l.a. studio, complete with a trip to ooga booga and opening ceremony (starring:hello kitty paraphernalia) is just.... just.... why can't i be thirteen again? (check out her recent blog entries if you don't know what i'm talking about)
 
the luckiest prepube i have ever encountered
hasisi park
http://www.flickr.com/photos/hasisi
her broken english is charming.
hasisi is definitely falls into that "people that i am afraid of on flickr" category. when she added daniel and i as a contact (our shared account of scribbly drawings made on my bed), i jumped up and down. i fired off an email to daniel. in fact, i did both of those at the same time. it's strange... i'm not really into this type of photography, but there's just something that i really like about hasisi.
 
 
i do not look like this in a mesh body suit. not even close.
julia frakes
http://julialapin.typepad.com/
julia makes me particularly jealous. she is also particularly pale, and ginger-blonde perfect hair colour-endowed. i would also vouch to say that she is particularly rich, judging by her sonia rykiel hat, the floral balenciaga dress, cdg pendant, stella mccartney shoesies....
 
 
so i guess the camera un-adds 10 pounds for her?
omg andre
elinkan
http://elinkan.blogg.se/
really makes me wish that i had dimples (i kind of have one, on the right side of my face, if i smile really hard)! possibly the cutest girl in sweden, the little blurbs under her entries are cute, too:
"Today I got some new freckles and went to a big superstore where I bought a water gunand sweets"
what!? i wouldn't mind some freckles. and "sweets" (this is what my parents call them sometimes - they're south african). i adore her pale hair. maybe it is natural, seeing that she is swedish and everything. i dye mine just like hers (we have a similar haircut too, but my bangs are shorter at the moment), and it's not too fun. it takes hours and hours and i always fear that my hair will fall off when i bleach it.
fml
even cuter in motion
marcine miller
www.flickr.com/photos/marcinethequeen/
if i happened to be a boy, i would totally be in love with marcine. she studies film at tisch, loves yé-yé (even more than i do, perhaps), and is in possession of one of the best faces, ever (so soft and round!)
   
 
 
THAT FACE
i'm sure she's read enough books and seen enough films (four hundred of them last year) to make me
dizzy. this is a great source of jealousy for me.
yama
tokyobopper.com/?page=1
she truly is my favorite bopper (though i do wonder where osayama went! she was cute). i look forward to her outfit posts and occasional outbursts of babelfish. i am also envious of her snaggleteeth, the way she looks in a horizontally-striped, floor-sweeping skirt (not fat), and her clipped haircut. she sometimes refers to her bangs as her "forelock", which sounds even nicer than "fringe."
 
 
one day she will replace yayoi kusama as the coolest old lady in japan (yama's fond of dots, too!). i can just feel it.
arvida byström
http://arvidabystrom.blogspot.com/
everything i can't be.
 
in conclusion,
FML, really.
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| if i were |
[May. 11th, 2009|07:15 pm] |
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| | tais-toi petite folle - tiny yong | ] |
a month, i would be: may. there is always so much to look forward to in may; first ice-cream, spring weather (better than summer weather, really), summer break, leaves coming back into my life. the trees are without leaves for such a large part of the year that i forget that trees are even supposed to have leaves, so it is a pleasant surprise to see them once again.
a day of the week, i would be: friday.
a time of day, i would be: late late late at night. i guess that's just early early early in the morning?
a planet, i would be: pluto. off in my little corner.
a sea animal, i would be: monkfish. well, at least when i'm yawing or growling.
a direction, i would be: to the left, to the left
a piece of furniture, i would be: my boyfriend's bed
a sin, i would be: eating too many wafers.
a historical figure, i would be: yoko ono
a liquid, i would be: strawberry milk tea
a stone, i would be: stoned?
a tree, i would be: birch. or a weeping willow, so that you could swing on my branches.
a bird, i would be: humming
a tool, i would be: thread clipper
a flower/plant, i would be: baby's breath (flower constellations!) or cherry blossom
a kind of weather, i would be: falling snow (fluffy)
a mythical creature, i would be: yuki-onna
a musical instrument, i would be: theremin
an animal, i would be: daschund, scottish fold
a colour, i would be: pale pink
a vegetable, i would be: radish (pickled)
a sound, i would be: church bells
an element, i would be: the whole table
a car, i would be: 1938 vw beetle
a book, i would be written by: e.e. cummings, perhaps. he has a nice way with punctuation.
a food, i would be: strawberry tart
a material, i would be: felt
a scent, i would be: old books (i have a copy of molière's plays that smells just like waffles!)
a word, i would be: neat
a body part, i would be: kisser
a facial expression, i would be: blushing
a subject in school, i would be: french, bien sûr!
a cartoon character, i would be: moomin. i need to lose weight.
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[Mar. 29th, 2009|04:13 am] |
my posts have been rather lacking lately
let's bond over desktops
* daniel and i missed jansco things b/c we had to go to his cousin's engagement party, starring:instrumental version of colours of the wind"
*i am such a slut when it comes to old men
*i held the door open for one of them on friday, i told him that i like his glasses, then he said that he liked my glasses, dress, boots, and hat, then asked if i liked his hat and i said "yes! you're very snappy"
* i stare on the subway
* a man collecting donations for black history month (in the subway) asked if i would go out with him, i said no i have a boyfriend, and he asked "is he black or white" and i said "white", to which he replied "well i guess you've never tasted chocolate"
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[Mar. 15th, 2009|02:30 am] |
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| | wir bauen eine neue schdadt - palais schaumburg | ] |
OMG do want (welcome to tsai ming-liang fangirling) l www.nytimes.com/2008/12/27/movies/27face.html "A fireman on the set took Mr. Tsai to a hidden pond beneath the Louvre, where the director then shot Ms. Casta up to her waist in murky waters. And he filmed Mr. Léaud crawling out of what looks like a giant mouse hole beneath Leonardo da Vinci’s portrait of St. John the Baptist." "Mr. Tsai said he loved the way she danced with the stag in the snowy Tuileries, minimally clad in Christian Lacroix and singing Chinese songs against a tape." some more grace chang songs perhaps (plz)? here she is performing the song in 'air hostess'... she is so charming and dreamy and everything nice. i could watch her forever i hope this will see a release at the toronto international film festival. i would do anything to see it/meet ming-liang (???) i've had luck with this in the past bffs (kiyoshi kurosawa + self) at the tiff showing of tokyo sonata  HALP. make masters of cinema release tokyo sonata sooner (now)  SIGH
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| ART SCHOOL PART 2 |
[Jan. 12th, 2009|10:31 pm] |
me:"yeah, i'm definitely not going to write a poem for this assignment. writing poetry is really difficult and i can't do it."
girl:"yeah,me neither. well, actually, it depends. like, i can write surrealist poetry really easily because surrealism is just like, whatever, from your head"
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[Jan. 9th, 2009|12:18 am] |
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"omg is that ice" (in relation to an andy goldsworthy sculpture that was clearly made out of ice, like sitting atop a river of ice in the middle of winter. also, this was yelled out while we were watching a documentary, i want to slap a bitch)
"i like it, it reminds me of existentialism" (in relation to a sculpture of a chair sitting next to a wall)
keith "herring" (this is how my teacher spelled it)
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[Dec. 13th, 2008|03:01 am] |
my life lately
 
1)bruce labruce retrospective (!!!!!!) the only thing i went to see was the raspberry reich (/gay la chinoise) which totaly ruled. daniel also went to see super 8½ (richard kern + strapon = how did i miss this) on saturday while i was stuck at home (kinda) studying. he met/talked to bruce. can i say jealousssssssssss
2)i met jon. i bet yalls are jealous, and you should be. WE GOT CREPES. that daniel put cocounut (???) on. but i forgive him. we also ran into daniel's emo friend who invited us to a rave.
3)got my hair did (via crappy cellphone pix). my mom says that i look chinese and daniel says i look swedish (via pinafore i was wearing earlier today)
4)ghetto bro (rapping on the bus) came up to me while i was buying pocky sticks and said that he liked my shoes (see-through plastic wedges w/red trim) and asked to add me to facebook. then his friend said "let's go cousin" as they disappeared into the night
HE NEVER ADDED ON FACEBOOK
5) is cousin what you call people who you're not close enough w/ to call your 'bro'?
6)dude w/gelled hair and futuristic soccer shoes on the train told me that he's had a six pack since he was two years old and kept asking me which sports i liked. I DO NOT LIKE SPORTS NEVER EVR GET AWAY FROM ME
7)when men start speaking to me (i mean strange men on trains who i have never met before) i get really nervous and instead of running away/pepper spray/going "o this is my stop kthxbai" i just blush and giggle, probably resulting in said creepy dude thinking that i like him? but i'm just acting like that b/c i'm extremely frightened and uncomfortable and can't think straight
8)received an online receipt from the apple store. i was like "that's weird, i never went to the apple store. maybe my parents bought me some itunes moneyz for my birfday?" then i checked the receipt (// attachments) and they bought me a fxcking IMAC LAPPY
9)i don't need a lappy, not even for my birthday, would just rather get the (covetable) hieronymus bosch book i saw at (nice-smelling) used bookstore the other day. it won't break and i won't have to replace it in 2 yrs when computers "grow up too fast" to use anymore
10)whatever it was nice (but totally uneccesaary) of them
11)no birthday surprises for me come sunday
12)unless my parents also ordered a male stripper(s?) for me
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[Nov. 16th, 2008|04:43 am] |
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on friday, we went to see in the realm of the senses (and the exiles!!!), and OHMIGOD
at the end of the film everyone in the theatre
a)gasped
b)LAUGHED
C)GIGGLED
d)or all three
and people were just laughing through the credits! ughguhhhhUGHHHHH! these 4 obnoxious cunts (as daniel perfectly described them) sitting behind us exclaimed THAT WAS SO FUNNY as we were walking out the theatre
>o
NUFF RANTING
(daniel and i drew this earlier this evening on my bed)
ANYWAY
i was looking at those criterion celebrity top 10 lists... they are so boring!
not because they are "full of canonized films" (obvs shouldn't automatically make something boring), but because they are just full of boring choices of these films
so here's my criterilolz top 10:
MON ONCLE (jacques tati, 1958)
gooood vibbesssss. i bought this last year at a reduced price at a record store, because i knew that daniel liked it. and so, that year, every time i was too sick/lazy/scared to go to school, i watched this in the basement and it made everything better. even when i think things are funny, i hardly ever laugh at them (out loud). but with this film, it all makes me laaaaaugh (out loud) - the fish fountain, the bouncy jug (and un-bouncy glass)
the whistling/making people walk into poles trick, the sausage plastic (THE SAUSAGE PLASTIC)... i also had the pleasure of seeing this at the cinematheque a few weeks ago. my eyes were brimming with tears, i was so cozy and surrounded by my bf and my favorite school-bunking movie. and there was this man and a little kid sitting next to us, it was too cute. i guess it was his son,or maybe his nephew...
CLOSELY WATCHED TRAINS (jirí menzel, 1966)
O HAI
this was so tender, but not in an indie girl tender way (which i hate)(i guess indie girl tender didn't exist yet at this point)(thank god)
WILD STRAWBERRIES (ingmar bergman, 1957)
this made me cry on an airplane. my brother looked at me funny
YES THIS WAS PLAYING ON AN AIRPLANE
<3
HIROSHIMA MON AMOUR (alain resnais,1959)
we watched this for class and OMGay pretty much everyone thought it was "boring" (and i'm in university, not high school)
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ONIBABA (kaneto shindo, 1964)
i should probably watch this again before i write anything about it (it's been a while). this was one of the first things i watched when i just started getting into film (this and vivre sa vie)
A WOMAN IS A WOMAN (jean-luc godard,1961)
this film will always have a special place in my heart. i think it is my third godard, after vivre sa vie and alphaville. i had a really skewed understanding of what godard was all abt. i saw this, and i was like, "godard is fun?and powdery primary colours?wtf?" in a good way.
YI YI (edward yang, 2000)
this made my love for back of head portraits grow exponentially. that music at the beginning/end is kinda corny, but i cried (A LOT) at the end anyway. actually, before i went on to cry really hard, when they boy was walking up to his grandmother's casket, i turned to daniel and said "k, i'm going to cry now." and then i did. s0 hard.
LOVES OF A BLONDE (milos forman, 1965)
am i dreaming, or did milos forman direct that jim carey thing? also: the table of homely ladies at the dance (i feel like them sometimes), that sex scene (i also feel like that sometimes), the opening scene (that song), the every scene
TWENTY-FOUR EYES (keisuke kinoshita, 1954)
when i watched this, i was stuck at home for a week with a terrible allergic reaction and a fair amount of benadryl (which i was so not used to). i was so floaty and delicate via 'dugs' (allergy medicine) and lost all sense of time, floating through pre-war japan, war japan, postwar japan, sniveling all over my blanket...
CHUNGKING EXPRESS (wong kar-wai, 1994)
i love cute wong kar-wai
i also love:
faye wong, faye wong with short hair, sentimental towels, crying apartments, confiding in stuffed animals, and the feeling i get whenever i hear california dreamin
honourable mentions:
PICKPOCKET (robert bresson,1959)
i was in a really shitty mood when i went to see this, but then i realized that it was amazing five minutes from the end. must see again.
ANDREI RUBLEV (andrei tarkovsky, 1966
i had no idea how to watch films when i saw this. i still don't really, but i think i'm better now than i was a year and a half ago... i bought this in new york last year, i need to sit down and watch this some time.
also: rublev + tarkovsky = same first name = the same dude?
VIDEODROME (david cronenberg, 1983)
i watch this every time it's on t.v.
every time
honourable mentions, falling asleep edition:
KWAIDAN(masaki kobayashi, 1964)
k, i was rly tired/having a rly long day when i went to go see this, and i had a shitty seat. and the theatre was so warm and dark and cozy, and...zzzzzzz...... but SRSLY, this film is so nice to look at and full of classic japanese stories/shits (which i am just a sucker for), like that evil mountain snow witch ...yes! i love that lady (she also made an appearance in kurosawa's dreams/every japanese thing ever) |
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[Nov. 12th, 2008|01:47 am] |
"Pope Benedict's other major interest is cats.[121] As Cardinal Ratzinger he was known to look after stray cats in Rome. A book called "Joseph and Chico: A Cat Recounts the Life of Pope Benedict XVI" was published in 2007 which told the story of the Pope's life from the feline Chico's perspective. This story was inspired by a real orange tabby Pentling cat, which belonged to the family next door.[125] During his trip to Australia for World Youth Day in 2008 the media reported that festival organizers lent the Pope a grey cat called "Bella"[126] in order to keep him company during his stay.[127] However, while a Youth Day organizer confirmed the reports, the Pope's spokesman Father Federico Lombardi denied any knowledge of a cat."
In this beautifully illustrated book for children, Chico the cat describes the life of his "best friend", Pope Benedict, in this authorized biography of the Pope for young people approved by the Vatican.
"Dear Children, here you will find a biography that is different than others because it is told by a cat and it is not every day a cat can consider the Holy Father his friend and sit down to write his life story," the Pope's personal secretary, Monsignor Georg Ganswein, says in the foreword. The Pope is known for his fondness of animals, especially cats, and Joseph and Chico is narrated by Chico, a real cat who took up with the Pope in his native Germany long before he became the Pope. Chico tells the story of the life of "my best friend" from his birth in Germany in 1927, through his days as a young man, priest, bishop and cardinal.
With a colorful and sometimes amusing language, the author makes this funny cat tell us about the life of the young Joseph all the way up to his election as Pontiff on April 19, 2005. It recounts the Nazi era in Germany when the Pope was a teenager, calling the war years "one of the most dramatic and shameful times in the history of man". Later when he became Cardinal Ratzinger, Chico recounts how each time when the Cardinal returned to Germany from Rome for a vacation, the cat would run into his house and sit on his lap as he played the piano. The lavish color illustrations throughout make this a wonderful gift book and a cherished keepsake.
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[Nov. 10th, 2008|02:08 am] |
i know what she means
mercibeaucoup，にて
ワクワクする小物達♪
あ〜楽しぃ〜♪♪
@ Mercibeaucoup
Attractive tinies!
So fun!
also:i want this hat! and everything mercibeaucoup,really
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just waiting for this semester to be over
currently writing an essay (well, trying to write) on this morimura painting
( futago )
idk
looking forward
*end of semester (december 8th)
*my birthday (december 14) i suppose? i can finally vote/star in porn, and berlin alexanderplatz is playing at the cinematheque that day
*the man who left his will on film @ cinematheque tonight
looking back
*struggling (struggling,struggling,struggling) through school
*at least i'm reading a book almost every week (for school)(candide and art of war these last two weeks)
*finally introducing myself to my adorable neighbours - a very sweet old british couple - because i needed to take some logs from their backyard for a school project (the husband, in his floppy chunky blue sweater, ended our conversation with 'bless you', as in god bless you, because he is christian and he always says that)
*barry obama; i got very emotional, which i feel silly about, but at least sarah palin is being relegated back to alaska
*i eat pocky sticks as a meal about 3 times a week (monday morning during class, thursday morning on the subway, lunch at some point during the week)
* i went to the rocky horror picture show for the first time (halloween)... omg@drama fags,highschool goths/ravers/whatever
looking now
*518 words into the essay (i need 800) but i feel like it makes no sense at allatallatall
*josie's sleeping on my pillow, always sleeping on my pillow (the good, soft pillow)(damn)
*hasisi park added us (daniel+i, we opened a flickr recently) on flickr, which made me blush and email daniel. i have such a girl crush on her
this is our flickr
http://flickr.com/photos/heavingbosom/
looking around
*i have fallen in love with one of the japanese restaurants near school - i love sitting around listening to the waitresses speak japanese while sipping on the most delicious udon in the world - and i wrote IT WAS DELICIOUS on the back of the bill the last time i ate there, but i was embarrassed/wanted it to be a surprise so i put money on top of it
*eating spicy vietnamese soup with chopsticks, i felt very uncomfortable because there was an old asian couple sitting next to me and i felt like they were laughing at me for not knowing how to use chopsticks correctly (this has happened to me before)
*i got a new puppy named dexter and sometimes i watch dexter with him
*omg@ the steamy interracial(/post-racial?) love scene on dexter tonight, just in time for obama week |
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[Oct. 13th, 2008|06:13 pm] |
oh lord, why do i feel like this all weekend
it's only saturday night once a week
but i feel like this all weekend, from thursday afternoon (i have no class fridays) to sunday afternoon
then i go "shit. shit shit, shit"
i know i have lots of work, and i try to start in advance, but i just sit there with pen in hand and hardly anything transfers to paper. millions of other things come of me trying to do projects for class (filling up pages of my sketchbook, facebook messages, updating my blog, sifting through flickr favorites, making a beef and cranberry sauce sandwich), but my projects being completed is hardly ever one of them
some flickr faves because i'm lazy
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[Sep. 12th, 2008|02:01 am] |
daniel and i went to see tokyo sonata this evening
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( i feel like i'm going to explode )
today on the subway, someone asked me (out of nowhere) if i was chinese
????
i'm (clearly) white and i have platinum blond hair and...yeah
this person also went on to introduce himself to me (he gave his entire name)
and asked about my ipod and 'lovely head' (i think hhe meant my veryvery light hair colour)
maybe people behave like this all the time in india (he was indian)???
i started school on monday
i met some nice people (like the cute korean girl i sat next to in one of my classes...i thought she hated me but i guess she's really timid??? she asked for my phone number and email, we're going to buy art supplies tomorrow),some not-as-nice people, my teachers are mostly pretty cool (mostlyyyy... i actually have to MOUNT my drawings for one of my teachers, which is just so NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO MOUNTINGGGGG THINGGGGGSSSSS WHYYYYYY), sometimes they're even british and will discuss tati/dexter/davidshrigley with me,i already have heaps of work (frightening), including a sculpture (doublefrightening), all due next week, i have to t a c k l e these projects very soon, but i don't want to, i don't want to draw kitchen utensils (ughhh), i'm afraid to make a sculpture (never done this before), all i want to do is sit here and think about tokyo sonata
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