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I’ve been exposed to so many new things this week, and I am in love
1. Robert Frank. Went to MOCA Sunday and came across this amazing photography from the 50’s. Reminds me so much of Walker Evans. The people in his shots have so much life and character
2. Raps by Robert Christopher Romanus. Pretty damn good play. Dynamic, great acting.
3.Great musicians. Steep Canyon Rangers. I saw them on Dave Letterman. Steve Martin performed with them
4. Funny people. Steve Martin and Martin Short. So joyful to watch. I just watched them and was really envious – how amazing would it be to be friends with those two??!
5. Paint fumes. I’m stripping the nasty paint off the moulding around our picture window. While I don’t enjoy the fumes so much, I do love visualizing the end product. It’s going to be so beautiful!!
Made another version of the simplicity dress, this time with a pretty teal linen. Photos at Disney Hall, downtown.
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My last show was last night. I’m going to miss them. It was a great show, a great learning experience. I hope I get to see these people again. I had a wonderful time. But now I must move on.
Oh happy day! Wonderful things are going to happen now, folks! I’m so happy.
Last night, we went to the Dem Headquarters Party in Century City. This place had 1500 capacity and apparently 15,000 people rsvp’d! They weren’t letting anyone in when we came. But we snuck in through the service entrance (James won’t ever take no for an answer)
It was so awesome! Everyone was so happy and excited. I was so glad to be a part of it.
Mayor Villaraigosa was there, Ludacris and some white guy rapped, but best of all… Shepard Fairey made a huge collage while this dj mixed some great tunes!
He makes the best collages I have ever seen. sigh.
Joy. Happy days are here again!
Starts tonight!
I was so inspired by Dina Wakely’s latest layouts that I went ahead and made two layouts yesterday! I’m very pleased with them. I’m really into just cutting little strips of paper freehand and slapping them down. Makes me feel artistic 
I heard this girl on SNL this week. She’s so awesome! We were at Best Buy the yesterday and I bought her cd. She’s so good. She’s like Amy Winehouse without the drugs and drama – amazing voice!!
The play opens this Friday!! I’m so excited. If there are any of you in LA who need information, go here – Theatre Unleashed. It’s a really great play. Tech week this week, so you probably won’t be hearing from me until Sunday! Wish me luck!
Things have definitely fallen into a routine here. I go to work, go to class, go to rehearsal. That’s about it. I don’t really have a lot of time to blog. And to be honest, I haven’t had much to blog about. Is this the end? I really can’t say. Maybe when things calm down, or when the show opens, I won’t be so bogged down. And my illustration class is so damn hard, it’s really all I think about. I don’t have time to scrapbook, because I need to work on my drawing. More than anyone else. So it’s a little stressful.
And, my friends introduced me to facebook. And it’s completely taken over my life! I knew I shouldn’t have signed up. I was conned into myspace years ago, and now this. But it’s so much fun!
I made this the other day. It’s from the scraptastic book I bought a while back. Using the lyrics to “Walking in LA” by Missing Persons
Could it be the smog’s playing tricks on my eyes
Or it’s a rollerskater in some kind of headphone disguise
Maybe somebody who just ran out of gas
Makin his way back to the pumps the best way he can
And this weather!! Oh! It was a blazing 95 degrees the other day and now it’s like 60! The wind is howling (there are literally palm fronds flying through the air and smacking my building as we speak) Hello Fall! I’m so happy. Time for sweaters and scarves and jackets. Pumpkins and cinnamon, soups and tea!
Wow…. Body Worlds… what can I say? The words, “ew” and “wow” come to mind. It was both gross and awe inspiring at the same time. I had no idea what this exhibit was before I got there. I had just heard that it was awesome. So when we walked in, they have all these banners up and it says that everything is real bodies. I was like, “what?!” Yes, they are real bodies. Bodies that have been donated and then plastinated, posed and then voila. The idea, of course, is to give people a better understanding of the human body. Show them what incredible machines we are. And it does. They have skeletons with only the full capillary system. They pose the bodies into positions like “skating figure couple” so you can see the use of the muscles. I drew the line at the fetuses. Talk about making me not want to have a baby – they took out the heart of that process, if you know what I mean. They showed diseased organs, like cancer, cirrhosis, emphysema. They had this “I Quit” pledge to quit smoking. It was a plexiglass box and you could fill out a business card pledging to quit smoking. The box was almost full.
Definitely recommend it.
On a brighter, happier note. I finished my final swap before I leave the country. This is for our WCTP, Amber is in the Godzilla Fan Club, and we did altered canvases. This is me faking it with the painting.
Other things on my mind:
- Listening to the Kooks lately. Love this album.
- Expecting my new clutch in the mail any day now. Very excited!
- For some reason, I want to see Get Smart when it comes out in the theatres. It would make a nice change of pace from only going to the movies when it’s the “must see dramatic movie of the year”
- James and I stopped at this place yesterday. Oh. My. God. This man is a genius!! He’s this very funny french man, who makes the most delicious, delectable chocolates I have ever tasted. Exotic flavors, no preservatives, so there’s no waxy flavor. The minimum amount of sugar, so it’s not to sickly sweet. I had Hibiscus, Kalamata Olive, Mint Ganache, and Apricot & Chili. OOOOOOOOHHH!!! So good And I have Japanese Green Tea, Pistachio and Lemon Mousse in the fridge calling me.
- The Weepies have a new CD out, Michelle.
- I’m a contributor to a new blog, the SoCal DIY girls. We have a meetup group, and our organizer started this blog for all our crafty deeds. Visit us here
- I joined the bandwagon. I’m totally into the Twilight Series. I bought all the books this week, and I’m in the middle of the second, New Moon. I like! I was so into the tension between Bella and Edward. And I cannot wait for the movie to come out. It’s Cedric Diggory playing Edward!!!:)
- I did something totally unheard of: I ate by myself. Out in the open, just sat there and ate. Yes, I called my sister to tell her what I was doing (we both know that this is crazy behavior on my part) but then I just relaxed and sat there. All by my lonesome. It wasn’t that bad. I got to enjoy the gorgeous weather we’re having
- Speaking of gorgeous weather lookie here. The Gods have smiled on us here. No more heat wave. It’s a nice, beautiful 65 degrees. aaaaah!
- Went to see the Dresden Dolls on Wednesday night. All I will say is that they totally rock!! I had a great time.
- The opening band was a group called Smoosh. If you haven’t heard of them – they are two sisters, and they are like 12 years old. Seriously. No, I think the oldest sister is 15 and the other is 13. They were so awesome! I was pretty damn musical in high school, but nothing of this caliber. It’s just piano and drums, like the Dresden Dolls, but they were able to rock the house. Good times.
- I had the craziest dream last night. It involved a coworker, a foster mom for one of our cats, a child that was shaped like a human sized cat, and Ed Begley Jr.
- I bought this book. It’s so awesome!!!
It was 94 degrees today. In my apartment.
That’s right. California is going thru this awful heat wave, and we only have a bedroom air conditioner. Which makes the rest of the apartment feel like an oven. Needless to say, I haven’t been feeling good. Definitely not in a crafty mood. Can hardly type let alone bust out the glue and paper. I come home and just crash on the bed, and wait for the sun to go down. It’s hell and we go through this every summer. Except it isn’t summer yet, is it?
While I’m agonizing, I will leave you with a few layouts I did last week
This is Shirley, my father in law’s wife. I love this picture of her.
A cool pic of James that he photoshopped for me.
And this one’s for you Anna! I finished my first layout of two for our swap!!
