Mr. Anger, You've made me so happy.

Tonight was an "Evening with Kenneth Anger" at the Ann Arbor Film Festival and what an evening it was. Good ole' Kenny taught us a thing or two about young men, sailors, Lucky Strikes, motor bikes, and oldies. I've seen his Scorpio Rising before, but to see one film after another (Rabbit's Moon could play on repeat and I'd be satisfied) and then get to listen to Mr. Anger go on about all such topics as Lucifer  and the Jonas Brothers was to say the very least, quite the experience. Kenneth was a like the hyper/homo-sexual, satan-worshipping, endearing uncle that I never had and always wanted.
I also had the opportunity to meet Brian Butler, who has worked with Kenneth for many years and most recently did the projections for the Valentino Fall 2010 show in Paris. Hearing this was the type of moment when you try to keep your eyes in head and wipe the drool from the floor...I mildly succeeded at this - but Paris Fashion Week, six projectors, Kenneth Anger, front row, and Valentino - that man is living my dreams.

Film Fest ends tomorrow....tear, until next year.

Shrink Your Dink

Woven throughout the work I've been doing for school I've been making shrinky dink jewelry based on medical illustration. - Again this is why I love art school, "oh between collaging magazines, I make jewelry out of child craft materials" But if people are need of spinal cord earrings, I'm here to serve them.

making things. doing things. going places.

The past three weeks have been filled with over stimulation and I mean that in the most positive way possible. It's resulted in my desire for an extra brain hard-drive to store it all (not sure if Mac is making those yet).

highway 101


seattle. tide-pools. portland. sword and fern. dunes. sun. orick. sleeping in cars. meth heads. lion killers. coffee. san francisco. taxidermy. rain. ana patchouli. arcata. burls. black bear diner. wild hawg. pho. loved to death. redwoods. detox. corey smith. asian tourists. black cats. fort bragg. bellingham. church going sisters.

"Not that we needed all that for the trip, but once you get into a serious drug collection, the tendency is to push it as far as you can" -hunter s. thompson

Then one must return the "reality", if that is what we're calling this these days...meaning back to school, back to work, back to the internship ( Ann Arbor Film Fest - starts Tuesday), and back to the bar. 

Olympics, Fashion Week, and School?

Over the past few weeks I have taken multi-tasking to a whole new level. Fashion shows during my breaks from dirty Russian, Olympian figure skaters, and figure skaters as a break from collaging, and collaging as break from Oceanography, which I doubt I have a strong future in. Nevertheless, some people have obsessions with individual things/ideas....I have a an obsession with being a "well-rounded" individual - one should know a little bit about everything.

Images for the week

 Jeremy Scott

                                                                   

      Henrik Vibskov          

Evegeni Plushenko

Ummm... yes. The Russians are sex bombs.

Words, I Haven't Forgotten You.

Been working on image collage, but am still interested in text collage and poetry. Here are the latest pieces.

________________________

You’re Dad is Weird

I’m not comfortable around mustaches

Shoulders always cave amidst testosterone

Thought he wanted sex

Too fat to fuck a child

Staff of poison

The lamp we love and would never use

I’m innocent

But I can see in the dark

Mama didn’t have a blanket

(quotes by and/or inspired by six people)

_____________________

If you’re going to be ugly

Commit to it

Be really fucking ugly

This time with a different haircut

Legs that look like chicken skin

Bulldog mouth

Homelessly endearing

None of this mildly attractive business

I have to look like shit to have a good personality

I’m not pretty

But I’d fuck me

(quotes by and/or inspired by four people)

__________________________

Squander

I’m bored

Going to follow you

Graduated from college

With honors

This space is designated for seriousness

Verbal masturbation

Fancy yourself an intellectual

Sip your espresso

I don’t watch the news

Sip your espresso

It’s not something that I care about

Sip your espresso

What about

Me

How much brown water is too much?

God help us

How are we to cultivate brain cells?

(quotes by and/or inspired by five people)

____________________

Always strive to be ambidextrous

Coffee, instant coffee

Cigarettes, staffs of poison

The taste of chemicals

Security level: Orange

My hands smell distinctive

Phantom smells

Stains on my shirt

Smoke in my hair seven mornings a week

Brushing teeth right afterwards

(quotes by and/or inspired by three people)

__________________

Microwave minutes

Nostalgic for the recent past

Can feel time

Can’t grow it

Never reach the end

Never have to begin again

Never have reached the last page

Comfortable in dead roads

(quotes by and/or inspired by five people)

_______________________

He wasn’t really looker

But he could see

A chimpanzee put its dick in his ear

The penetration or the ejaculation caused him to go deaf

We didn’t speak much

I love sign language

Don’t care for the deaf

My car had 14 horns

Q-tips

I couldn’t resist jamming into my ear

Silence plus silence does not equal sound

(quotes by and/or inspired by five people)

Working for Ann Arbor Film Festival currently and getting to see a lot of great shorts.

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